Güsen – Ziesar railway line

Güsen – Ziesar
Ziesar station 1999
Route number :	6883
Course book section (DB) :	262; 707 (1990) ; 207n (1944)
Route length:	25.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Magdeburg 0.0 Güsen (Kr Genthin) to Berlin to Jerichow 4.1 High seas 6.1 Schattberge 9.3 Gladau 11.0 Dretzel 15.9 Clothim 16.8 Cloth in school 15.9 Paplitz Small railways of the Jerichow I district from Görzke 25.6 Ziesar from approx. 1930 to approx. 1965 Ziesar Hbf. to Wusterwitz

The Güsen – Ziesar line was a single-track branch line in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Tucheim station 1999

Former station building in Gladau, 2019.

Former Hohenseeden train station, 2019

On April 2, 1917, the Ziesarer Kleinbahn AG opened the line from Güsen to Ziesar. The traffic between Ziesar and Tucheim was started for freight trains on September 15, 1916 and for passenger trains on October 21, 1916. In connection with the opening of the line, the Ziesar station , which was previously located further north, was replaced by a new building east of the old town.

In 1923 the Ziesarer Kleinbahn AG merged with the Genthiner Kleinbahn AG to form the Kleinbahn-AG Genthin-Ziesar. Later this company was called Kleinbahn-AG in Genthin and from October 1942 Genthiner Eisenbahn AG . On April 1, 1949, the line was incorporated into the inventory of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Freight traffic between Güsen and Ziesar ceased on January 1, 1998. Passenger traffic lasted until May 29, 1999. On January 1, 2005, the Federal Railway Authority approved the permanent closure of the Güsen – Ziesar railway line. The tracks were demolished between September 2017 and January 2018. A railway association is trying to rebuild the line to Gladau.

The route was listed under different timetable numbers. For a long time in the GDR it wore the number 707, until the end of service under the direction of Deutsche Bahn the number 262.

From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the route was used by around six pairs of passenger trains a day, with multiple units usually being used. In the mid-1990s, the service was clocked, the trains ran until passenger traffic stopped every two hours with a clock gap in the morning.

See also

• Kleinbahn AG in Genthin

literature

• Wolfgang List, Hans Röper, Gerhard Zieglgänsberger: Archives of German small and private railways. Saxony-Anhalt. (Routes, vehicles, operations). Transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71087-0 .

Web links

Commons : Güsen – Ziesar railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the route
• Kilometrage Güsen – Ziesar (private site)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight lines 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , p. 154