Eckernförde circular paths

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Eckernförde – Kappeln
Course book range : 102c (1936), 113p (1944, 1950)
Route length: 28.7 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend
   
 0.0 Eckernförde State Railway Station 7.5 m
   
 Transition to the Kiel – Flensburg line
   
 to the port, three-rail
   
 0.5 Eckernförde district station 7.5 m
   
 after Owschlag
   
 1.5 Hasenheide (from 1947) 24.5 m
   
 4.0 Barkelsby 31.5 m
   
 8.5 Loose 24.0 m
   
 10.7 Moor bridge 24.0 m
   
 12.2 Wooden village 27.5 m
   
 13.7 Söby 38.0 m
   
 16.6 Vogelsang green wood 25.0 m
   
 20.8 Schuby 11.5 m
   
 22.2 Dörphof 7.5 m
   
 23.0 Karby 11.0 m
   
 24.4 Brodersby 25.5 m
   
 28.3 Ellenberg 2.0 m
   
 Schlei
   
 Three-rail track to the Schleswig circular railway
   
 28.7 Kappeln 3.0 m
   
 Flensburg circular railway
Eckernförde – Owschlag
Course book range : 113r (1944, 1950)
Route length: 25 km
Gauge : 1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend
   
 0.0 Eckernförde State Railway Station 7.5 m
   
 Transition to the Kiel – Flensburg line
   
 to the port, three-rail
   
 0.5 Eckernförde district station 7.5 m
   
 to Kappeln
   
 Flensburg – Kiel
   
 2.9 Carl height 2.0 m
   
 4.1 Schnaap 7.0 m
   
 5.6 Kochendorf 17.0 m
   
 9.0 Osterby 15.0 m
   
 11.4 Huts - Damendorf 16.0 m
   
 13.1 Cinderella 13.0 m
   
 16.0 Silberbergen (Baumgarten) 27.0 m
   
 16.8 Ahlefeld 28.0 m
   
 20.7 Brekendorf 20.0 m
   
 22.7 Westermoor 13.5 m
   
 24.3 Norby-Ramsdorf 9.0 m
   
 25.0 Owschlag 8.0 m
   
 Transition to the Schleswig – Rendsburg line

Under the name Eckernförde Kreisbahnen two (including the Eckernförde Hafenbahn three) narrow-gauge railways were grouped together, which belonged to the former Eckernförde district .

history

Seal of the Eckernförde-Kappelner narrow-gauge railway company

Eckernförde-Kappelner narrow-gauge railway company

Almost 50 percent of the necessary capital of the stock corporation was raised by large landowners from Schwansen , the rest was shared by the district of Eckernförde, the towns of Eckernförde and Kappeln and individual rural communities affected by Schwansen. Georg Soenderop had received the order to build the line in 1887.

Eckernförde – Kappeln railway line

The first line was opened on January 26, 1889 by the "Eckernförde-Kappelner Schmalspurbahn-Gesellschaft" between Eckernförde and Ellenberg on the right bank of the Schlei opposite Kappeln .

From December 25, 1889, freight wagons could cross the Schlei using a pontoon bridge. Trains hauled by locomotives were only allowed to travel to Kappeln station from March 15, 1927 after a swing bridge had been built, which was used jointly with the Flensburg district railway . The route was 29 km long and ran through the Schwansen landscape between Schlei and Eckernförde Bay in a north-easterly direction from the district town .

On April 1, 1903, the Eckernförde district took over the railway, after previously having been reassigned from branch line to small railway, and dissolved the company.

In the summer of 1958, traffic on the older route ended between May 31 and September 10. Until February 22, 1959, there was still a residual operation.

Eckernförde – Owschlag railway line

Noorwanderweg on the former small railway line in Schnaap

The Eckernförde district opened a second line on October 30, 1904, also in meter gauge. It led in a westerly direction from Eckernförde through the Hüttener Berge to the main line Flensburg – Neumünster, which it reached after 25 km in the Owschlag station . In contrast to the older railway, it was licensed as a small railway and - despite joint management - had separate management.

