Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen
The Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen GmbH was a railway company in the northwest of what is now Saxony-Anhalt . From 1942/43 it operated as Salzwedeler Eisenbahn GmbH . The company was created on November 24, 1921 through the merger of two railway companies, namely the Salzwedeler Kleinbahn GmbH founded on May 29, 1899 and the Salzwedeler Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft Südost GmbH founded on May 29, 1901 . The Province of Saxony participated in both, along with private investors.
Narrow gauge operation
The task of both small railways was to develop the rural area of the Altmark south of the district town of Salzwedel with narrow-gauge railways . The common starting point was the Salzwedel-Neustadt train station in the northeast of the city opposite the state train station . From here the Diesdorf route ran south on the right bank of the Jeetze , which it crossed after the stop at Altperver Tor as well as the state railway to Oebisfelde , built in 1889, to run west parallel to the Salzwedeler Dumme river , where it crossed on October 24, 1900 Wallstawe , on December 3, 1900 Dülseberg (later renamed Höddelsen-Reddigau) and - after turning south, finally reached the end point of Diesdorf on October 15, 1901 after 30 kilometers . From here normal-gauge lines of the Kleinbahn AG Bismark – Gardelegen – Beetzendorf – Diesdorf continued from 1903 to Beetzendorf and from 1909 to Wittingen in the province of Hanover .
Soon after the first line, from December 5, 1901, the Südost-GmbH from Altperver Tor to Mahlsdorf was in operation, which continued on December 24, 1901 to Büssen and on September 1, 1902 to Winterfeld . The Kleinbahn AG Bismark – Gardelegen – Beetzendorf (as it was originally called - see the Salzwedel – Badel railway line ) has been operating here since 1899 on the Kalbe – Beetzendorf line .
Even before 1908, the Hanoverian railway industry was a regular supplier of the Salzwedeler Kleinbahn .
In view of the difficult economic situation in Germany after the First World War, efforts were made to increase the efficiency of the Salzwedeler narrow-gauge railways. For this purpose, both companies were merged in 1921 and were now called Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen GmbH. Its operations management took over two years later (as with numerous other small railways in the province) the small railroad department of the Provincial Association of Saxony in Merseburg .
Control lane operation
A further step to increase profitability should be the conversion of both routes to regular lane. From October 2, 1926, the Südost-Bahn was used with normal gauge, with the Jeggeleben – Winterfeld section being abandoned and replaced by the new route to Badel . Now it was possible to use continuous trains from Salzwedel to Kalbe an der Milde .
Similar to most of the other small railways in the province of Saxony, the name Kleinbahn was changed to railway in 1943. After the division of Germany, the company was placed under compulsory administration in 1946 with a route length of 55 kilometers and handed over to the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH at the end of the year . The two lines came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 via the state association of state-owned companies (VVB) .
vehicles
No. | DR number | design type | Manufacturer, year of construction | Remarks |
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1 and 3 | B n2t | Hanomag 1900, 1901 | 1000 mm track | |
2 and 4 | C n2t | Hanomag 1900, 1901 | 1000 mm track | |
5 | 99 5611 | C n2t | Henschel 1903 | 1000 mm track |
8th | 89 6406 | C n2t | Linke-Hofmann 1924 | Standard gauge, type Magnet, Provincial Association of Saxony No. 252 |
9 and 10 | 91 6483, 91 6486 | C h2t | Henschel 1927, 1929 | Standard gauge, ELNA 5H , Provincial Association of Saxony No. 301 and 302 |
403 | 75 6684 | 1'C1 'h2t | Henschel 1940 | Standard gauge, ELNA 7 , Provincial Association of Saxony No. 403 |
91 | VT 137 514 | (1A) (A1) | DWK 1924 | Standard gauge, railcar |
92 and 93 | VT 137 518-519 | (1A) (A1) | DWK 1926, 1927 | Standard gauge, railcar |
Lore
The records of the Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen GmbH are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .
Web links
literature
- Andreas Kühn, Guido Huwe: The Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen. The Salzwedel - Badel and Salzwedel - Diesdorf routes. Dirk Endisch, Korntal-Münchingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-936893-48-9 .
- Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . 2nd, revised edition. Transpress - Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1982 (reprinted as: GDR narrow-gauge railway archive. Transpress, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 ).