Löwenberg – Prenzlau railway line

Löwenberg – Prenzlau
Templin city station
Route number (DB) :	6752 6753 Connection Blindow-Prenzlau West
Course book section (DB) :	209.12
Route length:	up to 1945: 72.5 km from 1953: 75.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Minimum radius :	250 m
Top speed:	120 km / h (Prenzlau – Abzw. Prenzlau Nord) 40 km / h (Abzw. Prenzlau Nord – end of the route) otherwise 80 km / h
Legend by Pasewalk Prenzlau-Blindow junction 2.5 116.8 Prenzlau Nord junction by Dedelow 115.2 Prenzlau West from Damme (Uckerm) 0.0 Prenzlau to Angermünde Ucker End of line (line dismantled) B 198 111.9 Prenzlau suburb electricity 108.0 Thiesorter Mill 106.5 Groß Sperrenwalde 102.9 Beenz 100.9 First birch grove (up to 1944 Hp) 95.7 Hate life 92.0 Mittenwalde (b Templin) 86.3 Cross jug from Fürstenwerder 82.3 Templin-Fährkrug formerly Fährkrug Fährsee / Bruchsee B 109 End of line (line dismantled) from Britz 78.7 Templin Stadt (formerly Templin Vorstadt) 77.3 Templin to Fürstenberg 71.4 Mutton Spring B 109 66.3 Vogelsang (Kr Gransee) to Groß Dölln 61.6 Zehdenick-Neuhof (formerly Bf) 60.3 Voss Canal 57.7 Zehdenick (Mark) 56.2 Petty dirt 51.5 Mountain village Berlin Northern Railway from Neustrelitz from Herzberg (Mark) B 167 44.3 Löwenberg (Mark) Northern Railway to Berlin

The Löwenberg – Templin – Prenzlau line is a single-track branch line in the north of Brandenburg . While the Löwenberg - Templin Stadt section is operated by rail passenger transport, this has been discontinued in the further route to Prenzlau since 2000.

history

Opening train on October 30, 1953 after the reconstruction of the Templin – Prenzlau section

Groß Sperrenwalde station building in the disused section of the line

The Löwenberg – Templin line was opened on May 1, 1888 and is still in operation today for passenger traffic. Ten years later - on March 24, 1899 - the line was extended to Prenzlau. In 1945 this section was dismantled as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union . It was rebuilt eight years later. The route within Prenzlaus was changed so that the line has since then led in an arc to the northwest around the city. The section was reopened on October 30, 1953. In 1955, a connecting line from the newly built depot Prenzlau West to Blindow on the Angermünde – Stralsund line went into operation. This created a direct north-south connection, bypassing the Prenzlau train station . It was mainly used for freight and military traffic, but was also used by some express trains in the summer season.

On May 28, 2000, the Templin Stadt – Prenzlau section was discontinued in passenger rail transport. Until 2003 a pair of freight trains ran the northern end of the line between Prenzlau and Prenzlau Vorstadt. In December 2008, Deutsche Bahn sold this section to the Berlin / Brandenburg trolleybuses, which on March 24, 2010 had opened a trolleybus service on the nine-kilometer-long Beenz – Prenzlau Vorstadt section. However, this operation was soon stopped again and the route was sold to the Havelländische Eisenbahn (HVLE), which put it out to tender again in 2011 for sale to other railway infrastructure companies . After no interested party was found, an application was made at the beginning of 2012 to de- dedicate the route from railway operations.

The Halts Bergsdorf, Hammelspring and Vogelsang (Kr Gransee) are threatened with closure according to a newspaper report from 2014. These are three of the five stops between Templin and Löwenberg (Mark) .

The Löwenberg - Templin section was integrated into the Neuruppin electronic interlocking by June 2020 ; the local interlocking in Templin was shut down.

Vehicle use

From around 1970, the trains ran with a V 100 locomotive and two to three Reko cars . Freight and express trains were hauled by locomotives of the DR series V 180 or V 200 . From 1995 onwards, there were no more express trains via Templin, and freight traffic also declined. This led to the fact that only " piglet tax " VT2.09 could be found in Templin . Initially running in dark red, these vehicles were adapted to the mint green DB color scheme from 1994 onwards . Later, railcars of the DB class 628 came to Templin. These railcars first ran in the mint green paint, but were later repainted in traffic red. The 628 were replaced around 2006 by articulated railcars from Stadler, these are referred to as DB class 646 (GTW 2/6) and are in the traffic red DB color scheme.

In 2008, the Prignitzer Eisenbahn (PEG) received half of the transport services on the RB 12 as a replacement service for cancellations on other lines. The PEG operated regional shuttles until December 2010, mostly in double traction. Since the PEG in North Rhine-Westphalia lost transport services in a new tender, vehicles became available. Thus, until December 2012, trains of the 646 series of the DB and Talent diesel multiple units of the PEG came to Templin every hour .

With the timetable change at the end of 2012, the state of Brandenburg completely outsourced the services on the RB 12 line to DB Regio until the end of 2014 . The operation was carried out on behalf of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg with class 646 railcars. Since December 13, 2015, the NEB Betriebsgesellschaft has taken over the operation of the RB 12 within the framework of the "Ostbrandenburg" network. Since then, the trains have been going beyond Berlin-Lichtenberg station to Berlin Ostkreuz . Diesel railcars of the Talent type are used .

Others

In the course of the construction work, important clay deposits were discovered in the village of Mildenberg near Zehdenick , which resulted in the establishment of several large brickworks with a total of 57 ring kilns . The Mildenberg Brickworks Park is located on their premises today .

literature

• Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3-89494-136-7 .
• Rudi Buchweitz: The Templin Cross. A railway junction between the Berlin-Szczecin Railway and the Northern Railway . VBN, 2001, ISBN 3-933254-16-7 .

Web links

Commons : Löwenberg – Prenzlau railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Railway line Löwenberg – Templin – Prenzlau at bahnstrecken.de
• Löwenberg (Mark) –Templin – Prenzlau near Ralfs Railway
• Berliner-Bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945-1993, Railway in the GDR . GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 41
2. ↑ ^{a b} Surrender of railway infrastructure. Call for applications from March 10, 2011 to June 10, 2011. Havelländische Eisenbahn AG, March 10, 2011, accessed on April 14, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Ines Harmuth: With the draisine through the Uckermark . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 22, 2010
4. ↑ Bahn-Report , 2/2012, p. 40
5. ^ Report of the Märkische Allgemeine from July 2, 2014 , accessed on November 29, 2015
6. ^ Brandenburg / Berlin . In: Bahn-Report . No. 4 , 2020, p. 39 .
7. ↑ Bahn-Report , 1/2013, p. 3