Bad Kleinen – Rostock railway line

Bad Kleinen – Rostock
Course of the Bad Kleinen – Rostock railway line
Route number (DB) :	Bad Kleinen – Bützow: 1122 Bützow – Rostock: 6446
Course book section (DB) :	100
Route length:	71 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	Ventschow – Schwaan: 160 km / h Rest of the route: 120 km / h
Legend from Lübeck from Schwerin 59.3 Bad little ones to Wismar Wallensteingraben 67.6 Ventschow A 14 Brueler Bach from Wismar 76.8 Blankenberg (Meckl) B 192 to Karow 81.2 Bk Friedrichswalde (Meckl) (formerly Gbf) 87.5 Warnow 89.7 Warnow (Meckl) 93.2 Zernin 99.9 -0.2 Bützow 0.0 to Güstrow 4.2 Oettelin 6.5 Kassow 12.0 Abzw Schwaan von Güstrow 14.1 Swaan 16.9 Warnow 19.3 Huckstorf 22.3 Pölchow 23.5 A 20 25.4 Papendorf 28.4 Junction Dalwitzhof from Waren (Müritz) and Sanitz from Waren (Müritz) and Sanitz Abzw Warnowbrücke from and to Stralsund from Stralsund 30.2 Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof / Güterbahnhof 30.7 Rostock harbor 30.3 Rostock main station to Wismar to Warnemünde

The Bad Kleinen – Rostock railway is a double-track, electrified main line in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is one of the oldest and most important railway lines in Mecklenburg and is part of the Leipzig - Magdeburg - Schwerin - Rostock main line .

Route

From Bad Kleinen train station , the route runs in an easterly direction, initially on the north shore of Lake Schwerin , through areas rich in forests and lakes. In front of the Blankenberg (Meckl) station, the route of the Wismar – Karow railway line, which was closed in 1998, crosses the line. The station on the Wismar – Karow line is located south of the main line station. The valley of the river of the same name is reached near the Warnow (Meckl) train station, which is closed to passenger traffic . The route turns to the northeast. After the Bützow train station, which is just outside the city, a line branches off in the direction of Güstrow . Another route from Güstrow joins south of Schwaan station. After Schwaan the Warnow is crossed again. Before Rostock, the old line branches off to Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof . The curve to the main train station is the only single-track section of the route and runs parallel to the track from Neustrelitz / Ticino.

history

Prehistory and construction

In 1846 the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin got its first rail connection with the Berlin-Hamburg Railway . Immediately afterwards, the construction of a connection from Hagenow on this route to the four largest cities in the country, Schwerin, Wismar , Rostock and Güstrow, began. On May 1, 1847, the Hagenow – Schwerin section was opened, followed by an extension to Wismar on July 12, 1848. When choosing the route to Rostock and Güstrow, the decision was made to branch off at the Kleinen train station (now Bad Kleinen ). This meant a certain detour, but saved the costly construction of a dam through Lake Schwerin. State aid of 700,000 thalers was approved to finance the railway.

On May 13, 1850, the Bad Kleinen – Rostock line with a branch line from Bützow to Güstrow was put into operation. The station in Rostock was built southeast of the stone gate near the Warnow. The city decided to name it after the reigning Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof . The station building did not go into operation until 1853.

Initially, two pairs of trains ran between Rostock and Hagenow each day, and they stopped in Schwaan, Bützow, Blankenberg, Kleinen and Schwerin. Between Wismar and Kleinen or Güstrow and Bützow, three pairs of trains ran as feeders.

Development until 1945

In the following years the network was expanded further. With the extension of the railway line from Güstrow to Neubrandenburg and Stettin (1864 to 1867) and the construction of the Lübeck – Bad Kleinen railway line (1870), an east-west connection was created from Hamburg to Stettin, which used this route between Bad Kleinen and Bützow. In 1905 five pairs of passenger trains and one pair of express trains ran there (reinforced by an additional train in the summer months), mainly on the east-west route. There were through cars to Rostock and Warnemünde .

In Rostock the situation changed with the construction of the Neustrelitz – Warnemünde railway line in 1886, which got its own train station. Since the situation with two different train stations in the city was unattractive, it was decided to handle all passenger traffic via the Lloydbahnhof , which was later called Rostock Hauptbahnhof . In 1896 the trains from Bützow were also brought to this station. The old Friedrich-Franz-Bahnhof has only served freight traffic since 1905, when a connection from Stralsund to the main train station was created. Important for the route, the reconstruction of the station Warnemünde in 1903 and the establishment of a direct was ferry- to Gedser (Denmark). From then on, direct trains ran from Hamburg to Rostock to Copenhagen, some of them to Stockholm and Oslo .

