Ludwigslust – Dömitz railway line
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 Dömitz station in September 2007
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| Route number : | 6441 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | 171 (old) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 30.3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ludwigslust – Dömitz railway in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was built by the state-owned Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway as part of a planned connection from Ludwigslust to Uelzen . The Malliss − Dömitz section was opened on December 29, 1889, the rest of the line on May 20, 1890. It opened up the Griese area in West Mecklenburg in a north-east-south-west direction . In Dömitz there was a connection to the Wittenberge – Lüneburg railway line opened on December 15, 1873 by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company , which crossed the Elbe via the Dömitz railway bridge.
business
The connection from the old royal seat of Ludwigslust to the fortress town of Dömitz never achieved more than regional importance. In the 1930s, in addition to five to six pairs of trains, some of which were tied to Parchim , a pair of express trains from Rostock to Uelzen ran over the route. After the destruction of the Elbe bridge and the dismantling of the section of the Lüneburg – Wittenberge connection east of the Elbe, the branch line from Ludwigslust was the only rail connection in the Elbe town of Dömitz. In GDR times, four to five trains a day commuted between Ludwigslust and Dömitz.
In 1993 an approximate two-hour service was introduced. While for decades only locomotive-hauled trains drove on the line, in the last years of operation the line's class 771/772 and most recently 628 railcars were used, some of which went on to Hagenow and Neustrelitz. On January 1, 1997, the freight traffic and on May 27, 2000 the passenger traffic on the connection was stopped, on April 11, 2001 the line was finally closed. The steel truss bridge that led in Ludwigslust over the double-track main line to Wittenberge was demolished in September 2005. The reasons given were European conformity regulations that stipulate a track spacing of four meters. In addition, the structure's abutments were too close to the main line. The railway line to Dömitz was bought in early 2006 by a Thuringian recycling company, which began dismantling in July of the same year. The track dismantling was largely completed at the end of 2007. In 2011, gravel was removed from the route for reuse in road construction.
On August 11, 2011, there was a fire in the former station building of Dömitz , in which it was badly damaged. After another fire, it was finally foreclosed in mid-2017.
literature
- Lothar Schulz: Railways in Mecklenburg . 3. Edition. transpress, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-344-70732-9 , pp. 55 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ News 4/2005 ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on eisenbahnen-in-mv.de
- ↑ News 3/2006 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on eisenbahnen-in-mv.de
- ↑ News 4/2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on eisenbahnen-in-mv.de
- ↑ Schweriner Volkszeitung: Schienenschotter für Straßenbau , February 12, 2011
- ↑ 100,000 euros damage in the event of a fire in an empty train station , in: Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 11, 2011
