Upper Lusatian Railway Company

The Upper Lusatian Railway Company (German: Oberlausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), which had its headquarters in Ruhland now in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, received a concession on 11 October 1871 for the construction of a railway line, partly to provide a direct connection from Breslau (now Wroclaw) to Magdeburg.

The 148 km long-route lead west from the rail node of Kohlfurt (now Węgliniec, Poland) through Upper Lusatia via Horka, Hoyerswerda, Ruhland and Elsterwerda-Biehla to Falkenberg in the Lower Lusatia.

The Węgliniec–Falkenberg/Elster railway was inaugurated on 1 June 1874 under its first director, Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, who headed it until 1876.

In 1878, the management of the line was taken over by the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company (Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), which allowed it to round out its network.

Exactly five years later, on 1 May 1887, the Upper Lusatian Railway Company sold its tracks to the state and was wound up.