Kiel – Flensburg railway line

Kiel – Flensburg
Route number :	1020
Course book section (DB) :	146
Course book range :	DR 113h (1944)
Route length:	80.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend Flensburg harbor railway Flensburg old letter 80.7 Flensburg (since 1927) to Padborg to Neumünster Flensburg Kieler Bahnhof until 1927 74.1 Maasbull 70.6 Husby 65.6 Winderatt 62.5 Soerup according to Gelting Flensburg circular railway 57.1 Mohrkirch (until 1939 Mohrkirchosterholz) from Kappeln (Schlei) 51.3 Süderbrarup Schleswig circular railway to Schleswig 48.0 Drive often 44.8 Lindaunis Bk Schleibrücke Lindaunis Bridge ( Schlei ) 39.7 Rieseby (formerly Bhf) Eckernförde circular paths to Owschlag Eckernförde circular tracks to Kappeln (Schlei) Eckernförde district station Port railway Eckernförde (three-rail track) 31.1 Eckernförde 29.6 Eckernförde South (planned) Military connection to TVA Eckernförde Süd 27.9 Altenhof (Schleswig) 19.1 Gettorf after Stohl 17.9 Gettorf Süd (planned) from Kiel Schusterkrug 13.7 Neuwittenbek (former personal stop, resumption planned) (1881-1894) 10.2 Levensau Former swing bridge Schleswig-Holstein Canal Levensauer Hochbrücke ( Kiel Canal ) 8.5 planned: StadtRegionalBahn Kiel by Kiel-Wik 7.8 Suchsdorf Connection to Vossloh 5.6 Kronshagen (formerly Bhf) from Kiel West from Husum Company affiliation with FUCHS Lubricants 3.394 Kiel-Hassee CITTI-Park 2.9 Kiel-Hassee 1.53 Freight bypass in Kiel direction Neumünster , branch Hg from Lübeck , from Hamburg-Altona 0.0 Kiel Hbf Kiel old train station (1844–1899)

The Kiel – Flensburg railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line in Schleswig-Holstein . The route connects the Baltic ports of Kiel , Eckernförde and Flensburg . The journey time on the 80-kilometer route is around 75 minutes.

Route

Levensau high bridge

The route leads over three peninsulas; from Kiel it runs over the Kiel Canal through the Danish Wohld near the Eckernförde Bay to Eckernförde. It crosses Schwansen from Eckernförde to the Schlei . North of the Schlei it goes through the typical kinked landscape of fishing , where the next stop is Süderbrarup . Originally, the Kiel train station, located on the fjord next to the district station, was approached in Flensburg. After the new station went into operation in 1927, the Flensburg station is reached from the east .

Significant structures along the route are the Levensau high bridges over the Kiel Canal and the Lindaunis Bridge over the Schlei, where the road and track are on the same track.

The route begins in the Kiel Central Station , a terminal station , which was completely renovated in 2006 . The Kiel – Rendsburg – Husum line branches off at Kiel-Hassee station , and the Angelner steam railway to Kappeln in Süderbrarup . The most important train station is in Eckernförde.

history

Kiel-Eckernförde-Flensburg Railway Company

Former Eckernförde station (1887)

There were already plans for the construction of a rail link between Kiel, Eckernförde and Flensburg at the time of the entire Danish state in 1844. In 1845 a line from Kiel − Gettorf − Eckernförde − Missunde − Schleswig is mentioned as planned. A railway line connecting Kiel, Eckernförde and Flensburg was not realized until the Kiel-Eckernförde-Flensburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (KEFE) was founded on June 13, 1878 in Kiel. The Prussian state , the neighboring districts and communities as well as private individuals participated in it. As early as August 19, 1878, she received the concession for a standard-gauge railway that was supposed to connect the Baltic cities mentioned in the company name. The owners were primarily interested in a direct and economically efficient connection between Kiel and Flensburg. At that time, several alternative routes were being considered for crossing the Schlei . In addition to the route over Lindaunis – Süderbrarup that was ultimately implemented, the Missunde – Satrup and Bohnert – Satrup routes were also considered. The town of Kappeln at the mouth of the Schlei was not included in the planning. According to one thesis, in 1881 Kappelner Schiffer prevented the Kiel – Flensburg railway from being led via Kappeln. Carsten Tech, on the other hand, describes this thesis as a legend. Kappeln was only connected to the railway network in 1885 via the narrow-gauge Flensburg circular railway , which connected Kappeln with northern fishing and Flensburg. This was followed by the connections of the Schleswig circular railway to Schleswig via Süderbrarup, which is on the Kiel – Flensburg railway line, and the narrow-gauge Eckernförde district railway that connected Kappeln with the neighboring town of Eckernförde.

