Salzwedel – Dannenberg railway line

Salzwedel – Dannenberg East
Lüchow station (1983)
Route number (DB) :	6905
Course book section (DB) :	117a (1914) 117b (1925) 117c (1930) 187d (1937) 186f (1939) 209d (1941) 109h (1950–1970) 152 (1971–1975) 113 (since 2005)
Route length:	36.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Uelzen from Oebisfelde 0.0 Salzwedel 20  m above sea level NN from Salzwedel Kleinbahnhof ,   from Diesdorf , from Badel Salzwedel Gbf to Stendal , to Wittenberge 2.5 (formerly overpass ) 5.0 Bürgerholz 19  m above sea level NN 6.13 State border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony 6.5 B 248 19  m above sea level NN 6.7 Luebbow 19  m above sea level NN 8.9 Teplingen 18  m above sea level NN L 262 18  m above sea level NN 10.6 Wustrow (Han) 18  m above sea level NN 13.1 Jeetzel 18  m above sea level NN 15.6 Lüchow Süd, LSE from Schmarsau 15.7 B 248 , B 493 19  m above sea level NN 15.8 Lüchow 20  m above sea level NN 16.9 Tarmitz 18  m above sea level NN 18.3 Jeetzel 16  m above sea level NN 20.3 Müggenburg 15  m above sea level NN 20.4 Gollau 24  m above sea level NN 22.9 Grabow (Kr Dannenberg) 14  m above sea level NN 26.7 Jameln (Kr Dannenberg) 18  m above sea level NN 30.0 Tramm 15  m above sea level NN 31.1 Schaafhausen 14  m above sea level NN B 248 18  m above sea level NN B 191 18  m above sea level NN 32.8 Jeetzel 15  m above sea level NN from Uelzen 33.3 Dannenberg West 15  m above sea level NN 33.5 B 216 15  m above sea level NN 34.3 Old Jeetzel 13  m above sea level NN Wendlandbahn from Lüneburg 36.2 Dannenberg East 13  m above sea level NN to Wittenberge

Lüchow was between the Wittenberge – Buchholz (above) and Stendal – Langwedel lines and was connected by a branch line from 1891.

Salzwedel depot. The tracks of the “America Line” run in front of it.

The row of trees marks the formerly new route in the dismantled Salzwedel – Lübbow section under the "Amerikalinie". On the American line, a freight train runs towards Stendal.

A path now runs along the former embankment in the forest near Hoyersburg.

The area at the reception building in Wustrow has been de-dedicated. The tracks end behind the blue containers at the height of the silo.

The former Dannenberg West train station is used as a residential building.

The Salzwedel – Dannenberg railway was a branch line between Salzwedel in northern Saxony-Anhalt and Dannenberg in eastern Lower Saxony . It was first built in 1891 by the Prussian State Railways as a branch line from Salzwedel to Lüchow and extended in 1911 to Dannenberg. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the line between Salzwedel in the Soviet occupation zone and Lübbow in the British zone was interrupted. Passenger traffic lasted until 1975, freight traffic was maintained until the end of 1997. The section between Lüchow and Dannenberg Ost train station, which is still in operation, has been owned by the Deutsche Regionalisenbahn (DRE) since 2001 and is called the Jeetzeltalbahn .

The branch line was built at a time of intensive development of regions away from the main lines and connected the district town of Lüchow to the railway network. It made it possible for the first time in the Lüchow district to participate in the industrial revolution . The stretch to Dannenberg opened up the Lüchow-Dannenberg district along the main settlement line before it slowly lost its importance due to the emergence of motorized individual traffic.

The section between Salzwedel station and Wustrow has been completely removed, but, with the exception of a short section in Wustrow, has not been de-dedicated ; So legally it is still a railway line, albeit closed . The same applies to the area from Wustrow to Lüchow. Here the tracks are still there. Closing the gap between Salzwedel and Wustrow is envisaged in the regional spatial planning programs that were adopted in Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony in the 1990s and are still valid in 2007. In the draft of the fundamental amendment of the state spatial planning program Lower Saxony, the railway line is no longer listed because it lacks supra-regional significance.

Route description

The railway line with route number 6905 was 36.2 kilometers long, standard-gauge , single-track and not electrified . It joined the Salzwedel – Oebisfelde route and led through a rural, sparsely populated landscape.

Salzwedel-Wustrow

The line branched off in Salzwedel from the Stendal – Salzwedel ( Amerikalinie ) line , ran east past the Salzwedel railway depot and turned north behind it. Due to this route, the freight yard , which was later built on the opposite side of the American line, was not directly accessible. In the 1920s or 30s, a modified route was therefore built that crossed the American line from the freight yard in a wide arc and to the north of it met the existing route. Whether this arch was ever in operation and whether it supplemented or replaced the previous exit has not been conclusively clarified.

Behind the depot, the track ran north to what was then the border between the Prussian provinces of Saxony and Hanover at a distance of 6.2 kilometers . The border course in this area was identical to the later inner-German border and the current state border between Saxony-Anhalt and Lower Saxony. At km 5.0 was the stop (Hp) Bürgerholz, the only stop in the area of ​​the former province of Saxony.

The border ditch was crossed with a small bridge. The route then swiveled to the west in a left-hand bend, in the course of which the unpaved road to Salzwedel and the current federal road 248 (B 248) were crossed. Immediately behind the level crossing was Lübbow train station south of the village . The further course of the route led to Wustrow, where, after a right-hand bend, it changed back to the north and crossed Landesstraße 262 (L 262). The station area began just behind the state road and is located to the east of what was then the city ​​center .

The section between Salzwedel and the state border was dismantled shortly after the end of the Second World War . The route can still be seen in the forest near Hoyersburg as a dead straight forest path running north-south. Parts of the platform edge from the Bürgerholz stop are still present. There the former route is part of a nature trail . The track between Lübbow and Wustrow was dismantled between February and April 1975 until just before Landesstraße 262. An approximately 200-meter-long section between the B 248 and the border was separated from the route by a new sewer and was dismantled as early as 1972 as part of a land consolidation . In Lower Saxony side of the former route was partly to farm roads built over. Only the bridge over the border ditch remained until the 2000s and was used as a border lookout point on the German side during the division of Germany.

Wustrow-Dannenberg

From Wustrow, the route continues to Lüchow, where the disused and dismantled Lüchow – Schmarsau line of the Lüchow-Schmarsau Railway (LSE) branched off before the intersection with the shared lane of federal highways 248 and 493 . The Lüchow Süd station of the LSE, also known as the Kleinbahnhof , was located at a distance of 15.6 kilometers on the east side of the railway line. The tracks ran along the exit towards Salzwedel. The track to Wustrow is still there and ends there in the station area. At the level of the reception building there are no longer any tracks, the route has been de-dedicated here. In the post-war period , the Teplingen stops between Lübbow and Wustrow and Jeetzel between Wustrow and Lüchow were also set up.