The passenger trains on both routes ran in Eckernförde via the district train station (initially called "Schwansener Bahnhof") to the Eckernförde state train station half a kilometer away (from 1945: "Hauptbahnhof"), where the journeys ended on separate tracks north of the reception building (now a car park) . At times the tracks ended east of the station building (those of the Kiel – Flensburg line are to the west of it). In the early days, the Eckernförde district railways could have had their own reception building in the area of ​​the state train station at the end of their tracks. A one-way ticket between the two Eckernförde train stations cost 20 pfennigs in 2nd class and 10 pfennigs in 3rd class in 1897, while the return tickets cost 30 or 20 pfennigs.

In the period after the Second World War, the two railways could no longer operate economically in the sparsely populated, exclusively agricultural area and were shut down relatively early. This affected the railway to Owschlag in the summer of 1954 between April 20 and September 30.

Eckernförde port railway

Eckernförde harbor around 1920

The Eckernförde port railway , which belongs to the Eckernförde Kreisbahnen , had been in operation since May 27, 1905 and until the mid-1970s had so-called three - rail tracks for both narrow-gauge and standard-gauge traffic in the port area. After that, only standard gauge tracks were available. These passed to the city of Eckernförde and were served by the Deutsche Bundesbahn for over 30 years. With a few exceptions (last passenger transport as part of a multi-day event with a tram in the 1980s), this route was only used for freight transport.

Transportation services

In the period between 1930 and 1954 were in passenger traffic

  • most tickets sold on the Eckernförde – Kappeln route in 1944 (around 400,000), followed by 1948 (around 340,000);
  • most tickets sold on the Eckernförde – Owschlag route in 1947 (around 275,000), followed by 1943 (around 220,000);
  • Most tickets were sold in 1951 in the regular bus service of Eckernförde Kreisbahnen built since 1949 (approx. 140,000).

In freight traffic, in contrast to passenger traffic, the Owschlager line was more successful than the Kappelner line until 1948. The maximum on the railway line to Owschlag between 1930 and 1954 was around 90,000 tons (1935), followed by around 75,000 tons (1940). During this period, a maximum of around 52,000 tons were transported on the line to Kappeln (1942, 1943 and 1950).

Remnants of the railway lines

Many of the old station buildings on both routes, such as the station buildings in Ascheffel and Loose, have been preserved, some of them are residential buildings, others are home to restaurants.

  • Former station building in Ascheffel

  • Former Hütten-Damendorf train station

  • Former Baumgarten station

  • Former Moorbrücke station

  • Former Vogelsang-Grünholz station

literature

  • Heinz-Herbert Schöning: The Eckernförde district railways . Kenning, Nordhorn 1998, ISBN 3-927587-70-2 .
  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Part 1 Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg . Zeunert, Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9 , pp. 31-37 .
  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 12: Schleswig-Holstein 1 (eastern part) . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-671-1 , p. 272-298 .
  • Martin Weltner: Final chord on the fjord. Eckernförde circular path. In: Lokmagazin 4/2018, pp. 60–65.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the Hasenheide stop had been in existence since 1947; Ref .: Schöning, p. 77; Hasenheide. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; accessed on September 20, 2015 .
  2. ^ Heinz-Herbert Schöning: The Eckernförder Kreisbahnen . In: branch line documentation . tape 33 . Kenning, Nordhorn 1998, ISBN 3-927587-70-2 , p. 31 .
  3. ↑ the stop at Carlshöhe was called Graßholz from 1904 to 1925 , Carlshöhe from 1925 to 1935 , barracks from 1935 to 1944 and again Carlshöhe from 1944 to 1954 ; Ref .: Schöning, p. 85 Carlshöhe. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; accessed on September 20, 2015 .
  4. ↑ the stop at Silberbergen was opened in 1922; Ref .: Silberbergen. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; accessed on September 20, 2015 . According to Schöning, p. 87, stop until 1922, station since 1922
  5. ^ A b Dieter Ziegler : Railways and State in the Age of Industrialization. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-515-06749-3 , p. 399 Rn 46.
  6. ↑ the Eckernförde measuring table card from 1895 generates this reference: Royal Prussian state recording, measuring table sheet Eckernförde , 1877 with additions in 1895
  7. ^ Address book and business handbook for the city and district of Eckernförde, page 145; Published by C. Heldt's Buchhandlung, 1897
  8. ↑ Klaus formers home: The Eckernförder Economic Area , Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 1958, graphics traffic Eckernförde orbits from 1930 to 1954 in Appendix I.