Silesian Mountain Railway

Görlitz - Waldenburg-Dittersbach route

The Silesian Mountain Railway is a railway connection in present-day Poland , which was originally built and operated by the Prussian State Railway .

history

The originally planned Silesian Mountain Railway from Kohlfurt via Lauban and Dittersbach to Glatz along with the branch lines Görlitz - Lauban , Ruhbank - Liebau and Dittersbach - Altwasser with a connection to the Breslau-Schweidnitz-Freiburg Railway was planned as part of a new continuous railway connection between Berlin and Vienna . Due to the political conflict of interests between Prussia and Austria , which culminated in the German War in 1866 , this project could only be realized with a delay and never achieved the intended significance.

The following railway lines are now part of the Silesian Mountain Railway:

• The Zgorzelec – Wałbrzych (Görlitz– Waldenburg-Dittersbach ) railway line ,
• the north-western branch of the Węgliniec – Lubań (Kohlfurt – Lauban) railway ,
• the Wałbrzych – Kłodzko railway line (Waldenburg-Dittersbach – Glatz) as an eastern extension .

Web links

• www.schlesische-eisenbahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage, I. HA Rep. 89, No. 29582