Gettorf – Stohl railway line

Gettorf – Stohl

Gettorf train station
photographed from the southwest

		Kiel – Flensburg railway line from Flensburg
	0.0	Gettorf
		Railway line Kiel – Flensburg to Kiel
		Blasting (until 1918)
		Sprenge (from 1925)
		Neu-Bülk
		Conn. Railway battery west
		Conn. Barracks Stohl , ammunition depot
		Stole

The Gettorf – Stohl railway line was a standard-gauge railway line on the Dänischer Wohld peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein , built from 1915, used from 1918 to 1932, dismantled in 1932. It ran from the Gettorf branch station of the Kiel – Flensburg railway to Stohl and was only used for military and freight traffic.

history

The connection of the Danish welfare to the regional railway network was planned as early as 1910 with a decision to build a route through the region via Groß Wittensee to Schleswig and Rendsburg . In 1911 the community of Gettorf decided to take part in the construction.

At that time, military installations had been built in the area around Stohl. This military railway was planned for better supply, for the expansion of the military coastal protection and for the transport of guns and ammunition to various gun emplacements; only military considerations were decisive. In addition to this use, the route was released for public freight transport.

On May 2, 1917, a railway construction company with 85 men moved into Gettorf, which measured the approved strategic railway to Stohl. In the beginning of 1915, built POW - labor camp in Gettorf, which had been vacated in February 1916 were 500 British prisoners from the camp from the same date Güstrow laid. They were used for the construction of the Stohler line and for the construction of the Neuwittenbek – Friedrichsort railway line .

The line ran from Gettorf station south parallel to the Kiel – Flensburg railway line to today's Stohler Damm, then via Osdorf , Borghorsterhütten, Birkenmoor, Kuhholzberg, Sprenge and Neu-Bülk to Stohl.

On May 31, 1918, the line was completed to such an extent that trains could run from Gettorf to Sprenge with locomotives of the Prussian State Railways on May 28, 1918, after a preliminary operating license had been granted . The final operating license was issued on June 6, 1918. The operating license for the Sprenge – Stohl section, which was subsequently built, was granted on October 25, 1918, and operations began on October 30, 1918.

Track systems

At the end of the line there was a locomotive shed with a maintenance ditch as well as a siding through which the locomotive could move to the other end of the train. Before Stohl, a siding branched off, which led to four mobile railway guns, the "Railway Battery West" , which were set up in 1916 and which stood in bedding in the field. A second junction led to the barracks before Stohl on the road to Sprenge. The track system led over a parade ground that was completely enclosed by buildings. In the barracks building there was a round arched gate opening that was just high and wide for the locomotive to pass through. Behind the barracks stood the electrical station, a horse stable, an officer's apartment and a syringe house for the fire extinguishers. The train could go as far as this building complex.

The “Battery V Stohl” was located in the open field above the building, to which a siding for a lorry was laid from the electrical station.

End of the military track

With the armistice on November 11, 1918, operations on the railway ended; between Sprenge and Stohl, the rails were only traveled on for twelve days. The section from Stohl to near Neu Bülk was shut down and dismantled by Allied orders on June 22, 1922. This was later the end point, so that the remaining section in the population was referred to as the Gettorf – Neu-Bülk route.

Danish Welfare Railway Cooperative

On July 7, 1922, the Eckernförde district took over the railway line from the Ministry of Finance for 500,000 marks . The district founded the Danish Welfare Railway Cooperative with the farmers in the area .

After the route was handed over on December 21, 1922, however, it could not be used because it was occupied by around 1,000 Belgian and French loot wagons. Because of the increasing inflation, the cooperative demanded the sum of one billion marks ( paper marks ) as compensation to get rid of the wagons. The scrap company Andresen from Hassee was commissioned with the scrapping. From October 7, 1922 to December 7, 1923, the Prussian state paid 60 gold marks per month in compensation.

On August 15, 1924, the route was cleared. Some usable wagons were kept for freight traffic. Operations officially started on February 9, 1925. The goods and farms in the region soon became part of the regular customer base. Manure, corn, furniture, coal and building materials were transported. Normally a freight train with up to ten wagons drove every day, the daily output of the locomotive was around 40 kilometers. On days when no goods were to be transported, maintenance work was carried out on the line and the locomotive.

Although only designed as a freight railway, school classes and clubs were brought from Gettorf to the Danish Wohld upon request. Individual passengers were allowed to ride on the locomotive.

At the end of the 1920s, freight traffic on the road increased sharply and, due to the global economic crisis , rail transports fell sharply. Since the railway could no longer be operated economically, the cooperative decided to liquidate it in its general assembly on October 9, 1931, following the closure recommendations by the district on January 14, 1931 and February 19, 1931 .

The last train ran on January 8, 1932, the concession was surrendered on June 22, 1932 and the route was dismantled in the same year.

locomotive

The Eisenbahn-Genossenschaft e. G. m. b. In 1925, H. procured a brand new benzene locomotive from Orenstein & Koppel with the type B-bm, which had the serial number 1668.

Web links

Danish Welfare Railway Company. In: geschichtsspuren.de. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Erwin Petersen: The Stohler Bahn . In: Yearbook of the home community Eckernförde . No. 51 , 1993, p. 135-144 .
↑ A. Seidel: How Gettorf experienced the world war . In: Yearbook of the Schwansen Working Group, Office Hütten and Dänischwohld . No. 6 , 1941, pp. 9/10 .
↑ ^a ^b Martin Klöffler: railway battery West and gun emplacement Stohl. (PDF) In: Fortress inventory. November 5, 2010, accessed January 13, 2017 .
^ R. Butenschön: Gettorf, Kiel – Flensburg line. In: eisenbahn-sh.de. Archived from the original on January 10, 2017 ; accessed on August 26, 2019 .
↑ Danish Welfare Railway Company. In: bahn-express.de. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .

[Buch1993-1] Erwin Petersen: The Stohler Bahn . In: Yearbook of the home community Eckernförde . No. 51 , 1993, p. 135-144 .

[2] A. Seidel: How Gettorf experienced the world war . In: Yearbook of the Schwansen Working Group, Office Hütten and Dänischwohld . No. 6 , 1941, pp. 9/10 .

[gesch-3] Martin Klöffler: railway battery West and gun emplacement Stohl. (PDF) In: Fortress inventory. November 5, 2010, accessed January 13, 2017 .

[4] R. Butenschön: Gettorf, Kiel – Flensburg line. In: eisenbahn-sh.de. Archived from the original on January 10, 2017 ; accessed on August 26, 2019 .

[5] Danish Welfare Railway Company. In: bahn-express.de. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .