Oranienburg – Velten railway line

Oranienburg - Velten (Mark)
Former Junction of the Oranienburg – Velten railway line (left) from the Oranienburg – Kremmen railway line at km 32.4 / 9.9 ( Lage )
Course book section (DB) :	192 (1968)
Route length:	15.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	from 1951: 40 km / h from 1957: 30 km / h from 1964: 50 km / h
Legend from Neustrelitz 38.1 Oranienburg to Berlin 34.6 Init cold rolling mill Oranienburg Canal 32.3 9.8 Eden to Kremmen 7.1 Germendorf south 4.7 Lee break from Kremmen 0.0 Velten (Mark) to Berlin to Nauen

The Oranienburg - Velten railway line is a disused and dismantled branch line in the Oberhavel district in Brandenburg . The single-track connection was opened in 1951. The commissioning of the nearby Berlin outer ring reduced the importance of the railway to a minimum, so that it was shut down as early as 1969 - just 18 years after commissioning.

course

The line threaded out of the Kremmener Bahn northwest of the Velten (Mark) station . About 1.3 kilometers after the junction, the Berliner Ring crosses the former route. Since the motorway was not built until the 1970s, there is no overpass. Another 2.3 kilometers further on, the train reached the Leegebruch stop west of the village. The route now leads to the north-northwest and then touches the south of the Oranienburg district of Germendorf in an easterly direction . The Germendorf Süd stop was located here. At Eden , the line threaded into the Nauen – Oranienburg line of the bypass line , on which the trains continued to the Oranienburg terminus on the northern line.

history

Bridge of the "Heinkelchaussee" (demolished October 2012) in Germendorf. The former track bed can be seen on the left ( location 2011)

Dismantled bridge on Leegebrucher Chaussee between Leegebruch and Bärenklau . ( Situation 2011)

The route began in the late 1930s, when the Reich Aviation Ministry decided to build a Heinkel factory near Leegebruch . A rail connection to the site of the plant was built for these from Eden. On the company premises and in Eden, 300-meter-long platforms were built on which factory passenger trains presumably ran to Oranienburg.

After the Second World War , the division of Berlin resulted in the fact that the locomotive factory and the steel and rolling mill in Hennigsdorf could no longer fall back on the workforce residing in West Berlin . Similar problems existed in Velten. On the other hand, there was a surplus of labor in Leegebruch as a result of the closure of the Heinkel works. In consultation with the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the draft for a route from Velten to Oranienburg was determined. The train was to pull out of the Kremmener Bahn north of the Bärenklau stop. A route south of Leegebruch through the Veltener Luch was also planned, followed by the use of the old railway line. In Leegebruch and Germendorf Süd the construction of new stops was planned, in Eden the old works platform should be used. The groundbreaking ceremony on August 28, 1949 took place in the presence of the district administrator of the Osthavelland district. In the spring of 1950 it turned out that the section south of Leegebruch did not have the desired load-bearing capacity for freight trains, so a new route was determined in consultation with the population. The municipality of Velten provided a strip of land east of the Kremmener Bahn so that the railway could thread directly into the station. In the further course the route should then lead west of the Veltener Luchs. Since the Bärenklau stop would not have been served by the trains, a second stop was planned for the place, in Velten a new side platform was built north of the reception building. On February 24, 1951, the inaugural train traveled the route in the presence of the President of the Reichsbahndirektion Berlin , and the following day the scheduled traffic began. The opening of the Germendorf and Leegebruch stops was announced several weeks late, but the Bärenklau stop was not implemented.

Reception building of the Veltener Bahnhof with the remains of the Leegebruch platform in the background (2015)

Just two and a half years later, on October 1, 1953, the Berlin outer ring north of Berlin was opened. With the connecting curves to the Kremmener Bahn and the Nordbahn, opened in 1955, there was a second rail connection between Hennigsdorf and Oranienburg. Due to the two-track expansion, however, this was more efficient. In addition, higher speeds could be driven on the new route than on the route via Leegebruch, which was opened using the Hau-Ruck method, which prevented loss of travel time due to the longer route. Nevertheless, the Reichsbahn initially retained the Leegebruch route and initially offered more trains between Oranienburg and Hennigsdorf via Leegebruch than via the outer ring.

From 1957 the maximum speed of the branch line was reduced from 40 to 30 km / h. In 1960 eight pairs of passenger trains ran between Oranienburg and Velten on weekdays, three of them drove through to Hennigsdorf during shift change times. At the weekend the offer was a little less. Later, traffic was increasingly routed via Birkenwerder or supplemented and replaced by buses. From 1964 the top speed was 50 km / h. In the last operating year 1968/69 there were five trains between Velten and Oranienburg on weekdays, six in the opposite direction. Until 1968 the route was not approved for freight trains.

The connection was shut down on June 1, 1969 and soon afterwards dismantled to make way for the new construction of the Berlin motorway ring . The Leegebrucher platform in Velten was used until the 1970s. The traffic along the former route is now carried out by bus line 824 of the Oberhavel Verkehrsgesellschaft , which roughly follows the course of the route.

In October 2012, the railway and road bridge over Veltener Strasse in Germendorf was dismantled.

literature

• Michael Braun: For the early shift to Hennigsdorf. Prehistory, construction and operation of the former Velten – Oranienburg branch line . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issue 2, 1989.

Web links

• Railway lines in the state of Brandenburg - Oranienburg – Velten branch line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Braun: For the morning shift to Hennigsdorf. Prehistory, construction and operation of the former Velten – Oranienburg branch line . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 2, 1989, pp. 30-36 .
2. ↑ Peter Bley: The Kremmener Bahn. Berlin-Schönholz - Hennigsdorf - Velten - Kremmen . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-52-3 , p. 93-102 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Peter Bley: The Kremmener Bahn. Berlin-Schönholz - Hennigsdorf - Velten - Kremmen . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-933254-52-3 , p. 122-140 .
4. ^ Oranienburger Generalanzeiger of October 12, 2012

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