Hamburg march train

Hamburg march train
Route number (DB) :	9126
Course book section (DB) :	formerly 110e
Route length:	33.71 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Distance from Tiefstack 36.25 00.00 Billbrook 35.95 00.00 Route to Glinde 35.64 00.00 Connection to Liebigstrasse 34.76 00.00 Connection tidal channel 34.57 00.00 Connection to Pinkert Weg 33.71 00.00 Billwerder-Moorfleet 33.63 00.00 Hamburg – Berlin route Connection to Boehringer 33.02 00.00 Moorfleet 31.51 00.00 Dove-Elbe-Bridge 31.39 00.00 Dove Elbe 31.22 00.00 Tatenberg 30.15 00.00 Spadenland 28.78 00.00 Inland turns 28.50 00.00 Ochsenwerder 27.33 00.00 Gurgles 26.10 00.00 Oortkaten 23.94 00.00 Funfhausen 21.47 00.00 Kirchwerder-Howe 21.19 00.00 Middleest 18.67 16.03 former Vierländer Bahn from Bergedorf 18.17 16.53 Zollenspieker Querweg 17.45 17.25 Zollenspieker 17.35 00.00 15.16 Devil place 14.87 Neesen 14.00 Riepenburg (demand stop) 12.83 Grief 12.53 Kraueler Elbe 11.34 Gose Elbe 11.17 Lapwing Braak 10.67 Lapwing Braak 9.12 Dove Elbe 9.11 Elbe dike 8.98 Old Dove Elbe 7.42 Altengamme 5.41 Borghorst 5.05 Brook weather / state border SH-HH 3.50 birch 2.20 Brandenmoor Route from Bergedorf 0.88 Dune Mountain 0.54 Powder factory Düneberg (Anst) 0.00 Geesthacht Geesthacht Harbor (Anst) Route to Krümmel Swell:

The Hamburg Marschbahn was a standard gauge small train in the Hamburg Vier- und Marschlanden .

history

construction

The route was built as a job creation measure after the First World War on behalf of the Hamburg Senate. The first section, opened on May 12, 1921, branched off the main line of the Bergedorf-Geesthacht Railway (BGE) in Düneberg , led down the Elbe and merged at the level of Teufelsort with the southward section of the Vierländer Eisenbahn bis, which opened in 1912 from Hamburg-Bergedorf to a terminus in Zollenspieker on the north bank of the Elbe .

At the branching of the route sections, a route leading to the northwest was also built, which after two further stations initially ended in Fünfhausen . In the further extension to the west, the line reached Ochsenwerder on April 1, 1923 , Tatenberg in 1926  and Moorfleet in 1927  . Here the route followed the course of the elongated street villages on a railway embankment , but kept a certain distance. The official opening of the entire route took place on October 1, 1928.

business

The Marschbahn crossed the tracks of the Berlin – Hamburg railway at Moorfleet on a steel truss bridge together with the Unterer Landweg road and ended at Billbrook station on the Billwerder Industrial Railway, built in 1907 and owned by BGE since October 21, 1921. This also led the operation on the march track from the beginning. Continuous passenger trains initially ran between Moorfleet and Geesthacht , later also from Billwerder-Moorfleet or Billbrook. Due to the distance between the line and the settlements, which have no real centers, the line was not fully utilized from the start. In addition, as early as May 15, 1926, the BGE set up a competing company with omnibuses , which promised to make the area better accessible.

Takeover by the Bergedorf-Geesthachter-Eisenbahn

In 1942, the BGE, the shares of which belonged almost entirely to the Hamburg state, also took over ownership of the approximately 33-kilometer-long march track.

Traffic to Neuengamme

Since 1942, the railway, in conjunction with the Vierländer Eisenbahn and a newly created siding into the Neuengamme concentration camp, served to transport concentration camp prisoners and the goods they produced in the direction of Hamburg.

Junction of the march railway lines at Teufelsort, on the left the route from / to Tatenberg / Billbrook, in the middle of Bergedorf and on the right of Düneberg / Geesthacht. The middle strand runs against the direction of view towards Zollenspieker. (2014)

Former station building Borghorst

Former Kiebitzbraak station building, as it was in 2014

New building on the former station area of ​​Fünfhausen, as it was in 2014

Cessation of operations

After traffic between Geesthacht and Zollenspieker had come to a standstill by the summer of 1950 at the latest, operations on the rest of the Marschbahn ceased on March 1, 1952. However, there is a source that states that freight traffic there was only officially ended on May 9, 1955.

