Railway line from Freienwalde to Zehden
| Freienwalde – Zehden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book range : | 110h (1939) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 17.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 12.5 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 250 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Freienwalde – Zehden railway was a branch line in Brandenburg that was originally built and operated by Kleinbahn Freienwalde-Zehden AG . It connected the places Bad Freienwalde (Oder) and Zehden, today's Polish Cedynia , with each other. After 1945 the line was interrupted as a new border because of the Oder-Neisse line . The company has been inactive since the mid-1960s.
history
The Kleinbahn Freienwalde-Zehden AG was in on July 28, 1928 Berlin established. Only the public sector was involved in it. The German Reich, the Free State of Prussia, the Province of Brandenburg and the District of Königsberg Nm each took over about a quarter of the shares . , to which the majority of the route - also on the left bank of the Oder - belonged.
After decades of unsuccessful efforts, the goal was finally close to building a standard-gauge small railway from Bad Freienwalde across the Oder and connecting the small town of Zehden to rail traffic. After goods traffic - as a private siding - to Hohenwutzen had already been operated from September 13, 1929, the almost 18-kilometer route could only be opened to public transport on October 5, 1930. The reason for the delay were difficulties in using the Von-Saldernbrücke, the road bridge over the Oder, by the small train.
The state traffic office of Brandenburg in Potsdam took over the management and set up a railway administration in Zehden. For operation, the regional traffic directorate acquired a 1C superheated steam tank locomotive from AEG , which was delivered in April 1929. With a pulling force of 7250 kg and a top speed of 60 km / h, this locomotive was suitable for the transport of light passenger and freight trains. This locomotive was sold to the Brandenburgische Städtebahn as early as 1935 .
With a fleet of vehicles, which in 1939 consisted of a steam locomotive, a railcar, two passenger cars, a pack wagon and a freight car, six to seven passenger train journeys were made per day in the first decade. For freight traffic it was significant that a pulp mill with its own connecting railway was built near Johannesmühle in 1936.
At the end of the Second World War , a train of railway workers from the Kleinbahn fled with their families to Trittau in Schleswig-Holstein . At the end of the war, the Oderbrücke of the Kleinbahn was blown up and the eastern section was no longer used. The new terminus was Hohenwutzen station. Here in the western part, too, the bridge over the Alte Oder had to be repaired before the voyages could start again; But then operations were interrupted again for a long time between March 25, 1947 and October 8, 1950 due to severe flood damage in the Oderbruch .
In the timetable, only two pairs of trains were recorded for the remaining ten kilometer stretch in 1946 and four in 1965. During this time the railway belonged to the Brandenburg State Railways and from April 1, 1949 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . This carried out passenger traffic until June 27, 1965 and goods traffic until May 22, 1966; the official shutdown date is March 1, 1967.
Web links
- Kleinbahn Freienwalde - Zehden Railway lines in Brandenburg
- Berliner-Bahnen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ R. Opitz: 1C superheated steam tank locomotive of the Kleinbahn Freienwalde – Zehden . In: AEG-Mitteilungen, July 1929, pp. 487-491.
- ↑ Erich Preuß: Archive of German Small and Private Railways: Brandenburg / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. transpress, Berlin 1994, p. 141.
- ↑ NDR time travel: Escape to the West by refugee train , May 5, 2019; Note: The NDR film clearly states that the episode took place in the last days of the war. The date “8. Juni 1945 ”in the accompanying NDR text is obviously incorrect.