Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner Railway

Neuruppin – Paulinenaue
Route number (DB) :	6948
Course book section (DB) :	801 (1968) , 110a (1967)
Route length:	30.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Legend from Herzberg , from Kremmen 30.5 Neuruppin (former central station) Neuruppin West to Wittstock to Neustadt 29.3 Neuruppin Neustädter Strasse 28.7 Neuruppin Paulinenauer Bf until 1930 28.3 Neuruppin Fehrbelliner Strasse Neuruppin (first train station until 1901) 27.1 Neuruppin Institution 25.7 Treskow 22.5 Buskow (Kr Neuruppin) 19.1 Dam jar Rhin canal 15.8 Fehrbellin 10.1 Betzin-Karwesee 5.8 Lobeofsund 2.5 Eichberge from Wittenberge 0.0 Paulinenaue to Berlin

The Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner Eisenbahn ( PNE ) is a former small railway in the west of Brandenburg . The railway, also known as the Stille Pauline , connected the communities Paulinenaue and Fehrbellin with the district town of Neuruppin . The operating company was initially the Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , of the same name , which was bought by Ruppiner Eisenbahn AG in 1923 . In 1949 they were nationalized. In 1970 the passenger and 1995 the freight traffic was stopped. The line has been completely dismantled since 2008.

history

Seal mark Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft

The starting station at Paulinenaue in 2003

The destination station in Neuruppin now houses a pharmacy

After the basic network of the German railroad in the form of several main lines, which connected the larger cities with each other, was established up to the 1870s, the fine development of the rural areas began in the following years. Mostly, branch lines were built that connected the medium-sized and small cities of the empire from the main lines . Since the Prussian State Railways did not want to build these seemingly unprofitable routes themselves, private railway companies were used.

In the case of the PNE, efforts to establish a connection came primarily from the Ruppin district and the district town of Neuruppin, who hoped for an economic advantage from the connection to the Hamburg railway and thus to the capital of Berlin . The single-track railway should branch off from the main line at Paulinenaue to the north and run almost in a straight line and at right angles to it through the Rhinluch to Neuruppin. There the train should end in a terminus on the outskirts. At the southern end of the line, measures were also taken during the construction of the railway and the Paulinenaue station was extensively expanded.

The Paulinenaue-Neu-Ruppiner Eisenbahngesellschaft (PNRE, later PNE), founded at the end of the 1870s, received the concession to build the route in 1879. The work began in the spring of 1880 and was completed six months later. After the first opening train with invited guests from the provincial politics ran on September 11, 1880, the scheduled operation began one day later.

The nickname "Stille Pauline" comes from the first years of the opening story. Theodor Fontane wrote in 1882 in the walks through the Mark Brandenburg :

Branch off from a middle station of the Hamburger Bahn (Paulinenaue) located between Nauen and Friesack, a small strada ferrate with only three locomotives now penetrates through Linum-Fehrbellin and related lagoon districts to the heart of the county, a single-track, almost like a railroad track drawn with a ruler, which as a sapling or offspring of the Paulinenaue station mentioned above, bears the peculiar name of the "silent Pauline", which is perhaps contestable due to the consistency of its etymology.

From 1899 to 1901 the line was extended by a few hundred meters from the old Neuruppin station to the new Paulinenauer station . A new representative reception building was built there.

Also in the years around the turn of the century Neuruppin was connected to two other railways. The first line ran from Kremmen in the southeast, tangent to Neuruppin to the north, to Wittstock (Dosse) and was opened in 1899 by the Ruppiner Eisenbahn AG. Three years later the Ruppiner Kreisbahn followed with a stretch from Neustadt (Dosse) to Herzberg (Mark) . Since these railways used a common Neuruppin train station , there was a risk that the PNE could be sidelined due to its peripheral location. Therefore, on June 21, 1905, it opened a 1.8-kilometer connecting line to the Kremmener and Ruppiner Bahn stations (later renamed Neuruppin Hauptbahnhof ), which branched off from the main line in the area of ​​the first Neuruppin station on the Paulinenau line. For passenger traffic, however, the new Paulinenauer Bahnhof remained in operation for another 25 years.

After the First World War and the subsequent inflation , the Ruppiner Eisenbahn AG bought the Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on March 17, 1923. In the following year, this introduced operation with benzene railcars . In 1930 the Paulinenau train station was closed and the tracks were removed. However, the station building is still preserved today, as is that of the city's first train station further south.

Monument Stille Pauline in front of the Paulinenauer train station in Neuruppin

The following years were characterized by excursion trains in passenger traffic and local freight traffic along the railway. However, after the railway line to Kremmen and its connecting line to Berlin went into operation, the main stream of passengers shifted more and more to this. After the end of the Second World War , there was no further fare income because the location of the now isolated western half of Berlin meant that the railway was in the slipstream of the capital of the GDR. On May 20, 1970, the end for passenger traffic finally took place. The decisive factors were, on the one hand, the low passenger numbers, which led to numerous further closures of branch lines in the 1960s and 1970s, but also the start of the construction of the Berlin – Rostock motorway , now part of the A 24 . To this end, the route south of Neuruppin was removed until shortly before Fehrbellin. On the remaining section to Paulinenaue, however, there was still freight traffic. This lasted until shortly after reunification and was also given up at the end of 1995, at last it was only used as a station track. Since 2008 the whole route including the bridge over the Rhinkanal has been dismantled.

A cycle path was opened in June 2011 on the former route between Paulinenaue and Fehrbellin .

literature

• Erich Preuß: Archive of German Small and Private Railways, Brandenburg / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2

Web links

Commons : Paulinenaue-Neuruppiner-Eisenbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Railways in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg - Paulinenaue – Fehrbellin – Neuruppin
• Berliner-Bahnen.de
• Route inspection Paulinenaue – Fehrbellin 1997

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Fontane, Walks through the Mark Brandenburg, Volume 1, Das Ruppiner Land, foreword to the 4th edition (1882)
2. ↑ Handbook of the German Railway Lines. (Reprint of the DRG route manual from 1935.) Mainz: Dumjahn, 1984. Page 282.
3. ↑ The colossus disappeared noiselessly. The bridge of the former "Stille Pauline" railway in Fehrbellin was dismantled yesterday - 128 years after it was built. ; Märkische Allgemeine, Ruppiner Tageblatt from July 18, 2008
4. ↑ [ 13 kilometers through the Luch: Paulinenaue and Fehrbellin are now connected by a cycle path ], Märkische Allgemeine, June 24, 2011