The further railway line from Lüchow runs north through the stations Gollau, Grabow, Jameln and the stop at Schaafhausen to Dannenberg. A second station, Dannenberg West, was built there for this route. From 1924 to 1996 there was a connection to the Uelzen – Dannenberg railway line . At the beginning of the Dannenberg Ost station at the level of the signal box Df, the line will be merged with the track of the Wittenberge – Buchholz railway line . It originally ran parallel to it and ended as platform 2 at the station building.

When the winter timetable came into force in 1955/56, the Tarmitz and Müggenburg stops were set up between Lüchow and Gollau. The Tramm stop was added between Jameln and Schaafhausen. From the end of the 1980s, the dismantling of the sidings began at the stations between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow .

Prehistory and construction

The first proposal to build a rail link between Salzwedel and Dannenberg was made in 1855. Gardelegen suggested building a railway line Gardelegen – Salzwedel – Lüchow – Dannenberg – Lüneburg . Twenty years later the idea of ​​a "south-north railway" from Hof (Saale) - Saalfeld - Eisleben - Gardelegen - Salzwedel - Lüchow - Dannenberg came up. None of these connections was realized.

The later railway line between Salzwedel and Dannenberg consisted of two lines built one after the other that were not based on previous proposals. In 1891, the Salzwedel – Lüchow branch line was built and opened following the Oebisfelde – Salzwedel line. 20 years later, in 1911, the Lüchow – Dannenberg branch line followed as an extension.

Salzwedel – Lüchow (1891)

In the 1860s, two railway lines were planned that should enable a direct connection between Berlin and Bremen . In both cases, a route via Lüchow was under discussion. The Wittenberge – Buchholz branch line was built via Dannenberg and the Stendal – Langwedel line via Salzwedel. After the opening of this line in April 1873, Lüchow therefore requested the construction of a branch line from Salzwedel. It was another 18 years before construction began on this branch line. First, the Prussian State Railways built the Oebisfelde –Salzwedel line, which opened in 1889 .

The construction of the branch line to Lüchow began in 1891. The work on the flat land progressed quickly. Swampy terrain only had to be crossed between the later Bürgerholz stop and Lübbow. The line to Wustrow was completed at the beginning of March and Lüchow was reached on April 22, 1891. The inspection by the state police took place on September 28, 1891, the opening on October 1. The Lübbow station was not put into operation until later, however, because the municipality refused to take over the delivery of the paving stones and the filling of the connecting road to the station. The decision to do this was only taken in 1892, so that the first train did not stop in Lübbow until eight months after the line opened on May 1, 1892.

Lüchow – Dannenberg (1911)

When the construction of the Salzwedel – Lüchow branch line began, a petition from the Dannenberg merchants' guild was sent to Berlin, asking for it to be extended to Dannenberg. This project was supported by the Dannenberg magistrate and in Lüchow, but was unsuccessful. The extension to Dannenberg was only approved on June 15, 1906. In 1907, the then Dannenberger Kreisag signed a contract with the Royal Hanover Railway Directorate for the construction of the Lüchow – Dannenberg branch line. Numerous owners of required land had to be expropriated. The communities that had to provide land for the construction and were to be compensated for it made considerable financial demands on the Dannenberg district.

The route itself did not cause any problems. With the exception of Grabow and the Schaafhausen stop, which was only used for passenger traffic , all stations were given fixed ramps for head and side loading. At first it was unclear whether the "Lüggau" station should be built in the area of ​​the municipality of Prisser or the city of Dannenberg. The station was built on the Dannenberg area and was then called "Dannenberg West". It is not known whether the name change is due to the relocation to the Dannenberg city area. The already existing station “Dannenberg” of the branch line Wittenberge – Buchholz was renamed “Dannenberg Ost”.

The state police acceptance of the railway line was completed on March 4, 1911, and scheduled traffic began on April 1, 1911.

business

For a long time the Jeetzel (Jeetze) , which was navigable for smaller barges from Hitzacker on the Elbe to Salzwedel , was the most important traffic route for the transport of goods. Correspondence was carried out by messengers on horseback , later by mail coaches , which also carried people. There were for passenger cars and private for trade teamsters , both partly wrong regularly. With the opening of the branch line, these traffic connections and modes of transport essentially lost their importance.

Salzwedel – Lüchow (1891–1911)

Scheduled passenger traffic on the Salzwedel – Lüchow route began on October 1, 1891. At the same time a rail mail connection was set up. The branch line was built as an extension of the line from Oebisfelde, but there was no continuous passenger traffic between Oebisfelde and Lüchow.

passenger traffic

The passenger traffic enabled a better connection to the industrial and commercial city of Salzwedel. There there was a connection to the main line Stendal –Salzwedel– Uelzen - Bremen, known as the American line . The journey time Lüchow – Salzwedel was reduced from at least two hours to around 30 minutes. Salzwedel offered better medical care, school education and a larger range of goods than was available in Lüchow. The market day called “Dionysius Day ” in particular ensured that passenger trains were well used. The passenger traffic was accordingly more important for the Lüchower than for the Salzwedel population.

Freight transport

The freight for the first time allowed the fast and economical transportation of goods. A rail freight forwarding company was opened in Lüchow as early as 1891. The cattle industry in the former Lüchow district received new sales markets in Hamburg , Hanover and Bremen through the rail connection , which is why a cattle shed and loading station were built at Lüchow train station.

In the Lüchow district, the search for salt deposits began at the end of the 19th century and three mines were built near Wustrow . The development of the potash industry required a great deal of technical effort, which would have been difficult without a rail connection.

Until the end of the 19th century, Wustrow was only built on to the west of the Jeetzel. After the opening of the railway line, the city expanded, apart from the miners' settlement in Rudolphstraße, only to the east in the direction of the train station, which at that time was still outside the Wustrower common land.

Until the construction of the small railway Lüchow – Schmarsau (later Lüchow – Schmarsauer Eisenbahn) in 1911, Lübbow was the nearest railway station with goods handling for the farmers of Lemgow .

Mainly fertilizers , seeds and coal came to the Lüchow district via the branch line . Mainly agricultural products and products processed from them left the district via the railway line.

Salzwedel – Dannenberg (1911–1945)

After the start of scheduled traffic on the extension to Dannenberg Ost on April 1, 1911, there were connections to national rail connections in both Salzwedel and Dannenberg. In Salzwedel to the long-distance traffic from Berlin to Bremen, in Dannenberg to the connection from Wittenberge to Lüneburg to Buchholz. The traffic times were coordinated with these further connections.

