Karow (Meckl) train station
| Karow (Meckl) | |
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 Entrance building of the Karow train station
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | WKA |
| IBNR | 8010188 |
| opening | December 5, 1882 |
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| Place / district | Karow |
| country | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 32'25 " N , 12 ° 16'20" E |
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| Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
The Karow (Meckl) Station is a side rail hub in southern Mecklenburg. This is where the non-electrified Parchim – Neustrelitz , Güstrow – Meyenburg and Wismar – Karow railway lines intersect . However, regular local public transport no longer takes place. The station building, two water towers and a number of other buildings in the train station are listed buildings.
Location and facilities
The station is in the east of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Karow , northwest of the Plauer See . Most of the local development is to the west of the railway site. State road 37 ( B 103 until the end of 2015 ) runs east parallel to the tracks . From this an inner-town street branches off, which crosses the tracks north of the station. To the west, the station is bordered by the Karow village church with cemetery, a garden, the railway water tower and a water tower from the former estate .
The station building is to the east of the tracks. Access to platform 1 is no longer possible from the building. Two island platforms with four tracks are available for passenger traffic and are connected by a pedestrian bridge. However, this has been closed since 2000, and access is now via the tracks. The tracks provided for freight traffic are directly to the west of the platforms and are no longer used today. The station is equipped with form signals . There is a preserved signal box to the north and south of the station.
Twelve objects on the railway site and adjacent areas are on the Parchim district's list of monuments , including railway workers' houses, the two water towers, two signal boxes, a water crane and the station building.
history
The station went into operation with the opening of the railway line from Güstrow to Wendisch Priborn on the southern border of Mecklenburg-Schwerin on December 5, 1882. This route was extended in 1886 to Pritzwalk and later to Wittenberge . Karow was chosen for the railway junction because the northern end of the Plauer See had to be bypassed. On January 28, 1885, passenger traffic began on the railway from Parchim to Neubrandenburg , and finally, on November 14, 1887, passenger traffic from Karow to Wismar was also started . Various track conversions and extensions took place from 1882 to 1968.
The reception building was erected in 1882. As early as 1884, it was converted into a post office in the northern part of the building. The last renovation of this house took place in 1938. In 1903 the platform next to the building was covered with a roof. Signal boxes and, from 1869 to 1935, houses for officials and workers were built on the railway site. A catering facility had existed in the railway building since 1888. In order to take account of the increasing volume of traffic, the number of employees at the station rose continuously until 1989 (1892: 9, 1902: 20, 1922: 40, 1949: 52, 1989: 90). In 1937 43.2 tons of goods were loaded every day, in 1940 it was already 54.8 tons.
Since 1922 Gut Karow had a siding to its field railway. In 1925 a turntable for locomotives was installed. In the 1930s, it was planned to relocate the freight station to the eastern side of the current B 103, as there was space for long tracks there. The plans did not come to fruition. A barracks for Soviet prisoners of war was built during World War II . In 1943 there were 50 prisoners who were subordinate to the Malchow railway maintenance office. After the war, the tracks between Karow and Malchow were dismantled in 1946 and brought to the Soviet Union as reparations . In order to get a connection to the main line from Berlin to Rostock , a detour via Güstrow had to be accepted or buses had to be used. It took until 1968 for this section to be rebuilt. The branch of the route was moved further south. This can still be seen today in the southern signal box, which is not parallel to the track system at the location of the former junction.
The station was very busy in the 1970s and 80s. Up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, an average of 20 passenger trains and 50 freight trains ran every day, 20 of which were shunting in Karow. Passenger trains in four or even five directions met three times a day.
In connection with the political change , freight traffic gradually came to a standstill after 1990. In 1993 only a few freight trains ran, including a local freight train from Güstrow to Röbel once a day if required . In the vicinity of Karow, the connection points Damerower Forst (on the route towards Sternberg) and Glave (towards Güstrow) were occasionally served. On June 1, 1996, passenger traffic on the Sternberg –Karow section was discontinued. For a few years there was still freight traffic to the nearby NVA connection Damerower Forst, which the Bundeswehr also used. In 2000, the section from Damerower Forst to Dabel was closed by the Federal Railway Authority (EBA), the remainder from Karow to Damerower Forst followed in 2003.
On the Güstrow – Meyenburg route, the Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG) has operated mostly continuously from Neustadt (Dosse) to Güstrow since 1998 . On September 23, 2000, the last scheduled passenger trains also ran here. Since then there has been occasional excursion traffic on the section between Karow and Plau, and the Prignitzer Railway and its subsidiary Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn used the route for transfer trips . The section from Priemerburg near Güstrow to Karow was shut down by the EBA in 2004.
