Peulingen – Bismark railway line

Peulingen – Bismark
Course book range :	210r
Route length:	21.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Stendal 0.0 Peulingen to Arendsee 1.9 Belkau 4.4 Channel 6.2 Darnewitz 9.2 Grassau 14.1 Schorstedt 17.4 Dobberkau from Uelzen from Beetzendorf 21.7 Hohenwulsch (formerly Bismark Anschluss ) to Stendal

The railway Peulingen-Bismark was a single-track, in standard gauge running light railway in the district of Stendal . The line operated by the Stendaler Kleinbahn-AG branched off the Stendal – Arendsee railway line in Peulingen and headed north-west to Dobberkau , then swung south, crossed the American line about 500 meters west of Hohenwulsch and ended on a separate platform at Bismark station Connection - today's Hohenwulsch train station .

history

During the construction of the Stendal – Arendsee railway line , the wishes of the municipalities of Belkau and Schinne for a rail connection were ignored . Instead, the line was built east of the two places via Groß Schwechten , as this municipality had acquired a particularly large number of shares in the railway company. Nevertheless, efforts were made in Belkau and Schinne to build a railway line. Thus, from 1910 to the Stendal-Arendsee Small Bahn AG is negotiating a railway line from Peulingen by Bismark connection. In addition to the development of the municipalities, a connection of the small railroad networks in the eastern and western Altmark was seen as advantageous, so that the various companies would no longer have to use state railway tracks when transferring to the Sachsenwerk workshop in Stendal Ost. In 1915, the construction of the railway was finally approved and transferred to Kleinbahn AG Stendal – Arendsee.

Due to the First World War , the construction work was initially limited to the Peulingen – Darnewitz section; the Peulingen – Schinne section was opened for freight traffic as early as October 25, 1916. On January 30, 1917, the section Schinne – Darnewitz was removed. The further construction to Bismark was no longer started due to the increasing shortage of manpower and materials due to the First World War. The work was only continued as emergency work after the end of the war . The grand opening of the entire route took place on October 18, 1921.

From the very beginning, general management was the responsibility of the small railway department of the Provincial Association of Saxony in Merseburg.

On the Stendal Ost – Peulingen – Bismark route, four pairs of trains drove daily in 1926 and three in 1944. The 21-kilometer route between Peulingen and Bismark took around 40–50 minutes and to Stendal a good hour. The trains hauled by steam locomotives consisted of both passenger and freight cars .

Due to the state railway line Stendal – Uelzen , which runs just a few kilometers further south , the small railway was of minor importance from the start. Therefore, the line was officially closed after the last train journey on October 3, 1951 and dismantled from October 4 to November 15, 1951.

literature

• Wolfgang List: Stendal and the railroad. Volume 2: The small railways. Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-933254-93-1 .
• Wolfgang List: Kleinbahnen der Altmark . Transpress VEB publishing house for traffic, Berlin 1979, without ISBN; Licensed edition: Alba, Düsseldorf 1979, ISBN 3-87094-528-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang List: Stendal and the Railway. Volume 2: The small railways. , P. 108 f.
2. ^ Wolfgang List: Stendal and the Railway. Volume 2: The small railways. , P. 109 ff.
3. ↑ Kursbuch 1944 Route 210r
4. ^ Wolfgang List: Stendal and the Railway. Volume 2: The small railways. , P. 249: Handwritten Chronicle Dobberkau.