Malliss – Conow railway line
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| Route number (DB) : | 6955 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: |
Connecting line to the potash shaft approx. 4 km to Conow freight station 2.46 km |
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Malliss – Conow line was a standard-gauge branch line in the southwest of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The non-electrified single-track line was used exclusively for freight traffic . Originally it ran as an approximately four kilometer long connecting line from Malliss station on the Ludwigslust – Dömitz railway line to the potash mine in Conow (today a district of Malliss). Later there was a two-and-a-half kilometer line from the Deutsche Reichsbahn to the Conow freight yard.
history
The area of the Wanzeberg , rich in natural resources , has been a mining area since ancient times. Lignite was mined there until the 1920s and in the years after the Second World War . In 1912, a mine for the extraction of potash salt was opened west of the village of Conow . A railway line was opened to transport the potash salt, connecting the mine with Malliss train station, which opened in 1890. After the potash plant was closed in 1926, it served the industry in this area. In 1937 the German Navy established a naval arsenal in Malliss, west of the town and north of the train station. Among other things, it was used to store sea mines . A siding to the Conower line was built in 1939 to transport them. In order to avoid crossings of dangerous goods transports with road traffic, the level crossing with today's federal road 191 was replaced by a road overpass. The track ended at a loading ramp at the entrance to the arsenal, from where the area was opened up with narrow-gauge tracks.
After the Second World War, the railway was used again for the reactivated mining and later for the connection of the Malliss chipboard plant, which opened in 1963. The line was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. On May 29, 1994 the line was closed and later dismantled.
Todays situation
Today a large part of the track has been dismantled, including the track systems of the connecting Ludwigslust – Dömitz line. Despite the dismantled tracks, the route of the railway can be clearly seen on aerial photographs. In the southern section up to the B 191 the route is still free, remnants of the ballast are present. The grounds of the Conow freight station are in private use. In the forest area to the north, the route is completely overgrown and barely recognizable. Only a few of the foundations of the marine depot's facilities can still be found in the dense forest area. On the last section before the former Conow shaft, the route's dam has been preserved and a path runs along it. The structure of the reception building in Malliss train station is still well preserved, but the doors and windows on the ground floor are boarded up. A baby food factory is located on the site of the former Conow mine. The preserved remains of the potash mine as well as the station building and goods shed in Malliss are under monument protection. The other industrial plants on the railway (Malliss chipboard plant) and the mines are out of order. At the Bundesstrasse 191 and on Bahnhofstrasse in Malliss there are still lorries that are reminiscent of mining.
Route
From the Malliss train station, the route leads roughly north and later north-west. It runs almost parallel to today's Bahnhofstrasse , which connects the former train station with Malliss, about one and a half kilometers to the north. Malliss is passed on the western edge of the village, the route runs in this area in a cut. Here the connection to the chipboard plant branches off to the west. The Conow freight station, which was served until the beginning of the 1990s, was located north of the crossing under Bundesstraße 191. Further north and northwest there were connections to the naval depot and a coal shaft. The siding to the potash shaft continued in a northerly direction, in the last section in a westerly direction, to the Conow shaft located about one kilometer west of the town of Conow , which was also made accessible by a field railway.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Pinzke, On the history of the mining and saltworks in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and its initiators (PDF; 2.3 MB). Retrieved on October 8, 2009 / from: Scientific journal of the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock. Social Series Issue 2 (1986)
- ^ Rolf Roßmann, From the naval arsenal in Malliss . Retrieved October 8, 2009
- ↑ Construction of the chipboard plant in 1963 on malliss.de, accessed on January 17, 2016.
- ^ Atlas DR, Drucksachenverlag der Deutsche Reichsbahn (ed.), 1979
- ↑ List of monuments of the Altlandkreis Ludwigslust , as of May 2015 ( PDF file ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove it Note. ).
