Eulengebirgsbahn

The Owls mountain Bahn AG was a small railway company in the former Prussian province of Silesia. Her name was derived from the Owl Mountains, which over 35 kilometers long stretches and reaches an altitude of 1014 m in the Great Owl.

History

The Owls mountain Bahn AG was founded on July 25, 1899 by the Kingdom of Prussia, the circles Frankenstein, neurodegeneration and Reichenbach, the cities Reichenbach and Silberberg, together with three other communities as well as by the railway construction and operating company Lenz & Co GmbH, also a further 43 companies and private investors.

Office of the Company and the Railway administration was Reichenbach. The operation led to 1945 the firm Lenz & Co GmbH.

Stretch

The first part of the standard gauge light railway was opened on June 1, 1900; She started in the district town Reichenbach and led at the edge of the Owl Mountains south to the city Silberberg (26 km), where connection was to the Franks Steiner circular path, which was also operated by Lenz & Co.

Then she crossed from August 4, 1902 using a steep section, which had its apex with 513 meters in the silver mountain fortress station, and the hairpin in the terminal station Volpersdorf the mountains. On the 6.6 km long section to Neudorf a rack system abbot was installed. After a total of 19 kilometers, you will reach the state railway Waldburg- neurodegeneration Glatz in central stones.

The 11 km long continuation resulted from December 1, 1903 in a westerly direction until after Wuenschelburg in the Table Mountains near the Czech border.

On the circle Reichenbach accounted for 19 km of trunk line, the circle Frankenstein 12 km to the circle neurodegeneration, which was incorporated on October 1, 1932 in the county of Glatz, 24 km. In addition, there sidings came from seven kilometers in length, which always served only to freight.

On 15 December 1931, the route Silberberg -Neudorf was completely shut down and thus the gear operation. In the subsequent section to Mittelsteine ​​afterwards only frequented freight trains, so that there were no passengers on the Owl Mountains, more by the light railway.

A total of 1939 seven steam locomotives, 22 passenger, four - pack and 96 freight cars were available for railway operations in years.

Reichenbach- Silberberg Mittelsteine ​​- Wuenschelburg

Freight railways

• Neubielau - Suckertshof 2 km ( to 1930 )
• Ebersdor Johann Baptista - pit 2 km
• Mittelsteine ​​Klb railway power station 1 km
• Wuenschelburg - Heuscheuer charging 2 km