Insterburger Kleinbahnen

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Insterburg – Warnascheln / Warnheide – Trempen
Course book range : DR 120g (1940)
Route length: 32.2 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 State railway from Berlin – Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
Station, station
 0.0 Insterburg Klbf (Chernyachovsk)
   
 State railway to Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau (Tschernyschewskoje) (- Lithuania)
Stop, stop
 3.3 Insterburg-Heynehof
Stop, stop
 4.2 Groß Siegmuntinnen / Siegmundsfelde Gut
Stop, stop
 5.3 Groß Siegmuntinnen / Siegmundsfelde (Bajkal)
Stop, stop
 7.5 Didlacken / Dittlacken village (Telmanowo)
Stop, stop
 9.1 Didlacken / Dittlacken-Leitnershof
Stop, stop
 10.8 Ischdagehlen / Brennersdorf (Matrossowo)
Stop, stop
 13.0 Swirling / Güldenau
Stop, stop
 14.4 Lenkutschen / Schleifenau (Kapustino)
Stop, stop
 15.9 Lenkutschen / Schleifenau
Stop, stop
 17.4 Draupchen / Friedenau Nord (Maloje Kruschinino)
Stop, stop
 19.1 Draupchen / Friedenau south
Stop, stop
 22.6 Elkinehlen / Elken (Donskoje)
Stop, stop
 24.4 Tatars (Tichomirowka)
Station, station
 26.7 Warnascheln / Warnheide
   
 Kleinbahn to Nordenburg (Krylowo)
   
 Kleinbahn to Piontken / Waldkerme (Kasatsche)
Stop, stop
 29.2 Escherischken / Schönfels (Irtyschskoje)
Stop, stop
 31.3 Ernstburg (Sady)
End station - end of the line
 32.3 Trempen (Novostrojewo)
Warnascheln / Warnheide – Piontken / Waldkerme
Course book range : DR 120g (1940)
Route length: 10.2 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Small train from Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk)
Station, station
 0.0 Warnascheln / forest heather
   
 Kleinbahn to Nordenburg (Krylowo)
   
 Small train to Trempen (Novostrojewo)
Stop, stop
 2.5 Abscherningken / Dachshausen (Krasnoarmeiskoje)
Stop, stop
 6.3 Albrechtau (Aljoschkino)
Stop, stop
 7.9 Lehnthal (Cholmy)
End station - end of the line
 10.2 Piontken / Waldkerme (Kasatsche)
Warnascheln / Warnheide – Nordenburg Kr. Gerdauen
Course book range : DR 120g (1940)
Route length: 26.0 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Small train from Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk)
Station, station
 0.0 Warnascheln / Warnheide
   
 Small train to Trempen (Novostrojewo)
   
 Kleinbahn to Piontken / Waldkerme (Kasatsche)
Stop, stop
 2.4 Adamsheide (Abelino)
Stop, stop
 4.5 Rogalwalde Gut (Pogranitschny)
Stop, stop
 6.6 Rogalwalde Forest
Stop, stop
 8.9 Julienfelde (Jurjewo)
Stop, stop
 10.6 Abelischken / Ilmenhorst (Belkino)
Stop, stop
 12.7 Lonschken (Dnieperovskoye)
Stop, stop
 14.8 Wolfshöhe (Opuschki)
Stop, stop
 16.5 Pollaschen / Reichenwald (Voroshilovo)
Stop, stop
 17.6 Charlottenruh
Stop, stop
 18.7 Katzborn (Makejewka)
Stop, stop
 21.0 Adolf love
Stop, stop
 22.6 Burgsdorff / Schönheim (Pawlinowo)
Stop, stop
 23.6 Nordenburg city forest
   
 Königsberg State Railway (Kaliningrad)
Station, station
 26.0 Nordenburg Klbf (Krylowo)
   
 State railway to Angerburg (Węgorzewo)
Route - straight ahead
 Rastenburger Kleinbahnen to Barten (Barciany)
Insterburg – Groß Skaisgirren / Kreuzingen
Track remains in Bolshakovo, Kaliningrad Oblast (Groß Skaisgirren)
Track remains in Bolshakovo, Kaliningrad Oblast (Groß Skaisgirren)
Course book range : DR 120h (1940)
Route length: 39.3 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 State railway from Berlin – Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
Station, station
 0.0 Insterburg Klbf (Chernyachovsk)
   
