Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Railway Company
The Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ZOJE) was a railway company in Saxony . She was the owner of the Zittau – Oybin narrow-gauge railway with a branch to Jonsdorf in the Zittau Mountains . The seat of the company was in Zittau .
history
The Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was founded in Zittau on August 28, 1888 in order to build a narrow-gauge railway into the Zittau Mountains on a private basis. The Saxon state had previously refused several times to build a corresponding railway on its own.
On March 28, 1889, the Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was granted the concession with Decree No. 14. The concession stipulated that the new railway was to be built in accordance with the provisions of the railway regulations for German railways of minor importance from June 12, 1878. In addition, the stipulation was issued that the standards valid for the Saxon narrow-gauge railways must be observed. The construction period was set at 18 months. The share capital required for the construction was set in the concession at 1.5 million marks . The company was obliged to raise at least half of this in the form of ordinary shares . The operation of the new line was left to the state railway administration. The concession was granted for 50 years. The Saxon state, however, reserved the right to nationalize at any time. In the first ten years after the company opened, financial compensation in the amount of the invested capital was provided. After this period had expired, the shareholders were entitled to compensation in the amount of twenty times the average net income for the last five years of operation.
Construction work began on June 26, 1889. The line branched off the Zittau – Reichenau state railway at 1.65 km and led via Olbersdorf to Oybin and Jonsdorf .
It was officially opened on November 25, 1890, but due to storm damage it could only be used between Zittau and Bertsdorf. It was not until December 15, 1890 that traffic could be started on the entire route. The Royal Saxon State Railways carried out the operation on account of the Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft. In the vernacular of the narrow gauge trains soon "was the abbreviation" ZOJE "in reference to the low vehicle speed Z ug o teeth j ede e ile".
Although passenger traffic developed extremely positively, in some cases passengers were carried in prepared freight wagons, there was no money for further investments. The company offered its route to the state for sale as early as 1898. But this is not yet interested.
In August 1905, the ZOJE trains carried 64,675 passengers and 3,583 tons of freight. The income amounted to 18,667 marks in passenger traffic and 3,331 marks in freight traffic. For the months from January to August 1905, total sales were 107,604 marks. They were thus 1,270 marks higher than in the same period of the previous year.
On July 1, 1906, the company was nationalized. From then on, the line belonged to the network of the Royal Saxon State Railways. The line that still exists today later developed into one of the most profitable and busiest Saxon narrow-gauge railways .
vehicles
- Locomotives
ZOJE acquired the same types of locomotives for its route that had already proven themselves on the state railway. The Saxon Maschinenfabrik in Chemnitz yielded four locomotives in 1889 with the factory numbers 1580 to 1583, which identical to the genus I K were. They were given the numbers 1 to 4 and the names MANDAU , LAUSCHE , TÖPFER and HOCHWALD . Another locomotive with the name ZITTAU followed in 1891 .
- dare
When the company opened its doors, the company owned a total of seven four-axle passenger cars in 2nd and 3rd class with a total of 230 seats and two luggage cars. After just one year, the company procured a further ten cars, and in 1900 another two. The vehicles of the ZOJE differed from the vehicles of the state railway in particular by the missing skylights and a different arrangement of the compartments. A total of 22 passenger coaches came to the Royal Saxon State Railways for nationalization. The cars built in 1900 have been preserved in a museum. The former car 20 belongs to the Saxon-Upper Lusatian Railway Company (SOEG) and has been operational again since 2011. Car 21 belongs to the association of the Zittauer Schmalspurbahnen e. V.
For freight traffic, the ZOJE acquired 14 open and five boxcars as well as two turntable wagons for transporting logs. They resembled the contemporary designs of the state railway. One of the vehicles (No. 106) was used as a baggage car. Two roll stands were used to transport standard-gauge freight cars.
| Overview of passenger coaches | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road no. | genus | Construction year | Manufacturer | comment | ||||
| 1-3 | BCC | 1890 | Waggonfabrik Aktien-Gesellschaft vorm. P. Herbrand & Cie., Cologne-Ehrenfeld | Passenger car 2nd / 3rd Class, four-axis | ||||
| 4-7 | CC | 1890 | Waggonfabrik Aktien-Gesellschaft vorm. P. Herbrand & Cie., Cologne-Ehrenfeld | 3rd class passenger car, four-axle | ||||
| 8-9 | Ppost | 1890 | Waggonfabrik Aktien-Gesellschaft vorm. P. Herbrand & Cie., Cologne-Ehrenfeld | Baggage car with mail compartment , two-axle | ||||
| 10-14 | CC | 1891 | Joint stock company for the manufacture of railway material in Görlitz | 3rd class passenger car, four-axle | ||||
| 15-19 | BCC | 1891 | Joint stock company for the manufacture of railway material in Görlitz | Passenger car 2nd / 3rd Class, four-axis | ||||
| 20-21 | CC | 1900 | Joint stock company for the manufacture of railway material in Görlitz | 3rd class passenger car, four-axle | ||||
| 106 | P | 1891 | Joint stock company for the manufacture of railway material in Görlitz | Baggage trolley, two-axle | ||||
literature
- Erich Preuß: Narrow-gauge railways in Upper Lusatia. VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1980
- Erich Preuß: The Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer Railway. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71107-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Preuß: Narrow gauge railways of Upper Lusatia. VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1980, pp. 16–22
- ↑ Operating results of the Saxon and the co-administered private railway Zittau - Oybin - Johnsdorf in August 1905. in Dresdner Journal , January 2, 1906, full text on Wikisource
- ^ Günther Reiche: Richard Hartmann and his locomotives . Oberbaum Verlag, pp. 142 and 151
- ^ Rainer Fischer, Sven Hoyer, Joachim Schulz: The wagons of the Saxon secondary railways . EK-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-88255-682-X , pp. 68-74, 87-88, 173, 180
- ↑ Description of the carriage 21 on zoje.de
- ^ Rainer Fischer, Sven Hoyer, Joachim Schulz: The wagons of the Saxon secondary railways . EK-Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 1998, ISBN 3-88255-682-X , pp. 97, 107, 232