Continuous rail traffic on the line came to a standstill on April 11, 1945 at 8:40 p.m. At this time, a train coming from Salzwedel, in which soldiers and members of the SS were fleeing from advancing American troops, collided with a mail train waiting in Lübbow. There were several dead and seriously injured. The route was not cleared before the end of the war. The Jeetzel bridges in Dannenberg were blown up at the end of April 1945 before the city was surrendered without a fight to US troops.

passenger traffic

In the 1912/13 timetable, five pairs of passenger trains from Salzwedel to Dannenberg and two pairs from Salzwedel to Lüchow were listed. After the First World War , only two pairs of passenger trains from Salzwedel to Dannenberg and one pair from Salzwedel to Lüchow on weekdays ran on the course book route (KBS) 117A Salzwedel – Lüchow – Dannenberg. The connections between Salzwedel and Dannenberg then returned to pre-war levels, but the Salzwedel – Lüchow trains were no longer available. In the 1930s and 40s, the line was run in the course book routes 187d, 186f and 209d Oebisfelde – Salzwedel – Dannenberg with four passenger trains on weekdays and one passenger train pair on Sundays, although one pair of trains was omitted on weekdays during the Second World War. The traffic on the routes was still separated into the connections Oebisfelde – Salzwedel and Salzwedel – Dannenberg.

Freight transport

The mining company Teutonia mined and processed fertilizer salts at Schreyahn near Wustrow between 1908 and 1926 . A works railway connected the potash plant with Wustrow station. The potash freight was transported to the Wustrow state train station for handover and from there to Dömitz an der Elbe . There it was reloaded onto inland vessels , which took over the onward transport to Hamburg.

After the production stopped, gravel from the gravel pits near Lübbow replaced salt as an important cargo. In the years 1935 to 1940 in particular, the gravel was transported to many state buildings throughout the German Reich .

In the 1930s, two freight trains ran as scheduled between Salzwedel and Dannenberg every working day.

(Lübbow) –Wustrow – Dannenberg (1945–1997)

Two class 212 diesel locomotives in double traction left Lüchow station with a freight train on October 4, 1983.

After the Second World War, traffic between Salzwedel and Lübbow was not officially resumed. Salzwedel was close to the border and the Bürgerholz stop was only insignificant. From the end of June 1945, however, so-called “potato trains” operated for a short time, which ran the Uelzen – Salzwedel – Lüchow – Dannenberg – Uelzen route, transported potatoes for the big cities and also transported people.

The rail mail service was resumed on October 7, 1946, but only until November 1, 1950. On that day, all routes in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district were discontinued.

The line between Lübbow and Wustrow was closed on May 23, 1971. The five-kilometer section between Lüchow and Wustrow was closed on September 1, 1996 until the Lüchow-Schmarsauer Railway was connected. On December 30, 1997, the traffic on the route was completely stopped by Deutsche Bahn .

passenger traffic

Traffic on the line was officially resumed on July 4, 1945. Twice a week, on Wednesdays and Sundays, a pair of passenger trains ran between Lüchow and Dannenberg. After the restoration of the Jeetzel Bridge between the Dannenberg train stations, onward traffic beyond Dannenberg was possible from April 20, 1946. From this day on, a pair of passenger trains ran daily to Uelzen.

After the official resumption of passenger traffic, the route was of greatest importance for a short time. The 1947/48 timetable still indicated the connection between Salzwedel and Dannenberg, but the initially three pairs of passenger trains only ran between Lübbow and Dannenberg in the morning, at noon and in the evening. The Lübbow train station was right on the zone border and the rail connection was used a lot by cross-border commuters , refugees and hoarders . In Lübbow, ticket sales often achieved a daily turnover of over 20,000 Reichsmarks and in the summer of 1947 over 12,000 tickets were sold in just one day. With the currency reform and the introduction of the D-Mark in June 1948, the number of passengers and thus the importance of the route and, above all, the Lübbow station, suddenly and significantly decreased.

In the 1950s, three pairs of trains ran daily on the course book route 109h from Lübbow to Dannenberg. One pair of trains served all stops, the other two only the stations. There was also a direct connection Lübbow – Uelzen– Bremerhaven and Lübbow – Uelzen – Bremen with stops in Wustrow, Lüchow, Jameln, Dannenberg West and East on weekdays, as well as two weekdays and a connection Lüchow – Dannenberg with stops only at the stations. The attractiveness of rail-based passenger transport from Lübbow continued to decline, so that it was discontinued on May 22, 1955. The last railcar left Lübbow on May 21 at 13:53. From then on, Lübbow and Wustrow were only served by rail replacement services.

Tourist traffic was reduced more and more towards the end of the 1950s due to further decreasing capacity utilization and above all due to the poor condition of the route. In 1958 only one train connection was listed in the timetable. On July 4, 1960, rail passenger traffic on the line was completely stopped. A takeover of the traffic by the Lüchow-Schmarsauer Eisenbahn and the Osthannoverschen Eisenbahnen (OHE) failed. However, the line was rehabilitated with funds from the zone boundary and subsidized operations resumed on August 21, 1965. Five pairs of rail buses ran between Dannenberg and Lüchow on weekdays and two on Sundays . Stops on the route were the Dannenberg West, Jameln, Grabow and Gollau stations. The stops were only approached by rail replacement services. The final cessation of passenger traffic on the then route book route 152 took place almost ten years later on May 31, 1975.

Currently, the passenger traffic between Salzwedel and Dannenberg is carried out by the Braunschweig regional bus with three bus routes. The Lüchow – Wustrow – Lübbow – Salzwedel route is used by the 1937 and 1945 lines. Local public transport between Lüchow and Dannenberg is part of line 304 Lüneburg – Lüchow.

Freight transport

Freight traffic between Lübbow and Wustrow was maintained until the line was closed on this section in 1971 in order to be able to serve the Lübbower gravel works. Traffic in the 1970s and 1980s was as follows. One with a diesel locomotives of 212 series -covered train arrived in the morning from Lüneburg , drove through the morning Dannenberg Ost on to Luechow, where appropriate, to Wustrow, and served all stations on the route. Then it went back via Dannenberg Ost to Uelzen. During the sugar beet and grain campaign, another freight train hauled by the 212 series ran on the route in the afternoon. Otherwise, the afternoon trips were made with a small locomotive stationed in Dannenberg Ost .

