Franzburger Kreisbahnen

Stralsund – Ribnitz-Damgarten East Altenpleen – Klausdorf
Former CM - railcars of Brissonneau and Lotz of Franzburger orbits in Stralsund
Course book range :	ex 125c, 125d (1947)
Route length:	67.22 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Minimum radius :	60 m
Top speed:	30 km / h
Legend 0.00 Stralsund ( transition to the Stralsund – Rostock line ) 2.50 Stralsund city forest 5.53 Kl. Kordshagen 8.61 Krönnevitz 10.84 Oldendorf Prohner Bach 11.47 0.00 Altenpleen 2.40 Gunz 4.56 Klein Mohrdorf 5.10 Gross Mohrdorf 6.93 Hohendorf (near Stralsund) 9.42 Klausdorf 13.34 Neuenpleen 15.88 Lassentin 17.65 Buschenhagen 18.50 Bartelshagen 19.94 Great Kordshagen 21.50 Arbshagen 23.15 Flemendorf 24.59 Zipke 26.17 Küstrow Connection port, three-rail track 29.23 Barth transition to the Darßbahn 30.10 Darßbahn 33.67 Divitz 34.80 Frauendorf (near Barth) Barthe 38.10 Spoldershagen 39.32 Grünau (Pom.) 41.20 Ludershagen 43.47 Hermannshof 45.37 Hessenburg 46.41 Bars 49.00 room Saaler Bach 50.91 Kückenshagen 53.15 Dechowshof 54.03 Bodden shipyard 55.40 Ribnitz-Damgarten- Stadtwald 56.79 Ribnitz-Damgarten-Hafenbahnhof to the port of Damgarten 57.77 Ribnitz-Damgarten Ost ( transition to the Stralsund – Rostock line )

Franzburger Kreisbahnen (FKB) was the name of a railway company in Western Pomerania. It operated narrow-gauge railway lines between Stralsund , Barth and Damgarten . The name goes back to what was then the Franzburg district in the Prussian province of Pomerania .

history

The AG Franzburger Kreisbahnen (FKB) was founded on November 21, 1893. Some of the founders were still shareholders in 1939, the Franzburg-Barth district held almost 50% and the province almost 48%, while the Prussian state and the non-district city of Stralsund had only a very small share . The company Lenz & Co GmbH had since left.

This company opened up the landscape between the Baltic Sea coast and the Stralsund – Rostock railway line by means of a small train in meter gauge . Its 67 km long network was put into operation on May 4, 1895. The main line began at the small station Stralsund (later Stralsund Landesbahn, then east) and led in a westerly direction via Altenpleen to Barth, where the state railway line from Velgast was added, which continued to Prerow since 1910 ( railway line Velgast-Prerow ; the section between Barth and Prerow becomes Called 'Darßbahn'). After 57 kilometers, the small train finally reached the Stralsund – Rostock state railway in Damgarten an der Recknitz , which formed the Mecklenburg border here . A nine-kilometer junction led from Altenpleen to the coastal town of Klausdorf, north of Stralsund .

In the first few years the company Lenz & Co. GmbH ran the business. On April 1, 1910, it was transferred to the small railway department of the Provincial Association of the Province of Pomerania in Stettin . On September 22, 1919, they were replaced by the Association of Western Pomeranian Kleinbahnen GmbH in Stettin, and at times also in Stralsund, and since April 1, 1937, the Pomeranian State Railway Directorate . In 1934 the route was re- routed from km 31 to 33 due to the construction of a military airfield near Barth . In 1935, the FKB transported 186,300 people and 101,510 tons of goods.

From January 1, 1940, the company was incorporated into the public corporation “ Pommersche Landesbahnen ”. Its new name was Franzburger Bahnen (North) with the management in Barth. The new organization dissolved at the beginning of 1945 with the end of the war . The regional railway administration had withdrawn from Stettin to Greifswald and Binz on Rügen before the Red Army , but was then relocated to Demmin . From January 1, 1947, as the main administration of the railways of the newly founded state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, it also took over the management of the other former small and private railways in the state until they became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn on April 1, 1949 .

Shutdown

The end of the meter-gauge "Kreisbahn" came in the 1960s: since June 16, 1961, trains in Stralsund no longer began at the state train station, but at the Stadtwald stop 2.5 kilometers away, mainly to drive the city streets the station forecourt. Passenger traffic on the western part of the line between Hermannshof and (Ribnitz-) Damgarten Ost ended on May 29, 1965 and from Barth on January 4, 1971. After that, the line was dismantled, as all traffic on the Stralsund – Barth line and on the branch line to Klausdorf had already ended on November 30, 1968. The rest of the freight traffic from Barth to Hermannshof was served until May 31, 1969.

vehicles

Locomotive 99 5605 on the line

Passenger cars and some freight cars were equipped with the Görlitz weight brake.

Vehicles before 1949

Type / series	Company number			design type	Construction year	comment
	FKB	Pomeranian State Railways	German Reichsbahn
Lenz type i	1 i -6 i	119-124	99 5601-5606	B n2t	1893-1894	Locomotive no. 4i (99 5605) obtained from the German Railway Association (DEV) in Bruchhausen-Vilsen, "Franzburg" locomotive no. 5i (99 5606) until February 2009 on the grounds of the Ernst Paul Lehmann patent factory in Nuremberg, then in Private ownership in Schwäbisch Gmünd, currently owned by the Dutch Kleinbaan Foundation (in operational refurbishment in 2018)
Lenz type ii	7 ii -9 ii	165, 166	99 5621, 99 5622	B'B n4vt	1902-1913
	9	130	99 5611	C n2t	1903	Formerly Salzwedeler Kleinbahnen Nr. 5, privately owned in France since 1973
	T 1 and 2	1121, 1124	VT 137 531 and 532	(1A) (A1)	1935, 1939	T 1 (VT 137 531) in operation since June 11, 1952 as VB 147 562. T 2 railcar (VT 137 532) received from the German Railway Association (DEV) in Bruchhausen-Vilsen as T 42
	-	1125-1127	VT 137 562 to 564	Bo'2 '	1939	from Chemins de fer du Morbihan , VT 137 564 in operation since December 31, 1951 as VB 147 561.
	-	-	VT 133 521	1'A	1929	1952 by Gera-Pforten-Wuitz-Mumsdorf , retired in 1961.

The following Franzburger Kreisbahnen wagons have been preserved and are operational at the German Railway Association (DEV):

• Passenger car no. 11: FKB no. 7, DR no. 901-312
• Passenger car with luggage compartment no. 31: FKB no. 3, DR no. 908-002
• Baggage / mail trolley no.55: FKB no. 15, DR no. 905-101
• Open freight car no.133: FKB no. 257, DR no. 99-32-43
• Optional car no. 137: FKB no. 54, DR no. 99-39-02
• four-axle boxcar No. 146, FKB No. 551, DR no. 99-39-01

literature

• Klaus Kieper, Walter Bauchspies: Franzburger Kreisbahnen , Verlag Ingrid Zeunert, Gifhorn 2002, ISBN 3-924335-26-5 .
• Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: GDR narrow-gauge railway archive . 2nd Edition. transpress Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71405-2 (reprint of the 1982 edition).

Web links

• Stillgend.de route inspection with numerous pictures

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Kieper: The Franzburger Kreisbahnen Stralsund – Barth – Damgarten . transpress Verlag, 1982, p. 82-83 .