Trachenberg-Militscher Kreisbahn
| Trachenberg-Militscher Kreisbahn | |
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| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) |
The Trachenberg-Militscher Kreisbahn operated a narrow-gauge railway that ran through the Militsch district in Silesia and ended in Sulmirschütz in the former province of Posen .
history
The Militsch district in the north of the former administrative district of Breslau, traversed by the Bartsch river, was first connected to the rail network in 1856 by the Upper Silesian Railway Company; the town of Trachenberg in the west of the district became a train station. The district town of Militsch only received a train station in 1875 through the Oels-Gnesener Railway . However, there was no connection between the two cities and no development of the central and eastern district area.
This gap should be closed by a small train. The Allgemeine Deutsche Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft founded the Trachenberg-Militscher Kreisbahn AG on August 16, 1894 and commissioned the company Schneege & Co in Breslau to build the railway. On January 1, 1900, she handed over management to her daughter, Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH .
The small railway laid out in the narrow gauge of 750 mm was built in two stages. From December 8, 1894, the route led from Trachenberg in a south-easterly direction to Przittkowitz, which was later called Gutweide, and then south to the small town of Prausnitz in the south-west corner of the district, a total of fifteen kilometers. Since October 1898, the Breslau-Trebnitz-Prausnitzer Kleinbahn line , which also belonged to the Allgemeine Deutsche Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft, was connected here. This created a coherent network of narrow-gauge railways more than a hundred kilometers in length, around seventy of which were in the Militsch district. In Przittkowitz the construction of the railway continued in an easterly direction and reached the Bartschbruch via Militsch and then the district and provincial borders; after crossing it, the railway ended in the town of Sulmirschütz in what was then the Adelnau district, 69 kilometers from Trachenberg. The company opened on October 1, 1895.
After the First World War, the province of Poznan became Polish in 1919/20 and the small railroad stopped traffic across the new state border. The end of the trains was now Niederwiesenthal station. This meant that four kilometers of the railway were out of service. They were not used again until 1945, when the border fell away and the whole Militsch district belonged to Poland.
After the small railway fell under Polish administration, it was nationalized and operationally combined with the Breslau-Trebnitz-Prausnitzer Kleinbahn to form the Wrocławska Kolej Dojazdowa (Breslau suburban railway). On September 14, 1991 the last section between Prausnitz and Militsch was closed.
Timetable
The timetable from the summer of 1914 contained two daily trains from Trachenberg to Sulmirschütz and back and a pair of trains to Prausnitz. In the years 1927 and 1934, the entire route was only used once on Sundays; all trains ended in Niederwiesenthal; A pair of trains ran to Prausnitz only on Wednesdays and Saturdays from Trachenberg city station. From around 1937 the offer was similar, but on Sunday morning from Preussenthal, where a locomotive was staying, a train to Militsch left at 7 a.m. and back at 8:15 a.m. In 1941 and 1944 the connection between Gutweide and Prausnitz was completely missing.
Vehicles were available in 1939: five steam locomotives, six passenger cars, three pack wagons and 147 freight cars.
After the railway was merged with the Breslau-Trebnitz-Prausnitzer Kreisbahn in 1945 under Polish direction, there were continuous trains from Trachenberg (Polish Żmigród ) and Sulmirschütz ( Sulmierzyce ) to Breslau .
stretch
a) Trachenberg – Militsch – Sulmirschütz
- 0.0 Trachenberg Reichsbahnhof
- 1.0 Trachenberg city
- 3.0 Hermenau
- 5.0 Kanterwitz
- 6.1 Powitzko (Urdorf)
- 7.5 Przittkowitz (Gutweide)
- 10.1 (9.0) estimate
- 10.5 Dirschken
- 11.5 Groß Ossig
- 14.5 Fürstenau (Kr Militsch)
- 17.3 stone pillar
- 22.4 pear trees
- 24.9 Sulau
- 28.1 Protsch (b. Militsch) (Kiefernwalde / Lower Silesia)
- 30.7 Postel
- 33.4 Kasawe (Thomasort / Kr Militsch)
- 36.0 Militsch Schlossvorwerk
- 37.5 Militsch small train station
- 41.3 old hammer (Kr Militsch)
- 43.1 Grabofnitze (Buchendorf / Silesia)
- 49.6 Bratschelhof
- 53.0 Gontkowitz (Schönkirch / Kr Militsch)
- 54.3 Groß Tschunkawe (Preussental / Silesia)
- 57.0 Niederwiesenthal (Wiesenthal / Kr Militsch)
- 59.8 Golkowe
- ---- provincial border
- 60.9 Sulmirschütz
b) Przittkowitz – Prausnitz
- 0.0 Przittkowitz
- 9.0 Dobrtowitz
- 12.9 Klein Ellguth
- 14.1 Klein Peterwitz (near Prausnitz)
- 15.1 Prausnitz (Bz Breslau)
c) Rail freight
- 0.0 Przittkowitz
- 1.9 Herrnkaschütz
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).