Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk railway line

Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk
Insterburg – Tilsit line 1938
Course book range :	118a (1939) , 135 (1944)
Route length:	53.8 km
Gauge :	1520 mm ( Russian gauge )
Legend from Kaliningrad and from Schelesnodorozhny 0.0 Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) to Chernyshevskoye Angrapa (Angerapp) Insterburger Kleinbahnen Instrutsch (Inster) 8.0 ( Geswethen / Landwehr ) 11.4 Ovrashnaja-Novoja (Flower Valley) 18.2 (Franzdorf) 21.9 Kaluschskoje (Grünheide) 27.2 Vishnevoye (Paballen / Throwing) 33.5 Schilino -Nowoje (Szillen / Schillen) 37.8 (Skrebudicken / Finkental) 41.5 Artjomowka (Argeningken / Argenhof) former Bf. 48.1 Barsukowka (Pamletten) to Kaliningrad from Kaliningrad from Neman 53.8 Sovetsk (Tilsit) to Pagėgiai

The Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk (Insterburg – Tilsit) railway connects the Rajon town of Chernyakhovsk , located in the center of the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad , with the rajon-free town of Sovetsk , located north on the Lithuanian border . Passenger traffic was stopped in 2009 for financial reasons.

history

The initially single-track line was built between 1863 and 1865 by a private stock corporation under the direction of the entrepreneur Bethel Henry Strousberg . The cost was around 180,000  Reichsmarks per train kilometer. The Tilsit-Insterburger Eisenbahn was opened on June 16, 1865. In 1884 the line was taken over by the Prussian State Railways and from 1911 to 1913 double-tracked. The deportations of German, Austrian and Czech Jews to Riga and Raasiku between 1941 and 1942 probably took place along this route.

Since the takeover of the line by the Soviet Union after 1945, the line has been operated on a single track in broad gauge . Chernyakhovsk has been bypassed in a broader eastern arc since the Soviet times.

literature

• Karl-Eberhard Murawski: Bethel Henry Strousberg and the railway construction in East Prussia , in: Michael Brocke , Margret Heitmann , Harald Lordick (eds.): On the history and culture of the Jews in East and West Prussia . Hildesheim: Olms, 2000, pp. 397-404

Web links

• An essay about the route and about Strousberg by W. Westphal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 16.2 km according to the route book
2. ↑ message when www.severinform.ru from January 18, 2009
3. ↑ Karlheinz Hartung, Erich Preuß : Chronicle of Deutsche Eisenbahnen 1835–1995 , transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71038-9 , p. 35
4. ↑ This can be proven for the transport from Düsseldorf on December 11, 1941 from the report by police officer Paul Salitter .
5. ↑ The parish of Jurgaitschen / Königskirch today. The cards known after 1945 allow this statement. Tilsit-Ragnit district community, April 29, 2007, archived from the original on October 15, 2007 ; accessed on July 26, 2018 .