 State railway to Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau (Tschernyschewskoje) (-Lithuania)
Stop, stop
 1.1 Insterburg Gumbinnerstrasse
Stop, stop
 2.9 Insterburg Goeringstrasse
Stop, stop
 4.4 Insterburg-Luxenberg
Stop, stop
 8.1 Georgenburg (Majowka)
Stop, stop
 10.7 Pagelienen (Perelesnoje)
Station, station
 12.2 Thimbles / Horstenau
   
 Kleinbahn to Wirbel (Schaworonkowo)
Stop, stop
 15.3 Klein Reckeitschen / Blüchersdorf
Stop, stop
 18.0 Auxkallen / Ringelau
Station, station
 20.2 Itching / Buchhof (Buchowo)
   
 Small train to Mehlauken / Liebenfelde (Ostpr.) (Salessje)
Stop, stop
 23.3 Gerlauken / Waldfrieden mud bath (Fjodorowo)
Stop, stop
 24.8 Gerlauken / Waldfrieden-Gründann
Stop, stop
 26.2 Groß Aulowönen / Aulenbach (Kalinowka)
Stop, stop
 27.9 Eichhorn (Jablotschnoje)
Stop, stop
 31.1 Swainen (Sadowoje)
Stop, stop
 31.8 Bersziupchen / Bersziubchen / Birkenhausen
Stop, stop
 34.8 Groß Aßnaggern / Grenzberg
Stop, stop
 35.8 Oschweningken / Breitenhof
Stop, stop
 36.1 Kletellen / Georgenheide (Uroschainoje)
End station - end of the line
 39.3 Groß Skaisgirren / Kreuzingen Klbf (Bolschakowo)
Route - straight ahead
 State Railway Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) - Tilsit (Sovetsk)
Thimbles / Horstenau swirls
Course book range : DR 120h (1940)
Route length: 14.3 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Kleinbahn Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk) - Groß Skaisgirren / Kreuzingen (Bolschakowo)
Station, station
 0.0 Thimbles / Horstenau
Stop, stop
 1.6 Kauschen / Horstenau forest
Stop, stop
 3.3 Myrtle Court I (Krylowo)
Stop, stop
 4.2 Court of Myrtles II
Stop, stop
 5.0 Court of Myrtles III
Stop, stop
 6.7 Berschkallen / Birken (Gremjatschje)
Stop, stop
 9.4 Papu rails / Grauden (Romanschowo)
Stop, stop
 13.3 Albrechtshöfen
End station - end of the line
 14.3 Whirling (Schaworonkowo)
Juckeln / Buchhof (Ostpr) - Mehlauken / Liebenfelde (Ostpr)
Course book range : DR 120h (1940)
Route length: 21.7 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Kleinbahn Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk) - Groß Skaisgirren / Kreuzingen (Bolschakowo)
Station, station
 0.0 Itching / Buchhof (Ostpr) (Buchowo)
Stop, stop
 1.2 Itching / Buchhof (Ostpr)
Stop, stop
 2.5 Ernstwalde (Novaya Derewnja)
Stop, stop
 4.4 Lindenberg- Lindicken (Krasnoje)
Stop, stop
 6.2 Lindenberg
Stop, stop
 8.0 Wilkowischken / Wolfshof
Stop, stop
 10.7 Budwallen / Budewald
Stop, stop
 13.5 Popelken / Markthausen (Wyssokoje)
Stop, stop
 15.5 Mehlawischken / Liebenort
Stop, stop
 16.7 Danielshöfen
Stop, stop
 18.8 Patilschen / Kunzenrode (Oruscheinoje)
Stop, stop
 21.1 Mehlauken / Liebenfelde (Ostpr)
Station, station
 21.7 Mehlauken / Liebenfelde (Ostpr) Klbf (Salessje)
Route - straight ahead
 State Railway Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) - Tilsit (Sovetsk)
Insterburg – Kraupischken / Breitenstein (Ostpr)
Course book range : DR 120g (1940)
Route length: 38.0 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 State railway from Berlin – Königsberg (Kaliningrad)
Station, station
 0.0 Insterburg Klbf (Chernyachovsk)
   
