Railway Schönberg – Dassow
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line Schönberg – Dassow– (Pötenitz) was a single-track railway line in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and connected the city of Dassow and later also the Pötenitz air force station with the main line from Lübeck to Bad Kleinen . The entire length of the railway line has been dismantled.
course
The line branched off from the Lübeck – Bad Kleinen railway line at the eastern head of the Schönberg (Meckl) station and ran in an arc to the north to the Groß Bünsdorf station. The Prieschendorf stop and the Dassow train station were reached along the Maurine and Stepenitz lowlands. The later extension ran from Dassow in a north-westerly direction to Pötenitz .
history
After many years of planning to develop the Klützer Winkel with railway lines, around 1900 the decision was made in favor of two branch lines starting from the Lübeck – Bad Kleinen railway line: Grevesmühlen – Klütz and Schönberg – Dassow. The line from Schönberg to Dassow was opened on September 29, 1905.
During the Nazi era, the Luftwaffe set up a witness office on the Pötenitzer Wiek near the town of Pötenitz , which was supposed to act as an interface between the arms manufacturing industry and various positions in the Luftwaffe. The Schönberg – Dassow railway line was extended in 1937/1938 under the direction of the Luftwaffe beyond the previous Dassow terminus to the Air Force Department. After disputes about the building acceptance and operational details, the route extension was not taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn until 1942 .
In Pötenitz there was no passenger station, instead all civilian passenger and freight traffic was handled at the transfer point at the entrance to the Air Force Equipment Office at km 13.4. In the Zeugamt itself there were still 8.8 km of tracks.
After the end of the war, the grounds of the Air Force Equipment Office were destroyed by Allied troops. The railway connection was closed in June 1945 and earmarked for reparation payments to the Soviet Union. The section between Dassow-Vorwerk and Pötenitz was dismantled in 1949. Operations between Schönberg and Dassow ceased in 1951, but the railway line has probably not been officially shut down.
Current situation
The embankment has been preserved throughout the section between Schönberg and Dassow. In 2001 a wooden bridge was built over the Stepenitz in the course of the route and a bicycle path between the two cities was set up on the embankment.
swell
- Sven Schiffner: Ruins on the edge: Railway and military history between Dassower See and the Priwall peninsula (= Mecklenburg ways ). 1st edition. Grevesmühlen 2001, ISBN 3-9807808-8-0 .