Small railways in the districts of West and Ostprignitz

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The small railways in the West and East Prignitz districts opened up the two Prussian districts in the west of the Brandenburg province . An extensive network of small railways was established here between 1897 and 1912, each of which was owned by the districts of Ostprignitz (Kyritz) and Westprignitz (Perleberg). However, this transferred the management of the Prignitzer Eisenbahn AG .

After the First World War , the Brandenburg State Transport Authority in Potsdam was commissioned to do this . A central workshop for all railways was located in Perleberg. It existed as the Perleberg works department of the Reichsbahn repair shop in Wittenberge until 1992.

South of the routes of the Wittenberge-Perleberger Eisenbahn and the subsequent Prignitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft opened up a number of narrow-gauge railways with a gauge of 750 mm in the area up to the Berlin-Hamburg Railway . In the northern district area the small railways were laid out with standard gauge and led near the Mecklenburg border, in two cases also a short section beyond.

Standard gauge circular paths

The 17 km long Pritzwalk – Putlitz line was opened on June 4, 1896 under the name “Kleinbahn des Kreis Ostprignitz” and was operated from 1996 to 2012 by the new Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH . It was extended on October 1, 1912 by 12 km to Suckow in the Parchim district in Mecklenburg.

The Westprignitz district completed the northern small railway network with the 49 km long "Kreisringbahn" on December 7, 1911. It ran from Perleberg Süd via Perleberg Nord and Karstädt - located on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway - north to Klein Berge, then turned back south and reached the Perleberg Nord station via Baek, where the ring closed. In Klein Berge a cross line branched off to Putlitz (15 km). The standard-gauge circular orbit network of both districts thus comprised 93 km in length.

The narrow-gauge railways

Kyritz – Breddin
Course book range : 815 (1968) , 120d (1944)
Route length: 16.6 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope : 10  ‰
Minimum radius : 60 m
Top speed: 30 km / h
Legend
   
 0.0 Kyritz
   
 2.7 Monastery courtyard
   
 4.4 Rehfeld (Prign)
   
 6.0 Rehfeld branch to Hoppenrade
   
 8.3 Berlitt
   
 9.8 Barenthin degradation
   
 11.9 Barenthin
   
 14.3 Kötzlin
   
 16.6 Breddin
Rehfeld – Perleberg
Course book range : 816 (1968) , 120c (1944)
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope : 14  ‰
Minimum radius : 60 m
Top speed: 30 km / h
Legend
   
 from Kyritz
   
 after Breddin
   
 6.0 Rehfeld branch
   
 9.1 Demerthin
   
 11.3 Gumtow
   
 13.5 Bear jump (Prign)
   
 16.5 Dannenwalde (Prignitz district)
   
 20.7 Kehrberg
   
 from Pritzwalk
   
 23.8 Vettin
   
 of the Way of the Cross
   
 24.8 Lindenberg
   
 27.8 Garz
   
 29.6 Hoppenrade Klb Hoppenrade – Perleberg
   
 of Glöwen
   
 33.3 Viesecke
   
 34.7 Great Werzin
   
 37.7 Ponitz (Prign)
   
 39.4 Kleinow
   
 40.3 Kleinow brickworks
   
 43.4 Düpow
   
 45.8 Perleberg district house
   
 47.3 Pearl Mountain
   
 Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn
   
 to the workshop
   
Viesecke – Glöwen
Course book range : 120f (1944)
Route length: 15.18 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope : 10  ‰
Minimum radius : 150 m
Top speed: 30 km / h
Legend
   
 from Perleberg
   
 15.2 Viesecke Klbf
   
 12.1 Kletzke
   
 8.4 Zernikow
   
 6.5 Way of the Cross
   
 from Lindenberg
   
 4.6 Little Leppin
   
 3.5 Swan Lake
   
 1.6 Glowing Village
   
 0.0 Glöwen Klbf
Pritzwalk – Vettin
Course book range : 814 (1968) , 120e (1944)
Route length: 17.6 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope : 14  ‰
Minimum radius : 150 m
Top speed: 30 km / h
Legend
   
 0.0 Pritzwalk
   
 4.2 Holzländerhof
   
 6.4 Kuhsdorf
   
 8.1 Bullendorf
   
 9.7 Mesendorf
   
 11.4 Klenzenhof
   
 13.7 Brünkendorf
   
 6.0 from Kyritz
   
 17.6 Vettin
   
 to Lindenberg
Lindenberg-Kreuzweg
Course book range : 120e (1944)
Route length: 10.20 km
Gauge : 750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope : 10  ‰
Minimum radius : 60 m
Top speed: 30 km / h
Legend
   
 from Perleberg
   
 18.7 Lindenberg
   
 to Kyritz and Pritzwalk
   
 21.5 Stuff
   
 23.0 Kunow North
   
 24.7 Kunow South
   
 26.5 Schrepkow
   
 from Viesecke
   
 28.9 Way of the Cross
   
 after Glöwen
  • Ostprignitzer Kreisbahnen
    • Kleinbahn Kyritz – Rehfeld – Hoppenrade / –Breddin
    • Kleinbahn Lindenberg – Pritzwalk
    • Kleinbahn Lindenberg – Kreuzweg
  • Westprignitzer Kreisbahnen
    • Perleberg – Hoppenrade small railway
    • Kleinbahn Viesecke– Glöwen

On October 15, 1897, the first narrow-gauge railway line with a gauge of 750 mm was opened, which led from Perleberg to the east via Viesecke - Lindenberg - Rehfeld to Kyritz. In Rehfeld a branch line from Breddin joined the Berlin-Hamburg railway. The route length at that time was a total of 60 km. In Hoppenrade, the two small railways in the western and eastern districts collided, but this was not operationally important.

