Flensburg – Husum railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 1208 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 113g (1959) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 45.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Flensburg – Husum railway via Löwenstedt was a branch line in the north of Schleswig-Holstein . It connected the Baltic Sea port of Flensburg with the North Sea port of Husum .
history
The line was opened on November 2, 1926 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Since 1928 a railway line to Bredstedt has branched from Löwenstedt . Passenger traffic and most of the freight traffic were shut down on May 31, 1959. The tracks were dismantled after their complete closure in the 1970s.
Route
The tracks on the line ran from Husum to the east of the federal highway 200 , shortly before Immenstedt the B200 was crossed and then the route ran west of the federal highway.
Others
About one kilometer north of the Schwesing-Nord stop (“Engelsburg”), a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was built during the Second World War .
In relation Husum-Viöl-Flensburg today run (as of 2012) express buses of Auto power . A train journey from Husum to Flensburg requires a change in Jübek or Schleswig .
literature
- The Huseum – Flensburg Weiche branch line opens. In: Die Reichsbahn , year 1926, no. 43 (October 27, 1926), pp. 635–637.
- Hans Bock: The march from Altona to Westerland . Boyens, Heide 1989, ISBN 3-8042-0458-9
