Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line

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Lötzen – Johannisburg
(Giżycko – Pisz)
Course book range : DR 118w (1940) ,
136h (1944)
Route length: 54.1 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Königsberg i.Pr. (Kaliningrad)
Station, station
 0.0 Soldering (Giżycko)
   
 to Angerburg (Węgorzewo)
   
 to Lyck (Ełk)
   
 5.9 Upalten (Upałty)
   
 8.8 Ruhden / ironworks (Ruda Staświny)
   
 12.7 Milks (Miłki)
   
 16.8 Large Konopken / Hemp (Konopki Wielkie)
   
 19.5 Insight (Ublik)
   
 25.0 Pianken / Altwolfsdorf (Pianki)
   
 from Lyck (Ełk)
   
 29.3 Arys (Orzysz, earlier personal stop)
   
 to Sensburg (Mrągowo)
   
 35.1 Gutten / Seegutten (Nowe Guty)
   
 41.7 Kessel (Ostpr) (Kociołek Szlachecki)
   
 46.8 Trzonken / Mövenau (Trzonki)
   
 52.4 Snopken / Wartendorf (Snopki)
   
 from Allenstein (Olsztyn)
Station, station
 54.1 Johannisburg (Pisz)
   
 to Lyck (Ełk)
   
 to Dlottowen / Fischborn (Dłutowo) (–Kolno)

The Lötzen – Johannisburg railway ran in south-east Prussia in a north-south direction and connected the two district metropolises of Lötzen (in Polish: Giżycko ) and Johannisburg (Pisz).

The train station in Pisz (Johannisburg)

history

The city of Lötzen was connected to the East Prussian railway network in 1868. At that time, the Königsberg (Prussia) –Prostken (–Brest) railway was opened, which today , as PKP route 38, is only used on Polish territory between Głomno (Glommen) and Białystok.

In 1905, operations began on the Angerburg – Lötzen railway , which was operated as PKP route 54 until 2002 in the section between Kruglanken ( Kruklanki in Polish ) and Lötzen (Giżycko). In addition, the Lötzen – Arys ( Orzysz in Polish ) line went into operation on June 1, 1906 .

In the town of Arys , the railway line opened by Johannisburg ( Polish: Pisz ) on November 15, 1905, joined, so that the gap between Lötzen and Johannisburg was closed. In Arys there was a connection to the Sensburg – Arys railway line from 1911 , which was extended in 1915 to Lyck ( Ełk in Polish ). This railway line was operated as PKP line 223 until 2009.

In Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) there was a connection to the Allenstein – Lyck railway , today's PKP line 219 Olsztyn – Ełk. It was built between 1883 and 1885. Since 1908, trains on the Johannisburg – Fischborn line have been available in Johannisburg . In 1915 it was extended to the city of Kolno . Traffic on this route came to a standstill as a result of the war in 1945.

The Lötzen – Johannisburg railway was built with a gauge of 1435 mm over a length of 54.1 kilometers and was under the control of the Königsberg Railway Directorate until it was finally given up as a consequence of the war in 1945 .

On October 1, 2018, the Orzysz – Ełk line was restored for use by freight trains.

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe (Ed.), Railways in West and East Prussia , Egglham 1986 - ISBN 3-922138-24-1
  • Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. B10f
  • Complete edition of the Reichsbahn course books , edition of January 21, 1940 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Oberbetriebsleitung Ost, Berlin (reprint of the 1st edition 1988)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Giżycko-Lötzen
  2. ↑ Białystok – Głomno (No. 38)
  3. ↑ Giżycko – Kruklanki (No. 54)
  4. ^ Giżycko – Orzysz
  5. ↑ Story of Orzysz-Arys
  6. ↑ Pisz – Orzysz
  7. ↑ Czerwonka – Ełk
  8. ^ History of the city of Johannisburg
  9. ↑ Olsztyn Główny – Ełk
  10. ↑ Pisz – Kolno
  11. ↑ Linia Czerwonka - Ełk (223). In: bazakolejowa.pl. Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa, accessed December 20, 2018 (Polish).