Dedelow – Fürstenwerder railway line

Dedelow – Fürstenwerder

The reception building of the terminal in
Fürstenwerder has been preserved.

Course book range :

926 (1978)
113c (1939)

Route length:

15.9 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Dual track :

No

Legend

	from Prenzlau
6.60	Dedelow	35 m above sea level NHN
	to Strasburg
9.40	Falkenhagen	56 m above sea level NHN
10.70	Courtyard of peace	64 m above sea level NHN
12.80	Rittgarten	72 m above sea level NHN
15.60	Augustfelde	89 m above sea level NHN
17.19	Kraatz	91 m above sea level NHN
20.12	Wilhelmshayn	92 m above sea level NHN
22.39	Fürstenwerder	100 m above sea level NHN

The Dedelow – Fürstenwerder railway was a single-track, non-electrified railway line in the Uckermark in the north of Brandenburg. It was initially operated as a small railway and belonged to the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen , after 1945 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The line was in operation from 1902 to 1978.

history

Fürstenwerder station with access road around 1910

Soon after the Prussian Small Railroad Act was enacted in 1892 , there were a number of plans to open up the mostly agricultural area of the Uckermark with small railroad lines. Fürstenwerder, which had given up its town charter in 1817, was also to be connected to the railway network. While it was clear on the one hand that a branch line to this comparatively small town could hardly be economical, on the other hand the district attached great importance to the most complete development of its area, especially since the construction of a sugar factory in Fürstenwerder was planned in the mid-1890s. In 1898, the district council spoke out in favor of building a railway to Fürstenwerder. In the spring of 1899, the Mecklenburg Friedrich Wilhelm Railway Company proposed the construction of a continuous line from Neustrelitz via Feldberg and Fürstenwerder to Prenzlau . This proposal was initially met with approval, but soon proved to be feasible only with a great deal of effort due to the difficult topographical conditions with unusually large height differences for northern Germany and a number of lakes and was rejected.

So it was decided to build a branch line, which should branch off in Dedelow from the Prenzlau – Strasburg railway line , which was built at the same time . On December 1, 1902, the opening ceremonies of the routes took place with a special trip for invited guests, one day later regular train operations began.

Gravel works in Fürstenwerder around 1910

In the spring of 1909, a company from Groß Lichterfelde near Berlin opened a gravel works south of Fürstenwerder. It was connected to the Fürstenwerder station with a 1.85 kilometer long private connecting railway and ensured considerable freight traffic on the route. On October 26, 1912, a serious accident occurred in Fürstenwerder station when a gravel train, through the fault of the engine driver, drove at full speed into Fürstenwerder station and over the buffer stop. The reserve engine driver and the assistant conductor were killed and two people were injured. The gravel works was closed again in 1913 and the connecting railway dismantled.

Independently of the construction of the small railway line, the Prussian State Railways had already been building a railway line from Templin via Fürstenwerder to Strasburg and on to Ducherow since 1890 . In 1913 the southern section of this line, the Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder railway , was opened. Its extension to Strasburg was to go into operation a few years later, but was postponed by the First World War. After the end of the war there was again planning and preparatory work for a route extension, this was never completed. The state railway had its own station in Fürstenwerder about 700 meters south of the small station, both lines were never connected in Fürstenwerder, although there had been plans for this again and again.

After the Second World War, most of the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen route network was dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union. The section from Dedelow to Falkenhagen was retained, and the connection from Prenzlau was not dismantled. The rapid reconstruction of the dismantled sections began in mid-1946. According to orders 233 from the Soviet military administration, they should have been completed by September 1946. From October 1946 at the latest, the section from Falkenhagen to Fürstenwerder went back into operation, initially for beet transports and construction trains, and from May 1947 at the latest for passenger transport as well. Like the entire network of the Kreisbahn, the line came to the Reichsbahndirektion Greifswald of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1949 .

Since the early 1960s, the volume of both travel and freight has decreased due to the growing road network.

Passenger traffic on the route was always low. From the opening of the line to the cessation of traffic, it essentially consisted of three pairs of trains a day that were tied to and from Prenzlau. Only in the years after the Second World War were there two pairs of trains.

On September 30, 1978, passenger traffic on the route was finally stopped. Today the route is completely dismantled.

Route and facilities

Section cut at Falkenhagen (2010)

The route began at Dedelow train station and led mainly in a westerly direction through hilly, agricultural landscape. Both the branch to Strasburg and the one to Fürstenwerder are kilometers from the Prenzlau district station, so the route to Fürstenwerder began at the Dedelow station at kilometer 6.6.

Only the endpoints of the line in Dedelow and Fürstenwerder had been built as train stations , the en route stations were stops with loading tracks for local freight traffic that led into the main track at both ends. At best, the intermediate stations had small buildings with a waiting room and space for general cargo storage. The Dedelow train station had a small, massive building. Only the Fürstenwerder train station ( called Fürstenwerder Kreisbahn until 1951 ) has a larger, two-story entrance building that has been preserved to this day and was used as a restaurant even after the line was closed. The station had three main tracks and a loading track with a ramp. In addition to the connecting line to the gravel works that existed from 1909 to 1913, there was also a connection to a brickworks until 1922.

All intermediate stations were already in operation when the route opened in 1902. The only exception was Friedenshof, which was only opened for passenger traffic on May 17, 1953. Before that, there was a loading point called Rahnshof, named after the owner of the nearby farm. There was also a field railway here.

Web links

Dedelow – Fürstenwerder on bahnstrecken.de
Dedelow – Fürstenwerder on ralfs-eisenbahn.de

Individual evidence

↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 13-14.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 16.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 21-23.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 24-25.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 90-91.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 139–140.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 42–43.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 50.
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 40.
↑ ^a ^b Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 57.

[1] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 13-14.

[2] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 16.

[3] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 21-23.

[4] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 24-25.

[5] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 90-91.

[6] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 139–140.

[7] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 42–43.

[8] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 50.

[9] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 40.

[mb57-10] Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , p. 57.