Meyenburg – Güstrow railway line

Guestrow – Meyenburg
Course of the Güstrow – Meyenburg railway line
Route number :	6939
Course book range :	810 (1972, DR) 174 (2000)
Route length:	61.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Schwaan from Bützow 59.461 Guestrow 56.3 Priemerburg to Plaaz and Szczecin 55.376 Infrastructure border DB Netz / RegioInfra Nord-Ost 52.9 Klueß 47.8 Hoppenrade (Meckl) 44.4 Klein Grabow 41.0 Marienhof 38.1 Krakow am See (Meckl) 33.70 Bossow (previously Bossow Ladest) 30.1 Awanst Glave from Blankenberg (Meckl) from Parchim 24,600 Karow (Meckl) to Neubrandenburg 20.4 Plau-Quetzin Ldst strips 15.210 Plau am See 10.6 Silver mill 9.8 Awanst Plau am See-Appelburg 6.380 Ganzlin according to Röbel 1,480 Wendisch Priborn 0.000 State border Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - Brandenburg -1,580 Meyenburg to Wittstock to Pritzwalk

The Meyenburg – Güstrow railway is a branch line in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and. It connects Meyenburg with Plau am See and Güstrow . Scheduled passenger traffic on this route was discontinued in 2000. From May 20, 2020, passenger traffic between Plau am See and Karow will resume on weekends in the summer half-year. The HANSeatische Eisenbahn has been operating on the Meyenburg and Ganzlin section on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays since June 6, 2020. The RB74 line will be extended for weekend services. The in-house tariff of the HANSeatische Eisenbahn applies to the additional route section.

history

Güstrow-Plauer Railway Company

The Gutsdorf Karow and the city of Plau feared economic disadvantages without a rail connection. In 1882 the Güstrow-Plauer Railway Company was founded with the additional participation of the cities of Güstrow, Krakow am See and Rostock . The main shareholder was the railway construction company Lenz & Co GmbH , which took over construction and management. Construction began in May of the same year.

The line was opened on December 5, 1882. It ran from Güstrow to Priemerburg parallel to the track of the main line from Bützow to the border near Strasburg and from there further south towards Krakow, Karow and finally after 44 kilometers Plau am See. The construction costs amounted to 1.9 million marks. When operations began, three locomotives, five passenger cars and 35 freight cars were available. The continuation in the direction of the Prussian border at Meyenburg led on December 5, 1886 via Ganzlin to Wendisch Priborn . The gap was closed on December 11, 1887, when the Prussian State Railways had also completed their Meyenburg – Pritzwalk – Neustadt (Dosse) route . In the meantime, on December 1, 1887, the Güstrow-Plauer Railway Company had created a 10-kilometer route from Priemerburg to Plaaz on the Lloydbahn Neustrelitz – Warnemünde. This enabled direct train journeys from the Lloydbahn to the Güstrow-Plauer Railway. The company could be operated economically. In 1886 the profit was 37.5% of the income and the dividend was fixed at 2%. From 1887, the company began to expand the line to a full line. Due to the financial resources, this was only possible in the Güstrow – Karow section.

State-owned operation

On March 6, 1890, the Güstrow-Plauer railway company with a route length of around 70 kilometers became the property of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Six locomotives were also taken over.

See also : "Güstrow-Plauer Eisenbahn" in the article List of Mecklenburg Locomotives

Klein Grabow

Seal of the Güstrow-Plauer Railway Company

When it was founded, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over operations on the line in 1920.

The route always served primarily local purposes, with the trains from the direction of Güstrow in Meyenburg almost all being connected to Pritzwalk and mostly to Wittenberge or Neustadt (Dosse). In the 1950s there was a continuous passenger train from Berlin via Neuruppin, Wittstock, Meyenburg to Güstrow and Rostock.

