Bötzow – Berlin-Spandau railway line

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Bötzow – Spandau
Route number : 6556
Course book range : 596e (1940)
Route length: 18.0 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
   
 from Nauen
   
 0.0 Bötzow
   
 to Velten
   
 1.8 Block bridge
   
 from Schönwalde airfield
   
 5.4 Nieder Neuendorf forest house
   
 Small train from Hennigsdorf (line 120)
   
 6.1 Nieder Neuendorf (Kr Osthav)
   
 7.1 Papenberge
   
 State border Brandenburg - Berlin
   
 9.2 Citizen filing (previously Bf)
   
 Oberhavel power plant
   
 10.1 power plant
   
 11.0 Wichernstrasse
   
 Industrial railway hookfelde
   
 11.7 Berlin-Spandau Johannesstift ( Bw der hvle)
   
 Kleinbahn to Spandau West (line 120)
   
 14.0 Radelandstraße (forest hospital) (from approx. 1948)
Plan-free intersection - below
 Berlin-Hamburg train
   
 von Lehrte
Station, station
 17.2 Berlin-Spandau (previously Spandau West)
Route - straight ahead
 to Berlin Hbf

The Bötzow – Berlin-Spandau railway , also known as Bötzowbahn , was a branch line in Berlin and Brandenburg that originally belonged to the Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen . It ran from Bötzow to Berlin-Spandau .

history

For the account of the Osthavelland district, the AG Osthavelländische Eisenbahnen built and operated two small railways, which they bought in 1924. Initially, it was the 26 km long route leading from Nauen in an easterly direction to Velten .

From June 1, 1908 (passenger traffic from May 1, 1909) the Bötzowbahn branched from the intermediate station Bötzow to the Spandauer Johannesstift . From May 1, 1912, the tracks continued to the small train station Spandau West, which was right next to the suburban train station Spandau-West . Various industrial railways and sidings branched off the route between Nieder Neuendorf and Johannesstift station, for example to supply fuel to the Oberhavel power plant and to several industrial companies in Hakenfelde.

From January 8, 1923, line 120 (Spandau - Nieder Neuendorf - Hennigsdorf (Rathenaustraße)) of the Berlin tram operated on part of this route , which was initially operated by benzene railcars . The line was electrified by November 11, 1929 and extended to Hennigsdorf station on July 23, 1931 . It also had the Wichernstrasse and Kraftwerk stops between Johannesstift and Bürgerablage. According to the plans of the Berliner Straßenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft, line 120 was no longer to be taken over Schönwalder Strasse to Johannesstift, but rather over Streitstrasse, then from the turning loop set up in 1928 on the eastern edge of the Waldsiedlung to the Bötzowbahn and at the level of Rustweg join this in the direction of Nieder Neuendorf. The planned route had been kept free for several years. As a potential impediment to set up a is a dispatcher occupied branching point assumed at the meeting point of the two lines. In April 1945 the operation of this tram line ended.

The rest of the passenger traffic on the Bötzow Railway was almost completely shifted to a parallel bus line between 1929 and 1939. However, during the war between 1942 and 1945, railcars are said to have driven without stopping from Spandau West to Schönwalde airfield , to which a connecting line branched off at Nieder Neuendorf since 1935/1938 .

Disused tracks and points of the Havelländische Eisenbahn in the Spandauer Forst (former Bürgerablage station)
End of the traffic-ready line at the north end of Johannesstift station (2017)
The freight yard Berlin-Spandau Johannesstift, from the level crossing of Schönwalder Allee (2015)

The company was expropriated by the Soviet occupation forces in 1946 and the railways were initially subordinated to the Brandenburg State Railways and then to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This shut down the Bötzow – Nieder Neuendorf line in 1952, as well as the Nauen – Bötzow – Velten section on November 1, 1964.

Only an eight-kilometer section in West Berlin between Bürgerablage and Spandau West was retained by the OHE. It was under trust management initially by the British occupying power, then by the State of Berlin. However, after the end of the war there were continuous trains from Spandau via Bötzow to Nauen and Ketzin and to Hennigsdorf until August 21, 1950. The trains to Hennigsdorf stopped as a replacement for the tram line 120, which was discontinued in 1945, at the Wichernstrasse and Kraftwerk stops on demand; Between Johannesstift and Spandau West, the trains stopped at the Radelandstraße stop, from which the forest hospital , which was set up in 1945 , could be reached. Freight traffic was then limited to the Johannesstift –Spandau West section , from where the Hakenfelde industrial line was also served, which now also included the remnants of the Bötzowbahn to the connecting tracks to the Oberhavel power station and the Teufelsseekanal .

Today, the line from Spandau for freight traffic to Berlin-Spandau Johannesstift station is in operation. The Havelländische Eisenbahn uses the station to park freight wagons and locomotives and maintains its depot adjacent to it . In 2011/2012 the Hennigsdorf manufacturer Bombardier Transportation parked several newly built multiple units of the Talent 2 series ( BR 442) on the tracks of the Johannesstift station, as they have not yet been delivered to the customer, DB Regio , due to a lack of approval by the Federal Railway Authority could.

  • Bombardier Talent multiple units before delivery to DB Regio, parked at the Berlin-Spandau Johannesstift freight yard (2012)

  • The former Nieder Neuendorf train station (2017)

  • Junction power plant (left) and route towards Johannesstift (2017)

  • Former entrance to the Oberhavel power plant on Niederneuendorfer Allee (2010)

  • The end of the line north of Johannesstift station (2017)

literature

  • The Bötzowbahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 8, 1959.
  • Klaus Euhausen: Nieder Neuendorf - On the history of a Brandenburg village. 2020. In it: With the Bötzowbahn, industry came to Nieder Neuendorf. Pp. 63-65 .

Web links

Commons : Bötzowbahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kämpf: The tram in Spandau and around Spandau . Ed .: Heimatkundliche Vereinigung Spandau 1954 e. V. Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938648-01-8 , pp. 185-199 .
  2. ↑ Timetable, valid from August 2, 1948 in: Hans-Jürgen Kämpf: Line 120 - a very special tram line. In: The tram in Spandau and around Spandau. (Ed .: Heimatkundliche Vereinigung Spandau 1954 eV), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-938648-01-5 , pp. 185-234, here pp. 226f.