Parchim – Suckow railway line

Parchim – Suckow
Parchim train station
Course book range :	120g (1944)
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Schwerin from Karow 0.0 Parchim to Ludwigslust 4.4 Fountain 5.6 Slate 12.5 Tessenow 16.7 Marnitz 19.4 Suckow to Pritzwalk

The Parchim – Suckow line was a branch line in the south of Mecklenburg . In 1947 the line was dismantled.

history

Prehistory and construction

Reception building in Slate

Already in the 19th century there were a number of efforts to build a railway line in this relation. Already in 1862/63 and again in 1871 there were plans for a main line connection from Berlin to Kiel via Wittstock , Parchim and Schwerin and around 1870 by Hermann Bachstein for a connection between Pritzwalk and Schwerin via Parchim. The mostly agricultural area between Parchim and Putlitz wanted a railway connection back in the 1890s. In 1894, landowners wanted a rail link from Neustadt (Dosse) via Pritzwalk, Putlitz and Parchim to Crivitz. In 1896 there was a project of the North German Railway Construction and Transport Company for the construction of a standard gauge small railway from Marnitz via Parchim to Crivitz. Efforts to build the railway connection intensified after Putlitz in 1896 received a railway connection to Pritzwalk to the southeast through the Ostprignitzer Kreiskleinbahnen and, on the other hand, Parchim received a connection to Crivitz and on to Schwerin in 1899 .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian side made the further construction of the Putlitz line to Suckow , at that time a border town between Prussia and Mecklenburg-Schwerin , dependent on the construction of a railway from Parchim to Suckow. Mecklenburg agreed, provided that through traffic would be carried out between Parchim and Pritzwalk.

In the summer of 1911, the construction of the Parchim – Suckow branch line was approved. The Großherzoglich Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn , the state railway of Mecklenburg, started construction work immediately . The Putlitz – Suckow railway construction had also already begun. Since no major earthworks had to be carried out and the superstructure was carried out in simple gravel bedding , the Parchim – Suckow railway line was opened on November 1, 1912, one month after the Putlitz – Suckow line. There were no opening ceremonies.

business

Former railway line near Parchim

The operation of the routes from Parchim to Suckow and from Suckow to Pritzwalk by two different railway companies proved to be an obstacle from the start. The Suckow station, which was operated by the Mecklenburg State Railways, was the border station between the two railway companies. Most of the time, all travelers had to change there. This fact, combined with four and a half hours of travel time for the 48 kilometers from Parchim to Pritzwalk, was already considered a "traffic obstacle" in the opening year. Nevertheless, nothing changed about the separate management for a long time. Even when the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn after 1920 , the extension to Putlitz and Pritzwalk remained in the possession of the district. It was not until the late 1930s that there were a few continuous trains between Parchim and Pritzwalk. The trains were hauled by class T 4 locomotives (in the numbering scheme of the Reichsbahn class 91.19), which were stationed in Parchim and Suckow. A small locomotive station had been set up in Suckow.

The traffic volume remained low during the entire operating time. Only during the Second World War did the line gain in importance when a military siding was built for the Wehrmacht near Slate.

During the Second World War, the line remained largely intact. After several north-south connections in the region were either completely dismantled as reparations to the Soviet Union, such as the Lloydbahn, or their second track was lost, such as the Berlin-Hamburg Railway , increased freight traffic was planned over this route. This did not happen, however, as it was decided in 1947 to dismantle the line and use the rails to rebuild the line from Rostock to Schwaan, which was dismantled in 1945 . The tracks were completely removed apart from a short remnant in Parchim. Suckow station remained in operation until 1980 for the route to Putlitz. However, some of the track systems, such as the tracks to the locomotive shed and the loading road, were also dismantled.

Todays situation

The route of the line has largely been preserved. The station buildings in Slate, Tessenow , Marnitz and Suckow and the engine shed in Suckow have also been preserved.

literature

• Fritz Asmus, Railways in & around Parchim, chronicle of a railway location in Mecklenburg , Verlag GVE 2002, ISBN 3-89218-078-4
• Fritz Asmus, The Parchim – Suckow branch line , in: Pütt 1997 , ed. vom Heimatbund Parchim, pp. 29–35, digitized version (PDF document; 1.5 MB)

Web links

Commons : Parchim – Suckow railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asmus (2002), p. 17
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Asmus (2002), pp. 28-30
3. ^ Erich Preuss: Archive of German Small and Private Railways Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Transpress, 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 100
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Asmus (1997)
5. ↑ Asmus (2002), p. 37
6. ^ Course book from 1944 , route 120d
7. ↑ Asmus (2002), pp. 49/50