Reich Railway Directorate Kassel
The Reichsbahndirektion Kassel was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
history
The Reichsbahndirektion Kassel was the successor to the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Cassel , which was founded during the reform of the Prussian State Railways in 1895. The successor to the Reichsbahndirektion was from 1949, after the establishment of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , the Bundesbahndirektion Kassel .
Jurisdiction
The area of this Reichsbahndirektion extended (until the end of the Second World War ) within Prussia over the northern province of Hesse-Nassau south to Marburg and Bebra ; southern areas of the provinces of Westphalia and Hanover west to Bestwig and Soest and north along the Soest- Altenbeken - Kreiensen - Seesen line ; as well as the western part of the province of Saxony to Blankenheim on the route to Halle (Saale) .
Significant routes within the management were:
- which the Royal Westphalian Railway Company Soest - Warburg and their continuation after Kassel - Bebra : see Hamm-Warburg railway , Kassel-Warburg railway and railway Bebra-Baunatal-Guntershausen
- the routes Altenbeken - Kreiensen - Seesen and
- Altenbeken - Northeim - Nordhausen : see Altenbeken – Kreiensen , Braunschweigische Südbahn , Sollingbahn and Südharz route
- the Halle – Hann railway line. Münden to Blankenheim (Kr Sgh)
- the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway in the Bestwig to Warburg section
- the northern part of the Main-Weser Railway until shortly before Niederwalgern (km 113.9) and
- the Hannöversche Südbahn from Elze and its continuation Göttingen –Bebra
- the Leinefelde – Treysa railway line , which was built from a military strategic point of view , although it had little civil significance
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Klee: Prussian Railway History . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007466-0 , p. 179.