Osterrönfeld – Rader Insel railway line

Osterrönfeld – Rader Island
Osterrönfeld junction in 1904
Location of the line in 1921
Route length:	about 5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Operating points and routes
Legend Roofing felt factory (from 1907) Coke plant Klocke stone factory Ferry across the Kiel Canal from 1914 Connection to the Kröger shipyard Connection of the Rütgerswerke (until 1961) "Audorf marshalling yard" Connection of steel and rolling mill at Eisenhütte Holstein (1904–1926) Loading track shaft Route until 1914 Husum – Kiel railway line from Kiel Neumünster – Flensburg railway from Neumünster Osterrönfeld Osterrönfeld (old train station) Üst Osterrönfeld Bridge Rendsburg loop Swing bridge until 1913 / Rendsburger high bridge Transfer point Neumünster – Flensburg railway to Rendsburg

The Osterrönfeld – Rader Insel railway ( Audorfer Industriebahn ) was a standard-gauge railway in Schleswig-Holstein . It connected the Osterrönfeld train station with numerous industrial companies in Schacht and Audorf as well as in Rade . In the course of this railway line was the only railway ferry across the Kiel Canal .

history

The development of the Audorfer industrial railway is linked to the construction and expansion of the Kiel Canal. The canal made the area on Lake Audorf interesting for industrial establishments. Some entrepreneurs founded the Audorfer Land- und Industrie-Gesellschaft mbH in May 1900 . This company should open up the purchased land for industrial use and sell it at a profit to interested investors.

Therefore, between 1901 and 1904, a railway line was built that led from the old Osterrönfeld train station to the area of ​​today's Rader Island.

The route began at the southern end of the old train station, which was then still in the middle of Osterrönfeld . In Schacht there was a loading track on which freight cars with coal and fertilizers for local traders were parked. This was followed by the so-called Audorf marshalling yard . Sidings to the Eisenhütte Holstein steel and rolling mill, which was built in 1900 and demolished in 1926, branched off here . The main route ran to the southeast bank of the Borgstedter Enge in the area of ​​today's Rader Island . A coke plant had settled there in 1900, further south was the Klocke stone factory.

Canal expansion

The expansion of the canal between 1908 and 1914 meant that, with the construction of the Rendsburg high bridge, the Osterrönfeld station was relocated from the town to the embankment. The industrial railway led from there over a new route to the old route from the level crossing on the country road between Osterrönfeld and Schülldorf.

At the other end of the route, the so-called Rader piercing was created to straighten the canal , through which the Rader Island was created. As a result, the railway line was separated and the coke plant and a roofing felt factory founded in 1907 were separated from their rail connection.

As a replacement, a railway ferry was set up, the pier of which was on the south-western tip of Rader Island on the site of the Klocke stone factory, which has since been demolished. On the island, a new route was laid along the north-west bank from the coke works to the pier at the tip of the island.

Ferry service

The Rade railway ferry was in service from April 5, 1914 to 1937 . The free-moving ferry with a weight of 65 tons was built in 1913 by the shipyard operating company JW Klawitter & Co in Danzig for the Rendsburg Canal Office . She was 36 meters long, nine meters wide and had a draft of 1.85 meters. It could accommodate four wagons and reached a speed of 4.5 knots with its 140 hp two-cylinder steam engine.

In 1913, a Rütgerswerke factory was built on the site where the Kröger shipyard's shipbuilding halls are today . Five sidings led to the rear of the Rütgerswerke, in which wooden railway sleepers were impregnated. A track ran in the lower part of the terrain to the canal bank to the dockyard's equipment quay.

Change of ownership and closure

After the bankruptcy of Audorfer Land- und Industrie-Gesellschaft mbH , the Rütgerswerke took over the operation of the industrial line until the impregnation plant was closed in 1961. The last operator of the industrial line was the Singelmann wood factory, which, according to the Audorfer Chronicle, delivered the freight wagons with a shunting locomotive until 1972. According to a contemporary witness report from 1914, five trains per day drove from Osterrönfeld to Audorf and back. Around 20 to 30 wagons were transported.

The line is said to have been demolished around 1975 because the overhaul of the superstructure would have been too expensive. Individual track sections existed until around 1978.

A cycling and hiking trail has now been laid out on part of the former route.

literature

• Community Schacht-Audorf (Ed.): Festschrift 650 years Schacht-Audorf . Heinrich Möller Sons, Rendsburg 1980.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Community Schacht-Audorf (ed.): Chronicle Schacht-Audorf . 1st edition. RD Druck & Verlagshaus, Osterrönfeld September 2006.
2. ^ Rendsburg high bridge and Osterrönfeld. In: Drehscheibe Online. Retrieved March 10, 2014 . 
3. ^ W. Langes: Car ferries in Germany from 1900. Nord-Ostsee-Kanal / Kiel-Kanal. Retrieved March 10, 2014 . 
4. ^ Achim Bartoschek: Railroad cycling in Schleswig-Holstein. SH 2.N1 Schacht-Audorf - Osterrönfeld (near Rendsburg). Retrieved March 10, 2014 . 

Web links

• Local history. (Homepage of the community Schacht-Audorf). Retrieved March 10, 2014 . 
• City map Rendsburg 1929. Retrieved on December 31, 2015 .