Bad Pyrmont tram

The tram Bad Pyrmont was from 1879 to 1925 in Bad Pyrmont as horse course operated. It connected the remote station of the spa town with the city center and the spa district.

At the instigation of the city of Bad Pyrmont, Pyrmonter Straßenbahn AG was founded in 1879 with share capital of 120,000 marks. The company first built a 1.89-kilometer route from the Pyrmont train station via Kaiserplatz and Brunnenplatz to the post office, which opened on June 1, 1879. The line was laid out in standard gauge , initially two horse-drawn tram cars were available. The horse-drawn tram ran in accordance with the timetable of the trains stopping at the station. The depot was created on Kaiserplatz.

The route was soon supplemented by a branching line to the brine bathhouse north of the station, increasing the track length to 3.17 kilometers. However, this section was only operated in summer. Due to this expansion and the increasing demand, the number of vehicles grew to a total of seven passenger cars and one luggage car. A total of twelve people were employed.

In 1906 145,000 passengers were carried, in 1908 around 165,300 people. Due to the size of the city, however, expanding the business was not worthwhile, and switching to electrical operation was also out of the question. After the First World War, the horse-drawn tram had to give way to the well-engineered omnibus , which is now suitable for continuous operation . After almost 46 years of operation, the railway was discontinued on March 12, 1925 and replaced by a bus line, tracks and vehicles were scrapped.

literature

• Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 2: Lower Saxony / Bremen . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1987, ISBN 3-88255-336-7 .