Britz – Fürstenberg railway line
| Britz-Fürstenberg | |
|---|---|
| Route number (DB) : | 6759 |
| Course book section (DB) : | 209.63 |
| Route length: | 73.2 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Route class : | D4 |
| Maximum slope : | 12.5 ‰ |
| Minimum radius : | 300 m |
| Top speed: | 80 km / h |
| Dual track : | - |
The Britz – Fürstenberg line is a standard gauge branch line in Brandenburg . The 73-kilometer route, opened in 1898/99, led from Britz (near Eberswalde) via Templin to Fürstenberg . Since passenger traffic between Templin and Fürstenberg was discontinued in 1996, this section has been used for handcar traffic. In 2006, there was also no passenger traffic from Joachimsthal to Templin, which was not resumed until the timetable change in December 2018. Until Milmersdorf there is a modest freight.
history
Britz was already connected to the Berlin-Stettin Railway on November 15, 1842 . Initial efforts to build a railway from the Kingdom of Prussia through the Schorfheide and southern Uckermark to the neighboring Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz began in the 1870s. Fürstenberg, which was then in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was connected to the rail network on July 10, 1877 with the Berlin Northern Railway. Branching off from the northern line, the Löwenberg – Templin line was opened on May 1, 1888 .
In 1896 the construction of the cross connection between the lines leading to Stralsund and Stettin was approved. On July 1, 1898, the first section from Britz to Joachimsthal was inaugurated. Since December 15 of the same year, the trains ran to Templin station , which developed into a railway junction with the extension of the line from Löwenberg (Mark) to Prenzlau, which opened on March 24, 1899. The last section to Fürstenberg did not go into operation until August 16, 1899.
A special feature was a continuous passenger train from Frankfurt (Oder) - Eberswalde - Fürstenberg - Güstrow - Schwerin, with stops at almost all stations on the way. This train ran just a few years after the Second World War until the early 1990s. He carried through wagons from Schwerin to Moscow, which could only be used by Soviet military personnel.
After the fall of 1989/90, the transport services collapsed, so that on December 31, 1994 freight traffic between Templin and Fürstenberg was stopped. Only between Britz and Milmersdorf is the route still served as required by freight traffic. On May 19, 1996, there was no passenger traffic between Templin and Fürstenberg. On June 1, 1996, the line between Fürstenberg and Templin was closed. Since July 15 of the same year, the subsidiary of the transport company Bayern Express & P. Kühn has been offering journeys with railroad cars on the route section. The infrastructure was initially owned by TourismusServiceTemplin (TST). On January 1, 2010, the route was sold to the adventure railway based in Zossen.
After the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (ODEG) won a competition run by the Berlin-Brandenburg Transport Association , it took over local rail passenger transport between Eberswalde and Templin for ten years at the end of 2004 . Due to the reduction in regionalization funds, the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure canceled traffic on the route between Joachimsthal and Templin on December 9, 2006, although the route had only been completely renovated in 2004. The Britz – Templin Stadt section was put out to tender at the beginning of July 2011 by DB Netz for takeover by other railway infrastructure companies (EIU). In March 2012, the Ministry once again announced plans to shut down the remaining route, but they were not implemented. In December 2014, the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn took over passenger transport as part of the East Brandenburg diesel network.
In October 2016, DB Netz put the Joachimsthal - Templin section out to tender for delivery to other RIUs at the beginning of October 2016 on the grounds that the operation was not cost-covering. An as yet unknown buyer has now been found.
Since December 2018, in cooperation with the Hanseatic Railway , the regional train line has been extended again to Templin every two hours, initially for three years, which the city had advocated. The state of Brandenburg will subsidize the operation with 1.9 million euros. In order for the route to be served beyond the trial run of three years, 300 passengers are required on weekdays and 200 passengers on weekends. On behalf of the city of Templin, the platform of the Templin city stop was upgraded. This is the end point in travel. Due to the level crossing switch-on routes, all trains run to Templin station, but passenger changes are not possible there. The line is marketed as the Schorfheide Railway.
Route description
course
The starting point of the route is the Britz train station , which has now been demolished except for two tracks (km 50.0, the kilometers begin in the former Szczecin train station in Berlin). There is nothing left of the former train station, Britz is just a stopping point. All passenger trains drove and continue from Britz to Eberswalde, around five kilometers away .
