Wismar – Karow railway line

Wismar – Karow (Meckl)
Railway line in Dabel
Route number (DB) :	6936
Course book section (DB) :	156 (1998)
Route length:	71.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend -0.1 Wismar after Bad Kleinen 4.9 -0.5 Hornstorf 0.0 Hornstorf to Rostock B 105 3.7 Warkstorf 10.7 Neukloster (Meckl) 14.1 Neumühler Forest Timber loading 18.3 Was in B 192 Brueler Bach of bath little ones (Connecting track) 22.1 Blankenberg (Meckl) B 192 to Rostock Owner limit, DB Netz - PEG 25.7 Bruel Brueler Bach 30.6 Weitendorf (b Brüel) B 104 , B 192 33.9 Sternberg (Meckl) B 192 40.7 Dabel B 192 44.3 Borkow 51.0 Below 52.8 Zidderich 57.4 Goldberg (Meckl) B 192 B 192 60.8 Wendish goods B 192 66.0 Damerow 67.9 Damerower Forest from Güstrow from Parchim 71.6 Karow (Meckl) to Meyenburg to Neubrandenburg

The Wismar – Karow railway , also known as the Wismar-Karow Railway , is an approximately 70-kilometer-long, non-electrified and partially disused and dismantled single-track branch line that runs through the west of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

history

Wismar-Karow Railway

The Wismar-Karower Railway Company received the concession for the secondary railway from Wismar to Karow on December 22, 1886 . From the share capital of 1.777 million marks, the cities of Wismar, Warin, Brüel, Sternberg and Güstrow took over 0.748 million marks as well as the railway company Lenz & Co. in Stettin 1.029 million marks. The line, which crossed the Friedrich-Franz-Eisenbahn in Blankenberg , was opened on November 14th, 1887. A company lease had to be paid to the Wismar-Rostock Railway Company for the use of the Wismar – Hornstorf section . On September 1, 1890, the railway was nationalized. In this four locomotives taken.

State-owned operation

The route was primarily of local importance. With Neukloster , Warin , Brüel , Sternberg and Goldberg it connected five cities, but offered no direct connection to the regional centers of Rostock and Schwerin, not even to Güstrow and Parchim . Until the First World War, the trains continued to run via Karow to Pritzwalk , after which the importance of this connection decreased in favor of the route from Güstrow .

The line was operated by them after the First World War and the establishment of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Local passenger transport between Sternberg and Karow was ended on June 1, 1996 and between Wismar and Sternberg on May 28, 1998. On October 29, 1998, the line between the Hornstorf junction near Wismar and Blankenberg was closed; this section has meanwhile been mostly dismantled. The middle section between Dabel and Damerower Forst was closed on October 17, 2000. On the remaining section between Damerower Forst and Karow, there was still traffic to a Bundeswehr location for a while. On August 12, 2003, this section was also closed.

Development since 2007

Route near Blankenberg, May 2009

On September 13, 2007, the Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH (PEG) took over the management of the Blankenberg - Dabel section on behalf of the current owner, ecoMotion . The route has been used for the transport of biodiesel from the ecoMotion plant in Sternberg since August 20, 2007 , initially as required. Since April 8, 2008, the train, which is operated by the Potsdam Railway Company (EGP) and DB Schenker Rail , has been running regularly to Hamburg once a week .

The ecoMotion company also took over the Sternberg station building and renovated it true to the original. On July 9, 2008, the then Prime Minister Harald Ringstorff inaugurated the building, which has since been used as the “House of Associations”. On this occasion, the PEG offered special trips from Sternberg in the direction of Weitendorf.

In summer 2011, steel pipes coming from Blankenberg to Dabel were delivered in block trains for the construction of the NEL pipeline . There are currently individual journeys to transport fertilizers to Dabel. Since July 10, 2012, RegioInfra GmbH (RIG), which has taken over Prignitzer Eisenbahn Infrastruktur GmbH retroactively to January 1, 2012, has been operating the Blankenberg – Dabel section.

The route between Borkow and Damerow is used as a tourist attraction for trolley transport.

literature

• Lothar Schultz: Railways in Mecklenburg . 3rd edition, Transpress, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-344-70732-9 .
• Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. 1996-1998 . Transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71091-9 .
• Wolfgang Fiegenbaum, Wolfgang Klee: Farewell to the rails. 1998-1999 . Transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71144-3 .

Web links

Commons : Wismar-Karower Eisenbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Train path pricing system for the Blankenberg –Dabel line (TPS PEG IS_1). (PDF) (No longer available online.) September 1, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
2. ↑ EGP, biodiesel transport from Sternberg (Meckl) now as regular trains. (No longer available online.) April 28, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
3. ↑ PEG press release of June 30, 2008: Inauguration of the Sternberg (Meckl) train station on July 9, 2008 . (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
4. ↑ RegioInfra acquires Prignitzer Eisenbahn Infrastruktur GmbH. RegioInfra GmbH, July 10, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2012 .