In the 1980s, the volume of goods on the route fell sharply. From 1988, the closure of individual tariff points on the route began. In 1988 Dannenberg West was closed, in 1989 Gollau followed. At the turn of the year 1988/89, the scheduled freight traffic between Uelzen and Dannenberg was stopped, so that from now on the trains only ran between Lüneburg and Wustrow. At the beginning of the 1990s, grain transport decreased almost completely. After the nationwide cancellation of the exemption tariff for sugar beet by Deutsche Bahn after the 1992 campaign, the transport of sugar beet was also discontinued.

Freight traffic from Lüchow to Wustrow was maintained until December 31, 1995, from Dannenberg to Lüchow until the end of 1997. The delivery of round steel for the work of the Swedish ball bearing manufacturer SKF in Lüchow will continue to be by train, but to Salzwedel. The transport of all other goods was shifted to the road.

The most important goods that were transported on this route from 1945 to 1997 and left the Lüchow-Dannenberg district were mainly grain and sugar beet, wood and, to a lesser extent, industrial goods. Mainly steel for the SKF plant, artificial fertilizers, building materials and fuels reached Lüchow and Wustrow.

Jeetzeltalbahn (since 2001)

Jeetzeltalbahn (DRE)
Lüchow Railway Station (2007)
Route number (DB) :	6905
Course book section (DB) :	113
Route length:	25.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Wittenberge 0 Dannenberg (Elbe) East Wendlandbahn to Lüneburg 0.6 K 13 1.9 Old Jeetzel 2.3 Dannenberg (Elbe) middle (Osterweg) 2.7 Dannenberg (Elbe) West 2.7 B 216 3.4 Jeetzel 3.8 B 191 3.8 Prisser 4.7 B 248 5.1 Schaafhausen 6.2 Tramm 9.5 Jameln 13.3 Grabow 15.8 Gollau 15.9 Müggenburg 17.9 Jeetzel 19.3 Tarmitz 20.4 Lüchow (Wendland) B 248 20.6 Lüchow South 25.8 Wustrow

"Blind bridge" on the embankment in Dannenberg.

The remaining line from Dannenberg to Wustrow is called the Jeetzeltalbahn and is owned by the Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn GmbH (DRE). On October 30, 2001, DRE took over the Dannenberg Ost – Lüchow line from Deutsche Bahn, and the section to Wustrow should follow by the end of 2005. By February 2016, however, the sale had not taken place.

As early as 1999, a concept for the development of the Dannenberg – Lüchow – Wustrow line was drawn up together with the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . The resumption of scheduled year-round traffic failed due to different framework conditions between the two parties involved. While rail traffic for the DRE must be economically viable, the Lüchow-Dannenberg district must not incur any additional costs compared to the previous local public transport between Dannenberg and Lüchow. According to the DRE, the traffic carried out on the route in 2005 was not cost-covering.

Route description

The Jeetzeltalbahn branches off in Dannenberg from the Wittenberge – Buchholz line at the level of the signal box Df at the level crossing of Kreisstraße 13 (K 13) to Damnatz . The DRE does not have its own infrastructure in the station . At the other end of the line in Wustrow, the tracks no longer reach the former station building. The line to the former connection of the Lüchow-Schmarsauer Railway at the level crossing of the B 248/493 in Lüchow is considered to be in operation. All of the station buildings on the route were already sold at the time of the Deutsche Bahn and are mainly used as residential buildings. There is still a siding in Lüchow and Wustrow. The Dannenberg Mitte stop was created in Dannenberg and the Dannenberg West stop was relocated to the level crossing of the B 216. Both stops consist of short, heaped platforms . The systems at the technically secured level crossings are out of operation, the level crossings are secured by hand if necessary.

business

Occasional passenger traffic has taken place on the route since the takeover. For the first time on February 1, 2003, the “Heide-Express” operated by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verkehrsfreunde Lüneburg e. V. (AVL) between Dannenberg and Lüchow. On a few days in September 2004, “Stadtbahnverkehr” took place between the two Dannenberg train stations. At the end of the same year, special trips followed for special events on the route. Freight traffic was not resumed.

Between March 12 and December 10, 2005, passenger trains again ran between Dannenberg and Lüchow on a few weekends. The route has since been listed as course book route 113 in the course book of Deutsche Bahn. On two weekends of the month with the exception of September, three in March, six pairs of passenger trains ran between Dannenberg and Lüchow on Saturdays and four on Sundays. Stops between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow were Dannenberg Mitte, Dannenberg West, Jameln, Grabow and Gollau. On the first two weekends in September, on Saturdays and Sundays, during the Dannenberg City Offensive, there was a half-hourly shuttle service between Dannenberg Ost and Prisser, of which two pairs of trains continued to Lüchow.

A continuation of the regular traffic in the following years and an extension to Wustrow did not take place. However, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the route on 17./18. September 2011 Special trips between Dannenberg-Ost and Lüchow carried out every two hours. It was not possible to drive on the route from the beginning of 2006 to 2011 because of two damaged “blind bridges” that lay on the embankment in Dannenberg.

Resumption of operations since 2012

At the initiative of the Wendland Passenger Council, trips took place on three different weekends in 2012: March 31 and April 1, 2012, May 12 and 13, 2012, and December 8 and 9, 2012. One was used in each case Class 628 railcar of the Elbe-Weser transport company EVB from Bremervörde. The railcar shuttled several times between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow. The trips in December were an economic flop. Despite Santa Claus on board, decorated carriages and gifts for the children and free mulled wine for the adults, only about 80 tickets could be sold.

Two EVB 628 railcars (VT 152 and VT 153) were on a private charter trip between Dannenberg Ost and Platenlaase on July 7, 2012 .

On Sunday, May 26th, 2013, an EVB railcar drove between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow. What was new was that passengers could take a ride from Hamburg-Harburg in the morning and take the last train back in the evening. 11 people took this opportunity.

On Lantern Sunday, October 6, 2013, EVB railcar 150 ran on the Jeetzeltalbahn. As on May 26th, passengers in Hamburg-Harburg were able to board a Sunday excursion to Wendland. The train started in Hamburg at 9.40 a.m. and reached Dannenberg Ost at 11.30 a.m. According to the Passenger Council, there were around 20 passengers in the railcar. There was also a scheduled stop in Lüneburg and Hitzacker. In Dahlenburg (Wendlandbahn) there was again a train crossing with the scheduled train of the DB from Dannenberg Ost to Lüneburg after a long time.

The EVB railcar (class 628) ran every two hours between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow. The trips were organized by Fahrgast-Rat Wendland eV in cooperation with the Stones Fan Museum in Lüchow, in Lüchow it was Sunday shopping. After the last trip, the passengers were transported from Dannenberg Ost to Hamburg-Harburg again at 7.45 p.m.

