Duchy of Brunswick State Railway
The Duchy of Brunswick State Railway was the first German State Railways. Your first stretch of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel was opened on 1 December 1838.
History
The construction of the railway was essentially the work of businessman Philip Augustus of Amsberg. This dealt with the transport links of Brunswick to the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck and realized that timber and mining products from the resin in the seaports were not competitive. Conversely, the products from the seaports were preferentially transported to the Elbe to Magdeburg and not to Brunswick. In 1824 he is in a memorandum against the plan to build rail links from Braunschweig to Hamburg and Bremen. These ideas will be published in 1832.
1835 Amsberg dealt with the plan of a railway from Braunschweig to Magdeburg Helmstedt. This plan was abandoned in favor of a line along the route Oschersleben ( Bode) again, there to reach the connection to the Magdeburg- Halberstadt railway.
At the suggestion Amsbergs the Braunschweig State Department made the decision initially a rail link from Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel to Bad Harzburg ( railway Brunswick- Bad Harzburg ) to build and thus the intention of the Hanoverian government forestall to passing south of Brunswick, a web over Halberstadt to Magdeburg. construct
On August 1, 1837 construction began on the first section of Brunswick south to Wolfenbüttel; the line was passed as the first German state railway and fourth railway line in the German Confederation traffic on 1 December 1838. On October 31, 1841 railway was completed after Harzburg. The slope between Vienenburg and Harzburg was initially still overcome with horses until 1843 also the Steam was introduced with three related from England locomotives. These locomotives were the first dreifachgekuppelten locomotives in Germany.
In 1850 Philip Augustus of Amsberg head of the Ducal railway and post office in Brunswick.
Route development
On 10 July 1843, the routes Wolfenbüttel Jerxheim and Jerxheim - Oschersleben were taken with a connection to the Magdeburg- Halberstadt railway and on to Berlin, Leipzig and Blankenburg in operation. The route to Peine was opened on May 19, 1844 ( with connection to the Royal Hanoverian State Railways ). The Brunswick Southern Railway of Börßum Kreiensen was built in 1853 and opened in 1856. In 1858 it was connected the Helmstedt lignite mining area with the track Helmstedt - Jerxheim, then the route Vienenburg - Goslar ( opened in 1866 by the Hanoverian State Railways, but initially operated by the Brunswick Railroad ). With the connection Kreiensen wood Minden- Hoexter - Godelheim for railway Altenbeken - Hoexter the Royal Westphalian Railway Company in October 1865 a continuous path over Altenbeken was the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. With the link Jerxheim - Börßum 1868 a fresh continuous remote connection between Magdeburg and the Ruhr bypassing of Hanover and Brunswick, which is especially the interests of Prussia came to meet very.
Takeover by the state of Prussia
1869 sat Amsberg a heavy heart for the sale of Brunswick State Railway of Prussia. The Duchy of Brunswick at that time had large debts that were incurred primarily by the expansion of the railroad, and was completely surrounded by the Prussian state railways.
In March 1870, the Brunswick State Railways were in a private company, the Brunswick Railway Company, transferred with effect from 1 January 1869. Amsberg did not experience that the Prussian state from 1879 to 1882 bought out the shares of this company, operating as Prussian State Railways and 1886 the Royal Railway Directorate Magdeburg imputed.