Jüterbog-Luckenwalder Kreiskleinbahnen

Görsdorf – Jüterbog / Luckenwalde

	7.0	Görsdorf
	6.1	Görsdorf Mill
	5.7	Görsdorf sheep farm
	3.3	Zagelsdorf
	1.8	Rosenthal
	0.0	Dahme (Mark) small train station
	2.0	Niendorfer Weg
	4.3	Niendorf
	7.6	Ihlow
	10.8	Hohenseefeld

	14.8	Nun village
	17.2	Reinsdorf
	20.4	Werbig brickworks
	20.9	Advertising
	22.0	Borgisdorf
	23.1	Hohengörsdorf
	27.3	Happy ones
	28.7	Brandendorf
	34.1	Citizen Mill
	35.7	Jüterbog Zinnaer Vorstadt
	37.4	Jüterbog Kleinbahnhof
	38.2	Jüterbog passenger station
	15.1	Heinsdorf Niebendorf
	18.4	Wahlsdorf
	21.7	Petkus Brickyard
	23.1	Petkus
	25.5	Left
	26.9	fire
	28.7	Stülper Forest
	30.9	Cuff
	33.8	Holbeck
	35.1	Forsthaus Holbeck
	39.0	Jänickendorf small train station
	41.5	Luckenwalde waterworks
	42.1	Kolzenburger Weg
	43.9	Elsthal
	46.4	Luckenwalde small train station

The Jüterbog-Luckenwalder Kreiskleinbahnen started operating an 80-kilometer-long narrow-gauge network between the cities of Dahme / Mark , Jüterbog and Luckenwalde in 1900 as a municipal company owned by the Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district .

history

Small train station in Luckenwalde

In today's Teltow-Fläming district , which is made up of the old districts of Jüterbog, Luckenwalde and Zossen, the age of the railways began in 1841 when the Berlin-Saxon Railway Company, which was soon called the Berlin-Anhalt Railway, started the district with a long-distance railway Berlin – Dessau crossed from north to south. The towns of Luckenwalde and Jüterbog are located on it.

The area further south-east around the Niedere Fläming, which at that time belonged to the Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district, remained undeveloped even after the Berlin-Dresden railway was built in 1875. Only the small town of Dahme in the Mark got a connection to this main line in 1886 by the Dahme-Uckroer Eisenbahn AG .

On May 14, 1897, the district council decided to build an 80-kilometer-long rail network with state support. For reasons of economy, the track width of 750 millimeters was chosen. The operation could be opened on December 20, 1900 on all routes. In 1903 the small railroad department of the Brandenburg provincial administration took over management and later the Brandenburg State Transport Office . Administration and workshop were in Dahme.

One line led from Jüterbog in an easterly direction via Markendorf and Hohenseefeld to Dahme (38 kilometers), where a seven-kilometer branch line to Görsdorf followed. The second cross-connection began in Luckenwalde and first reached the Jüterbog – Dahme route, heading east, then turning south in Hohenseefeld (35 kilometers). She crossed the Prussian military railway Zossen – Jüterbog in Jänickendorf .

Passenger traffic is suspended for a few years

After the Jüterbog-Luckenwalde district municipal association opened its own bus service on January 15, 1932, rail passenger transport was discontinued on December 15, 1932. The bus network soon comprised four lines with a total length of 122 kilometers, which largely replaced the rail network. 16 buses and three trailers were used for this.

In 1936 there were still eight steam locomotives, ten passenger cars, five packing cars and 196 freight cars.

Freight traffic was also given up on February 15, 1939 and the rail network was sold to the military treasury, who used it partly as access to military training areas and for training purposes, and partly dismantled it.

Luckenwalde – Jüterboger Railway

Remaining track in Holbeck

After the Second World War, the railway was called the Luckenwalde-Jüterboger Railway. On December 8, 1945, it resumed passenger transport on the old network, which had been shortened by five kilometers. The trains ended in Jüterbog Zinnaer Vorstadt and in Luckenwalde at the former Elsthal stop. As a rule, it was a train on weekdays that left Dahme in the morning and went to Jüterbog on three days of the week, to Luckenwalde on the other three days and returned in the afternoon. In 1949 the railway was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Operations on the Dahme – Görsdorf branch line were completely stopped at the end of 1947. Passenger trains ran on the remaining routes until May 25, 1963. Soon afterwards, goods traffic also ended: From January 1, 1964, there were only freight trains from Dahme via Hohenseefeld to Petkus on the one hand and to Werbig on the other . This service, too, ended on February 1, 1965. This was followed by the dismantling of the railway systems and passenger transport by omnibuses.

The local authority until 1950 was then transferred to the administration of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.

vehicles

Six steam locomotives with three coupled axles were procured from Krauss for the opening of operations, and a seventh was added in 1906. The whereabouts of these locomotives is unknown, most of them are likely to have been worn out during the war.

In 1919 an eighth TECHOW (later HELENE ) locomotive was purchased from Henschel . This locomotive was sold to Bad Lauterberg in 1934 and was then used as a museum locomotive for the German Society for Railway History in Jagsttal from 1970 . Today it is privately owned.

After no locomotives were available in 1945, bag locomotives were initially used , followed by three former army field railway locomotives ( JLKB No. 1, 4 and 5 ).

After 1949, the Deutsche Reichsbahn also used the 99 4501 and 99 4502 as well as the 99 4541 on the network. In addition to the steam locomotives, the small locomotives Köf 6001 to Kö 6004 were also used.

No.	Surname	No. from 1949	design type	Manufacturer, year of construction	Remarks
1 to 7	JÜTERBOG , LUCKENWALDE , GÖRSDORF , NONNENDORF , MARKENDORF , PETKUS , HOHENSEEFELD	-	C1 'n2t	Krauss 1900, 1906
8th	TECHOW	-	C n2t	Henschel 1919	1934 to the Baryt-Werke Bad Lauterberg, today privately owned
No. 1 ^II		99 4652	C n2 (t)	Henschel 1941	Army field railway locomotive HF 110 C.
No. 2 ^II to 5 ^II			D h2	Warsaw 1936	Bag locomotives from Poland, returned by 1950
No. 4 ^III and 5 ^III		99 4651 and 99 4653	C n2 (t)	Henschel 1941, Jung 1944	Army field railway locomotive HF 110 C.

Flaming skate

The Fläming Skate , which was built until 2001, was largely laid on or directly next to the former railway embankment. So largely the route from Luckenwalde via Stülpe, Petkus, Wahlsdorf to Hohenseefeld (S2, S4 and RK1) and the sections from south of Werder to Fröhden (RK4 and RK5), from Hohenseefeld to Niendorf (S6) and from south of Prensdorf to Görsdorf (S7). In Holbeck (RK1 and RK5) you can even see traces of track right next to the asphalt runway of the Fläming-Skate.

literature

Klaus Lehnert: With steam from Luckenwalde to Dahme , in DGEG-Nachrichten No. 110, November / December 1992
Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow gauge between the Baltic Sea and the Ore Mountains . Alba, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-069-7