Neustadt – Herzberg railway line

Neustadt (Dosse) –Herzberg (Mark)
Neuruppin Rheinsberger Tor station
Route number (DB) :	6946
Course book section (DB) :	209.53, 209.54 (until 2006)
Route length:	43.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	B2
Legend from Hamburg from Pritzwalk 0.1 Neustadt (Dosse) 39 m to Berlin to Rathenow from Rathenow 4.5 Barsikov 7.2 Metzelthin (Kr Kyritz) 10.0 Dessow (Mark) (formerly Bf) 12.1 Emilienhof 15.8 Wildberg (b Neuruppin) (until 2015 Bf) 19.4 Gottberg 22.1 Werder (b Neuruppin) Federal motorway 24 25.5 Bechlin from Paulinenaue from Meyenburg 28.1 Neuruppin West 28.8 Neuruppin (formerly Neuruppin Hbf) 45 m 29.7 Neuruppin Rheinsberger Tor In the Neuruppin fire camp Ruppiner See to Kremmen 32.1 Gildenhall 33.7 Altruppin 37.9 Wulkow (b Neuruppin) military track from Rheinsberg 43.0 Herzberg (Mark) 49 m to Löwenberg

The Neustadt – Herzberg railway is a railway line in Brandenburg. The single-track branch line originally operated by the Ruppiner Kreisbahn runs from Neustadt (Dosse) via Neuruppin to Herzberg (Mark) . In December 2006 the passenger traffic was stopped.

Construction and opening

On July 12, 1897, the Ruppiner Kreisbahn AG received the building permit for the line and on June 25, 1901 the concession was granted. The line was opened on November 1, 1902 for passenger traffic.

History (before 2000)

The company merged on March 15, 1913 with the Kremmen-Neuruppin-Wittstocker Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (KWE), which had been the operator of the line since 1905. The new company was called Ruppiner Eisenbahn AG; their seat was the district town of Neuruppin .

This later also took over the Löwenberg-Lindow-Rheinsberger and the Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner railway .

In 1949 the line, like most of the railway lines in the GDR , became the property of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , where it belonged to the Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin . With the dissolution of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the line came to Deutsche Bahn AG on January 1, 1994 .

History (after 2000)

Neustadt (Dosse) train station

The route was last served between Herzberg and Neuruppin (KBS 209.54) every two hours by the regional train lines RE6 and RB54, on the Neuruppin – Neustadt (Dosse) section (KBS 209.53) also every two hours by the PE53.

On December 9, 2006, passenger traffic was stopped.

Due to construction work on the Berlin – Rostock railway line , the line between Neuruppin Rheinsberger Tor and Herzberg was used again for passenger traffic from June 11, 2012 to October 13, 2013. During this time, the trains from Berlin to Rheinsberg, which only run in the summer half of the year, did not run via Löwenberg (Mark) , but via Neuruppin.

Various local initiatives campaigned for a reactivation of freight traffic on the Neuruppin – Neustadt (Dosse) section. This is the purpose of the HUB 53/12 ° project , which envisages a logistics center for rail freight traffic as a municipal initiative of the cities of Güstrow , Pritzwalk and Neuruppin as well as the Kleeblatt network with Gumtow , Kyritz , Neustadt (Dosse) and Wusterhausen / Dosse . One of the first measures was the sale of the Neustadt – Herzberg railway line by DB Netz to Putlitz-based RegioInfra GmbH (RIG) at the end of 2010, which also took over operational management in April 2011. As a result, in August of the same year, RIG was able to conclude a contract with the neighboring municipalities to cover part of the operating costs. In April 2012, a freight train drove for the first time to the new connection to the Temnitzpark industrial area near Werder . In the meantime, freight traffic has developed very positively: the siding to the Temnitz industrial area is now regularly served by two pairs of trains per week. In the former Altruppin station, an entrepreneur is handling fertilizer transported in block trains on a loading road built directly on the main line .

Operating points

The Herzberg (Mark) station was opened on August 10, 1896 on the Löwenberg-Lindow-Rheinsberger Railway ; the two stations in Neuruppin in 1899 with the opening of the Kremmen – Wittstock line . The other intermediate stations went into operation with the start of passenger traffic on November 1, 1902, except for the Gildenhall stop, which was only opened after 1914.

On May 22, 1993, the service Metzelthins was set. The Wulkow, Bechlin, Gottberg, Emilienhof and Barsikow stations followed on May 27, 1995. The passenger stops in the old Neuruppin train station ceased to exist in 2000 and were relocated to the new Neuruppin West stop. Until the cessation of passenger traffic between Herzberg and Neustadt on December 9, 2006, the Altruppin, Gildenhall, Neuruppin Rheinsberger Tor, Neuruppin West, Werder, Wildberg and Dessow stops were still in operation. RegioInfra GmbH took over the operating points of the line (except for the two Neuruppin stations) and kept them operational.

literature

• Erich Preuß: Archive of German small and private railways. Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . transpress, 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 .
• The Ruppin Railway. Stations, history and stories . Spree press and PR office, 1998, ISBN 3-933039-02-9 .

Web links

Commons : Neustadt – Herzberg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Regio Infra Gesellschaft mbH
• Ruppiner Kreisbahn on bahnstrecken.de
• Löwenberg – Neuruppin ( memento from September 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) and Neuruppin – Neustadt (Dosse) ( memento from January 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on staehlernestrassen.de
• Neustadt (Dosse) –Neuruppin – Herzberg (Mark) at eisenbahn-mv.de (formerly ralfs-eisenbahn.de)
• Data on the Ruppiner Kreisbahn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Kranz: The steam locomotive comes to the pottery market. In: Märkische Allgemeine. September 30, 2013, accessed October 14, 2013 . 
2. ↑ The district is intended to set an example for the Neuruppin - Neustadt route . In: Märkische Allgemeine . December 8, 2009.
3. ↑ Kathrin Gottwald "Hub 53/12" is supposed to bring freight traffic from the hinterland to the ports ( memento of May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung of January 13, 2011
4. ↑ HUB 53/12 ° - The logistics network Güstrow • Prignitz • Ruppin. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved May 28, 2011 . 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.  
5. ^ Bahn-Report , 6/2011, p. 41.
6. ↑ Bahn-Report , 4/2012, p. 42.
7. ^ Railway report . tape 5/2016 , p. 41 .
8. ↑ Axel Mauruszat: Ruppin circular path. In: bahnstrecken.de. August 29, 2015, accessed February 27, 2016 . 
9. ↑ ROUTE NETWORK Service facilities Passenger stations RegioInfra Nord-Ost. RegioInfra Nord-Ost, accessed on January 31, 2017 .