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Nordwestbahn
© Copyright Nordwestbahn: Arrival of a train at the Nordwestbahnhof station in Vienna. Painting by K. Karger, 1875 (Österreichische Galerie, Vienna). Nordwestbahn, private railroad company that took over the Nordbahn Floridsdorf-Stockerau railway line (built in 1841) and extended the line via Hollabrunn-Retz-Znojmo to Moravia; nationalized in 1908. Decreasing importance after 1918, Nordwestbahnhof station building "am Tabor" (in Vienna´s 20th district) closed down in 1924 and later used for different events (political gatherings, winter sports events on artificial snow). After World War II the Nordwestbahnhof station and the Nordwestbahnbrücke railway bridge were used temporarily, after the completion of the Nordbahn railway bridge the Nordwestbahnhof station building was demolished in 1959, the Nordwestbahn railway bridge integrated into a city motorway (Nordbrücke bridge) and the area of the Nordwestbahnhof station used as a cargo station. Passenger traffic from Retz to Znojmo, which had been discontinued after 1945, was taken up again in 1990. Literature: A. Horn, Die Österreichische Nordwestbahn, 1967.
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