Husum – Kiel railway line

Husum – Kiel
Route map
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Husum – Jübek – Kiel
Route number :	1011 Jübek – Husum 1022 Kiel – Osterrönfeld
Course book section (DB) :	134
Legend from Bredstedt Husum – Tönning (until 1905) 26.3 Husum to Heide and St. Peter-Ording 23.0 Rosendahl 20.5 Schwesing 15.8 Wester-Ohrstedt 14.2 Ohrstedt (formerly Bf) Wester-Ohrstedt material depot to Klosterkrug 9.35 Ahrenviöl to Eggebek / Tarp 5.0 Sollbrück Treene from Flensburg 0.0 149.4 Jübek 142.8 Schuby Schleswig-Klosterkruger Railway from Sl-Altstadt Schleswig-Friedrichsberg Schleswig-Klosterkruger railway branch 138.389 Schleswig von Oster-Ohrstedt (until 1870) Monastery jug Connection to Schleswig Air Base Jagel Schleswig circular railway to Friedrichstadt 132.5 Lottorf from Eckernförde (narrow-gauge railway) 125.4 Owschlag 120.7 Old Duvenstedt from Husum 115.3 Büdelsdorf to Rendsburg-Obereider (1.5 km, only GV) 113.9 Rendsburg (originally Rendsburg-Glacis) Industrial connection loop Rendsburger Kreisbahn Line until 1913 Transfer point Rendsburg loop Swing bridge until 1913 / Rendsburger high bridge 106.5 Üst Osterrönfeld Bridge 105.0 30.9 Osterrönfeld (personal stop until May 1962) Osterrönfeld (old train station) 104.2 to Neumünster to Rader Island 27.2 Schülldorf (until May 30, 1981 Bf, since January 4, 2015) 24.4 Ostenfeld (until June 2, 1984) 20.4 Kronsburg (until June 2, 1984) 19.6 Bredenbek (since January 4, 2015) 13.9 Felde (formerly Brandsbek, until June 2, 1984, since November 5, 2000) Connection railway tank farm Groß-Nordsee (1940–1945) 12.6 Achterwehr (until June 2, 1984, since January 4, 2015) 11.6 Flemhude (until June 2, 1984) 8.1 Melsdorf (until June 2, 1984, since January 4, 2015) 7.0 Kiel-Mettenhof (1969–1987) 5.4 Kiel-Russee (until May 30, 1981, since January 4, 2015) from Flensburg 0.0 3.394 Kiel-Hassee Citti-Park (until May 30, 1981, since December 10, 2007) 2.9 Kiel-Hassee 1.53 Freight bypass railway Kiel, branch point Hg 0.0 Kiel Central Station
Husum – Erfde – Rendsburg
Route number (DB) :	1012
Course book section (DB) :	ex 132, ex 113e
Route length:	50.1 km
from Bredstedt 90.0 Husum to Jübek to Heide and St. Peter-Ording 86.9 Mildstedt 83.2 Rantrum 77.4 Schwabstedt Treene 72.0 Norderstapel Schleswiger Kreisbahn , Friedrichstadt – Schleswig 64.0 Invent 58.4 Christiansholm 51.7 Derision 48.3 Garlbek 45.2 Fockbek End of the tracks (4) Rendsburg-Seemühlen (planned) Rendsburg industrial area north (2) Rendsburg-Mastbrook (planned) (1) Rendsburg Gymnasium Kronwerk (in planning) from Jübek 41.3 Büdelsdorf to Rendsburg-Obereider (1.5 km, only GV) (0.0) 39.9 Rendsburg on to Kiel and Neumünster

The Husum – Kiel railway line is a single-track railway line in Schleswig-Holstein that is not fully electrified in the west and east . It connects the city of Husum via Rendsburg with the state capital Kiel and serves as an important west-east axis for rail traffic between the North and Baltic Seas .

In the past, the route ran from Husum via Erfde and Rendsburg to Kiel. Today's course book route (KBS) 134 now leads via Jübek and Schleswig to Rendsburg, with the double-track, electrified Neumünster-Flensburg railway line also being used in the Jübek – Rendsburg section .