 State railway to Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau (Tschernyschewskoje) (-Lithuania)
Stop, stop
 1.1 Insterburg Gumbinnerstrasse
Stop, stop
 2.9 Insterburg Goeringstrasse
Stop, stop
 4.4 Insterburg-Luxenberg
Stop, stop
 6.4 Pieragien / Angerlinde (Mitschurino)
Stop, stop
 7.9 Tammowischlen / Tammau (Timofejewka)
Stop, stop
 9.5 Stobingen (Gussewka)
Stop, stop
 11.9 Trakinnen / Tannenschlucht
Stop, stop
 13.4 Karalene / Luisenberg (Seljony Bor)
Stop, stop
 14.9 Dwarischken / Eichenberg (Lesnoje)
Stop, stop
 17.2 Eichwalder Forest I
Stop, stop
 18.9 Eichwalder Forest II
Stop, stop
 21.4 Laugallen / Feldeck
Stop, stop
 23.0 Auxkallen / Hoheninster (Jasnopolskoje)
Stop, stop
 23.8 Pelleningken / Strigengrund
Stop, stop
 25.6 Pelleningken / Strigengrund (Sagorskoje)
Stop, stop
 26.4 Bindszohnen (Bindschohnen) / Bindschohnen (Smorodinowo)
Stop, stop
 27.5 Kaukern / Bärensprung (Sagorjewka)
Stop, stop
 28.9 Sauskeppen / Sausen (Koslowka)
Stop, stop
 29.9 Groß Niedbudszen (Groß Niebudschen) / Steinsee (Ostpr) (Seljonaja Dolina)
Stop, stop
 32.6 Rod lacquers (Priosjornoje)
Stop, stop
 35.1 Pleinlauken / Insterbrück (Rjabinowka)
Stop, stop
 36.7 Moulienen / Moulinen (Michailowka)
Station, station
 38.0 Kraupischken / Breitenstein (Ostpr) (Uljanowo)
Route - straight ahead
 Small train to Ragnit (Neman)
Kraupischken / Breitenstein (Ostpr) –Ragnit
Course book range : DR 120h (1940)
Route length: 28.5 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Small train from Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk)
Station, station
 0.0 Kraupischken / Breitenstein (Ostpr) (Uljanowo)
Stop, stop
 1.3 Moulienen / Moulinen (Michailowka)
Stop, stop
 3.6 Move
Stop, stop
 4.7 Krauleidschen-Barsden / Erlenfeld-Bards
Stop, stop
 6.1 Krauleidschen / Erlenfeld
Stop, stop
 7.4 Wiswainen
Stop, stop
 8.1 Small wobble
Stop, stop
 8.9 Winter linden
Stop, stop
 10.6 Burkanders / Burental
Stop, stop
 11.8 Dazzle
Stop, stop
 13.8 Kullminnen / Kulmen (Kuibyschewo)
Stop, stop
 15.0 Kullminnen / Kulmen dismantling
Stop, stop
 16.2 Sausmertienen / Karlshof ( Yermakowo / Luganskoje)
Stop, stop
 17.2 Weedern (Talniki)
Stop, stop
 19.3 Bludischken
Stop, stop
 20.5 Sobersken / Bersken (Walzowo)
Stop, stop
 21.7 Pötischken / Flachdorf (Iwowoje)
Stop, stop
 23.8 Gudgallen (Gudkowo)
Stop, stop
 26.7 Ragnit suburb
   
 State railway from Stallupönen / Ebenrode (Nesterow)
Station, station
 28.5 Ragnit Klbf (Neman)
   
 State railway to Tilsit (Sovetsk)

A narrow-gauge network of around 221 kilometers in length was maintained under the name Insterburger Kleinbahnen , starting from the Insterburg railway junction in the eastern part of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG

On June 25, 1900, the Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG was founded, in which the Prussian state, the province of East Prussia , the districts of Insterburg, Niederung, Ragnit and Tilsit as well as the railway construction company Lenz & Co. were involved.

Trunk network

On August 1, 1902, the first sections with a gauge of 750 mm were opened. Starting from the Kleinbahnhof Insterburg , which was 1.15 kilometers west of the state train station, a line led south into the Darkehmen district (1938-1946 Angerapp district ) via Warnascheln (1938-1946 Warnheide ) to Trempen (32 km) with a branch from Warnascheln to Albrechtau / Piontken (1938–1946 Waldkerme , 10 km).

