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Biela Valley Trolleybus
Overview
Native name	Bielatalbahn
Technical
Line length	4.4 km
Electrification	500 Volts DC
Operating speed	12 km/h max.
Maximum incline	0.125  %
Route map Legend 0.0 Königstein goods station 125 m Dresden–Bodenbach railway 1.6 Königstein Viaduktplatz 136 m 2.3 Biela 130 m 3.6 Biela 155 m 3.7 Hütten 151 m 4.1 Hütten Paper Factory 164 m 4.1 Biela 165 m 4.4 Kurbad Königsbrunn 164 m

TheBiela Valley Trolleybus (German:Bielatalbahn orBielathalbahn) was atrolleybus service in theGerman state ofSaxony. The facility opened on 10 July 1901 and had closed again by September 1904. It was one of the first trolleybus operations in the world. The 4.4-kilometre route was also known at the time as theGleislose Bahn or "trackless railway" – its full name beingGleislose Bielathal-Motorbahn mit elektrischer Oberleitung ("Trackless Biela Valley Motor Line with Electric Overhead Cable"). It was operated by the firm ofBielathal-Motorbahn Königstein and served the lower valley of theBiela inSaxon Switzerland. The route linkedKönigstein on theElbe with the then-independent village ofHütten. The terminus was atKurbad Königsbrunn.

• List of trolleybus systems in Germany

• Frank Dittmann:Die gleislose Bielatalbahn. In:Sächsische Heimatblätter. Issue 3, 1991,ISSN 0486-8234, pp. 177–180.
• Rudolf Hajny:Erster Oberleitungsbus rumpelte durch das Bielatal. Sächsische Zeitung (Ausgabe Pirna), 11 July 2001.
• Norbert Kaiser:Mit der Hüttener Rumpelkiste gleislos durch das Bielatal. Zur Geschichte der O-Bus-Linie Königstein - Hütten - Bad Königsbrunn. In: Petra Binder (Hrsg.):Auf Straßen, Schienen und Wegen. Landkalenderbuch 2011 für die Sächsische Schweiz und das Osterzgebirge. Schütze-Engler-Weber-Verlag, Dresden 2010,ISBN 978-3-936203-14-1, pp. 118–122.
• Mattis Schindler (2009), Ludger Kenning (ed.),Obusse in Deutschland.Band 1: Berlin – Brandenburg – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schleswig-Holstein – Hamburg – Bremen – Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt – Thüringen – Sachsen, Frühere deutsche Ostgebiete (in German), Nordhorn: Kenning,ISBN 978-3-933613-34-9
• Guarini, Emil:Electric Trolley Vehicles Without Rails. In: The Engineering Magazine. An Industrial Review. Vol 26. New York 1904. pp. 33–48.[1]

• Photo of car no. 2 turning in Königstein

• Trolleybus transport in Germany
• Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
• Transport in Saxon Switzerland

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