Directly after the gated level crossing in the Britz station area, the single-track line branches off to the northwest from the double-track main line leading to Szczecin or Stralsund . As far as Templin, the railway partly runs past the edge of the Schorfheide. The A 11 is crossed under between the Golzow and Alt Hüttendorf stops . Between Joachimsthal Kaiserbahnhof and Joachimsthal, the train crosses the B 198 on a small girder bridge . After several small stops and train stations, Milmersdorf, the end of the route that is still being used, is reached. Until 2005 there was a level crossing with the B 109 in the station area , before the route was moved further west.
After Templin, the canal between Röddelinsee and Templiner Stadtsee is crossed on a bridge . The train passes in front of the Hohenlychen sanatorium on Platkowsee and then reaches the only major stop on the way to Fürstenberg, the former Lychen train station . Between the stations Himmelpfort and Ravensbruck used to be a chain siding to Ravensbruck concentration camp and Havel ferry from.
Joachimsthal Imperial Railway Station
Joachimsthal Kaiserbahnhof is the second train station in the small town of Joachimsthal next to the actual Joachimsthal train station . The train station, located between Werbellinsee and Grimnitzsee , was opened by the last German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1898. It served the easy accessibility of the hunting lodge Hubertusstock and consists of three buildings, all of which were built in half-timbered construction.
The Kaiserbahnhof continued to be used until the 1950s, after which it fell into disrepair. External renovation of the building began for Helmut Schmidt's visit to the GDR, which was planned in 1981 . But because this did not come by train, the work was stopped again.
The area was then extensively renovated between 2004 and 2007 and has been used on a number of occasions since 2006, for example as “Germany's first radio play station”. In 2008, the station received the “Selected Location” award from the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative .
Havel ferry
A siding in Fürstenberg, the extension of the siding to the Ravensbrück concentration camp , was served by a train ferry across the Havel . Between 1935 and 1990, the ferry made the connection to some businesses on the other side of the Havel. In addition to a pulp mill, which also served as an armaments factory during the Second World War , a sawmill was also connected to the railroad via ferry after 1945.
Vehicle use
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In the 1990s, railcars of the 771/772 series were used for passenger transport , followed by the 628 series railcars . The East German Railway started using regional shuttles in passenger traffic from 2004 , as has the Niederbarnimer Railway since December 2014 .
literature
- Rudi Buchweitz: The Templin Cross. A railway junction between the Berlin-Szczecin Railway and the Northern Railway . Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-933254-16-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Amt Joachimsthal (Schorfheide): The Kaiserbahnhof
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, Kursbuch Winter 1951/52
- ^ Peter Neumann: Last train to Putlitz . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 27, 2006
- ^ Analysis of the railway infrastructure to cope with the forecast rail freight traffic in the state of Brandenburg . (PDF; 1.3 MB) Infrastructure and project development company
- ↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight lines 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , p. 156
- ↑ Bahn-Report , 1/2010, p. 46
- ↑ Surrender of railway infrastructure. Route: Britz (excl.) - Templin Stadt (excl.). (PDF) Call for applications from July 7, 2011 to October 7, 2011. (No longer available online.) DB Netze, July 7, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 7, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Viola Petersson: Regional railway line is threatened. In: Märkische online newspaper. March 30, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Surrender of railway infrastructure. Route: Joachimsthal (excl.) - Templin (excl.). (PDF) Call for applications from October 5, 2016 to January 4, 2017. (No longer available online.) DB Netze, October 2016, archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Signals for railway line. In: Uckermark TV. February 24, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Templin is rebuilding the old platform. Train to Eberswalde. In: Nordkurier. September 12, 2018, accessed November 7, 2018 .
- ↑ The Schorfheide Railway RB63 is being extended to Templin. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg, November 26, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 .
- ↑ The Kaiserbahnhof brought an upswing . Office of Joachimsthal
- ↑ a b Kaiserbahnhof . German Foundation for Monument Protection
- ↑ Joachimsthal radio play station ( Memento from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Put your ear on the track. Germany's first radio play station is in Joachimsthal . Joachimsthal radio play station