The land in between was to have been used for trading estates. When the district council for the royal Bavarian district of Scheßlitz authorised a subsidy of 70,000 marks for the construction of a line from Scheßlitz to Hollfeld, the town of Scheßlitz demanded that its subsidy of 50,000 marks for the construction of the Bamberg-Scheßlitz route had to be given back if a line to Hollfeld were built.