Current condition of the railway systems

The track systems of the Hamburg Marschbahn are almost completely dismantled today. The asphalted Marschbahndamm road was laid on the embankment and is mainly used as a cycle path . Some station buildings are still preserved, as are the pillars of the bridge over the Dove Elbe at the level of the Tatenberg lock . The bridge over the long-distance and S-Bahn tracks at their Billwerder-Moorfleet stop provided the connection between the freight tracks in the industrial area in the south of Billwerder and the Billwerder industrial railway until 1976. It was probably replaced by a new, pure road bridge for the Untere Landweg at the end of the 1980s. There are still tracks on a small stretch of the march in front of Billbrook station; they are used by the AKN in order to reach the route of the former Südstormarnsche Kreisbahn to Glinde .

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  Former track system on the march railway embankment in Kirchwerder

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  The pillars of the dismantled bridge of the march over the ...

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  ... Dove Elbe between Moorfleet and Tatenberg are still standing today

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  Marschbahn embankment in Ochsenwerder (view towards Fünfhausen)

Conversion to bus operation

The BGE and thus also the bus traffic in the Vier- und Marschlanden was taken over in 1954 by the Hamburg-Holstein transport company (VHH). It now operates around 17 bus routes there, most of which are aimed at Bergedorf train station . Four bus lines lead to the Hamburg ZOB . The timetable of bus routes that serve schools in the Bergedorf district takes into account a. the lesson times and vacation dates. At night there is an on- demand service between Bergedorf station and the Vier- und Marschlanden (south of the autobahn) ( call and collective taxi AST 829 operated by VHH), which runs every hour from 10:10 p.m. to 2:10 a.m., on Weekends until 5:10 a.m., from Bergedorf station to the front door, and from 10:40 p.m. from the Vier- und Marschlanden. Orders are made, stating the destination and number of people to be transported, one hour before the journey on the Hamburg telephone number 721 18 80 (as of January 2020).

Name similarities

The railway line from Elmshorn to Westerland , which runs through the Schleswig-Holstein Elbe and North Sea marshes, is also known as the Marschbahn . “Holsteinische” or “Schleswig-Holsteinische Marschbahn-Gesellschaft” are the earlier, successive names of the companies that initially operated this railway.

The village of Fünfhausen mentioned here is located in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg and should not be confused with Fünfhausen, also in Hamburg, in the Harburg district on the other side of the Elbe.

See also

• Rail transport in Hamburg

literature

• Stefan Meyer: 100 years of the railway between Bergedorf and Geesthacht - from the BGE to the AKN freight railway . Lokrundschau, Gülzow 2006, ISBN 3-931647-21-8
• Jürgen Opravil: The Bergedorf Geesthachter Railway . Kurt Viebranz, Schwarzenbek 1978, ISBN 3-921595-01-0
• Rolf Wobbe: Chronicle of the four-country railway . Walter Flügge, Geesthacht 1984, ISBN 3-923952-03-1

Web links

Commons : Hamburger Marschbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Vierländer Bahn and the Hamburg Marschbahn ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (private page, PDF; 3 MiB)
• Monument protection for the former station building "Kiebitzbrack" in Neuengamme
• Gleismannsbahnhof track 13.M, closed: the Billbrook - Geesthacht railway (private site)
• Model Railway Forum: The former Zollenspieker station near Hamburg, with track plan ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (private site)
• File: Ochsenwärder Bahnhof der Marschbahn 1929 (private site)
• Railway pictures: Reception building at Borghorst station of the former march railway (private site)
• to Vierländer-Bahn and Hamburger Marschbahn (private site)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Drehscheibe-online.de ( Memento from August 5, 2014 on WebCite ), private website with maps and photos of the bridge over the long-distance railway tracks at Billwerder Moorfleet
3. ↑ ^{a b} "Gleismannsbahnhof track 13.M, closed: the Billbrook - Geesthacht railway" (private site)
4. ↑ HVV timetable 2020