Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder railway line

Ferry jug – Fürstenwerder

Fürstenwerder station with goods shed, street side

Course book range :

121b (1944)

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Maximum slope :

1 ‰

Minimum radius :

300 m

Legend

		from Löwenberg
	82.3	Templin -Fährkrug formerly: Fährkrug
		to Prenzlau
	84.9	Feuds
	87.9	Metzelthin (Kr Templin)
	91.5	Warta
	98.7	Hardenbeck
	103.0	Krewitz
	107.3	Weggun-Arendsee
	110.0	Parmen
	114.1	Fürstenwerder Reichsb

The Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder railway was a single-track branch line in Brandenburg . Originally, the route should continue to Strasburg . It was only in operation for a little over three decades and was dismantled after World War II.

history

Fürstenwerder station when it opened in 1913

Dam north of the Fürstenwerder train station

At the beginning of the 20th century there were efforts to create a north-south connection in the western Uckermark between the cities of Templin and Strasburg via Fürstenwerder . Since 1902 the region was only accessible by a branch line from Dedelow near Prenzlau to Fürstenwerder of the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen . Since the line before Strasburg was supposed to run a short distance through the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , a state treaty between Prussia and Mecklenburg-Strelitz was concluded in 1912 for the construction of the route. On August 15, 1913, the Prussian State Railroad opened the line to Fürstenwerder, the extension to Strasburg was planned and announced in the timetable. Due to the First World War, the route was not extended. At the end of the 1920s, the extension to Strasburg was again announced in the course book, but it did not happen either. The first earthworks to extend the line began in the 1920s, and a section of the dam north of the Fürstenwerder state railway station has been preserved. There was also work to be done for a connecting curve to the circular path, some of which has been preserved, such as a ditch overpass.

After the end of the Second World War, the line was dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union.

The route always had only local significance. In 1914 there were four pairs of trains, in 1929 there were three. In 1939 four pairs of trains ran again on the entire route, plus a pair came to Hardenbeck on Sunday evenings. All trains always started and ended at Templin station .

Route

Route in the forest near Weggun, today a cycle path

The route began at the Fährkrug station (later called Templin-Fährkrug). Until then, the trains from Templin used the route to Prenzlau. The route runs essentially in a south-north direction through hilly, partially wooded terrain with many lakes.

The line ended in the Reichsbahnhof Fürstenwerder in the southeast of the town, about 500 meters south of the Fürstenwerder station of the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen. There was no connection between the two routes.

As is customary with a number of Prussian routes, several branches were kilometered together. The zero point of the route kilometers was in Berlin, then it followed the Berlin Northern Railway to Löwenberg (Mark) and then the Löwenberg – Prenzlau route to Fährkrug. The route began at kilometer 82.3 in Fährkrug.

The planned extension between Fürstenwerder and Strasburg should be 18.4 kilometers long, stops were planned in Ottenhagen and Wolfshagen , 3.5 and 7.4 kilometers away from Fürstenwerder, respectively.

Todays situation

Hardenbeck water tower

Route in Fürstenwerder with water tower and station building in the background

The route has been completely dismantled, but the route can be seen everywhere. Most of the sections have a path. On some sections, especially in the Warthe and Weggun area, it is paved. It is partly used by the Spur der Steine cycle route . To the north of the Fürstenwerder train station, some remains of the dam have been preserved for the planned route extension. Most of the station buildings have been preserved and are mainly used as residential buildings. The water tower in Hardenbeck has also been preserved and used privately. The water tower in Fürstenwerder is empty.

Web links

Commons : Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder on bahnstrecken.de
Directory of operating locations for the route on eisenbahn-mv.de
Station photos of Metzelthin , Warthe , Hardenbeck , Krewitz , Weggun-Arendsee and Fürstenwerder on eisenbahn-mv.de

Individual evidence

↑ Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder on bahnstrecken.de, accessed on February 28, 2012.
^ ^A ^b ^c Reichs-Kursbuch, overview of the railway, post and steam ship connections in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland. Published by Julius Springer, Berlin 1914.
↑ ^a ^b Kursbuch Hendschels Telegraph / Storm, Winter 1929/39, reprint, Pürgen 1995
↑ Wolf-Dietger Machel , Rudi Buchweitz , Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 , pp. 24-25.
^ German course book, summer 1939.

[1] Fährkrug – Fürstenwerder on bahnstrecken.de, accessed on February 28, 2012.

[kb1914-2] A ^b ^c Reichs-Kursbuch, overview of the railway, post and steam ship connections in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland. Published by Julius Springer, Berlin 1914.

[kb1929-3] Kursbuch Hendschels Telegraph / Storm, Winter 1929/39, reprint, Pürgen 1995

[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] German course book, summer 1939.