Neustadt – Meyenburg railway line

Neustadt (Dosse) –Meyenburg
Blumenthal (Mark) train station with water tower
Route number (DB) :	6938
Course book section (DB) :	209.73 (Neustadt – Pritzwalk) 209.74 (Pritzwalk – Meyenburg)
Route length:	61.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Karow (Meckl) 63.5 State border MV / BB 61.5 Meyenburg to Wittstock (Dosse) 55.1 Bruges (Prign) 51.4 Instead of EOP biodiesel 50.2 Falkenhagen Business Park Prignitz 49.2 Awanst Falkenhagen business park 48.9 Falkenhagen (Prign) 45.3 Pritzwalk -Hainholz from Wittstock (Dosse) 41.9 Pritzwalk to Putlitz , to Wittenberge 36.5 Sarnow 33.6 Bölzke (until 2019 Bf) 27.7 Blumenthal (Mark) 23.4 Rosenwinkel 19.5 Wutike (until 2019 Bf) 12.8 Kyritz Am Bürgerpark 12.0 Kyritz 4.9 Wusterhausen (Dosse) (until 1999 Bf) from Hamburg 0.1 Neustadt (Dosse) to Neuruppin to Berlin to Rathenow

The Neustadt (Dosse) –Meyenburg railway is a 63.5 kilometer long railway line in Brandenburg. It connects Meyenburg , Pritzwalk and Kyritz with Neustadt (Dosse) . The infrastructure of the track runs with the exception of the stations Neustadt (Dosse) and Pritzwalk the Regio Infra Company (RIG), the passenger is from the Hanseatischen railway performs (HANS).

Operation and history

The city of Pritzwalk was quickly connected to the railway network in two different ways. First, on May 31, 1885, the Prignitz railway company started operating its line from Perleberg (with a connection from Wittenberge) to Wittstock. On December 17, 1887, the Prussian State Railroad opened the line from Neustadt (Dosse) via Pritzwalk to Meyenburg. At the same time, an extension was made across the state border to Mecklenburg with the Güstrow – Meyenburg railway line .

Despite the limit, the connection was practically always operated continuously.

With the opening of the route, the stations in Wusterhausen, Kyritz , Pritzwalk and Meyenburg as well as the stops (then common name for smaller stations) Wuticke (spelling at that time), Blumenthal , and Bruges were approved for the handling of people, goods and live animals; At the bus stop in Bölzke, it was possible to handle people, luggage and wagon loads. In addition, when the route opened, the Falkenhagen stop went into operation, which was only approved for passenger traffic and the handling of luggage.

passenger traffic

Pritzwalk Hainholz stop opened in 2006

Farewell trip for the T11 rail bus in Bruges station (Prign)

In 1905 another stop was opened in Rosenwinkel, and Sarnow was also given a stop at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 2006, the Pritzwalk-Hainholz stop went into operation for excursion traffic in the summer season. On February 1, 2007, the stop in Falkenhagen (Prign) was relocated. Instead of the old station, the trains have since stopped a little further north in an industrial park.

Since 1997 the Prignitzer Eisenbahn has provided local rail passenger transport on the Pritzwalk – Kyritz – Neustadt (Dosse) route. Until December 2006, this route was operated every hour. From December 2006 to December 2012, the Brandenburg budget was reduced to a two-hour service between Kyritz and Pritzwalk as part of austerity measures. The Kyritz – Neustadt (Dosse) section continued to run every hour. Between Meyenburg and Pritzwalk there was a two-hour service with more frequent intervals during rush hour .

After a renewed invitation to tender, the Potsdam railway company took over the SPNV for two years on December 9, 2012 . However, due to massive savings by the state of Brandenburg, the scope of operations is significantly lower than before. On the Meyenburg – Pritzwalk (RB74) line, trains run every two hours from Monday to Friday with a 4-hour interval in the morning. One train in the morning and two in the afternoon will be tied through to the Pritzwalk West stop in order to make the arrival of high school students more attractive. Two pairs of trains run daily on the RB73 between Pritzwalk and Kyritz. On the Kyritz – Neustadt (Dosse) section, the hourly cycle was retained, which was thinned to two-hourly on weekends.

Since July 6, 2013, there has been weekend traffic on the Pritzwalk – Meyenburg route, which is financed by the Prignitz district , the city of Pritzwalk and the Meyenburg office. This was later converted back into a regular service ordered by the state of Brandenburg.

At the end of January 2014, the state of Brandenburg announced that passenger traffic would be extended on the entire route until the end of 2015 and probably beyond. A tendering process for the period from December 2014 to December 2016 began on June 20, 2014. Subsequently, as part of the “Prignitz concept”, the VBB decided to partially withdraw its funding. These costs are then to be borne by the districts of Prignitz and Ostprignitz-Ruppin involved.

