Saarbrücken Railway
The Royal Direction of the Saarbrücker Eisenbahn was set up in accordance with the “Very Highest Decree” of May 22nd, 1852 with the aim of managing and operating the state railway line from the (then) Bavarian border near Bexbach via Neunkirchen - St. Johann - Saarbrücken to the French To take over the border at Forbach. It took the place of the “Royal Commission for the Construction of the Saarbrücken Railway”, which at the end of 1847 was the first Prussian state railway authority to plan and build this route.
On July 1, 1859, the administrative authority was renamed "Royal Railway Direction to Saarbrücken". At the same time, she took over the management of the private Rhein-Nahe Railway Company . In the following years, the rail network of the "Saarbrücker Eisenbahn" grew to 365 km, until it was merged with the Railway Direction in Frankfurt am Main on July 1, 1880. But only for a short time; because on April 1, 1881, the Saarbrücken area became part of the "Royal Railway Direction (left bank of the Rhine) in Cologne".
Development of the rail network
As early as October 20, 1850, the railway line to Neunkirchen , which was run by the Palatinate Ludwig Railway Company from Homburg to the Prussian border in 1849, was extended. Two years later, the trains - from November 16, 1852, freight trains from December 1, 1852 - could reach the French border near Forbach via Sulzbach, Dudweiler and St. Johann-Saarbrücken (so-called Forbacher Bahn ).
The Saartal down came the Saar Railway from Saarbrücken to Trier, which until Merzig and 26 May 1860 to Trier West began operations on the left bank of the Moselle on 16 December. 1858 From her went on August 29, 1861 in Konz, a branch to the Luxembourg border before Wasserbillig. Upstream, the railway reached Sarreguemines in Lorraine on June 1, 1870, which was then occupied by German troops.
In the years 1878/79, shortly before the integration into the Frankfurt Railway Direction, well-known route sections were opened again:
- on May 15, 1878 the upper Moselle route Ehrang - Trier - Perl,
- on May 15, 1879 the Moselle route from Koblenz via Cochem to Trier and
- on October 15, 1879 the Fischbachtalbahn from Saarbrücken via Quiigart to Neunkirchen as well as a connecting piece at Scheidt to the previous end point of St. Ingbert coming from Ludwigshafen .
Individual evidence
- (D) Deutsche Reichsbahn (Hrsg.): Manual of the German railway lines. Berlin 1935. (Reprint: Dumjahn, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-921426-29-4 )