Pasewalk – Gumnitz railway line
| Gumnitz – Pasewalk East | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Course of the Gumnitz – Pasewalk Ost railway line
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| Route number : | 6784 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 122e (1961) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 19.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gumnitz – Pasewalk Ost railway line in the east of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was built for military purposes and is now decommissioned and dismantled between Drögeheide and Gumnitz.
history
It all began during the Second World War. At the beginning of the 1950s, the section from Gumnitz to Drögeheide was built in the course of the development of new military objects in the Ueckermünder Heide . Much of this work was carried out by the Service for Germany . To "increase operational readiness" of the National People's Army (NVA), the line was extended to Pasewalk Ost at the end of the 1950s . The official opening of the entire route took place on October 7, 1959, on the tenth anniversary of the GDR.
From October 7, 1959 to May 30, 1964, there was also public transport between Pasewalk and Uhlenkrug. These trains did not stop in Pasewalk Ost as there was no suitable platform there. A ticket office was opened in Uhlenkrug. The reason for this connection lay in the expansion of the road from Torgelow via Viereck to Pasewalk, which severely restricted bus traffic. After this construction work was completed, the train connection was discontinued.
The Spechtberg, Drögeheide and Uhlenkrug train stations have been equipped with loading tracks and ramps for military goods traffic. The Drögeheide Nord stop was also used for military travel.
In 1973 a connecting curve, the Krugsdorf curve, was added from the direction of Szczecin (Stettin) in order to be able to bypass the railway systems in Pasewalk from the east in the event of war-related destruction .
After the reunification of Germany and the associated dissolution of the NVA, traffic between Gumnitz and Drögeheide was suspended on March 14, 1994 and the section was dismantled from June 1994. On the remaining section from Drögeheide to Pasewalk Ost, there is still occasional freight traffic today. The station building in Uhlenkrug was burned down and removed during a forest fire drill in 1999.
literature
- Rudi Buchweitz : Gumnitz – Pasewalk Ost, 2nd supplementary edition of the loose-leaf collection "Secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany then and now" . GeraMond Verlag, 1995, ISSN 0949-2143 .
Web links
- Railways in Pomerania - Pasewalk Ost – Gumnitz
- Pasewalk – Gumnitz at eisenbahn-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb: Farewell to the rail - freight lines 1994 to today. Transpress, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-613-71333-8 , p. 156.