Buchhorster forest railway

Buchhorster forest railway
Route length:	entire route approx. 6 km Clay pit loading ramp approx. 3 km Brunsenkoppel – Lokschuppen (current route) 1.1 km
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Top speed:	15 km / h
Legend Match factory DZFAG Oberjersdaler Strasse Lilac way Dornhorst clay pit Clay pit west Uhlenbusch Uhlenbusch Büchener Weg (L 200) 1.1 Brunsenkoppel planned evasion 0.6 Old bridge European long-distance hiking trail 0.3 Mill Valley Evasion Branch trail 0.0 Engine shed Dorfstrasse (K 41) Basedow brickworks Canal Street Buchhoster Weg (side street) Loading place canal Berliner Strasse ( B 5 ) Lift bridge over the Elbe-Lübeck Canal Loading ramp transition to the standard-gauge railway

The book Horster Forest Railway is in Schleswig-Holstein location remaining distance of 1981 permanently closed 600-millimeter brickworks and match ground the Brickyard Basedow in Buchhorst and Lauenburger DZFAG match factory, similar to a now heritage railway is operated. A 1.1 kilometer long section has been preserved, which became private property and was expanded into a museum-like railway since 1988.

history

Solar railway ELSE from Buchhorster Waldbahn

The Schmidtsche Ziegelei was founded in Buchhorst in 1830. In 1889 this was taken over by Theodor Basedow , after whom a street in Lauenburg is named to this day. After the takeover, he expanded it into a modern factory. In 1912 the brickworks light railway was finally built, which connected the Dornhorst clay pit west of Buchhorst with the Basedow brickworks, which could then be supplied with the light railway, and continued to the port on the Elbe-Lübeck Canal , where there was a reloading facility Trains on the Lübeck – Lüneburg line existed. This section was about 2 kilometers long.

In 1925, the field railway line was expanded to include a connecting line to the Lauenburger match factory. The basis for this was a contract between the Basedow brickworks and the DZFAG match factory.

Until 1981, when the entire line was closed, the sections of the match factory-brick factory and brick factory-clay pit were the property of the match factory, although the brick factory Basedow was allowed to use the sections. In return, the match factory was allowed to use the brickworks-harbor section that was owned by the Brickworks Basedow.

The total length of the field railway was now about five kilometers. The brickworks operated with steam locomotives and diesel locomotives of the types O&K MV 2 a, MV 4 a and Deutz OMZ 122, at the match factory with Deutz and DKW locomotives.

At that time the field railway had three tasks, the transport of clay and sand from the pits near Dornhorst to the brickworks, the transport of the bricks made in the brickworks to the port and to the loading ramp, in order to transfer them to the ships on the Elbe-Lübeck Canal and to be loaded onto the freight trains that ran between Lüneburg and Lübeck . It was also used to transport wood to the match factory. In the 1960s (Dornhorst-Zündholzfabrik branch) and 1974 (clay pit brickworks) the field railway was partially shut down. Only the brickworks-harbor section was still in operation.

In 1981 the light railway was finally completely shut down. The line was dismantled, with the exception of a 1.1-kilometer-long remnant from the Brunsenkoppel to today's locomotive shed and initial station of the Buchhorster Waldbahn, or the tracks were filled in. The bridge of the European long-distance hiking trail over the field railway, which was then still made of bricks, was demolished and replaced by a dam through which the route in this area was filled in.

1986 the section Brunsenkoppel – Lokschuppen was taken over by private individuals around the mechanical engineer Hans-Ulrich Ottensmeyer from Lower Saxony who wanted to operate a private railway there. After extensive construction work on the remaining section and the reconstruction of the bridge of the long-distance hiking trail - but now as a wooden structure - the route could be driven again from 1988 almost to the end stop at Brunsenkoppel. On May 14, 2006, the Buchhorster Waldbahn was again open to traffic as far as the Brunsenkoppel stop. Today private trips are offered on the remaining route.

Although the brickworks, today part of the company " Wienerberger Ziegelindustrie GmbH & Co ", was still in operation until 2004, there was no longer any need for a light railway, as the clay was delivered by lorry from external mining areas . The clay pits in Dornhorst, where there are now lakes, have long since been exhausted.

Route

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  Engine shed

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  Station area

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  Mühlental stop

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  Alte Brücke stop

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  Brunsenkoppel stop

The section in the Buchhorster mountains that is still in operation begins at the Lokschuppen station. The route then continues west into the forest. Then the “Mühlental” stop is reached. In the middle of the route, a former junction is then passed. Then the route leads uphill under the bridge of the long-distance hiking trail. The “Alte Brücke” stop is located in this area. In the further course the Buchhorster forest railway leads downhill again past some fish ponds. From there, the route continues north. Finally the end stop “Brunsenkoppel” is reached. There is a cycle path on parts of the subsequent disused route.

vehicles

Overview of all vehicles:

Type	Manufacturer	Serial number	power	Dimensions	Construction year	origin
MV 2 a	Orenstein & Koppel	25639	40 hp	7 t	1956	Buchhorster and Lauenburg brick and match railway
MV 4 a	Orenstein & Koppel	26112	75 hp	10 t	1960	Buchhorster and Lauenburg brick and match railway
CHL 14G	Schöma	2723	14 hp	2 t	1964	Bargteheide steam brick
LKM Ns 2f	LKM Babelsberg	262003	36 hp	6 t	1958	Brickyard Bobitz / Dalliendorf
LKM Ns 2f	LKM Babelsberg	262047	36 hp	6 t	1958	Malliss brickworks
ST1 "ELSE"	Hans-Ulrich Ottensmeyer	-	3 kW	0.8 t	1999/2000	-
Passenger car "Lübeck" summer car	-	-	-	-	-	-
"Lübeck" winter car	-	-	-	-	-	-
Passenger car (open) "potato box"	Self-made	-	-	-	-	-
Transport trolley	-	-	-	-	-	Boizenburg shipyard
various light rail trucks	-	-	-	-	-	a few from East Germany (especially Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), otherwise from the Buchhorster and Lauenburger Ziegelei- und Zündholzbahn

Web links

• Website of the Buchhorster Waldbahn
• Interactive route map of the Buchhorster Waldbahn
• Bahn-Express - The Buchhorster Waldbahn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vehicles of the Buchhorster Waldbahn . Retrieved July 14, 2019

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 54.5 ″  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 9.1 ″  E