In 1934, two pairs of express trains (with an additional amplifier in summer) ran from Hamburg to Scandinavia, a pair of express trains from Rostock to Uelzen, an accelerated passenger train from Rostock to Lübeck and in summer to a express train from Rostock to Leipzig. Between Bad Kleinen and Bützow there was a pair of express trains and a pair of express trains (with a feeder to Rostock) from Hamburg to Stettin.

Between 1945 and 1990

Reconstruction of the Rostock – Schwaan section in 1948

Railway accident in 1987 between Bützow and Schwaan

After 1945 the demarcation changed the traffic flows significantly. The east-west connection thus became insignificant. The connection from Rostock to the south was all the more important. After the Rostock – Bützow section was dismantled in 1945 as a reparation payment , it was rebuilt in the following years. The reconstruction of the Rostock - Schwaan section in 1948 was marketed as one of the FDJ's first youth properties . On October 5, 1952, the Schwaan - Bützow section went back into operation.

Plans from 1957 provided for the construction of a marshalling yard in the Dalwitzhof area in the south of Rostock. With the construction of the Rostock overseas port, these plans were abandoned and the marshalling yard was built in this area. In the decades that followed, the line became increasingly important for both passenger and freight traffic (especially to the Rostock port). 1973–1975 the line was expanded to two tracks again. In the 1980s, up to ten pairs of express trains ran between Rostock and Magdeburg, mostly on to Leipzig or Erfurt . There was also an interzonal train via Lübeck to Hamburg, an express train from Rostock to Schwerin and a few passenger trains .

After the oil crisis in the 1970s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn pushed ahead with the electrification of the lines in the early 1980s. While the Schwaan – Rostock section was electrified from Güstrow by May 1985, the catenary on the remaining section was not put into operation until 1986/87. The memorial stone erected in the Bad Kleinen train station for the occasion has since been removed and is now owned by the Mecklenburgische Eisenbahnfreunde Schwerin e. V.

After 1990

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a number of additional trains were introduced in the direction of Hamburg. In the first half of the 1990s, the Stralsund – Rostock – Hamburg and Rostock – Leipzig interregional lines ran every two hours. The connection to Leipzig was canceled in the mid-1990s in favor of a transfer connection in Bad Kleinen and later without replacement (except for a seasonal Intercity).

After the German reunification , the line was expanded as part of the 242 km long German Unity No. 1 transport project (Lübeck / Hagenow Land – Rostock – Stralsund). The platforms in Schwerin main station were lengthened and equipped with an electronic signal box, which also controls the section from Hagenow Land to Bad Kleinen. The modernization of the line was originally supposed to be completed in May 1999.

However, this expansion has not yet been fully completed to this day (as of spring 2012). First, the sections Ventschow – Blankenberg and Warnow (Meckl) –Schwaan (south exit of the station) were expanded to 160 km / h. At the end of 2008, the section between Blankenberg (Meckl) and Warnow (Meckl) followed (together with the Warnow Bridge there). This means that almost 45 km of the 71 km long route can be driven at a speed of 160 km / h.

Todays situation

The entire length of the route is used by regional express trains on the Rostock – Hamburg line (Hanseexpress) every two hours. ICE trains on the line ( Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund –Rostock – Schwerin-Hamburg and on to west (Cologne / Koblenz) and south-west Germany (Karlsruhe) also run every two hours . Almost all ICE trains on this route only stop in Bützow, with the exception of Rostock, and the regional express trains also stop in Schwaan, Blankenberg, Ventschow and Bad Kleinen. The regional express line Szczecin - Lübeck with stops in Blankenberg and Ventschow also runs between Bützow and Bad Kleinen, also every two hours. The Rostock – Schwaan section is also used by the Rostock S-Bahn trains (stopping at all stops on the way) and by Rostock – Berlin trains (without stopping on this route). When the timetable changed in December 2008, Bad Kleinen station was largely abandoned as a long-distance stop. Only an early connection to Hamburg, an afternoon connection to Stralsund and the IC to Leipzig or Warnemünde still stop there.

literature

• Lothar Schultz: Railways in Mecklenburg . 3rd edition, transpress, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-344-70732-9 .
• Lothar Schultz, Peter Wilhelm, Klaus Pfafferott: 150 years of the railways in Rostock , transpress, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-613-71124-9 .

Web links

Commons : Bad Kleinen – Rostock railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Preuß & Reiner Preuß, Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945–1993, Railway in the GDR , GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 38.
2. ↑ Erich Preuß & Reiner Preuß, Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945–1993, Railway in the GDR , GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 52.
3. ^ Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit (Ed.): Lübeck / Hagenow Land-Rostock-Stralsund. Section Hagenow Land-Bad Kleinen . Brochure, June 1993.
4. ^ Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit (Ed.): Lübeck / Hagenow Land-Rostock-Stralsund. Section Bad Kleinen - Rostock . Brochure, January 1995.