Helmstedt – Oebisfelde railway line
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| Route number : | 1945 Helmstedt-Grasleben | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 207d (1959) , 207b (1944) |
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| Route length: | 35.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Helmstedt – Oebisfelde railway was a connecting line between the Braunschweig – Magdeburg and Berlin – Lehrte railway lines .
history
After the concession was granted on April 8, 1889, the line was opened on September 1, 1895.
After 1945 the inner-German border cut the route three times, which prevented through traffic. However, the line played a bigger role in the post-war period, because it was used to run empty runs of locomotives of the Reichsbahn of the Soviet Occupation Zone (DR) and Reichsbahn of the Western Zones (later DB) between Helmstedt and Oebisfelde , where the locomotive was changed from DB to DR. The empty runs were necessary because the goods traffic between Berlin and the western zones or the Federal Republic via Helmstedt and Oebisfelde was mainly one-way traffic, so that locomotives uncoupled in Oebisfelde took over a train in Helmstedt to return and vice versa. This was regulated in the Helmstedt Agreement of May 11, 1949 between the railway administrations. On September 16, 1951, the DR stopped its empty runs on this route, on June 16, 1952, the DB was refused passage between Grasleben and Bahrdorf . The empty trips in the west have since taken place via Braunschweig and Fallersleben . As a result, the rails at the border were interrupted.
In 1956 the Helmstedt district began to consider building a western bypass route from Grasleben to Wolfsburg . However, this fizzled out. The tracks between Bahrdorf and Wahrstedt were removed at the end of the 1960s. Passenger traffic between Helmstedt and Grasleben ceased on June 1, 1959. In the east, passenger traffic between Weferlingen and Döhren continued until October 1, 1961.
On November 4, 1995, the line between Grasleben and Weferlingen was reopened and operated as a connecting line for Quarzwerke Grasleben. Goods traffic between Helmstedt and Grasleben was suspended on July 11, 2002 due to deficiencies in the route. In 2006 the Lappwaldbahn took over the Helmstedt – Grasleben line after leasing the Grasleben – Weferlingen line.
On May 17, 2009, the Helmstedt – Grasleben section was put back into operation after the renovation.
traffic
Located in rural areas, the volume of passenger traffic was low. In 1939 there were six train pairs, on weekdays seven, and in 1944 there were still four train pairs. They only led the 3rd grade. In 1945, through traffic was discontinued, the routes Helmstedt – Grasleben and Weferlingen – Döhren remained in passenger traffic.
In Grasleben there is salt and quartz sand mining, so that freight traffic was provided. In 1990 two trains ran between Grasleben and Helmstedt on weekdays. With the reconstruction, this traffic is still possible; the discharge, which last only took place via Haldensleben , is now possible again to the west. The Lappwaldbahn takes care of the traffic.
photos
End of the embankment before Mackendorf from the north
Railway embankment with underpass at Mackendorf
Route in the forest near Bahrdorf
Bridge over the Lapau near Bahrdorf
literature
- Ralf Roman Rossberg : Border over German rails 1945–1990 . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-88255-829-6 , p. 89-92 .
- Peter Bock: Interzonal Trains: Rail Traffic in Divided Germany . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-932785-33-9 , pp. 58-60 .
- Urs Kramer , Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rails. Freight routes from 1994 to today . Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , pp. 27 .