With the 2014/2015 timetable change, erixx from Soltau took over the traffic on the neighboring Wendlandbahn. On Sunday, October 5, 2014, a LINT 54 (622 204/622 704) traveled the Wendland and Jeetzeltalbahn to mark the occasion . The railcar started the journey at 10:20 a.m. in Lüneburg and shuttled three times between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow between 11.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. The trains were well attended, as there was a Sunday shopping in Lüchow and a mobility festival in Dannenberg. The ride was free for all passengers.

According to the plans of the Fahrgast-Rat e. V. give significantly more travel dates, due to various bridge closures in Dannenberg none of these trips have taken place so far. Since October 5, 2014, no passenger trains have run on the Jeetzeltalbahn. In 2018, the Fahrgastrat e. V. will once again run passenger trains to the Kulturelle Landpartie on the Jeetzeltalbahn, but in February 2018 a bridge in Müggenburg was closed for both car and train traffic. In September 2018, the local press reported on the dispute over financing between the city of Lüchow and the DRE, until March 2019 no repair work had been carried out on the said bridge in Müggenburg.

Foundation of the Jeetze (l) talbahn development association

In September 2018, the Jeetze (l) talbahn development association was founded in Wustrow with around 20 founding members. From the statutes of the association: "The purpose of the association is the expansion and reconstruction of the Lüneburg - Dannenberg - Lüchow - Wustrow - Salzwedel - Klötze - Oebisfelde - Wolfsburg railway line and the associated promotion of sustainable development in the region. In addition, the association promotes environmental protection in the area of ​​mobility. The purpose of the statutes is realized in particular through a continuous rail link to connect the region to the metropolitan regions of Hamburg and Wolfsburg. Public awareness of environmentally friendly transport is to be promoted. " The seat of the association is in Lüchow.

Decommissioning procedure 2019

At the end of February, the DRE put the railway line out to tender for other companies. It is no longer economically viable for the DRE. This is a requirement for a decommissioning procedure.

A little later, the Jeetze (l) talbahn development association published the following message:

Jeetze (l) talbahn: DRE buys the Lüchow - Wustrow / Dannenberg - Lüchow rail line due to bridge damage The German Regional Railway (DRE), the owner of the Jeetze (l) talbahn between Dannenberg and Lüchow, recently acquired the further section to Wustrow from Deutsche Bahn AG Bought. The aim is to gradually reactivate a continuous rail link from Dannenberg to Wustrow. “After the foundation of the Jeetzelta (l) bahn development association and the clearing work with over 60 active members in Altmark and Wendland, the purchase of the railway line by the DRE will set another milestone for the“ future of the train ”, says the chairman of the development association Thorsten Hensel. After a break of more than 20 years, trains could run to Wustrow again in 2021, possibly by the end of 2020. Before that, however, several railway bridges in Dannenberg and Müggenburg have to be renovated. Therefore, as a precaution, the DRE has put the section between Dannenberg and Lüchow out to tender for third parties. Interested railway companies would have to repair all bridges within a few months. "The damage to the bridges is greater than expected," says Thorsten Hensel. Therefore, a short-term start of operations is not possible and the tender is the consequence. With the purchase of the southern section to Wustrow, however, the DRE is underscoring its interest in the Jeetze (l) talbahn. The development association expects the re-commissioning by spring 2020. In the summer of the current year, a draisine station festival is planned in Lüchow with the social-ecological association "EinsWeiter" eV. In addition, on the occasion of Möbel Wolfrath's craftsmen's days from Grabow, handrails could also roll out as a replacement for the railroad in September. "Real" trains on the Jeetze (l) talbahn roll in autumn in the Altmark between Salzwedel and Klötze or Arendsee - Wittenberge. The preparations for this, in particular the replacement of ailing sleepers in Arendsee, have already begun.

Sidings and sidings

From the Salzwedel – Dannenberg line, two railway lines and a connecting line branched off , which have already been shut down or already decommissioned. Since 1891 there have been a total of ten sidings on the line , one of which is still there.

Luebbow

To the west of the station, the siding of a gravel works branched off from 1910 to 1968 at route kilometers 7.2. The gravel was used, among other things, for the construction of the extension to Dannenberg.

Wustrow

In Wustrow there was a siding for a Royal Prussian Remontedepot set up for horse breeding in Königshorst in 1866 . After the section between Lübbow and Wustrow had been dismantled, the track ended south of Landesstraße 262 at approximately 10.3 kilometers at a distance of a Küster Holding plant and was used as a loading track until freight traffic to Wustrow was discontinued .

Kalibahn Wustrow – Schreyahn

To the west of Wustrow there were extensive salt deposits, the extraction of which promised economic success. In 1905 the mining company Teutonia from Hanover began sinking the “Rudolph” shaft near Schreyahn. Production began in 1908. In 1909, the "Wendland" mine followed in Luckauer Holz, also west of Wustrow. At the same time as work on the “Rudolph” shaft, preparatory work for a connection to the Salzwedel – Lüchow line began. The mine connection railway was five kilometers long and branched off from the railway line south of the station at about 10.2 km. It ran shortly to the south and then westwards past the miners' settlement in the Wustrower Rudolphstraße, over the Wustrower Dumme to the shaft "Rudolph" southeast of Schreyahn.

The mines were closed in 1922/23 and 1926 and completely dismantled by 1928. The 25 hectares large area of the shaft "Rudolph" is a below since 1968. Conservation standing salt Flora area and still good small three surveys from Kali - overburden recognizable and a round Schachtsee. A road now runs on the former railway embankment, the name of which is still reminiscent of the railway.

Lüchow

In the prewar period in Lüchow there was a timber wholesaler, which also had a connection to the tracks of the Lüchow – Schmarsau Railway, and a grain distillery with a siding. The track to the timber shop branched off from the loading track at about the level of the station building and crossed the loading street . The connection existed until the 1950s. A starch factory that belongs to the AVEBE group and was built in the 1980s still has a siding. The connection only served to remove the potato starch , the potatoes were not delivered by train.

Lüchow – Schmarsau Railway

Between 1911 and 1969 the Lüchow-Schmarsauer Eisenbahn (LSE) operated the Lüchow – Schmarsau railway line and in Lüchow had a connection to the Salzwedel – Dannenberg railway line. The LSE passenger trains ran to Lüchow Süd station, so there was no continuous connection to Lüchow state station. The passengers had to walk between the stations.

The Lüchow-Schmarsauer Eisenbahn operated the railway connections of a building materials store, a land trade, the aforementioned timber wholesaler and an agricultural cooperative on its track systems at the Kleinbahnhof. The goods delivery operation to the LSE was maintained until the end of traffic on the Dannenberg – Lüchow route. Only a few meters and the first switch are left of the LSE transfer rails. The current Jeetzeltalbahn line ends at this point.