The former Bölzke and Wutike stations were converted into stops in autumn 2019. On December 15, 2019, the new publicly funded Kyritz Am Bürgerpark stop was put into operation. Since then, all journeys on the regional train line RB 73 have been extended via the previous terminus at Kyritz station to the new stop 800 meters further north.

Freight transport

Siding of the German biofuels GmbH (formerly EOP Biodiesel AG) in Falkenhagen (Prignitz)

Biodiesel is transported in block trains from the Falkenhagen siding of German Bio Fuel GmbH (formerly EOP Biodiesel AG) and, if necessary, the connection to the Falkenhagen industrial park, which was newly built at the beginning of 2008, is also served by bulk goods traffic. Since September 14, 2019, container trains have been running twice a week from Falkenhagen, siding TUL agroservice GmbH with products from Meyenburger Möbel GmbH.

Investments

route

The line is single-track and not electrified.

The infrastructure of the Pritzwalk – Meyenburg section became the property of Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG) in 2004 . On March 1, 2008, PEG also leased the Pritzwalk – Neustadt (Dosse) section from DB Netz AG. The Pritzwalk and Neustadt (Dosse) stations continue to belong to DB Netz AG and are also operated by it. Since July 10, 2012, the Regio Infra Nordost GmbH (RIG) has been operating the infrastructure, which it has taken over retrospectively from January 1, 2012 from Prignitzer Eisenbahn Infrastruktur GmbH.

Station building larger type, (Wusterhausen, platform side)

With state funding, the control and safety technology and level crossings were renewed in 2018 and 2019 and the Bölzke and Wutike stations were converted into stops. In 2019 the Falkenhagen and Meyenburg stations will be rebuilt. ^[outdated]

Station building

Smaller type of station building (Bruges, street side)

The station buildings that were built when the line was opened in 1887 are type buildings made of yellow bricks, with two designs for the larger stations (Wusterhausen, Kyritz, Meyenburg) and for the smaller stops (Wutike, Blumenthal, Bölzke, Bruges). The larger stations each have a core of two-storey, four-axle buildings with a flat gable roof with single-storey additions for goods sheds and a restaurant wing. The smaller stops were equipped with two-storey, gable-end, three-axle buildings with attached single-storey goods sheds. At most stations, the signal boxes were built in single-storey platform-side extensions. A number of stations were given separate toilets.

The station buildings in Neustadt (Dosse) and Pritzwalk were built with the previously built railway lines. The one in Pritzwalk was destroyed in an explosion of a munitions train in 1945 and replaced by a new building in 1950.

A number of buildings along the route are listed buildings. The Ostprignitz-Ruppin district's list of monuments includes the station building, a locomotive shed and a water tower in Neustadt (Dosse), the station building with toilets in Wusterhausen (Dosse) and the station with the water tower and a number of outbuildings in Blumenthal. In the Prignitz district, there are the station buildings (with outbuildings) in Wutike, Bölzke, Falkenhagen, Bruges and Meyenburg from the opening time of the line, as well as the station water towers built in 1939 and 1949 in Pritzwalk and Meyenburg and the new station building in Pritzwalk built in the early 1950s the list of monuments.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations , 1880, p. 780.
2. ↑ eisenbahn-magazin 9/2013, p. 21
3. ↑ The train will continue to run after 2015 . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , February 1, 2014, online
4. ^ "Netz Prignitz": Allocation of regional rail transport between Neustadt (Dosse) and Meyenburg starts. (No longer available online.) VBB , June 20, 2014, archived from the original on August 20, 2014 ; Retrieved August 19, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Bahn-Report , 1/2020, p. 33.
6. ↑ Opening of the new Kyritz Am Bürgerpark stop. Hanseatische Eisenbahn GmbH, December 19, 2019, accessed on December 27, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Biodiesel is selling well. Zeitungsverlag Schwerin GmbH & Co. KG, November 19, 2014, accessed on July 22, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Overview of loading tracks (third party freight terminals). (PDF) Regio Infra Nordost GmbH (RIN), 2018, accessed on July 22, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Route report . In: Bahn-Report . No. 01/2020 , p. 33 .
10. ↑ Prignitzer Eisenbahn will take over two routes on March 1st ( memento from February 6th 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, February 26th 2008
11. ↑ PEG leases two routes ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Eurailpress, February 27, 2008
12. ↑ RegioInfra acquires Prignitzer Eisenbahn Infrastruktur GmbH (press release 05/2012). (PDF; 192 KiB) RegioInfra GmbH, July 10, 2012, accessed on March 23, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Funding program for public transport investments 2018 (PDF; 127 kB) Brandenburg state government, January 3, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2019 . 
14. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg. Ostprignitz-Ruppin district. (As of December 31, 2018), online.
15. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg. District of Prignitz. (As of December 31, 2018), online