Railway line Lübeck-Travemünde Hafen – Niendorf (Baltic Sea)
| Lübeck-Travemünde Hafen – Niendorf (Baltic Sea) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 1114 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 114a (1963) , 103 (1938) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lübeck-Travemünde Hafen – Niendorf (Baltic Sea) line was a standard-gauge branch line in Schleswig-Holstein .
history
The railway line to Niendorf was opened on July 8, 1913 by the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn (LBE) as a branch from the Lübeck – Lübeck-Travemünde Strand railway. As early as 1887 there was a first railway committee to connect Niendorf to the railway line to Lübeck-Travemünde so that the place would be more accessible for tourists. These first plans failed because of the financing; later initiatives could not agree whether the connection should lead via Oldenburg (Prussian) or via Lübeck area. On June 6, 1912, the general assembly of the LBE authorized the management to build the line. After the opening of this line, the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn had reached the largest expansion of its route network with 160.87 km. With the nationalization of the LBE, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn on January 1, 1938 .
On September 29, 1974, passenger traffic was discontinued, the railway line was subsequently shut down and dismantled.
Investments
The line branched off from the Lübeck – Travemünde line shortly before the Lübeck-Travemünde Strand train station . The only stop on the way was Brodten with a crossing track and a bus shelter. In Niendorf there was a transfer track and several loading tracks, as well as a two-story station building with two waiting rooms and a goods floor. At the loading ramp there was an ice house, where ice bars delivered by train were stored for collection. The Travemünde Nord stop was only created after 1945.
business
The route had heavy traffic, especially in the summer months. There were partly through trains from Hamburg. The branch to Niendorf was used from the 1950s until it was discontinued with Uerdinger rail buses of the VT 95 series, sometimes with two coupled railcars. They came from Lübeck in the morning after the overnight stay and drove back in the evening. There was also a stopover in Lübeck-Travemünde Strandbahnhof, which was reached by a branch trip. There were similar spur journeys for through trains even before the Second World War.
Todays situation
Today there is a footpath and bike path on part of the former railway line .
literature
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 12: Schleswig-Holstein 1 (eastern part). EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-671-1 , pp. 102-138, especially pp. 112f.
Web links
- The route to Niendorf - private website for the Lübeck-Büchener railway. Archived from the original on November 21, 2013 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- Bike path on the former railway line - bahntrassenradeln.de