Route

LINT41 in Jübek station (2015)

The line begins at the third Husum station , which was completed in 1910 when the line to Erfde and Rendsburg opened. This train station is an important junction on the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein. In addition to the trains to Kiel, it is served by trains of the Marschbahn and those of the Husum – Bad St. Peter-Ording line. The route to Kiel leads north-east in a flat geest landscape and reaches the town of Ohrstedt on the Mühlenbach . There are no traffic stops as far as Jübek .

Several stations along the route were abandoned in the early 1980s or only served goods traffic. In Jübek the line goes over to the Neumünster – Flensburg line . Over flat, mostly agricultural land, it goes to Schleswig train station and on through a slightly hilly terminal moraine landscape towards Rendsburg. The train does not stop in Büdelsdorf . Until 1974, the original line from Husum to Rendsburg via Erfde, opened on September 1, 1910, merged with the Neumünster – Flensburg line. The Rendsburg station was not relocated during the construction of the Kiel Canal .

Train of the NOB on the Rendsburg high bridge

The route then leads over the large Rendsburg loop around a part of the city to cross the canal on the Rendsburg high bridge. In the former wedge station Osterrönfeld , the line to Kiel branches off to the east. This section opened on October 15, 1904. The railway line crosses the Eider at Felde . Shortly before the Kiel main station, the Kiel – Flensburg railway and the Hamburg-Altona – Kiel railway are reached, which is used to enter the destination station.

history

Husum – Erfde – Rendsburg

Old route near Norderstapel, now used as a cycle path. A dirt road crossed the route over the now closed bridge.

Originally there was a direct 50 km long connection from Husum through the Treeneniederung via Norderstapel and Erfde to Rendsburg and, as described here, on to Kiel. The Husum – Erfde – Rendsburg line was opened on September 1, 1910. In Norderstapel the Schleswig – Friedrichstadt line crossed the Schleswig circular railway until 1934 .

At the end of the 1920s there were continuous passenger trains on the Husum – Erfde – Rendsburg – Kiel route. The journey time was over three hours. A faster pair of trains with few stops on the way only needed about two hours and 20 minutes. In 1959, railcars ran the route to Rendsburg in around 70 minutes. Local trains on the Husum – Kiel route continued to run via Erfde, while express trains already took the route via Jübek. About eight pairs of trains ran daily.

On May 25, 1974, passenger traffic from Husum via Erfde to Rendsburg was stopped. At the same time, freight traffic on the section between Erfde and Hohn was ended. The line was then dismantled there. The continuous connection thus became two branch lines for the remaining freight traffic Husum – Erfde and Rendsburg – Hohn. These were further shortened bit by bit in the following decades. The station buildings in Norderstapel and Christiansholm were each demolished shortly after passenger traffic ceased. The other remaining station buildings still exist as residential buildings. One reason for the closure is said to have been the boggy subsoil in the middle section of the route. Since then, all trains run from Husum to Kiel via Jübek, Schleswig and Rendsburg, which means a detour of around 12 km.

Former station grounds and station building in Fockbek

Most of the route has now been dismantled. On May 28, 1988, freight traffic between Fockbek and Hohn was stopped. Up to July 1, 1999 there was still freight traffic to Fockbek, most recently as a station track. A remaining section, around 2.5 kilometers long, connects the Rendsburg train station with a northern industrial area and is meanwhile also unused.

From Husum there was still goods traffic to Erfde until September 24, 1988, to Schwabstedt until May 27, 1989 and until May 22, 1993 to Mildstedt . As a station track, there was a modest freight traffic to a woodworks in the aforementioned location until 2003. There the route ended at a buffer stop. Service trips were carried out by the private railway NVAG from Niebüll . After the bankruptcy of NVAG and the closure of the woodworks, there was no longer any rail traffic on this remaining section. Today only a short section of the line is preserved until shortly before the city limits of Husum, which was occasionally used as a siding by the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn. The course of the route is partly easy to see in the terrain. In Mildstedt there is a signal and a set of wheels at the level of the former train station. The bridge over the Treene has been preserved southeast of Schwabstedt.