A second, 15 km long connection to the Berlin-Hamburg railway was opened on July 15, 1900 between Viesecke and Glöwen via Kreuzweg. In the autumn and winter of 1907/08, a cross-connection from Pritzwalk to Lindenberg (19 km) was added, which was continuously passable from January 8, 1908. When it was extended by 10 km to Kreuzweg on July 2, 1912, Lindenberg had become a junction for small railways that made connections to state railway lines in four directions.

The narrow-gauge railway network was divided into five small railway units, which, however, were under the same uniform management as the standard-gauge circular railway lines. Of the total length of the narrow-gauge railways, which reached a circumference of 104 km, three railways 71 km long were in the Ostprignitz district and two 33 km long in the Westprignitz district.

Between Glöwen and Vierecke and Glöwen and Lindenberg, standard-gauge wagons were also carried on trestles .

The time of the Reichsbahn

Although it was public property, the Kreis-Kleinbahnen in Prignitz changed hands after the invasion of the Red Army . They were subordinated to the general management of the Provincial Railways Mark Brandenburg - the later state railways - from where they came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) in 1949 . This operated most of the network for another 15 to 20 years, in the standard gauge area even longer.

Only the small stretch of the Viesecke – Kreuzweg was dismantled in 1948, but not as a reparation payment , but as the basis for the narrow-gauge reconstruction of the Glöwen – Havelberg standard gauge line, which was dismantled for reparation after 1945. The rest of the narrow-gauge network ended in two sections: At the end of 1967, the DR ceased all operations between Lindenberg and Glöwen. The remaining routes, namely Pritzwalk – Lindenberg and Perleberg – Lindenberg – Kyritz with the Rehfeld – Breddin branch, followed on May 31, 1969.

In 1952 the trolleys were replaced by trolleys , and at the same time trolley traffic was extended to almost all routes.

The shutdown of passenger traffic on the standard-gauge railways began on May 26, 1968 with the Putlitz – Berge cross-connection. In 1975 the "Kreisringbahn" followed in sections and in 1980 the Putlitz – Suckow line, where since 1945 it has not been possible to continue to Parchim. On the Pritzwalk – Putlitz line, passenger traffic was taken over in 1996 by the Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH , which was founded especially for this purpose . In 2006, the passenger traffic between Pritzwalk and Putlitz was canceled by the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg due to the cuts in funding under the Regionalization Act . Therefore, on December 9, 2006, the last scheduled passenger train ran on a former route of the circular railways.

Since August 27, 2007, six pairs of trains (as of the 2011 annual timetable) have been running daily between Putlitz and Pritzwalk from Monday to Friday. This was made possible by the efforts of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Prignitz (VGP) and the Putlitz-Pritzwalker Eisenbahnförderverein (PPEFV), whereby the VGP passes on the money it receives for the replacement bus service to the PPEFV, which uses it to finance its trains. Vehicles of the DB series 672 , which were rented by Prignitzer Eisenbahn GmbH, are used for driving.

Freight traffic remained in the standard gauge network until the mid-1990s.

Narrow-gauge railway Glöwen – Havelberg

The 9 km long Glöwen – Havelberg route, which at that time also belonged to the province of Brandenburg, is a special case. It was built in 1890 in the standard gauge by the Prussian State Railways, but was dismantled after the Second World War.

The state railway administration decided to rebuild the line on the old route because of its importance for the city of Havelberg. It procured used track material - among other things by closing down the narrow-gauge Viesecke – Kreuzweg line - and was able to open operations in Havelberg in 1948, but now with a gauge of 750 mm. This line outlived the other Prignitz narrow-gauge railways by two years. Traffic ceased in 1971.