On July 1, 1881, the southern section from the state train station in Kiel through the Danish Wohld landscape to Eckernförde was opened; On December 21, 1881, the northern section followed in the landscapes of Schwansen and Angling , which ended at the Kiel train station in Flensburg near the then state train station at the port. The route, which leads through predominantly agricultural areas, was 79 kilometers long.

Until 1894, the route between the Kronshagen and Neuwittenbek stations ran almost in a straight line and at the same level over a swing bridge over the Eider Canal . When this was expanded to the Kiel Canal , the railway was led over the first of the Levensau high bridges; In order to reach the 42 meter difference in altitude, the railway line was swiveled to the northeast and thus extended by two kilometers.

Since the KEFE did not have enough space to build a depot with a locomotive line, locomotive shed , water tower, turntable and coaling facilities neither in Kiel nor in Flensburg , these were built in the area of ​​the Eckernförde train station . The locomotives and trains were deployed from Eckernförde. With the takeover of the railway line by the Prussian State Railways, these facilities lost their importance. The operation then took place from Kiel and Flensburg.

Takeover by the Prussian State Railways

The traffic developed satisfactorily, so that the Prussian State Railways became interested in the company and took over the railway on July 1, 1903; it was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1920 .

In 1927 the railway line in Flensburg was threaded into a new station with new operating facilities and the previous "Kieler Bahnhof" was converted into a park. Only the name Alter Bahnhof for the transfer point to the Flensburg port railway reminds of the old English train station .

After the end of the Second World War

the former Altenhof train station: the only stopover after the Second World War

The fact that after the Second World War the British Military Governors of Schleswig-Holstein ( Regional Commissioners ; the first was Hugh de Crespigny ) resided in the Altenhofer manor house , but had their offices in the Somerset House in Kiel , led to a comparatively quick repair of the route and resumption of the route the scheduled rail traffic after the end of the war between Kiel and Eckernförde with a morning and an evening connection and a single stop at Altenhof train station. The trains only had a single passenger car for the population and a saloon car for the British military governor. After the end of the war, the Eckernförde train station was also the destination of refugee transport trains. In addition to the Eckernförde train station, at least the Neuwittenbek, Gettorf, Altenhof and Rieseby stations were unloading stations for refugees and also Süderbrarup.

business

In 1986, the route was used every hour for the first time and local transport was abandoned in the following year with the introduction of the RegionalSchnellBahn . The stations in Kiel- Hassee , Kronshagen , (Kiel-) Suchsdorf , Neuwittenbek , Altenhof , Lindaunis , Mohrkirch , Winderatt , Husby and Maasbüll were closed. This significantly accelerated traffic, because since then the trains have only stopped in important medium-sized and sub-centers such as Eckernförde and Süderbrarup. Instead of the previously used VT 08 ⁵ multiple units and locomotive-hauled trains, from 1987 mostly DB class 628 multiple units were used. Until 1999, one to three pairs of intercity trains (named “Kranich”, “Seeadler”, “Seestern”, “Seemöwe” and “Wittekind”) traveled the route between Kiel and Eckernförde, Süderbrarup or Flensburg on Fridays and Sundays to transport the soldiers stationed there. On a freight bypass track through the Meimersdorf marshalling yard, these IC trains ran occasionally without stopping in Kiel from Eckernförde to Neumünster.

