Prenzlau – Klockow railway line

Prenzlau-Klockow
Route length:	15.0 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	20  ‰
Legend from Angermünde 0.0 Prenzlau 30  m above sea level NHN to Strasburg and to Löwenberg to Stralsund 1.6 Prenzlau Nord junction, to Löcknitz 5.0 Wittenhof 7.6 Schenkenberg (Uckerm) 10.0 Ludwigsburg (Uckerm) 12.0 Kleptow 15.0 Klockow (Uckerm) Narrow gauge railway to Pasewalk Ost

The Prenzlau – Klockow line was a standard-gauge, non-electrified branch line in Brandenburg .

history

Around 1900 an extension of the narrow-gauge railway Klockow – Pasewalk Kleinbahnhof, which was opened in 1893 and at that time not public, was planned to Prenzlau. There was to be a connection to the state railway and to the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen , which had operated a route network in the Uckermark since 1902.

Due to unclear financing, this project was not implemented, but in 1910 the Prenzlauer Kreisag allowed the start of preparatory work for a standard-gauge railway. In 1914, the Prenzlau – Klockow line was licensed as a small railway ; half of the construction costs of around 870,000 marks were to be borne by the Prenzlau district and a quarter each by the provinces of Brandenburg and Prussia . The Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen should take over the operational management, however a separate bookkeeping had to be done for the railway line. So losses could not be offset against surpluses on the remaining routes, some of which had to be paid to the Prussian state.

The line was opened for freight traffic on November 1, 1915, and passenger traffic began on January 4, 1916. Overall, the facilities were kept simple. A station building and larger track systems were built in Klockow, while the remaining stations only had a loading track. The own accounting was given up in 1917, as the operating results did not differ significantly from the remaining routes of the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen.

From 1943 the management of the state traffic office of Brandenburg was taken over.

After the end of the Second World War, the tracks were dismantled in 1945 as a reparation payment. In 1946 the reconstruction was ordered, and in November 1946 the route was open again. Only old material was used that had been removed from loading tracks and connecting railways elsewhere. In 1949 the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and was operated from then on as a branch line.

Since the condition of the superstructure deteriorated more and more and the transport services had also decreased rapidly, the line was closed on June 1, 1970. Since a major construction project was still pending in Klockow, the DR had to make makeshift improvements to the line and reopen it in 1971. This traffic also ended in the summer of 1972, until 1975 passenger transport was still carried out in the rail replacement service .

literature

• Wolf Dietger Machel, Rudi Buchwitz: Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , VBN Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf Dietger Machel, Rudi Buchwitz: Kleinbahnen in der Uckermark , p. 27