Jameln

Building of the former Jameln train station

The former crossing track (track 2) was separated from the through track at the northern entrance to the station and was operated by the local Raiffeisen goods cooperative until Deutsche Bahn ceased operations.

Vehicle use

Standard freight locomotive series 50 on the turntable in the Salzwedel depot

A class 212 diesel locomotive is shunting in Lüchow

A class 261 locomotive in the former Uelzen depot

Class 333 small locomotive in Uelzen

Regio-Shuttle series 650 of the ODEG

The Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw) Salzwedel was located on the line . The other depots in the vicinity were Uelzen and Lüneburg. It can therefore be assumed that the vehicles on the route were primarily stationed in these three depots.

The opening move on the spur track Salzwedel Lüchow-was supported by a steam locomotive of the Prussian G 2 series drawn. When the extension to Dannenberg was opened, a Prussian S 1 was used. Until 1945, journeys of the Reichsbahn series 54.8-12 and 54.10 are also documented. In the post-war period, the use of the 38.10-40 and 64 series is documented.

With the beginning of the winter timetable in 1952/53, the steam locomotive-hauled passenger trains were gradually replaced by Uerdinger VT 95 rail buses . In Dannenberg, two rail buses of this type were stationed on the line until passenger traffic was discontinued.

In freight locomotives of 1974 were up to the end of the summer timetable class 50 used of diesel locomotives of the 212 series from the depot Lübeck were detached. The 212 series drove occasionally in double traction during the sugar beet and grain campaign . At the beginning of the 1970s, the 261 series was also used for freight traffic on the route . A class 332 or 333 small locomotive was stationed in Dannenberg Ost from the 1970s to the beginning of the 1990s for handover trips and customer-oriented service of sidings .

The German regional railway used a MaK type 600 D bar locomotive for the first trips on the route with the "Heide Express" . With a Leihfahrzeug 650 Series of the East German railway GmbH (ODEG) were carried out in 2004 on special occasions special rides on the route and an occasional shuttle between Dannenberg railway stations. During the scheduled passenger traffic in 2005, rail buses of the 798 series from Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG) were used. The 100th anniversary of the Jeetzeltalbahn took place on 17./18. September 2011 a regional shuttle BR 650 of the ODEG was used again between Dannenberg Ost and Lüchow .

Salzwedel depot

The Salzwedel depot is located directly on the former line, the track ran right next to the turntable . The depot is a listed building and is operated by the Dampflokfreunde Salzwedel e. V. operated. Only locomotives from Salzwedel are likely to have been used on the Salzwedel – Lüchow branch line. After the line was extended to Dannenberg, there was a connection to the Wittenberge – Lüneburg – Buchholz railway, but due to its continued exclusively regional importance, the vehicle fleet used was almost exclusively located in Salzwedel. After the interruption of the route between the Bürgerholz stop and Lübbow in 1945, the use of vehicles from Salzwedel ended.

In 1914 a total of 17 locomotives of various Prussian series were stationed in Salzwedel :

group	model series	number
Express locomotive	S 1	8th
Express locomotive	S 5	2
Passenger locomotive	P 3	4th
Freight locomotive	G 3	1
Freight locomotive	G 4	1
Tank locomotive	T 4	1

In 1930 there were 20 locomotives from five Reichsbahn series :

group	model series	number	Numbers
Express locomotive	13.6-8	1	13 835
Freight locomotive	54.8-10	6th	54 932, 1013, 1015, 1018, 1019, 1061
Freight locomotive	55.7-13	2	55 1064, 1287
Freight locomotive	57.10-35	8th	57 1529, 1568, 1891, 1895, 2050, 2067, 2068, 2922
Freight train tank locomotive	91.3-18	3	91 1074, 1419, 1420

In 1937, six freight locomotives of the 54.15–17 series (54 1503, 1616, 1621, 1632, 1635, 1707) were added, which probably replaced the 54.8–10 series locomotives .

During the Second World War, five series were stationed at the Salzwedel depot:

group	model series
Passenger locomotive	38.10-40
Freight locomotive	50
Freight locomotive	54.8-10
Freight train tank locomotive	89.70-75
Freight train tank locomotive	91.3-18

Uelzen depot

In 1924 the Uelzen – Dannenberg West line was opened. Until 1945 it was a section of the former timetable route 110g of the Deutsche Reichsbahn from Ludwigslust to Uelzen. The trains always ran the section between the Dannenberg stations. In addition, the so-called Amerikalinie had been a direct connection between Uelzen and Salzwedel since 1873.

With the resumption of passenger traffic after the Second World War, there was continuous passenger traffic between Uelzen and Lüchow or Lübbow. When the Lüneburg depot gave up its vehicle fleet in 1960, the Uelzen depot was the only depot in the area.

In 1930, 74 locomotives from five series of the Deutsche Reichsbahn were at home in Uelzen:

group	model series	number	Numbers
Passenger locomotive	38.10-40	15th	38 1523, 1744, 1889, 2572, 2573, 2684, 2688, 2801, 2819, 2871, 2878, 3186, 3599, 3720, 3721
Freight locomotive	54.8-10	3	54 836, 887, 1049
Freight locomotive	55.25-56	40	55 2523, 2530, 2538, 2735, 2737, 2738, 2740, 2904, 2908, 2909, 2911, 2913, 3089, 3090, 3091, 3319, 3324, 3327, 3517, 3574, 3746, 3756, 3764, 3781, 4012 , 4027, 4193, 4287, 4478, 4480, 4596, 4791, 4795, 5177, 5328, 5417, 5418, 5477, 5478, 5488
Freight locomotive	57.10-35	6th	57 1802, 1832, 1894, 1897, 2046, 2066
Freight train tank locomotive	91.3-18	10	91 1020, 1148, 1319, 1488, 1491, 1492, 1498, 1564, 1601, 1787

In the first half of the 1950s, locomotives of the following series were stationed in Uelzen:

group	model series
Freight locomotive	41
Freight locomotive	50
Freight locomotive	52
Freight locomotive	56.20-29
Passenger train tender locomotive	64
Passenger train tender locomotive	74.4-13
Freight train tank locomotive	86

The vehicle fleet in 1957 at the Uelzen depot comprised three series with a total of 42 steam locomotives:

group	model series	number	Numbers
Passenger locomotive	38.10-40	11	38 1737, 2297, 2360, 2581, 2756, 2909, 3125, 3186, 3218, 3729, 4032
Freight locomotive	50	27	50 036, 415, 477, 541, 585, 778, 780, 841, 947, 983, 1012, 1168, 1287, 1332, 1556, 1691, 1816, 1833, 1871, 1952, 2219, 2224, 2283, 2315, 2319 , 2320, 2768
Freight train tank locomotive	92.5-10	4th	92 602, 662, 727, 815

By 1960, the class 92.5–10 locomotives were completely replaced by the 94.5–17 series . From October 12, 1960, eleven class 55.25–56 locomotives were added from the dissolved Soltau depot .

