Groß Kreutz – Lehnin railway line
| Gross Kreutz-Lehnin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book range : | 207g (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 11.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Groß Kreutz – Lehnin railway was a branch line in Brandenburg that was originally built and operated by Lehniner Kleinbahn AG (LeK). It connected the municipality of Lehnin , located between the Havel and Zauche in the state of Brandenburg, with the Groß Kreutz station on the main Berlin – Genthin – Magdeburg line.
history
The 11.9-kilometer standard-gauge railway was opened on October 19, 1899.
The shareholders of Lehniner Kleinbahn AG were the Prussian state, the province of Brandenburg and the district of Zauch-Belzig as well as private individuals. The state traffic office of Brandenburg (Railway Department of the High President of the Province of Brandenburg) led the operation . After the end of the war in 1945 the railway company was u. a. handed over to the general management of the Provincial Railways of the Mark Brandenburg and finally subordinated to the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 .
This kept passenger traffic until December 19, 1965 and goods traffic until October 9, 1967. Then the line was shut down and dismantled. The Nahmitz sawmill was responsible for the volume of goods traffic until the last day of operation .
The reception building of the Lehnin train station has been preserved and, like several buildings in the starting station of the line, Groß Kreutz, is a listed building.
Web links
- Lehniner Kleinbahn on bahnstrecken.de
- Lehniner Kleinbahn on Berliner-Bahnen.de
- Transfer to Lehniner Kleinbahn AG in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the state archive of Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Potsdam-Mittelmark (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2012