Eutin-Lübeck Railway
The Eutin-Lübecker Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was a railway company in eastern Holstein with its headquarters in Lübeck from 1870 to 1941.
history
1870 to 1941
First route Eutin – Lübeck
The Eutin-Lübecker Eisenbahngesellschaft (ELE), founded in 1870, opened the 33-kilometer, standard-gauge railway line from Eutin to Lübeck on April 10, 1873 , connecting the East Holstein Railway ( Neumünster-Ascheberg - Eutin-Neustadt ) to the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck .
The route initially ended at the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn (LBE) station in front of the Holstentor , which was replaced in 1908 by the new main train station, which is still in use today .
As on May 29, 1908 with two locomotives , locomotive 2 and Lok 8-covered 118 axes strong freight train (59 loaded freight cars ) of ELE on the morning the train yard leaving transited the main train station, derailed the under full steam locomotives and the first seven cars behind the pedestrian bridge over Fackenburger Allee at the level of the signal box . Four other wagons, which were pushed into one another at the level of the railway post office and thus out of the track, did not overturn. Below the bridge, locomotive 2 driving at the top cut open the locked switch that had broken when it was driven over . While their front wheels followed the Eutin track , everything else drove into the harbor track . Here they were off the tracks forced out . The driver's car following the locomotives was thrown off the rails to the left, overturned and almost came to rest next to locomotive 8, which was digging into the ground. The six following wagons pushed into and over one another. The track was torn from the ground over a length of 30 meters . People were not injured in the accident, but the damage to property was considerable.
- Railway accident at the Lübeck train station
In the evening, the general assembly took place and a saloon car for the management and shareholders of the railway was attached to the ELE train leaving the station shortly before ten o'clock .
Second route Pönitz – Ahrensbök
ELE added eight kilometers to its route network on May 10, 1886 by opening a branch line from Gleschendorf Bahnhof to Ahrensbök . On May 15, 1934, the Gleschendorfer train station was renamed Pönitz .
- Main article: Pönitz – Ahrensbök railway line
Until nationalization
Of the total of 41 kilometers of the network, 36 kilometers were in the Principality of Lübeck , which belonged to the state of Oldenburg . The remaining five kilometers were in the area of the city of Lübeck. The Principality of Lübeck and the City of Lübeck owned the majority of the shares in ELE. Both territories were incorporated into the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1937 .
Most of the trains on the Eutin – Lübeck section ran from Kiel even before the nationalization . Daily navigated 1929, a D-train -pair the relation keel Berlin the route.
After nationalization
In the course of the planning of the Vogelfluglinie , the Eutin-Lübeck Railway Company was nationalized. On January 1, 1941, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over ELE, which was deleted from the commercial register of the Eutin District Court on May 2, 1941 . Schwerin became the competent Reichsbahn directorate .
After the Second World War , the former ELE route network came to the Hamburg Reich Railway Directorate , which became the Hamburg Federal Railway Directorate in 1949 .
Passenger traffic on the Pönitz – Ahrensbök branch line was stopped on May 3, 1954, and goods traffic on May 28, 1988. The line has since been dismantled.
present
Eutin – Lübeck line
The Eutin – Lübeck line is now part of the Kiel – Lübeck railway line . It is used as part of the timetable route 140 ( Travemünde / Kiel – Lübeck– Hamburg ) by DB Regio Nord , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG . These trains run in 2007 on the route Kiel – Lübeck– (Bad Kleinen) -Buchen-Lüneburg.
The series 648 is used . In the outskirts of the day, the 218 series is also driven with n-type cars or double-decker cars.
- Main article: Kiel – Lübeck railway line
literature
- Hans-Harald Kloth: The private railway Eutin-Lübeck (1870-1941). Hamburg 1983, ISBN 3-923999-08-9 .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, part 1: Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg. Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9 .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 12: Schleswig-Holstein 1 (eastern part). EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-671-1 , (complete revision).
Web links
- Overview of the ELE locomotives
- Early documents and newspaper articles about the Eutin-Lübeck Railway in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Footnotes
- ^ Victor von Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System - Lübeck-Büchener Railway
- ↑ Weekly Chronicle. In: Vaterstätische Blätter , No. 22, year 1908, edition of May 31, 1908, p. 88.
- ↑ Derailment of the Eutin freight train at Lübeck Central Station. In: Lübeckische advertisements , Volume 158, Abend-Blatt, No. 270, edition of May 29, 1908.