Husum-Jübek

This 26-kilometer route was created after the Prussian-Danish War from the Flensburg – Tönning route, which had been in operation since October 25, 1854 , and was built for the transport of cattle to Great Britain and on the Husum 32 years before the connection the marching track was reached. After the annexation of the Duchy of Schleswig by Prussia, the north-eastern part of this route from Eggebek via Schleswig to Neumünster was diverted to a new route. From Sollbrück, from where the old route to Ohrstedt and Husum was rededicated, the connection to Jübek station on the shorter diversion route went into operation on December 29, 1869.

Long before the Husum – Erfde – Rendsburg line was closed, express trains ran via Husum – Jübek. In 1959, the route was used by two pairs of locomotive hauled express trains on the Husum – Kiel route. There were also passenger trains that served every stop on the way. Their travel time was about 37 minutes. The Rosendahl stop was closed before 1975 as the first stop on the route. Today the trains between Husum and Jübek no longer stop. As the last freight customer on the route, the Bundeswehr in Ohrstedt maintained a connection in freight traffic until the end of 2001 . There was a morning gap in the passenger timetable. Since 2006 the Bundeswehr connection can be operated again.

Jübek-Rendsburg

The Neumünster – Flensburg railway line is also used in the middle section ; Klosterkrug station was on the route dismantled in 1869.

Rendsburg – Kiel

Rendsburg train station

This section was opened on October 15, 1904 by the Prussian State Railways. Passenger traffic was mostly operated with local trains. As early as the late 1920s there were through trains to Husum, some of which had only a few stops en route. Later, three to four pairs of express trains regularly ran the route, including a pair of trains from Husum to Lübeck. After the closure of the Flensburg – Niebüll railway in 1980, the seasonally operating train pair Sylter Welle ( Lübeck –Westerland) was temporarily led via Rendsburg instead of Flensburg. This train ran for the last time in 2005. It was the last locomotive hauled passenger train on this route.

The latest stop between Rendsburg and Kiel was Mettenhof . With this, a nearby satellite settlement in Kiel was connected from the early 1970s . In 1984 all stops on the way were canceled. In 1987 regional express trains (RSB) were introduced. The Felde train station (formerly Brandsbek) was put back into operation as a stopping point when the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB) began operating in 2000.

Current operation and planning

Railcar of the previous operator NOB in Husum station

In passenger total distance Husum-Kiel in December 2011, by DB with railcar of the type LINT 41 in hourly busy. It replaced the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn (NOB) as the operator.

As planned, they need 81 and 83 minutes for the 102-kilometer route. Intermediate stops are Jübek, Schleswig, Owschlag, Rendsburg and Felde.

Since January 2015, in addition to the hourly regional express, a regional train has been running every hour between Kiel and Rendsburg, which also stops in Kiel-Hassee Citti-Park, Kiel-Russee, Melsdorf , Achterwehr , Bredenbek and Schülldorf . With the exception of the new Kiel-Hassee Citti-Park station, these stops were reactivated, and the stop in Bredenbek instead of Kronsburg was built in a better location. The Felde stop was re-established as a train station through the rebuilding of the dismantled second station track, in order to increase the line capacity by means of crossroads. Only individual trains of the regional railway line run on the edge of the day and on certain days to Schleswig or Husum. The least frequented stops at Kiel-Russee and Achterwehr are demand stops .

There are also plans to use the idle time of the new regional train line in Rendsburg for an extension via Rendsburg Gymnasium Kronwerk and Rendsburg-Mastbrook to Rendsburg-Seemühlen. The cost of reactivation is estimated at 4 million euros. According to the forecasts, 500 passengers per day would use the trains. There is also another option to extend it to Fockbek . For this, the route between Rendsburg-Seemühlen and Fockbek would have to be restored. From August 24 to 26, 2012, from August 24 to 25, 2013 and in August 2014, special trains ran every hour from Rendsburg to Seemühlen to the Rendsburg autumn . The trains stopped at provisionally set up stops. The total costs for this project would be around 380,000 euros, of which the city of Rendsburg would have to bear around 155,000 euros. The Kiel Chamber of Commerce and Industry sees the re-commissioning “more than doubtful” and is of the opinion that any funding should be invested in road traffic. A decision on the expansion of the route, which the state of Schleswig-Holstein and the city of Rendsburg would have to pay for, has not been made by 2015. In November 2016, the administration of the city of Rendsburg was commissioned by the building committee to officially express an interest in extending the regional train to Hohn. The city of Rendsburg's own share for the revitalization is significantly lower than the funds that the city would have to raise if the track system were to be dismantled or renovated without local rail transport. This co-payment could be completely covered by selling or leasing the route to AKN .