In the urban area of ​​Insterburg, the northern route initially followed the state railway towards Tilsit . The Gumbinner Strasse stop (formerly Bahnhofstrasse) near the “Hauptbahnhof” was served. On the other side of the Angerapp river was the small train station Luxenberg, where the line turned to the east and along the Inster reached the terminal station of Kraupischken (1938–1946 Breitenstein , 38 km) in the Ragnit district . About 1 km before that in Moulinen was the branch of the railway line to the north towards Ragnit Kleinbahnhof (27 km) on the Memel . The trains to Ragnit departed separately from the Kraupischken terminus . The map of the course book shown only shows the southern section.

An expansion of the network followed on November 12, 1902 with the branch branching off in Luxenberg to Groß Skaisgirren (1938-1946 Kreuzingen , 36 km) in the Niederung district on the Tilsit – Königsberg state railway . It was divided into Juckeln (1918-1946 Buchhof ), where a strand branched off via Mehlauken (1938-1946 Liebenfelde ) - also on the Tilsit – Königsberg state railway - to Piplin (1938-1946 Timberhafen , 28 km) in the Labiau district .

During the First World War, a branch line from Kauschen (1938–1946 Horstenau ) to Wirbeln (17 km) was opened on March 27, 1915 and the cross-connection from Warnascheln to Nordenburg Kleinbahnhof (26 km) in the Gerdauen district on June 26, 1917 , where there was a connection to the state railway and to the narrow-gauge Rastenburg small railways .

In the urban area of ​​Insterburg, a branch line from Luxenberg to Pregeltor was opened on September 1, 1909 , which initially also served passenger traffic. Two port railways, which had been laid out with three tracks, formed the end; from August 19, 1926 a 4 km long line from the small train station Insterburg to the Pregelhafen in the west of the city and from July 1, 1933 in Ragnit a 3 km long port railway.

The Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ODEG) took over the management .

Other railway companies

Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG built and managed the following small railways in northern East Prussia, one of which was standard gauge and one was partially electrified:

Together with its main network of 223 km, the Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG thus owned a rail network of 358 km route length.

Establishment of the East Prussian Kleinbahnen AG

The AG for Transport tried to reduce the costs of managing its railways by streamlining the organization. The following small railway companies, the majority of which were owned by them, were merged with Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG with effect from June 30, 1924, which at the same time became Ostpreußische Kleinbahnen AG :

Local railroad Track width
mm		 Length
km		 date
Königsberg small train 750 58.6 January 15, 1900
Lycker Kleinbahn-AG 1000 48.0 October 22, 1913
Ortelsburger Kleinbahn 600 15.4 June 16, 1920
Rastenburger small railways 750 127.3 May 1, 1898
Schloßberger Kleinbahnen formerly Pillkaller Kleinbahnen 1000 60.8 December 24, 1901
Treuburger Kleinbahnen formerly Oletzkoer Kleinbahnen 1000 43.1 September 18, 1911
Wehlau – Friedlander Kreisbahnen 750 65.8 April 9, 1898
Kleinbahn Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil 1435 5.0 June 30, 1907 (only from 1930)

The new company then comprised 777 km of mostly narrow-gauge lines, only 21 km had standard-gauge tracks. The above list contains the gauge, total route length and the opening date of the first leg.

Insterburger Kleinbahnen after 1924

From 1924 on, the name Insterburger Kleinbahnen only refers to the routes of the main network, which then grew by 7 km with two port railways.

Passenger transport by rail became less and less important, especially since the East German Railway Company set up parallel lines with its buses, which achieved significantly shorter travel times than the narrow-gauge railways. Rail traffic only picked up again during the Second World War. The rail network itself was expanded again when the front was getting closer and closer in the winter of 1944/45 and the Deutsche Reichsbahn could no longer reach the Schlossberg (Pillkallen) area. Finally, a last train drove back from there on the partly newly laid narrow-gauge railway via Insterburg and Nordenburg to Rastenburg.

With the network of the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen - 127 km in length - there had been a connection in Nordenburg since 1917. The result was the largest coherent network of narrow-gauge railways with a gauge of 750 mm in the German Reich, which with a circumference of around 350 km even exceeded that of Mügeln in Saxony.

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe (Ed.): Railways in West and East Prussia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 , ( Ostdeutsche Eisenbahnen 1).
  • Deutsche Reichsbahn Oberbetriebsleitung East Berlin, German course book. Complete edition of the Reichsbahn course books , edition of January 21, 1940 (reprinted 1988, ISBN 3-921304-76-8 ).

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