vehicles

Narrow gauge vehicles

Narrow gauge locomotives before 1949
society circle No. Surname Company number design type Manufacturer year of construction comment
LVA BB DR
Kleinbahn Perleberg-Hoppenrade Westprignitz 1 to 3 VON JAGOW , WESTPRIGNITZ , HOPPENRADE - - B n2t Hagans 1897 later redrawn to No. 11 to 13 and scrapped around 1910
Kleinbahn Perleberg-Hoppenrade Westprignitz 11 II - - - B n2t O&K 1910 built for Continentale Eisenbahnbau- & Betriebsgesellschaft für Livlandbahn, but delivered to Perleberg by the manufacturer around 1921
Kleinbahn Kyritz – Hoppenrade – Breddin Ostprignitz 14 to 16 BERNSTORFF , KYRITZ , DANNENWALDE 07-20-07-22 99 4501, 99 4502 C n2t Hartmann 1897 No. 15 as reparation to the Soviet Union
Kleinbahn Viesecke – Glöwen Westprignitz 17th WITTENBERGE 08-21 99 4503 C n2t Hartmann 1901 Awarded to Nauen for two years in the mid-1950s; 1974/75 from Glöwen on private property in Zepernick; 1996 at the Brandenburg Museum for Small and Private Railways in Gramzow
Kleinbahn Kyritz – Hoppenrade – Breddin Ostprignitz 18th 07-23 C n2t Hanomag 1914 as reparation to the Soviet Union
Kleinbahn Perleberg-Hoppenrade Westprignitz 19th 08-20 99 4701 C n2t Hanomag 1914 Monument on private property in Wöllstein
Kleinbahn Lindenberg – Pritzwalk Ostprignitz 20th 07-80 99 4711 C1 'n2t Hartmann 1920
Kleinbahn Lindenberg – Pritzwalk Ostprignitz 21 and 22 HEINZ , V. DÖRFEL 07-24, 07-25 99 4504 C n2t O&K 1906
Kleinbahn Lindenberg – Kreuzweg Ostprignitz 23 LINDENBERG 07-26 99 45 05 C n2t Borsig 1912

Standard gauge vehicles

Standard gauge locomotives before 1949
society circle No. Surname Company number design type Manufacturer year of construction comment
LVA BB DR
Pritzwalk-Putlitz Ostprignitz 1 and 2 OSTPRIGNITZ , LAASKE - - B n2t Hanomag 1895
Pritzwalk-Putlitz Ostprignitz OPKB No. 600 5-320 - B. German Works Kiel 1935; Factory number: 572 Motor locomotive with refugee train to AKN from 1948 AKN / EBO No. V11 - V2.011, today VVM
Perleberg-Putlitz Westprignitz 1 to 6 KARSTAEDT , Graevenitz , KLEINBERG , Mecklenburg , PRUSSIA , Dallmin 6-20-6-23, 1-26-1-27 89 6152- 89 6155, 89 6157 Cn2t Henschel 1911/1912 Prussian T 3 , No. 3 and 5 delivered to Brandenburgische Städtebahn in 1937
Putlitz – Suckow Ostprignitz 3 FROM WINTERFELD 5-21 - C n2t Henschel 1912 Prussian T 3
Pritzwalk-Putlitz Ostprignitz 4th 5-20 - C n2t Henschel 1922
East and West Prignitz 25th - 89 6128 C n2t Linke-Hofmann 1904 Prussian T 3 , originally Gostyner Kreisbahn No. 2, remained on the PKKB network after 1945
East and West Prignitz 35 89 6221 C n2t Vulcan 1910 Prussian T 3 , originally Liegnitz-Rawitscher Railway No. 25c, remained on the PKKB network after 1945

Railcar

Railcar before 1949
No. Gauge Company number DR design type Manufacturer year of construction comment
No. 701 and 702 750 mm VT 133 524 and VT 133 525 A 1 Wismar 1939 Wismar rail bus
No. T 601 to T 604 1435 mm VT 135 527 to VT 135 529 1 A Talbot 1936

"Pollo" museum railway

Pritzwalk – Lindenberg
Legend
End station - start of the route
 9.7 Mesendorf
Stop, stop
 11.4 Klenzenhof
Station, station
 13.7 Brünkendorf
Station, station
 17.6 Vettin
End station - end of the line
 18.7 Lindenberg
Mesendorf station

In order to preserve the memory of the extensive small railway network in the Prignitz, the association Prignitzer Kleinbahnmuseum Lindenberg eV (PKML), founded in 1993, set itself the goal of rebuilding the nine-kilometer section from Lindenberg via Brünkendorf to Mesendorf and maintaining it for museum railroad traffic in the long term. The first section of the museum railway between Mesendorf and Brünkendorf was completed in 2002. The extension of the route from Brünkendorf to Vettin has been in operation since 2004. In 2007 the final section Vettin – Lindenberg was completed; however, the end point is now just before the former train station. The association runs a museum in Lindenberg, which included a museum train made of original vehicles as a memorial - it included the steam locomotive 99 4644 , among other things . This monument train has now been disbanded - the vehicles have come to Mesendorf. The operational reprocessing of the steam locomotive 99 4644 is aimed for (status 2010). Steam days take place every year around Ascension Day.

literature

  • Walter pancakes u. a .: The Prignitz narrow-gauge network. Radke-Verlag, Schwerin 1997
  • Klaus Kieper u. a .: Narrow-gauge railway archive. 2nd Edition. Transpress Verlag, Berlin 1982
  • Uwe Knoblauch, Utz von Wagner: Railways in the Prignitz. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-374-1
  • Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Narrow-gauge railways in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg . Transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3344710230
  • Peter Sommerfeld: The Perleberger Ringbahn (the history of the regular gauge small railways in the districts of East and West Prignitz). Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2012, ISBN 978-3-936893-67-0

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