Pönitz – Ahrensbök railway line
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 State in 2011
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| Route number (DB) : | 1111 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 114k (1954) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 8 kilometers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As a branch line, the Pönitz – Ahrensbök railway connected the town of Ahrensbök in Schleswig-Holstein with the town of Pönitz on the main Kiel – Lübeck line , now part of the community of Scharbeutz in the Schleswig-Holstein district of Ostholstein .
history
The route was eight kilometers long and was recorded as course book route 114k.
The railway line was opened by the Eutin-Lübeck railway company on May 10, 1886. Until 1934 the branch station was called Gleschendorf . Passenger traffic ceased on May 23, 1954. After the cessation of freight traffic on May 29, 1988, the line was closed. Only a remainder of around one kilometer to a country store in Untersteenrade was served a little longer. Up to this point, most of the track is still there today, although there is no longer any connection to the rest of the route network at Pönitz station. The track systems on the section leading up to Ahrensbök were dismantled in 1991.
literature
- Olaf Hamelau: The railway in Ostholstein . Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-589-7
- Hans-Harald Kloth: The private railway Eutin-Lübeck (1870-1941). Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-923999-08-9