In 1913, the Rennsteig-Frauenwald Kleinbahn (KRF) was opened. From 1912 onwards, the Waggonfabrik Gottfried Lindner A.G. in Ammendorf near Halle (which later became the well-known VEB Waggonbau Ammendorf) supplied several light railways with 4-axle combined passenger, mail and luggage cars with 8 upholstered seats in 2nd class and 40 wooden seats in 3rd class.
The first of these cars was given to the Rennsteig - Frauenwald Kleinbahn (KRF, two more cars were delivered to the Kyffhäuser Kleinbahn (Artern - Berga-Kelbra) around 1916. These were equipped with toilets because of the significantly longer length of the route. From the 2nd class compartment you could get to the luggage compartment via a side corridor past the mail compartment and from there to the seat compartment and the load compartment. The mail and baggage compartments had sliding doors on both sides. The cars had a steel undercarriage. On top of this rested a wooden wagon body, which was covered with sheet metal on the outside. Heating was provided by steam from the locomotive, and the mail compartment also had a stove with smoke vent on the roof.
Originally, the car had a suction air brake and was lit with petroleum. Thus, the car combined everything necessary under one roof.In the 1930s, the KRF had its car converted to electric lighting, and a little later the vacuum brake was replaced by an air brake. Thus, the KRF car survived the 2nd World War and was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in 1949.
Shortly afterwards, the carriage underwent fundamental modifications: the platforms that had been open until then were replaced by closed ones, and the mail compartment was united with the luggage compartment. It is probably due to the shortage of materials in these years that on the side where the platform in Allzuhah was, only one revolving door was installed, on the other side two of different widths. So the car was used on its home route until the end of the 50s, its current whereabouts are unknown.
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