Reichsbahndirektion Münster (Westf)

The building of the Reichsbahndirektion 1907 (postcard)

The Reichsbahndirektion Münster was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Jurisdiction

The area of ​​this Reichsbahndirektion extended in Prussia from the East Frisian North Sea coast over the Münsterland and the western Westphalia to the edge of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area / Ruhr area and, after the dissolution of the Oldenburg directorate , over most of the country of the same name .

Seal of the RBD Münster

Significant routes within the management were:

• the main part of the former Hamburg-Venloer Bahn : Wesel - Münster - Osnabrück - ( Bremen )
• the Hamm - Münster - Rheine - Emden - Norddeich route
• the route Löhne - Osnabrück - Rheine - Bad Bentheim - ( Netherlands )
• the route ( Hude ) - Oldenburg (Oldenburg) - Leer - (Netherlands)
• the route Osnabrück - Cloppenburg - Oldenburg (Oldenburg) - Wilhelmshaven

history

The Reichsbahndirektion Münster was the successor to the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Münster , which was founded during the reform of the Prussian State Railways in 1895. From 1949, after the establishment of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , it was succeeded by the Federal Railway Directorate Münster / Westf .

Web links

• Map of the RBD Münster

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Klee: Prussian Railway History . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007466-0 , p. 179.