In 1973, 22 Uerdingen rail buses and a total of 31 steam locomotives of the 050-053 series with cabin tenders were stationed in Uelzen :

model series	number	Numbers
050	10	050 452-2, 550-3, 570-1, 776-4, 794-7, 815-0, 842-4, 868-9, 979-4 Z-Lok: 050 535-4
051	6th	051 446-3, 625-2, 654-2, 734-2, 761-5, 814-2
052	13	052 207-8, 319-1, 465-2, 501-4, 511-3, 513-9, 544-4, 548-5, 561-8, 791-1, 902-4 Z locomotives: 052 586 -5, 719-2
053	2	053 013-9, 065-9
795	22nd	795 204-7, 278-1, 347-4, 348-2, 349-0, 350-8, 394-6, 395-3, 396-1, 397-9, 398-7, 491-0, 505 -7, 506-5, 507-3, 508-1, 509-9, 600-6, 604-8, 605-5, 606-3, 607-1

In addition, a 701 series maintenance vehicle was stationed to maintain the overhead contact line . The routes in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district were not electrified, which is why this vehicle was not used there.

Lüneburg depot

The Salzwedel – Dannenberg line ends in Dannenberg on the former Wittenberge – Lüneburg – Buchholz railway line. Scheduled passenger traffic between Lüneburg and Salzwedel or driving on a section of the Salzwedel – Dannenberg route did not take place in the period up to 1945. The Wittenberge – Salzwedel traffic took place via Arendsee. After the connection between Salzwedel and Lübbow was interrupted, the route could only be reached from Uelzen or Lüneburg.

In 1914, the Lüneburg depot had 47 locomotives from 11 Prussian series:

group	model series	number
Express locomotive	S 1	1
Express locomotive	S 2	1
Express locomotive	S 3	9
Express locomotive	S 5.2	1
Passenger locomotive	P 4.1 / P 4.2	5
Freight locomotive	G 3	2
Freight locomotive	G 4.2 / G 4.3	15th
Freight locomotive	G 5.1 / G 5.2	1
Tank locomotive	G 7.1 / G 7.2	4th
Tank locomotive	T 2	1
Tank locomotive	T 3	7th

In addition to the listed steam locomotives, four accumulator railcars were also stationed.

In the 1930s, the variety of series had halved. In 1930 40 locomotives from five series of the Deutsche Reichsbahn were stationed:

group	model series	number	Numbers
Freight locomotive	55.0-6	4th	55 363, 428, 496, 591
Freight locomotive	55.25-56	17th	55 2526, 2529, 2536, 2736, 2899, 2901, 3099, 3105, 3512, 3598, 3644, 4017, 4216, 4591, 4796, 5208, 5486
Freight locomotive	57.10-35	7th	57 2044, 2224, 3347, 3348, 3393, 3394, 3395
Passenger train tender locomotive	78.0-5	6th	78 216, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419
Freight train tank locomotive	89.70-75	6th	89 7130, 7200, 7201, 7202, 7204, 7441

In 1933 six series with 32 locomotives were stationed:

group	model series	number	Numbers
Passenger locomotive	38.10-40	1	38 2648
Freight locomotive	55.25-56	14th	55 2521, 2529, 2536, 2706, 2727, 2899, 2901, 3099, 3105, 3512, 3598, 4017, 5208, 5486
Freight locomotive	57.10-35	8th	57 1783, 2044, 2224, 3347, 3348, 3393, 3394, 3395
Passenger train tender locomotive	78.0-5	6th	78 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 426
Freight train tank locomotive	89.70-75	2	89 7200, 7202
Freight train tank locomotive	92.5-10	1	92 614

In the 1950s, locomotives of the following series were stationed in Lüneburg:

group	model series
Freight locomotive	50
Freight locomotive	56.20-29
Passenger train tender locomotive	74.4-13
Freight train tank locomotive	86

On May 28, 1960, the Lüneburg depot gave up all locomotives and was only a personnel depot.

Kalibahn Wustrow – Schreyahn

Former locomotive type "Thuringia" of the Kalibahn 1976 in museum traffic.

Two two-axle and one three-axle steam locomotive were used for the mine connection railway, which transported the potash freight to the transfer point at the Wustrow state railway station:

design type	Manufacturer	Factory no.	Construction year
Bn2t	OK	2008	1906
Bn2t	Henschel	11333	1912
Cn2t	Henschel	18038	1920

The three-axle “Thuringia” locomotive built by Henschel & Sohn in 1920 is a reinforced replica of the Prussian T 3 and was in use at the Ronnenberg potash plant until 1975 after the potash mine was closed . It was then taken over by the Hamburg Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways and is used for museum traffic on the section Schönberg-Schönberger Strand of the Kiel-Schönberger Railway .

Lüchow-Schmarsauer Railway

Former V 261 of the LSE

Until 1974, the transfer traffic was carried out by the Lüchow-Schmarsau Railway itself, for which purpose the tracks of the state train station were used. Two steam locomotives were used, which were decommissioned in 1961 and 1962. In 1961 a two-axle V 20 diesel locomotive was purchased, which carried out handover traffic until 1974.

Subject no.	design type	Manufacturer	Factory no.	Construction year
323	Cn2t	Hanomag	6317	1911
324	Cn2t	Hanomag	6318	1911
261	V 20	Berlin mechanical engineering	11395	1941

The V 20 diesel locomotive was in operation with the Bremervörde-Osterholzer Eisenbahn before 1961 and has been in non-running condition since 2003 in the possession of the Historical Railways Association ( Almetalbahn ).

literature

• Ulrich Bornmüller, Dr. Rolf Meyer (Red.): Railway time in Wendland: Contributions to the railway history of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . Hartmut Geller, Museumsverein Wustrow eV, 1990, ISBN 3-925861-06-8

Web links

• Back then in Wendland: Railways in Wendland 1890 - 1970
• Railway stations in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district
• Friends of the Jeetze (l) valley railway

Individual evidence

Most of the information in this article comes from the railway era in Wendland , and the following sources are also cited:

