Finsterwalde – Luckau railway line
| Finsterwalde (Niederl) –Luckau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Listed station building in Crinitz,
the main intermediate station on the route. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number : | 6592 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 178g (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 32.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 60 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Finsterwalde – Luckau railway is a branch line in Brandenburg . It runs from Finsterwalde via Crinitz to Luckau . The approximately 33-kilometer route is in the northern part since World War II shut down, the resulting section Finsterwalde-Crinitz today from Niederlausitzer Museum Railway Association as the owner and operator of a museum nachgenutzt.
history
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The two end points of the line, Finsterwalde and Luckau, had already been connected to the railway network in the 1870s. However, a direct connection was only possible via the Berlin-Dresden railway , which ran further west , so that the construction of a direct connection via Crinitz was considered.
On June 25, 1904, approval was given to build the line as a single-track branch line , and six years later, in April 1910, the first work began in Finsterwalde. After around a year of construction, the first section to Crinitz was completed on May 9, 1911. The Crinitz – Luckau section followed on July 13th. After the inspection run by the state police, the scheduled train operation began on October 2, with two pairs of trains per day and direction. Another pair of trains was added in 1912.
Various construction works were carried out along the route in the 1930s. First, in 1931/32, the line's top speed was increased from 40 to 50 km / h, and in 1934 again up to 60 km / h. In 1939/40, a siding was built from the Kleinbahren station to the Gahro airfield .
The route was interrupted on April 21, 1945 after the road bridge under Sonnewalder Strasse in Finsterwalde was blown up by the Wehrmacht . Rail traffic between Finsterwalde and Crinitz was only resumed after three years, and the rest of the section to Luckau was not put back into operation. The unused route between Crinitz and Luckau was later used by the Schlabendorf-Süd opencast mine opened in 1972 .
In 1954, the Breitenau stop between Möllendorf and Kleinbahren was opened, and in 1955 and 1956, connecting railways to the Pießig concrete plant and a tank farm of the Soviet Army near Kleinbahren were established.
The declining number of passengers and the shift of traffic to newly created intercity bus routes were the reason to stop passenger traffic on May 25, 1968. Due to the tank farm of the Soviet / Russian troops, freight traffic was able to hold up until their withdrawal in 1994.
The Niederlausitzer Museumseisenbahn , founded on April 1, 1995, endeavored in the years that followed to take over the route and set up a museum on it. After a basic overhaul of the line had already taken place in the years up to 2001, the association received the rights as a railway infrastructure and transport company on April 5, 2002, so that operations on the 17-kilometer line between Finsterwalde and Crinitz could start one day later . Since then, the Niederlausitzer Museumseisenbahn has been running museum trips a few days a year.
The section between the main line in Finsterwalde and the Frankenaer Weg has been partially dismantled.
course
The train starts at Finsterwalde station on the Halle – Cottbus line . After about one kilometer, which the route runs westwards with the Halle Railway, there is a curve northwards to the Frankenaer Weg stop. The stop was opened after the museum opened and is the starting point for the museum railway. The railway continues in a north-northeast direction, passing the Möllendorf district of Sonnewald and after another bend it reaches Kleinbahren . Shortly after Kleinbahren, the railway reaches its highest point at around 135 meters above sea level . In a 90-degree turn then leads to the northeast and reaches the breakpoint Crinitz Töpfermarkt and 700 meters to the station Crinitz . The museum ends in Crinitz. The original route led behind Crinitz first to the northwest, later to the north and passed the villages of Beesdau and Frankendorf one after the other . After Frankendorf the railway turns to the northwest and before Luckau it joins the Niederlausitzer Railway .
Web links
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- Niederlausitzer Museumseisenbahn - history of the line
- Railway lines in the state of Brandenburg - Finsterwalde – Luckau branch line
