Kleinbahn Kiel – Segeberg

Kleinbahn-Aktiengesellschaft
Kiel-Segeberg
Ordinary share from 1911

Kiel – Bad Segeberg
Course book range :	113e (1961)
Route length:	50.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend 0.0 Kiel Hbf to Flensburg , to Husum to Neumünster , to Lübeck Kiel south 2.5 Kiel-Gaarden to Schönberger Strand Kiel – Lübeck 4.5 Wellsee 6.4 Moor lake 8.9 Boksee 11.1 Barkau from Lütjenburg 12.4 Kirchbarkau 15.1 Warnau 17.6 Nettelsee 19.5 Depenau 22.6 Stumble 24.8 Wankendorf North Neumünster-Ascheberg 27.8 Ruhwinkel-Schönböken 29.8 Bornhöved to Trappenkamp 33.7 Tarbek 37.1 Tensfeld 41.4 Blunk 45.5 Great Rönnau Trave 47.0 Ihlsee 48.2 Bad Segeberg North 50.5 Bad Segeberg West from Neumünster 51.0 Bad Segeberg to Lübeck to Bad Oldesloe

The Kleinbahn Kiel – Segeberg was a railway line in Holstein . The operation leading Kleinbahn AG Kiel-Segeberg was on 23 July 1911 by the city of Kiel , the circles Ploen and Segeberg and the railway construction and operating company Lenz & Co. founded.

The purpose of the company was to build and operate a standard-gauge small railway from the port city of Kiel in a southerly direction through the Plön district to the seat of the neighboring Segeberg district.

history

The 49-kilometer single-track line was opened on December 2, 1911. Together with the Kiel – Schönberger Strand railway line, it owned its own small train station , Kiel Süd , 1.7 kilometers from the main train station . In order to improve the passenger transport offer, the small trains began and ended on July 1, 1954 in Kiel Central Station .

The Neumünster – Oldesloe state railway , which had been opened in 1875, was reached in Bad Segeberg . Your train station was only 200 meters away from the small train station Bad Segeberg West. In Wankendorf , it crossed the Neumünster – Ascheberg state railway, which had already been opened in 1866 , without a track connection there. The walk from the Wankendorf Nord small train station to the state train station was over a kilometer.

In Kirchbarkau there was a connection to the small railway Kirchbarkau – Preetz – Lütjenburg , which opened on April 2, 1911, but the transitional traffic never became more important, there were only short-term through passenger trains Preetz – Kiel.

The company Lenz & Co took over the management, after the Second World War the German Railway Company . In the last decades of the company's existence, the main shareholders were the city of Kiel and the AG for Transport , as well as the two districts and numerous private individuals.

A three-kilometer-long connecting line from Bornhöved to the Trappenkamp weapons depot, opened in 1936 , always remained state property, but was also operated by the small railroad and ensured an increase in traffic. At times the branch line to Trappenkamp was also used for passenger traffic. However, this was stopped again on March 8, 1952.

A converted diesel bus truck from Büssing AG , which was popularly known as the "Langschnauze", was used as the railcar .

In 1914/15 240,212 people and 90,965 t of goods were transported.

The development of the traffic volume in rural areas caused the shareholders to stop operations on December 31, 1961 and to dismantle the railway. It took until the summer of 1967 to remove the sleepers and the track, and some of the track can still be seen today. Sections of the former railway line can also be used as a cycle path, for example between Bad Segeberg and Blunk.

In Wellsee, a few sidings are still served, but they are located off the small railway line. The connection is via the Kiel – Lübeck route .

literature

• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 12: Schleswig-Holstein 1 (eastern part). EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-671-1 .
• Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways; Part 1 . Zeunert, Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9 .

Web links

• Kiel-Segeberg with pictures
• NDR Schleswig-Holstein Magazin: With a lot of rattling: The small train to Bad Segeberg