Königsberg – Angerburg railway line
The railway line Königsberg (Pr.) - Angerburg was a railway line in the province of East Prussia .
history
The railway line from Königsberg to Angerburg established a connection between the cities of Angerburg ( Polish : Węgorzewo ), Gerdauen ( Russian: Schelesnodoroschny ) and Friedland ( Russian: Prawdinsk ) to the Prussian Eastern Railway and the metropolis of Königsberg. It ran from Königsberg 18.7 kilometers to Löwenhagen (Komsomolsk) on the route of the Prussian Eastern Railway, then in a south-easterly direction to the district town of Angerburg. For the last four kilometers, the route was used by the Goldap – Angerburg railway line.
The railway ran through five districts in the province of East Prussia : the districts of Königsberg and Bartenstein (until 1927: district of Friedland) and the districts of Preussisch Eylau , Gerdauen and Angerburg .
The railway was built in the last years of the 19th century, its last sections were opened to traffic on July 1, 1898 (Gerdauen – Nordenburg) and September 1, 1898 (Nordenburg – Angerburg). The total length was 116.3 kilometers and was designed in the standard gauge (track width 1435 mm). Until 1945 it was under the Reich Railway Directorate in Königsberg . Up to this point in time, four trains ran daily between Königsberg and Angerburg and an additional train in the morning between Gerdauen and Angerburg. In addition, a train only stopped here in Löwenhagen, Friedland and Gerdauen as far as Angerburg. In the opposite direction, five trains ran the entire route every day, supplemented by an additional midday train between Friedland and Königsberg.
During the war in 1944/1945, the railway systems suffered severe damage. After 1945, rail traffic on the Russian and Polish sides was no longer taken up. Most of the facilities were dismantled.
literature
- Siegfried Bufe (Ed.): Railways in West and East Prussia , Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1
- German course book. Complete edition of the Reichsbahn course books , edition of January 21, 1940 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Oberbetriebsleitung Ost Berlin, reprint 1st edition 1988