After the Second World War the importance of the line increased, especially for freight traffic, because the traditional main lines in the Soviet occupation zone were largely dismantled as reparations (Rostock – Berlin) or were only single-tracked. In the German Democratic Republic , several stations were expanded for longer freight trains. Even after the main lines were restored, the line remained important for freight traffic and strategic purposes. 1955–1968 and 1971–1975 a pair of express trains ran daily from Rostock via Güstrow – Karow – Plau – Pritzwalk – Wittenberge to Leipzig, Erfurt or Karl-Marx-Stadt and back. In the 1970s and 1980s, the passenger line was part of the timetable route 810, Wittenberge – Pritzwalk – Meyenburg – Güstrow. The passenger train offer remained constant for years. There were four pairs of trains running through each day, which took around 110 minutes for the section from Meyenburg to Güstrow. There were also two working couples from Güstrow to Krakow and Karow. Karow station was not only an important freight station (timber, agriculture), but also a branch line junction where trains in four or five directions met. There were several barracks and training areas for the National People's Army near Karow and Goldberg . All had rail connections.

In 1992 and 1993 one or two pairs of express trains between Neustadt (Dosse) and Güstrow were introduced on a trial basis, but they only ran until 1994. Since 1997, the route has been operated every two hours and in 1998 the PEG took over the route. The trains mostly ran continuously from Neustadt (Dosse) to Güstrow. Despite the recent increase in passenger numbers, regular passenger traffic on the Meyenburg – Priemerburg section was suspended on September 24, 2000. Freight traffic was also given up at the end of the same year.

Development after 2000

Border of the Prignitzer Railway near Priemerburg

Bridge construction Plau Nord

The infrastructure on the southern section of Karow – Meyenburg became the property of Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG) in 2004 ; for the northern section between Priemerburg and Karow , this happened in November 2007. The line is used for overpasses and occasional excursions in summer. The Karow – Priemerburg section was closed from the end of 2004 to spring 2008. On May 24th, 2008 the Prignitzer Eisenbahn reopened this section as public rail infrastructure. Both freight transport and tourist use are possible. On August 16 and 17, 2008, there were rail bus trips from Berlin to Krakow am See. Krakow am See, which lives from tourism, is particularly interested in resuming passenger traffic.

Since July 10, 2012, the RegioInfra Nord-Ost has been operating the infrastructure, which Prignitzer Eisenbahn Infrastruktur GmbH took over with retroactive effect from January 1, 2012. It also operates the passenger transport facilities on the route.

In 2013 and 2014, passenger trains operated by the Potsdam Railway Company ran regularly on the Meyenburg – Krakow am See section : two pairs of trains on the RB74 line, which otherwise run between Pritzwalk and Meyenburg, were extended accordingly on Saturdays. Another pair of trains drove between Meyenburg and Silbermühle on these days. On August 5, 2017, train journeys between Güstrow and Plau am See took place on the initiative of the Pro Bahn passenger association .

The Regio Infra Nord-Ost GmbH & Co.KG announced on April 3, 2019 that it would shut down the line between Priemerburg and Plau am See .

Freight trains are occasionally parked in Karow, Plau and Ganzlin.

Since Easter 2020 there has been traffic again between Plau am See and Karow on the weekends in the summer half-year, ordered by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The new train concept creates a continuous connection from Plau am See via Karow and on via the Parchim – Neubrandenburg railway to Parchim. In Karow you can change trains to goods. This train service should be secured until 2027. Eight million were invested in the restoration of the two railway lines.

Others

While the Güstrow district is called Primerburg , the Priemerburg station has kept the spelling.

Web links

Commons : Güstrow – Meyenburg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Start of the weekend trips to Ganzlin - HANS - Hanseatische Eisenbahn GmbH. Retrieved June 11, 2020 . 
2. ^ Federal Railway Authority , list of the disused (DB) railway lines, status November 2007
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Bahn-Report , 2/2008, p. 45.
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Dates August ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , lokreport.de 
7. ↑ Bahn-Report , 5/2012, p. 34.
8. ↑ http://www.regioinfra.de/images/Streckenkarte/2015/Karte_rin_Strecken_2015_SE-PV3.pdf
9. ↑ From July 6th, trains will run between Pritzwalk and Meyenburg , in: Märkische Allgemeine, Prignitz local edition, June 25th, 2013
10. ↑ Timetable notice at the Karow (Meckl) train station
11. ↑ Timetable on suedbahn-saisonverkehr.de
12. ↑ schr: Closure around Karow is imminent . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, p. 236.