Austro-Hungarian state railway company

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Route network of the Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company

The privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG), Hungarian: Cs. k. szab. Osztrák-Magyar Államvasúttársaság was a private railway company in the former Austria-Hungary .

history

Seal of the Austro-Hungarian State Railway
Obligation of CHF 500 from the privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railroad Company dated July 1, 1885
Tank car of the StEG ( Museum Lužná u Rakovníka )

The StEG was founded on October 17, 1854, with mainly French capital, and on January 1, 1855, acquired the Northern and Southeastern State Railways from the Austrian state . The name of the new company is derived from this. With the acquisition of the kk priv. Wien-Raaber Bahn on February 13, 1855 and the Brünn-Rossitzer Railway on January 1, 1870, as well as the construction of new lines, the StEG network grew to around 1350 km in the Austrian half of the empire by 1890 ; there were also over 1500 km in Hungary , especially the route from Budapest via Szeged with the Tisza Bridge and Temesvár to Orșova .

The lines in Hungary were handed over to the Hungarian state railway MÁV in 1891 . On October 15, 1909, the StEG was nationalized in Cisleithanien and thus part of the kkStB . The sections Bruck - Nickelsdorf and Marchegg - border were assigned to the BBÖ in 1920 .

In 1925 the company acquired the majority of shares in Warchalowski, Eissler and Co. Aktiengesellschaft . In 1928 this company was completely taken over by merger. The operations of this company were closed with the exception of the enamel plant in Vienna- Ottakring .

The StEG locomotive or -Maschinenfabrik externally and internally bridge factory called ( Vienna favorites , Rear Südbahnstraße  2), had to cease operations permanently, in February 1930 after its new owners, which in 1929 with the Creditanstalt-Bankverein merged General soil Credit-Anstalt , through the offensive business policy of its governor Rudolf Sieghart (1866–1934) had got into economic difficulties.

In 1937 the company acquired the majority of shares in the stock corporation of Emaillirwerke and Metallwaarenfabriken Austria and in 1939 that of Ditmar-Brünner Aktiengesellschaft . In 1940 these two companies were merged and the name was changed to Austria Vereinigte Emaillierwerke, Lampen- und Metallwarenfabriken Aktiengesellschaft . In 1972 the company was renamed Austria Email AG .

The StEG in today's Austria

In today's Austria, the network of StEG connections comprised 255 km. The starting point was the State Railway Station in Vienna, from 1914 to Ostbahnhof, which was part of the Südbahnhof from 1956 to 2009 and is now functionally replaced by Vienna Central Station at a different location .

To the east, a main line led in the direction of Budapest via Götzendorf to Bruck an der Leitha (1846), where Hungarian territory began until 1920, to today's border station at Nickelsdorf (1855). From it branched off in 1884 in Götzendorf on the one hand railways to Klein Schwechat and on the other hand to Mannersdorf . From 1886/87 a line ran from Bruck via Bad Deutsch Altenburg to Hainburg an der Donau .

The route from Vienna to the north, opened in 1870, crossed the Danube and then split in Stadlau to the east in the direction of Marchegg - Pressburg and to the north via Mistelbach - Laa an der Thaya to Brno . In 1888 the branch line from Enzersdorf bei Staatz to Poysdorf was added. Since 1886, inner-city traffic in Vienna has been served by a short route from the Erdbergerlände to the Freudenau horse racing track .

stretch

Austrian lines

A train with a StEG I near Adamov on the Brünn – Böhm line. Trübau (around 1893)
Main lines
Local railways

Hungarian lines

Main lines
Local railways

Routes operated for the owner's account

See also

literature

  • Richard Heinersdorff: The k. and k. privileged railways of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1828-1918. Molden, Vienna et al. 1975, ISBN 3-217-00571-6 .
  • Alfred Horn: Railway picture album 16 - The imperial and royal privileged Austro-Hungarian state railway company. Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99015-020-7

Web links

Commons : Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Site plan 1912
  2. ↑ "... life without earnings and money." The end of the bridge. In:  The evening. “Where there are stronger, always on the side of the weaker” , No. 39/1930, February 17, 1930, p. 3, column 1 f .; P. 8 (picture). (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abd.
  3. ↑ The "Steg" locomotive factory is shut down. 50 schillings severance payments as a pension for thirty years of service. In:  The evening. “Where there are stronger people, always on the side of the weaker ones ” , No. 15/1930, January 20, 1930, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / abd.
  4. ↑ Finanz Compass Austria 1958, p. 529 (direct link via ZEDHIA on p. 529 )
  5. ↑ Zentralblatt for entries in the Austrian commercial register 1972, July 20, 1972, HR B 12.279, p. 824 (direct link via ZEDHIA on p. 824 ) - precisely: Austria email Aktiengesellschaft, Vienna, 16., Wilhelminenstrasse 80.