Empress Elisabeth Railway
The k.k. privileged Empress Elisabeth Railway ( KEB ) was a railway company in Austria. The main line of the company was the railway line between Vienna and Salzburg with the branching connection Wels- Passau. In 1884 the company was nationalized.
History
On June 21, 1851 Austria and Bavaria had decided with a state contract for the Construction of railways between the two countries. They agreed the routes from Munich to Salzburg to Vienna, from Rosenheim Kufstein to Innsbruck and the continuation of the coming of Nuremberg route via Regensburg to Linz. In addition, the contract also included the creation of the Brenner railway to connect to the Lombard- Venetian railway from Bolzano to Verona. The completion of all lines was provided by 1 March 1858.
The construction of the originally planned route from Salzburg to Bruck an der Mur proved to be due to high costs as not feasible. Therefore, finally, a more direct route from Salzburg to Linz was configured. The entrepreneur Hermann Dietrich Lindheim instructed the Chief Inspector Karl Keissler to develop a project for a Western Railway from Vienna to Linz to Salzburg, and received on October 19, 1854 a Vorkonzession. For the financing Lindheim founded together with Hamburg entrepreneur Ernst Merck, a consortium in which besides the Creditanstalt and the banker Salomon Rothschild belonged to several private investors. This consortium was established on June 22, 1856 as a public company.
On April 21, 1856 Second State Treaty with Bavaria was completed, the firm wrote the line Salzburg - Vienna. Not later than " within a period of five years ... from the date of exchange of the ratifications " the route should now be operational. The railway branch from Passau to Linz should be completed within seven years.
On March 8, 1856, the Austrian government awarded the concession for these lines to the Empress Elisabeth Railway. In a concession Privilegiumsdauer of 90 years and the state's guarantee of an annual annuity of 52 /10% for 5 % interest rate and repayment of the capital invested was pronounced.
On August 12, 1860, the entire route Vienna -Linz -Salzburg was opened to traffic. The railway branch Wels -Passau was completed on 1 September 1861. In the same year Friedrich Schey of Koromla director of the Empress Elisabeth Railway.
1857 went the operated as horse-drawn trains routes Linz- Gmunden Lambach - and from Linz to Budweis of kk privileged first railway company shall become the property of the Empress Elisabeth Railway. These routes had to be umgespurt for locomotive operation and partially realigned.
In 1884 the Empress Elisabeth Railway was nationalized. The cars and tracks were the property of the kk State Railways ( kkStB ) transferred.
The routes
- Vienna -Linz (* December 15, 1858 )
- Linz -Salzburg- frontier ( born August 12, 1860)
- Wels- Passau ( born September 1, 1861)
- Budweis -Linz - Gmunden ( October 1, 1857 adopted as the narrow gauge route)
- Linz- Lambach ( born September 1, 1859 as standard gauge track )
- Summerau - Budweis ( born December 1, 1871)
- St. Valentine Summerau ( born November 6, 1872)
- Linz -Gaisbach - Wartberg ( born December 20 1873)
- Neumarkt- Kallham - Braunau am Inn (acquired October 23, 1870, born December 20, 1870)
- Braunau - Simbach ( born July 1, 1871)
- Salzburg - Hallein ( born July 15, 1871)
- Hallein - Bischofshofen Wörgl ( born August 6 1875)
- Bischofshofen Selzthal ( born August 6 1875)
- Penzing - Vitus - Maxing - Hetzendorf ( born December 20 1860)
- Maxing - Kaiser Ebersdorf ( born May 1, 1872)
- Hütteldorf -St. Veit ( born June 28, 1883)
Operated on behalf of the owner routes
- Holzleithen - Thomasroith ( born October 23, 1877)
- Stone village - Aching - Braunau ( born September 10, 1873)