Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways

The Grand Duchy of Oldenburg Railway ( GOE ) was run as a state railway railway company of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.

Compared to other countries in the German Confederation, a first railway line was relatively late. In sparsely populated and economically depressed area of the railway long time because of the financial burden seemed unacceptable. In addition, the neighbors Hanover and Bremen Oldenburg feared competition for their ports. After all, rail accessibility Oldenburg came into being earlier than the Hamburg- Venlo railway.

Foundation

Prussia bought in 1853 the Grand Duchy of Heppens the area on the western shore of the Jade Bay from order to set up a naval base, later Wilhelmshaven. Even in the purchase agreement it was agreed that the naval base should have a railway connection. Between the Oldenburg territory and Prussia but still had to be crossed, the Kingdom of Hanover. By connecting the Oldenburg train at the Hanoverian State Railways either in Hanoverian territory or in 1847 the Hanoverian State Railways connected Bremen some discrepancies had to be overcome since the three participating countries were suspicious about the competition situation of their seaports. Finally agreed on February 16, 1864 Prussia and Oldenburg that construction costs and property of the distance of Heppens to the city of Oldenburg should lie with the Prussian state, the operation but at Oldenburg, as well as the sovereignty of the country lying within the boundaries of the Grand Duchy greater part of the route. On March 8, 1864, Oldenburg and Bremen agreed that Oldenburg built the track from his capital to the station Bremen -Neustadt without going through Brake, Bremen connection from Bremen Train Station of the Hanoverian State Railways on the newly created river bridge to Bremen -Neustadt. The operation should perform Oldenburg, subject to the payment of tolls at Bremen.

The 1864 Grand-Ducal used railway Commission went on in the Grand-Ducal Railway Directorate Oldenburg on April 1, 1867.

Route launch

  • On November 17, 1866, the first section of the railway line was opened between Bremen -Oldenburg Oldenburg Central Station and Delmenhorst, on July 14, 1867 was followed by the commissioning of Bremen and the opening drive of the route from Oldenburg to Heppens. The control functions on the latter but was recorded only on 3 September 1867.
  • 1869, the East-West connection Bremen -Oldenburg by the railway line Oldenburg- Leer was continued until the now Prussian empty with connection to the Hanoverian Western Railway, 1876 the route of Ihrhove after Nieuweschans with connection to the Dutch Railways.
  • 1871, the town of Jever was opened by a track that branched off in sands from that of Wilhelmshaven.
  • From Hude from, west of Delmenhorst, the route to the Oldenburg Weser ports north of the Hunte was built, which Brake in 1873 and reached Nordenham 1875.
  • The shortening of the compound of the Grand Duchy to the Ruhr was the 1876, so-called " southern railway " in Osnabrück, which led to the line Osnabrück- Rheine from the city of Oldenburg Quakenbruck until after Eversburg.
  • 1888 of the Osnabrück route branching off a web of Ahlhorn about Vechta opened after wages in the 1898-1900 built route from Delmenhorst to Hesepe rose whose southern section ( in the direction of Osnabrück ).
  • 1890-1896 the clay pits in the Frisian Wehde of Varel from were connected to the railway network.
  • Opened in 1896, the direct connection from the state capital to Brake prepared because of the particularly soft subsoil always problems. Since 1976 it was removed piece by piece.
  • 1897 finally opened in 1888 as a Jever -Caroline Sieler railroad railway Jever Harle was adopted by the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg railway. At the same time they also took over the waterways by Wangerooge and taught there by the investor to place the narrow gauge railway a Wangerooger island.
  • The area coverage served the 1905-1908 built trails of the Vareler branch lines over Ocholt up to Cloppenburg.
  • 1913 a cross-connection of Varel on the road to Wilhelmshaven to Brake was created on the lower Weser on the southern edge of the Jade Bay, which no longer exists today.

End of independence

In compliance with the provisions of the Weimar Constitution of 11 August 1919, the State Treaty establishing the German Reich Railways ( RGBl. 1920 I, p 773) was enacted and therefore with the former state railways of the sovereignty of the German Reich on April 1, 1920. The Oldenburg railwaymen were distributed according to the resolution of the railway department in Oldenburg on the Reichsbahn divisions Hanover, Hamburg and Münster / Westphalia. In Münster, a monument to the immigrant oldenburgischen railwaymen was built in 1935.

Technical Features

By 1875 all of Oldenburg locomotives were heated with peat. For this, they had tender with roof.

Except for the two-axle bus locomotive T 0 had not procured before 1896 machine running axles.

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