Flensburg – Husum – Tönning railway line

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Flensburg – Husum – Tönning
Section of the Flensburg – Husum – Tönning railway line
Flensburg – Husum – Tönning with branch line to Rendsburg
(excerpt from railway map of Germany from 1861)
Route number (DB) : 1204/1205
Course book section (DB) : 135, ex 124, ex 112f
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )

The Flensburg – Husum – Tönning railway was the first railway line in the Duchy of Schleswig .

Organization and construction

In January 1837 Christian Hansen jun. his vision "Idea of ​​a Flensburg-Husum-Tönninger Railway" with an estimated cost of 650,000 Marks Courant and a note that this sum can only be raised with the help of well-funded English investors. The government in Copenhagen passed a resolution on October 31, 1839, which ordered the surveying of the route at the expense of the state. In 1840 the engineering corps of Prangen was given the technical management of the construction of the railway. In 1841 the Corps developed two proposals from the Flensburg harbor with a considerable incline or through the Papiermühlenthal with a lower incline with a station on the then undeveloped Plankenmai ; both proposals contained the railway line to the right of the Treene . Of Oster-Ohrstedt was a branch to Schleswig and Rendsburg , the railway Oster-Ohrstedt-Klosterkrug-Rendsburg , configured. On February 28, 1841, the Danish king issued a concession to set up a public limited company for implementation; this was the first such concession in the Danish sphere of influence.

In the recession of 1848, however, these efforts were temporarily forgotten. The railway line was financed and designed under the rule of King Frederik VII of Denmark by the English company Peto, Brassey and Betts under Samuel Morton Peto from 1852 to 1854. The architect Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll was available for high-rise buildings ; Originals are still preserved in Schwesing and Husum . The Danish king had given Peto a concession in 1852 in return for an exemption from the trade tariff for the transport of cattle. English technicians did not arrive until 1852 and began to build the route with English material from Tönning. On June 1, 1854, Morton Peto, as president of the stock corporation, invited to a special trip to visit the route from the Holzkrug (south of today's Flensburg-Weiche train station) to Tönning. On April 1, 1854, the line from Tönning to the then important train station on Ochsenweg Holzkrug near Flensburg was provisionally put into operation; After completion of a temporary arrangement of the “English” train station and port railway in Flensburg, official operations followed on October 4th. The king inaugurated the route on October 25 of the same year.

At the same time, the important branch line from Oster-Ohrstedt via Klosterkrug (near Schleswig ) to Rendsburg was put into operation, which established a connection to the Altona-Kieler railway via the Rendsburg-Neumünster Railway (RNE) , which opened in 1845 . An extension to the north from the Holzkrug near Flensburg to Haderslev was only completed on May 2, 1866. In the year before that, the FHTE was renamed Südschleswigsche Eisenbahn AG.

business

The company built the port railways in Flensburg and Tönning . The supporting company was called Flensburg-Husum-Tönninger Eisenbahngesellschaft (FHTE). The main reasons for a rail connection between the Baltic Sea port of Flensburg and the North Sea ports of Husum and above all Tönning on the Eider estuary was the export of live cattle to England and from there the import of coal . But as early as 1857, with the abolition of the sound tariff levied by Denmark, transport over the route with changing or reloading in Flensburg and Tönning became just as time-consuming as the sea route through the Skagerrak . The transport was carried out by a ferry line called the ox line to Blackwell near London ; their ferry Schleswig was able to take 800 oxen and 1,300 sheep on one crossing. In 1859 more than 32,000 oxen were exported to England. Until 1886 the transport numbers developed. The export was abruptly stopped in 1886 because the English government reacted to the foot and mouth disease with import bans.

The railway connection caused the post office in Flensburg to be changed. They discontinued their overland stagecoach courses parallel to the route and geared their operation along the route to the three trains that initially ran daily. The Flensburger Zeitung now finished its daily edition at 2 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. in order to use the midday train to distribute it throughout the Schleswig region.

Route changes

Changes until 1899 (excerpt from railway map of Germany from 1899)

While most of the line is in operation today, parts of it have disappeared, some of them already during the redesign of the Schleswig-Holstein railway network after the conquest of the country by the German Confederation in 1864 and the annexation by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866 a section between Eggebek and Oster-Ohrstedt abandoned in favor of the new direct north-south connection Eggebek– Jübek .

From 1902 the line to Tönning was connected with the newly built Hörn junction east of Platenhörn to the march railway built in 1887, which meant that the western route through the southern march between Husum and Platenhörn lost its function. With the opening of the Hörn branch on February 1, 1905, the old line was shut down and dismantled by 1910. 1928 today replaced Station Flensburg the old terminal station at the end of the conveyor, the first of Germany's bus station was.

The remaining sections of the Flensburg – Husum – Tönning line are now part of three railway lines:

literature

  • Holger Kaufhold, Eckhard Klein, Detlef Schikorr: 150 years of the railroad in Flensburg; From the Southern Schleswig Railway to the Bahn AG. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935909-22-5 .
  • K. Boljahn, Harbeck, E. Klein, Wegner: The railway in Flensburg 1854-1979. EK, Freiburg 1979, ISBN 3-88-255-824-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanswerner Röhr: The railway construction opened up the rural area. (PDF) In: Husum reports. P. 3 , accessed on May 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Kaufhold u. a., p. 11 ff
  3. ↑ Boljahn et al. a .: The railway in Flensburg 1854–1979. EK, Freiburg 1979, p. 35
  4. ^ Hanswerner Röhr: The railway construction opened up the rural area. In: Husum reports. P. 6 , accessed on May 13, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hanswerner Röhr: The railway construction opened up the rural area. In: Husum reports. P. 5 , accessed on May 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Kaufhold u. a., p. 23
  7. ↑ Eggebek – Ohrstedt. In: railwayhistory.org. Archived from the original on March 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 13, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Hanswerner Röhr: Husum's connection to the big wide world. In: Husum reports. P. 3 , accessed on May 13, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Husum – Platenhörn Abzw. In: railwayhistory.org. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on May 13, 2020 (English).