There were track closures and the staff was drastically reduced, in 2004 there were only six employees. In 1995 the track-side roofing of the area in front of the station building was removed. The footbridge, renovated in 1992/93, was closed in 2000 for safety reasons. The restaurant has been closed since 1999. In 2001 weather protection was installed on the first platform. When the last tenant moved out in 2003, the railway buildings are empty and for sale. Vandalism damage can be detected, the openings on the lowest floors are nailed up with wooden panels. The vegetation spreads on unused or hardly used tracks and the rear platform.
On May 24, 2008, the Prignitzer Eisenbahn took over the line from Priemerburg via Meyenburg to Pritzwalk and also put the section from Priemerburg to Karow back into operation. The route serves occasional freight traffic and special trains.
passenger traffic
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Scheduled traffic (until 2014)
Until December 13, 2014, railcars of the type Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 operated by the East German Railway (ODEG) on the R3 line.
- Hagenow - Ludwigslust - Parchim - Karow - Waren - Neustrelitz
Commercial transport (2014-2015)
The section Inselstadt Malchow - Karow (Meckl) - Parchim was operated independently from December 14, 2014 to April 30, 2015 by HANSeatische Eisenbahn GmbH . An LVTS (VT 504 001 or 002) was used.
Since May 1, 2015, Karow is no longer regularly served in passenger transport due to the cancellation by the public transport authority Verkehrsgesellschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern .
Seasonal traffic (2017-2019)
From 2017 to 2019, several pairs of trains operated on the following routes for certain events in the region on different days in the summer season:
| year | routes served | Days of traffic | Client | EVU |
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| 2017 | Parchim - Karow (Meckl) - island town of Malchow | 3 Saturdays
and 1 Sunday |
PRO BAHN Landesverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eV | ODEG |
| Plau am See - Karow (Meckl) - Krakow am See - Güstrow | 1 Saturday | HANS | ||
| 2018 | Plau am See - Karow (Meckl) - Krakow am See (- Güstrow) | 2 Saturdays | Initiative for the preservation of the southern runway | ODEG |
| Parchim - Karow (Meckl) - island town of Malchow | 6 Saturdays | |||
| 2019 | Parchim - Karow (Meckl) - Plau am See - Pritzwalk (- Wittstock (Dosse)) | 7 Thursdays | Tourist Info Plau am See GmbH | HANS |
| Guestrow - Karow (Meckl) - Plau am See - Meyenburg | 4 Saturdays | |||
| Parchim - Karow (Meckl) - island town of Malchow | ODEG |
Scheduled traffic (2020)
After ongoing protests by citizens' groups and the threat of closure of the Parchim - Malchow and Plau am See - Güstrow railway lines by the owner Regio Infra Nordost, it was announced in November 2019 that scheduled passenger services on the southern railway would be ordered again. The trips ordered will still only take place during the season, but in the long term the offer could not only appeal to tourists, but also to commuters again.
From May 20 to August 30, 2020, the line called RB19 runs Parchim - Karow (Meckl) - Plau am See on weekends with three pairs of trains. In addition, three pairs of trains on the RB15 line will be extended from Waren via Malchow to Karow.
Freight transport
Since the timetable change on December 12, 2010, freight trains have been running as scheduled on the Rostock-Seehafen-Güstrow-Priemerburg-Karow-Malchow route from Monday to Friday.
literature
- Dietmar Jonas: The Karow / Mecklenburg train station . In: 750 years of Karow. 1254-2004. From the history of a Mecklenburg manor village. Zachow Offsetdruck und Verlag, Karow 2004.
Web links
- Literature about the train station Karow (Meckl) in the state bibliography MV
- Karow station and track plan (PDF; 59 kB) on eisenbahn-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Parchim district for the Plau am See office ( memento of the original from July 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 33 kB)
- ↑ a b Karow (Meckl) , eisenbahn-mv.de
- ↑ Station driving regulations from 1984 ( memento of February 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on ralfs-eisenbahn.de, accessed on January 24, 2010.
- ↑ various course books.
- ↑ Station driving regulations from 1993 ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on ralfs-eisenbahn.de, accessed on January 24, 2010.
- ↑ Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rail. 1996-1998 . Transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71091-9 , pp. 10-12.
- ↑ a b List of the federally-owned lines in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania that have been closed since 1994. (XLSX) Federal Railway Authority , September 11, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Bahn-Report 6/2000, p. 34.
- ^ Bahn-Report, Edition 2/2008, p. 45.
- ^ Office Plau am See - Südbahn seasonal traffic. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Success for seasonal traffic: After Malchow, the route continues with the Südbahn | Nordkurier.de. July 11, 2018, accessed April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ suedbahn: Imprint. In: Südbahn seasonal traffic. Retrieved on April 6, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Iris Leithold: Infrastructure MV: Two railway lines threatened with final end | svz.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ a b NDR: Mecklenburg Südbahn is saved. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Katja Frick: Parchim: ODEG takes over seasonal traffic of the Südbahn | svz.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Scheduled traffic on the Karow (Meckl) - Priemerburg route. (No longer available online.) In: prignitzer-eisenbahn.de. December 22, 2010, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved June 3, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
