Rosenberger Kreisbahn
| Rosenberger Kreisbahn | |
|---|---|
| Course book range : | Rosenberg – Grenzwiese: 147r (1944) Grenzwiese Ost – Welun: 142n (1944) |
| Gauge : | 1895–1928: 750 mm, from 1928: 1435 mm |
The Rosenberger Kreisbahn operated a small railway line in the Rosenberg district in Upper Silesia near the then German-Polish border.
history
The district town of Rosenberg OS was only connected to the railway network in 1883/84 by the Kreuzburg – Tarnowitz line of the Rechts-Oder-Ufer railway . In the district to the east, near the former German-Russian border, there was no rail link.
To fill this gap, the Rosenberg district built a narrow-gauge small railway with a gauge of 750 mm. The 18-kilometer route ran from Rosenberg in a northerly direction to the small town of Landsberg OS , which at that time had around 1000 inhabitants, and was put into operation on March 30, 1895. Over a year later, on November 13, 1896, it was extended by 4 km to the border town of Zawisna (later: Grenzwiese), a district of Neudorf.
During the First World War , the railway continued 28 km across the border to the Polish city of Wieluń . However, this section of the route was separated again after the war. During the Second World War it was operated by the Posen Railway Directorate between 1940 and 1944 from a Grenzwiese Ost station, which was 300 m from Grenzwiese station, to Wielun narrow-gauge station. A connection to the former main line was not considered because of the different track widths.
The original line had been rebuilt and on November 19, 1928, it was reopened as a standard gauge line. A few months earlier, the district's own railway company was converted into a stock corporation, which operated as Rosenberger Kreisbahn AG. In 1940, the district of Rosenberg held over 40%, the German Reich, the Prussian state and the province with 19% each and Prince Wilhelm of Prussia with 2.7% of the shares.
The number of pairs of trains, which had been five on weekdays in 1914 and four on Sundays, had been reduced to four and three respectively by 1927. From 1934 to 1944, only three pairs of trains ran daily.
In 1928 the fleet of vehicles on the narrow-gauge railway consisted of five steam locomotives, including a Prussian T 36 , ten passenger cars, two pack cars and 110 freight cars. After the gauge had been changed in 1939, there were two steam locomotives, four passenger cars, one pack car and seven freight cars.
The last train on the narrow-gauge railway from Praszka to Wieluń (Wieluńska Kolej Dojazdowa) ran on August 31, 1987, after which it was decided to demolish the tracks.
Passenger traffic on the standard gauge line has been discontinued since 1993.
stretch
a) Rosenberg – Zawisna (Grenzwiese)
- 0.0 Rosenberg (Upper Silesia) district station
- 6.5 Boroschau (Alteneichen)
- 8.9 Jamm (Weidental)
- 11.9 Koselwitz (Josefshöhe)
- 13.4 Ober Paulsdorf (Paulsdorf)
- 14.4 Nieder Paulsdorf (later dropped)
- 15.8 Wienskowitz (Wiesbach OS)
- 17.6 Landsberg (Upper Silesia)
- 20.1 Neudorf
- 22.3 Zawisna (Upper Silesia) (border meadow)
(The names after 1936 in brackets)
b) Grenzwiese – Ost-Welun
- 0.0 border meadow east
- 1.3 Praschkau (Praszka)
- 4.6 Blacksmith Village (Kowale)
- 10.3 Meskewalde (Ożarów)
- 12.8 Kummerberg (Komorniki)
- 15.3 Mockersfeld (Mokrsko)
- 21.2 Kottau (Chotów)
- 26.4 Welun City (Wieluń Wąskotorowy Miasto; from 1960 Wieluń Wąskotorowy)
- 28.4 Welun narrow-gauge station (Wieluń Wąsk. Przeładunkowy; from 1960 Wieluń Dąbrowa Wąsk.)
(Polish names up to 1939 in brackets)
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Route 147r from the course book 1944 https://pkjs.de/bahn/Kursbuch1944/Teil1/147n.jpg
- ↑ See http://www.koleje.wask.pl/kolejHist.php?id=wielkd
