Biendorf – Gerlebogk railway line

Biendorf – Gerlebogk

Route number (DB) :

6839

Course book range :

156 b (1939)
181 c (1941)

Route length:

7.1 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

		from Koethen
	0.0	Biendorf
		to Aschersleben
	0.2	Biendorf, Gerlebogker Bf
	4.2	Preusslitz
	7.1	Gerlebogk
		to Nauendorf

The railway line Biendorf - Gerlebogk (also called Preußlitzer coal railway ) was a railway line in Saxony-Anhalt . It ran in today's borders in the area of the cities of Bernburg (Saale) and Könnern .

history

The area around Gerlebogk and Preußlitz was of great importance in Anhalt for lignite mining in the 19th century. The Cöthen – Bernburg line , which was built in 1846 by the Anhalt-Cöthen-Bernburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ACBE), ran about seven kilometers north of Gerlebogk. In 1853 an initially 7.1 kilometer long standard gauge railway line to Gerlebogk was built, which was financed by the brown coal mines. The railway was available for public freight traffic from April 2, 1857. It was primarily used to transport coal.

The Nauendorf – Gerlebogk railway was built around the turn of the century . From January 1, 1901, the management of the Nauendorf-Gerlebogker railway company was taken over. For the first time, passenger traffic and rail mail transport also took place on the route. The Preusslitz station did not go into operation until September 1, 1910. The Deutsche Reichsbahn took over operations in 1929. From now on, accumulator railcars were used.

For the winter schedule on October 6, 1941, passenger traffic on the route was finally stopped. However, the traffic was already modest beforehand, so two pairs of trains were still running in the 1939 summer timetable. In the summer timetable of 1941, passenger traffic was listed as provisional. After the end of the Second World War, the lignite fields were backfilled with the rubble from the bombed cities of Halle and Magdeburg until 1950. All the rubble was transported by train. As of 1948, ashes from various railway depots were also backfilled. Freight traffic continued until 1964. Then the track systems were dismantled.

Web links

Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: From the Anhalt railway history. The Preusslitzer coal railway and the Edderitzer industrial railway. Retrieved November 8, 2016 .

Individual evidence

↑ Dirk Endisch: Small and private railways in the lower Saale valley , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-936893-22-9 , p. 17
↑ Dirk Endisch: Small and private railways in the lower Saale valley , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-936893-22-9 , p. 16 f.

[1] Dirk Endisch: Small and private railways in the lower Saale valley , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-936893-22-9 , p. 17

[2] Dirk Endisch: Small and private railways in the lower Saale valley , Verlag Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-936893-22-9 , p. 16 f.