Train in Lindaunis

Gettorf station

The Husby and, somewhat later, Kiel-Suchsdorf stations are again served by passenger traffic. In 2007 a new train station was built in Kiel-Hassee and went into operation on December 9th. It is located about 250 meters north of the train station, which was abandoned in 1987, in the area of ​​a newly built shopping center, the operator of which bore part of the construction costs. Until the beginning of 2015, only the trains on the Kiel – Eckernförde route and a few daytime trains to and from Flensburg stopped in Kiel-Hassee. Since then, the RB 75 trains have also stopped hourly on the Kiel – Rendsburg route.

The route has been operated by the Schleswig-Holstein regional railway since 2009 . While the trains on the Kiel – Flensburg route run every hour, other trains between Kiel and Eckernförde run every half hour.

On April 4, 2009, the Nord-Ostsee-Bahn took over the trains that only ran between Kiel and Eckernförde in exchange for the service from Kiel-Neumünster . The purpose was a more rational vehicle circulation. In December 2011, the DB took over these trips again.

The following stations are served: Flensburg, Husby, Sörup , Süderbrarup, Rieseby , Eckernförde, Gettorf , (Kiel-) Suchsdorf, Kronshagen, Kiel-Hassee CITTI-PARK and Kiel Hauptbahnhof. The train crossings of the through trains on the entire Kiel – Flensburg route take place according to schedule exactly at the usual symmetry minute in Gettorf and in Süderbrarup, in the marginal hours partly in Sörup and Eckernförde. According to the station categorization , the most important stations on the route are Kiel Hauptbahnhof (Category 2), Flensburg Station (Category 3), Eckernförde Station (Category 4) and Gettorf Station (Category 5).

Further developments

ESTW

In 2012, an electronic interlocking based on PLC technology, newly developed as a pilot project by Funkwerk, was to go into operation with its headquarters in Eckernförde. Due to approval problems, the commissioning of the project started in 2006 was postponed several times and finally canceled. In July 2014, after the takeover by Scheidt & Bachmann, the Eckernförde, Süderbrarup and Sörup stations, including the Schleibrücke block station with an operator station in Lindaunis, were put into operation in the ZSB 2000 interlocking technology (ESTW-R) and this was expanded to the Suchsdorf, Neuwittenbek and Gettorf stations in 2018 .

In connection with this, the mechanical interlocking devices were dismantled and the previous level crossing safety devices were replaced by half-barrier systems with light signals. The changeover took place at the beginning of June 2018, although the manually operated full barriers in Gettorf Mitte could not yet be modernized, as the radar technology used to date for reporting hazardous areas is no longer offered by the manufacturer and there is currently no approved alternative.

With the commissioning of the new remote-controlled bridge in Lindaunis, the operator station is to be relocated to Kiel. With the timetable change in December 2014, a stop was opened in Kronshagen at the site of the former train station.

Urban regional railway planning

As part of the StadtRegionalBahn Kiel project , the section between Kiel-Suchsdorf and Eckernförde is included in the planning. Coming from Eckernförde, the tram is to leave the old route shortly before the Suchsdorf train station and run to the main train station via Universität and Holtenauer Straße. The stations along the tram line are to be modernized and converted, in addition to the previous stations between Eckernförde and Kiel-Suchsdorf, the stations Eckernförde-Süd and Gettorf-Süd are to be built and Neuwittenbek to be reopened. After a negative decision by the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district council in December 2014, the plans are now on hold.

New stop (s) and battery electric multiple units

In August 2018, plans became known to build the Eckernförde-Süd stop in the Sandkrug district, which had already been planned for the StadtRegionalBahn Kiel project (see above) . This station is scheduled to open in 2020/21. From around 2023, the route is to be operated with battery- powered electric multiple units of the Stadler Flirt Akku type . This gives rise to hope in Neuwittenbek and the surrounding communities that Neuwittenbek station could be served by passenger trains again after more than 30 years.

Vehicle use

There is an hourly service on the Kiel – Flensburg route . Until 2015, some railcars of the DB class 628 drove in double traction . Between Kiel and Eckernförde there is mostly a half-hourly service that is operated with the DB class 648 .

