Nauen – Oranienburg railway line

Nauen – Oranienburg
Map of the northern bypass from the time it was built, 1912
Route number (DB) :	6505
Course book section (DB) :	107p (DR)
Route length:	38.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Wustermark from Berlin von Velten (Mark) 0.0 Nauen to Neustadt (Dosse) 6.3 Kienberg 9.6 Börnicke 14.2 Flatow from Neuruppin 20.6 Cramps to Hennigsdorf 26.8 Bk Sommerswalde 31.0 Germendorf von Velten (Mark) 32.3 Eden Oranienburg Canal 34.6 Init cold rolling mill 35.2 Oranienburg South from Berlin 38.1 Oranienburg to Neustrelitz

The Nauen – Oranienburg line was a single-track branch line in the state of Brandenburg, northwest of Berlin. The line, opened in 1915, was a section of the so-called " bypass line ", which was built primarily for freight and military traffic and was intended to relieve the Berlin railway lines. In 1967 the passenger traffic was stopped, in the 1990s the remaining goods traffic. The route is closed and partially dismantled. In sections it is used for excursions with draisines .

Route

The route began in Nauen station, which it left in its western part to the north. As a result, it ran northeast through the flat Havelländische Luch and the Ländchen Glien via Börnicke and Flatow to Kremmen . The line reached the station there from the northwest, ran a short distance parallel to the Kremmener Bahn to Hennigsdorf , which it crossed under south of the station. The route continues eastwards via Germendorf . At Eden , the line from Velten emptied from the right . The Berlin Northern Railway was originally crossed south of Oranienburg station ; the overpass was abandoned after the route was rebuilt. The line reached Oranienburg station from the south.

history

Former Germendorf train station

There were already plans for bypass routes around Berlin, especially for freight traffic, at the end of the 19th century. Between 1902 and 1908 the western part of the bypass between Treuenbrietzen , Wildpark near Potsdam and Nauen went into operation. At the beginning of the 1910s the construction of the northern bypass line from Nauen via Kremmen to Oranienburg began.

The route was opened in April 1915. In July 1915, through freight traffic started, especially between Pomerania and the regions beyond Stendal , Magdeburg and Jüterbog. At the time, local freight traffic was expected to come from the Kienberg station, which opened a year after the line went into operation, in connection with drainage measures in the Havelländisches Luch. As part of the construction of the line, the Nauen and Oranienburg stations had been significantly rebuilt; the tracks and platforms were relocated in an elevated position, suburban traffic was separated from long-distance traffic and the freight transport facilities were combined. The station building of the Oranienburg train station was expanded and got a new external facade.

The station building in Oranienburg was built together with the line from Nauen and is a listed building

In the early 1950s, the Berlin outer ring was built as an efficient bypass for West Berlin . The single-track route of the bypass line from Nauen to Oranienburg lost its importance over time.

Passenger traffic was always of little importance. Before the Second World War , three pairs of trains ran between Nauen and Oranienburg, their number increased to five by 1960, when another pair of trains ran between Nauen and Kremmen. Some of the trains went directly from Oranienburg via Nauen to Wildpark or even to Jüterbog .

Passenger traffic was stopped at the end of May 1967. The line remained in operation as a reserve line, for military reasons and for local freight traffic. In April 1993, freight traffic between Kremmen and Germendorf was stopped, and in the same year between Nauen and Kremmen. On February 1, 1996, freight traffic between Germendorf and Oranienburg also ended. On February 28, 2000 the line between Nauen and Kremmen and on April 6, 2001 between Germendorf and Oranienburg were closed. The section between Kremmen and Germendorf is used for tourism by a trolley train.

Flatow station with reception building, farm building, goods shed, platform and forecourt as well as the reception building of Oranienburg station are under monument protection .

Web links

Commons : Nauen – Oranienburg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bypass. Branch line Oranienburg - Nauen - Jüterbog on bahnstrecken.de
• Bypass railway on Berliner-Bahnen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ E. Giese, redesign of the railway systems at Spandau and construction of a marshalling yard near Wustermark (PDF; 14.1 MB), in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 1912, p. 653
2. ↑ ^{a b} The freight bypass around Berlin , in: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 1916, No. 15, p. 107/108
3. ↑ Umgehungsbahn on Berliner-Bahnen.de, accessed on March 31, 2013
4. ↑ Closures in Brandenburg. Federal Railway Office , accessed on May 14, 2017 . 
5. ^ Homepage of the Draisinenbahn , accessed on March 31, 2013
6. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Oberhavel district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2011