1. ↑ ^{a b c} By rail customers - for rail customers. Self-presentation. Deutsche Regionalisenbahn, Berlin February 22, 2006, pp. 9–12. DRE self-presentation booklet ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 914 KiB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} List of the disused (DB) lines (since January 1, 1994) . Federal Railway Office. ( XLS; 106 KiB ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
3. ↑ State development plan for the state of Saxony-Anhalt 1999 . Ministry for Construction and Transport Saxony-Anhalt. P. 30. ( PDF; 2.79 MiB ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
4. ^ State spatial planning program Lower Saxony 1994 . Lower Saxony Ministry for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Reading version including changes and additions from 1998, 2002 and 2006. p. 54.
5. ↑ Fundamental amendment to the Lower Saxony regional spatial planning program . Lower Saxony Ministry for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. Graphic representation, draft.
6. ↑ Materialienband on a draft regulation amending the Regulation on the country-planning program of Lower Saxony . Part 2. Lower Saxony Ministry for Rural Areas, Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection. P. 208.
7. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2005/2006 . 5th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-89494-134-0 . , P. 31.
8. ↑ Prussian New
   Admission: The Agrographic Changes in the 19th Century. Map of the districts of Lüchow and Dannenberg . Overprint 1927 from the map of the German Reich 1: 100,000 with the status of the corrections and additions made on the base plates. Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme, Berlin.
   Route map . 1935, 1944. Deutsche Reichsbahn.
9. ^ Prussian new admission
10. ↑ ^{a b} Railway Atlas Germany: Edition 2005/2006 . Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-89494-134-0 , p. 31.
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11. ^ Hans-Joachim Fricke, Hans-Joachim Ritzau: The inner-German border and rail traffic . 2nd Edition. Zeit und Eisenbahn Verlag, 1990, ISBN 3-921304-45-8 , pp. 32–33.
12. ^ ^{A b} Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between Weser and Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 434 .
13. ↑ ^{a b} Timetable Lübbow – Dannenberg . 1953. German Federal Railroad.
14. ↑ Historical Hitzacker (Elbe): City and Elbe history ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
    Anneliese Krenzlin : The cultural landscape of the Hanoverian Wendland . Ed .: Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning. 2nd unchanged edition. Self-published, Bad Godesberg 1969, p. 335-336 . Chronicle of the city of Lüchow . E. Köhring, Lüchow 1949, p.
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15. ↑ ^{a b c} Ulrich Brohm, Elke Meyer-Hoos (ed.): Potash and linen - industrialization approaches in the Wustrow area 1874 to 1928 . Grafisches Centrum Cuno, Wustrow 2005, ISBN 3-935971-20-6 , p. 208-211 .
16. ↑ Ulrich Brohm, Elke Meyer-Hoos (ed.): Potash and linen - industrialization approaches in the Wustrow area 1874 to 1928 . Grafisches Centrum Cuno, Wustrow 2005, ISBN 3-935971-20-6 , p. 28-41 .
17. ↑ Berndt Wachter: From Dannenberg and its history . 2nd Edition. Becker Verlag, Uelzen 1983, p. 80.
18. ↑ Timetable Salzwedel – Lüchow – Dannenberg . 1912/13, May 1, 1914. Prussian State Railways.
    Timetable Salzwedel – Lüchow – Dannenberg . October 24, 1920, June 5, 1925, 1930, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944/45. German Reichsbahn.
19. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of the City of Lüchow . E. Köhring, Lüchow 1949. p. 102.
20. ↑ Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between Weser and Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 433, 439 .
21. ↑ Berndt Wachter: From Dannenberg and its history . 2nd Edition. Becker Verlag, Uelzen 1983, p. 89.
22. ↑ Timetable Salzwedel – Lüchow – Dannenberg . 1947/48. German Reichsbahn.
23. ↑ Timetable Lüneburg – Dannenberg – Lüchow . 1958, 1960/61, 1964. Deutsche Bundesbahn.
24. ↑ Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between Weser and Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 444 .
25. ↑ Timetable Lüneburg – Dannenberg – Lüchow . 1966/67, 1970/71, 1974. Deutsche Bundesbahn.
26. ^ Regional bus Braunschweig (Ed.): 1937 Lüchow – Wustrow – Lübbow – Lüchow . ( PDF; 25 KiB ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), 1945 Lüchow – Wustrow –Lübbow – Salzwedel . ( PDF; 22 KiB ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ), 304 Lüneburg – Hitzacker –Dannenberg – Lüchow ( PDF; 58 KiB ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ).   
27. ↑ Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between Weser and Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 439 .
28. ↑ Urs Kramer, Bruno Schötz: Sugar beet trains . Transexpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-613-71149-4 , p. 48.
29. ↑ ^{a b} Railway infrastructure of the DRE Group , as of February 3, 2008, Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn GmbH. ( PDF ( Memento of December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
30. ↑ Jeetzeltalbahn is to grow to the south ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, October 13, 2005.
    Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between the Weser and the Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 444 .
31. ↑ Off for Jeetzeltalbahn? ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, September 27, 2003.
    Never compromised on acceptance ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, September 30, 2003.
    Old dispute ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, January 9, 2004.
32. ↑ Bridges cause rail problems ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, January 28, 2006.
33. ^ Trains in Winterland ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, February 3, 2003.
    Pictures from the Heide-Express ( memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Picture no. 106 and 107. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Verkehrsfreunde Lüneburg e. V.
34. ↑ Have time, enjoy the journey ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, November 29, 2004.
    Day trippers and goods ( memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, May 25, 2005.
35. ^ Jeetzeltalbahn train traffic, March 12 - December 10, 2005. German regional railway. ( PDF; 87 KiB ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
36. ↑ Bridges cause rail problems ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, January 28, 2006. The train
    schedule to Lüneburg remains until 2007 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, November 11, 2006.
37. ↑ Call for tenders for the delivery of railway infrastructure , accessed on March 2, 2019
38. ↑ ^{a b} Railway Directorate - plans 1832-1985 . Hamburg State Archives. S. 162. ( PDF; 2.16 MiB )
39. ↑ ^{a b} Ulrich Brohm, Elke Meyer-Hoos (ed.): Potash and linen - industrialization approaches in the Wustrow area 1874 to 1928 . Grafisches Centrum Cuno, Wustrow 2005, ISBN 3-935971-20-6 , p. 200-237 .
40. ↑ Nature reserve "Salzfloragebiet bei Schreyahn" . Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Protection and Nature Conservation
41. ^ Old dispute ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, January 9, 2004.
42. ↑ Have time, enjoy the journey ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, November 29, 2004.
    Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between the Weser and Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 444 .
43. ^ Excursionists and goods ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Elbe-Jeetzel-Zeitung, May 25, 2005.
44. ↑ Gerd Wolff: Lower Saxony 2. Between Weser and Elbe . In: German small and private railways . Volume 10. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-88255-669-8 , p. 443 .