During the Kiel Week , locomotive-hauled trains that have a higher capacity also run.

literature

• Gert Uwe Detlefsen: Flensburg in old views. Zaltbommel 1984, ISBN 90-288-2718-8 .
• Heinz-Herbert Schöning: The Eckernförde district railways. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1998, ISBN 3-927587-70-2 .

Web links

Commons : Kiel – Flensburg railway line  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Kiel – Flensburg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the route ( memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Among other things, maps and timetables of the existing railway lines in Schleswig-Holstein from 1944 (timetable of this route in picture 113c.jpg)
• Pictures including the Lindaunis Bridge. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; Retrieved December 20, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schleibrücke block station, formerly Lindaunis station. In: List of German signal boxes. stellwerke.de, accessed on April 4, 2016 . 
2. ^ ^{A b} Alev Doğan: Nah.SH is planning seven new train stations. In: kn-online.de. August 2, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 . 
3. ^ Hannelore Pieper-Wöhlk: Railway swing bridge Levensau. The Kiel Canal: the history of a century-old building. P. 14 , accessed on February 12, 2015 . 
4. ^ Frank Behling: Topping-out ceremony for the new locomotive forge. Vossloh in Kiel. In: Kiel News. June 4, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Carsten Tech: Why the Kiel-Flensburg railway did not go via Kappeln - a legend from the East Angel. In: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing . 2008, p. 105 .
6. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden: German Railway Book: a paperback for travelers, stockholders, railway officials, innkeepers, merchants and businessmen of all kinds . Adolf Gumprecht, Berlin 1845, p. XXV (310 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
7. ↑ see map
8. ^ Kiel-Eckernförde-Flensburg Railway Company . In: Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde e. V. and department for regional history of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (ed.): ECKernförde-Lexikon . Husum- Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. ,, Husum 2014, ISBN 978-3-89876-735-4 , p. 27 .
9. ↑ Ilse Rathjen-Couscherung: Eckernförde under British occupation. Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025744-5 , p. 176
10. ^ Flight and Expulsion Stories and Pictures . freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on October 1, 2012. Retrieved on May 29, 2012.
11. ^ Arnold Wicke, The fate of expellees in the Eckernförde district , Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde eV, Eckernförde 1979, page 23
12. ^ Arnold Wicke: The fate of the expellees in the Eckernförde district , Verlag CJ Schwensen (Ed .: Heimatgemeinschaft Eckernförde), Eckernförde 1979, page 37
13. ^ Willy Diercks: Refugee Land Schleswig-Holstein. Experience reports from the new beginning , Heide 1997, page 238
14. ↑ for individual connections also the Uerdingen rail bus
15. ↑ Alister: an electronic regional interlocking based on PLC technology
16. ↑ Press release from Deutsche Bahn from November 8, 2006
17. ↑ Funkwerk AG separates from operations control and signaling technology.
18. ↑ Gernot Kühl: New signal box Lindauni's central switching point between Kiel and Flensburg. In: Eckernförder Zeitung. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, July 9, 2014, accessed on September 2, 2019 . 
19. ↑ SAFETRAIL GROUP
20. ↑ Andrea Lange: Red and white garland instead of a railway barrier. In: Shz.de. Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, June 4, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2019 . 
21. ↑ New construction of the bascule bridge over the Schlei near Lindaunis
22. ^ J. Kiphard: New station for Kronshagen. (No longer available online.) In: nah.sh. May 18, 2011, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; accessed on September 2, 2019 . 
23. ↑ A StadtRegionalBahn for the Kiel region ( Memento of October 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
24. ↑ http://www.stadtregionalbahn-kiel.de/uploads/media/Streckennetz_15.pdf
25. ↑ Kiel: "The Stadtregionalbahn is dead as a mouse". Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , December 16, 2014, accessed on March 13, 2015 . 
26. ↑ Eckernförder Zeitung from September 13, 2018
27. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten online from October 14, 2014: Schleswig-Holstein is getting 55 battery electric trains
28. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten online from July 22, 2019: New electric train awakens hope