Prakwice stop

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Prökelwitz
Prökelwitz stop - reception pavilion for Kaiser Wilhelm II (before 1918)
Prökelwitz stop - reception pavilion for Kaiser Wilhelm II (before 1918)
Data
Platform tracks 1
Price range Breakpoint
opening 1893
Conveyance 1999
location
City / municipality Dzierzgoń
Place / district Prakwice
Country Poland
Coordinates 53 ° 54 '48 "  N , 19 ° 23' 3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '48 "  N , 19 ° 23' 3"  E
Height ( SO ) 69  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Poland
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The Prakwice stop ( German  Prökelwitz ) was a stop on the Małdyty – Malbork (Maldeuten – Marienburg) railway in East Prussia . During the time of the German Empire, he owned a reception building that was known as the "Kaiserpavillon".

history

The “Kaiserpavillon” in Prökelwitz ( Prakwice in Polish ) was originally built in connection with the hunting passion of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. On the railway line between Maldeuten and Marienburg , which opened on September 1, 1893 . Prince Wilhelm of Prussia first came to the area to hunt in 1884. A year later he was a guest of the family zu Dohna-Schlobitten at Gut Prökelwitz. Richard Wilhelm Ludwig, Prince of Dohna-Schlobitten , remained the emperor's host until 1906, who came to the region every year for his hunts and in 1910 for maneuvers.

The construction of this royal train station in Prökelwitz was connected with the relocation of the emperor's summer residence to Cadinen near Elbing . From there the Kaiser took the train to Prökelwitz. The architecture of the building, which was built between 1893 and 1898, is more reminiscent of a park pavilion than a train station and was therefore called the “Kaiserpavillon”. The wooden building has a gable roof and is covered with tiles. Originally it was shaped like a horseshoe. The ends faced the access road to the station in the form of protruding wings, the one in the east is slightly wider and has a large, three-part window. On the western roof there is a tower with a polygonal roof topped by an onion-shaped tin dome. There was a mast on the tower, on which the imperial flag was probably hoisted when Wilhelm II visited.

Viewed from the platform side - from the north - there was a bay window with a triple window under the tower. Initially there was a long, covered porch supported by decorative, openwork wooden pillars. At a later time (probably around 1910) this veranda was added and an additional wing was created in this way. The fronts at the end of the roof were finished with windows that were an imitation of neo-Gothic architecture.

Wilhelm II was a fan of the Norse style, and the Rominten hunting lodge was also built in this style. The decorative elements of the wood carvings are associated with Viking culture, for example on the roof structure with stylized dragon heads. The wooden roof consoles that supported the eaves end as a carved trident. The veranda on the side of the tracks and the east wing received impressive pointed arch windows, decorative elements in the form of ram's horns or animal heads protruded beyond it.

After the end of the monarchy, the Prökelwitz stop was dissolved as a stopover in 1918 and the “Kaiserpavillon” was moved to Bauditten , where it has stood since then. The wooden structure was completely dismantled and rebuilt in its current location around 1925. In the interwar period, Prökelwitz was expanded into a crossing station and a loading station, which only served operational purposes without passenger traffic.


After the Second World War

From 1948 the stop with the name Prokłowice was recorded in the timetable of the Polish state railway PKP , but until 1949 it was without traffic because the Myślice – Dzierzgoń Most section had not yet reopened. In 1949 it was renamed Prokwice , and in 1950 it was moved to Dzierzgoń Renamed to Prakwice in 1951. Passenger traffic ceased on September 30, 1999. The line was dismantled in the first half of 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Central European Railway Administrations (ed.): Station directory of the European railways . (formerly Dr. KOCH's station directory). 52nd edition. Barthol & Co., Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1939.
  2. ^ Measurement table sheet 2082. Christburg. In: Preußische Landesaufnahme, corrected by the Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme 1930. 1911, accessed on April 23, 2019 .
  3. ^ Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 ; Course book 1948 , 1948/49 , 1949 , 1949/50 , 1950 , 1950/51 and 1951 on bazakolejowa.pl.
  4. ↑ Prakwice. przystanek osobowy (po). In: atlaskolejowy.net. Retrieved April 7, 2019 (Polish).