Jüterbog tram

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Jüterboger Straßenbahn AG
Lines
Gauge 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
tram 1
number of vehicles
Tram cars 6 (1902)
statistics
Passengers 195,987 (1902)
Mileage 67,525 (1902)
Length of line network
Tram lines 3.3 km

The tram Jüterbog was a horse-drawn tram in the town of Jüterbog . It ran (with two interruptions) from 1897 to 1928 from the train station to the city. The 3.3 kilometer route was then converted to bus operation.

history

In 1841 the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft built a station for Jüterbog. Since the Jüterbog train station was around two kilometers from the city center, the first considerations arose in the 1890s to connect it to the town via a small electric train . The company Siemens & Halske from Berlin , the leading company in the construction and operation of electric trams in the German Reich, informed the municipal authorities in November 1893 that they had doubts about the profitability of the tram and did not want to participate in it. In February 1895, the J. Plagge company from Berlin submitted a cost estimate for a gas-engine railway in the amount of 230,000 marks. Since the cost of a horse-drawn tram was only estimated at 60% of this sum, the decision was made in May 1895 in their favor. After the district president in Potsdam had approved the operation until July 1, 1936 on April 27, 1896, the Jüterboger Straßenbahn AG was founded on May 18, 1896 . Their share capital of 100,000 marks was raised by issuing 100 shares with a nominal value of 1,000 marks each, which were mainly subscribed to by citizens of Jüterbog.

Operations began on March 20, 1897 on a 3.3-kilometer single-track line between the train station, the market and the Zinna suburb. Twenty trips a day were made with twelve horses and three wagons. The fare for the 20-minute journey was initially 10 pfennigs during the day and 20 pfennigs during the night. The track width of the tracks was 1000 mm ( meter gauge ). In 1897 175,380 people were transported, five years later 195,987. In 1902 there were considerations to convert the railway to electrical operation. However, this was never realized. On October 1, 1907, a separate depot was opened in the Zinna suburb . Up until this point in time, a building belonging to the Herold Hotel served as a temporary storage facility.

Until 1919, the company was able to generate profits annually and pay its shareholders a dividend . From 1920 onwards, the company got into difficulties due to increasing feed and salary costs, despite increased operating income. Although the horse-drawn tram ceased operations from April 1 to June 16, 1920, the company returned to profitability by 1922. However, the hyperinflation of the early 1920s meant that it could no longer work economically, so that operations were stopped again from October 1922 to March 1924. On November 4, 1926, the magistrate decided to waive the tax debts of Jüterboger Straßenbahn AG, provided that the operation was converted to buses . The company's situation was stabilized again by 1927, and the first buses left on July 23, 1928. As a result of the illness of a bus driver, the last horse tram ran on July 29, 1928.

The dissolution of Jüterboger Straßenbahn AG as a company was completed in 1938. The last tracks of the horse tram were only dismantled in the 1950s.

Fleet

Operation started in 1897 with three horse-drawn tram cars from the Gottfried Lindner company based in Halle (Saale) . The 2-axle and 3-window wagons offered passengers 20 seats and 11 standing places and were pulled by one horse . The fourth car, which was soon purchased, had four windows and turned out to be too heavy. In 1902 the company already owned six cars, one of which was a service car.

Depot

From 1896 the company used the building of the Hotel Herold at Grosse Strasse 56. It was not until 1907 that the 968 m² property at Zinnaer Vorstadt 77 was purchased and converted into a new depot . At that time, there were two stables on the area in addition to a residential building with an extension. One of the stables was demolished to make way for a farm building, which consisted of an office, a coach house, a warehouse, a laundry room and a toilet. In addition, a three-door garage and a workshop were built. The finished depot was officially opened on October 1, 1907.

literature

  • City of Jüterbog (ed.): The Jüterbog horse-drawn railway 1896–1928 . Research work on a 12th grade advanced course at the Goethe-Schiller-Gymnaium Jüterbog, 1997.
  • Wolf-Dietger Machel: Trotting through the military town / From the history of the Jüterbog tram. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , Volume 47, Issue 1 (January / February 2020), pp. 1–14.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The small railways in Prussia . In: magazine for small railways . Volume 10, 1903, p. 16 f.
  2. ↑ a b c Statistics of the German small railways . In: magazine for small railways . Volume 10, 1903, pp. 152-155.
  3. ↑ a b Business year: October 1, 1901 to September 30, 1902

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