On February 13, 2020, Minister Buchholz informed that the Stadler company in Rendsburg would be servicing the Flirt battery-powered railcars on the route to Seemühlen. 8.5 million euros are earmarked for reactivating the 4.5 km long route. This means that the Mastbrook and Seemühlen stops could be built as planned in previous years. For the Rendsburg Gymnasium Kronwerk stop, the stop announced in August 2018 could be at the former Büdelsdorf train station.

literature

• Hans Bock: The march from Altona to Westerland . Boyens, Heide 1989, ISBN 3-8042-0458-9 .
• Martin Wenz: The railway from Kiel to Rendsburg and their buildings . In: State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): DenkMal! Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. No. 1/1994 . Book publisher Boyens, 1994, ISSN  0946-4549 .

Web links

• Concept by Pro Bahn Schleswig-Holstein
• Historic route map of Schleswig-Holstein
• Pictures Husum – Erfde – Rendsburg 1976
• Pictures of the Norderstapel – Hohn section today
• Kiel-Rendsburg line - new service concept: suburban railway Kiel-Rendsburg-Fockbek
• Brochure on the new operating concept from December 2014. (PDF; 4.4 MiB) Archived from the original on September 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
• Five new stations between Rendsburg and Kiel are opened. Archived from the original on January 4, 2015 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
• New railway line Kiel – Rendsburg started ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to the list of abbreviations for the operating offices (as of February 2012)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Alev Doğan: Nah.SH is planning seven new train stations. In: kn-online.de. August 2, 2018, accessed May 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Route Chronicle 1847. Retrieved on February 8, 2014 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jochen Schulz, Alexander Horn: Description of the OPTION FAST-SLOW APPROACH KEEL RENDSBURG (-FOCKBEK) with potential analysis for new stations. (PDF) LVS Schleswig-Holstein, Landesweit Verkehrsservicegesellschaft mbH, November 27, 2008, p. 25 , archived from the original on November 15, 2012 ; accessed on June 23, 2014 . 
5. ^ German Maps (Topographic Map 1: 25,000). Flemhude. contentdm.lib.byu.edu, accessed January 11, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Deutsche Bahn timetable 2013. 134 Husum - Kiel. Retrieved April 20, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Report from the route ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 20, 2010 
8. ↑ Leaflet on the new Kiel – Rendsburg regional train. (PDF) September 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
9. ^ ^{A b} Frank Höfer: The tram in waiting. In: shz.de. January 14, 2014, accessed June 23, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Five new train stations in Schleswig-Holstein reopened. In: Local transport Hamburg. January 6, 2015, accessed January 12, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Special trains for Rendsburg autumn 2012 (PDF; 228 kB). Archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Special trains for Rendsburg autumn 2013. (PDF; 954 KiB) Archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Free special trips on the disused route in Rendsburg. nahverkehrhamburg.de, August 29, 2014, accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
14. ^ Stadtbahn Rendsburg: The price for three stations. shz.de, February 26, 2014, accessed on March 14, 2015 . 
15. ^ IHK to Kiel on the Rendsburg tram. Kiel Chamber of Commerce and Industry, June 24, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on January 12, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Schleswig-Holsteinische Landeszeitung, Late I do with the Stadtbahn, November 3, 2016
17. ↑ New attempt for rail reactivation in Rendsburg . In: NahverkehrHAMBURG . April 26, 2017 ( nahverkehrhamburg.de [accessed February 27, 2018]).
18. ↑ Stadler builds a railway workshop in Rendsburg . February 13, 2020 ( pressreader.com [accessed May 9, 2020]).