Small railways of the Jerichow I district

Umladebf Castle - Ziesar East
Magdeburgerforth train station
Route length:	37.1 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend from Magdeburg to Berlin 0.0 Umladebf Castle (also Klbf Castle) Port connection to the Ihle Canal 1.2 Burg West (also Burg Magdeburg Gate) 2.1 Burg Mitte (also Burg Zerbster Tor) after Lübars 4.2 East Castle 5.6 Gütter 7.8 Polzuhn 9.4 Grabow Bridge over the Ihle 12.1 Caught up 13.8 Stresow 16.8 Tea 18.8 Küsel 20.9 Forest roe 22.5 Desert Yerikhov 25.9 Reesdorf to Gommern 28.2 Magdeburgerforth Connection of raw board factory 30.4 Schopsdorf 32.3 Gehlsdorf Güsen – Ziesar today's border between Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg 35.3 Ziesar -West 37.1 Ziesar East
Middle Castle – Lübars
Route length:	28.5 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend Castle Umladebf 2.1 Burg Mitte (also Burg Zerbster Tor) after Ziesar 6.6 Girl 11.7 Stegelitz 14.7 Tryppehna 17.1 Pabsdorf (Friedensau) 19.5 Lüttgenziatz Connection mill 19.3 Hohenziatz Connection good / distillery 25.6 Riesdorf from Gommern 28.5 Lübars (Kr Loburg) to Altengrabow / Magdeburgerforth
Gommern – Magdeburgerforth
Route length:	38.7 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend from Biederitz 21.3 Gommern circular path to Trebnitz 20.5 Gommern stop 18.5 Dannigkow 15.8 Leitzkau-West ( Kressow ) 12.9 Leitzkau 11.3 Ladeburg 8.4 Dalchau 6.6 Brietzke 5.2 Kalitz (Goebel) 2.7 Klepps brick factory 1.7 Loburg-South from Biederitz 0.0 Loburg 2.5 Bomsdorf von Burg (aka Stegelitz) 7.4 Lübars (Kr Loburg) 12.1 Altengrabow 14.0 Dörnitz 16.4 Magdeburgerforth center von Burg (aka Grabow) 17.4 Magdeburgerforth after Ziesar Formerly three-rail track , today only in operation for standard gauge

The small railways of the Jerichow I district were owned by the former Jerichow I district , the area of ​​which today largely belongs to the Jerichower Land district. It was a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 750 mm. Of the approximately 102 kilometers long route network, 12 kilometers were laid out with three tracks. The network comprised the routes Burg Umladebf – Ziesar, Burg Mitte – Loburg and Gommern – Magdeburgerforth.

history

The railway began operating on April 4, 1896 with the opening of the Burg - Grabow - Magdeburgerforth and Burg Zerbster Tor - Stegelitz sections . Next came the Stegelitz – Groß Lübars and Magdeburgerforth – Ziesar Ost sections on July 19, 1896, and the Magdeburgerforth – Altengrabow –Groß Lübars section on October 8 .

On December 12, 1896, the connection to the Ihlehafen in Burg went into operation. On July 21, 1902, the section between Groß Lübars and Loburg was opened. In contrast to the others, this was built with a three- rail track, so that it could be used by narrow-gauge vehicles as well as by vehicles with standard-gauge , which came from Biederitz on the state railway to Loburg in order to reach the Altengrabow military training area . Therefore, this section was also expanded to three tracks.

The network was completed on April 20, 1903 with the opening of the line from Loburg to Gommern on the Magdeburg – Dessau main line. It was supplemented by connecting railways that led from Stresow to Gut Ziegelsdorf, from Kalitz to Göbel and in Gommern to the sugar factory.

After the opening of the Güsen – Ziesar state railway in 1917, this small town was surrounded by a ring of railways. The narrow-gauge line between Ziesar West and East (near the main station of the regular Genthiner Kleinbahn ) was only used for freight traffic from 1930. It was dismantled after 1946.

After the Second World War, on December 15, 1946, the municipal circular railway operation was subordinated to the Sächsische Provinzbahnen GmbH and on April 1, 1949 to the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

As early as August 16, 1934, passenger traffic was gradually shifted to the railway's own bus routes. On May 2, 1960, the cessation of traffic with the section from Gommern to Loburg began. It was completed on September 25, 1965 with the routes from Burg via Magdeburgerforth to Ziesar and from Magdeburgerforth to Altengrabow.

Only on the section between Loburg and Altengrabow was passenger traffic on the standard gauge until May 29, 1999. This route is still available and is used by the Dampfzug-Betriebs-Gemeinschaft eV in Loburg.

vehicles

In 1939, 13 steam locomotives, 25 passenger cars and 251 freight cars were available to the railway. 12 locomotives were taken over from the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1949. They were given the following final names.

Vehicles until 1949

KJI no.	DR company number	design type	Construction year	comment
No. 1 to 5	-	C n2t	1895-1897	Retired from 1925–1935
No. 6 to 10	99 4614 and 99 4615	C n2t	1902-1910
No. 11 to 14	99 4642, 4643, 4402, 4645	D n2t	1922-1924	Inner frame 99 4642: 1956 after conversion into a tender locomotive, redesignated as 99 4551 99 4402: 1949–1951 as 99 4501
No. 15 to 17	99 4644, 4641	D n2t	1907-1923	Outer frame 1926–1930 by Rosenberger Kreisbahn ; No. 17 lost in the east in 1944
No. 18 and 19	-	D1 'n2t	1902, 1904	Acquired in 1934/35, formerly Schlawer Bahnen No. 1 II and 2 II , retired by 1939
No. 20 and 21	99 4801 and 99 4802	1'D h2t	1938
No. 22	99 4721	B n2t	1922	Construction locomotive, taken over in 1945, 1949–1956 as 99 4401 (statistically as 99 4401)
No. 23	99 4301	C n2t	1920	1948 from Zuckerfabrik Gommern, 1949–1951 as 99 4401 (statistically as 99 4402), memorial at Gommern train station

Museum train

Magdeburgerforth-Altengrabow
Route length:	6.1 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend from Schopsdorf to the former raw cardboard factory 6.1 Lumpenbahnhof end point 5.6 Magdeburgerforth Gloinebach 5.0 Lindenstrasse to castle 4.3 Magdeburgerforth center Country road Copper hammer 1.9 Dörnitz Altengrabow East 0.0 Altengrabow end point Transition to the three-rail track to Loburg

Gloinebrücke in Magdeburgerforth on the line under construction

The traditional association Kleinbahn des Kreis Jerichow I e., Which was initiated and founded by Kilian Kindelberger in 2000. V. is rebuilding a section of the former route as a museum railway. Starting from the Magdeburgerforth museum station, historical vehicles will be operated on the old Magdeburgerforth – Altengrabow route (5.6 km). After the association had been approved as a railway operating company, public transport began on May 7, 2011 on the 800 m long section between Magdeburgerforth and the Lumpenbahnhof stop. At the opening, the steam locomotive 99 516 ( Museumsbahn Schönheide ) and the club's own V 10 C 199 041 operated with the passenger car 970-823 and a viewing car from Schönheide. Since then, diesel locomotive operations have been offered on a few weekends. On September 24, 2016, the route was extended by 500 m from Magdeburgerforth to the Lindenstrasse stop, for which the association received 50,000 euros in funding from the state of Saxony-Anhalt. On the opening weekend, the two V 10 C 199 041 (KJI eV) and 199 051 (Museum Railway Schönheide) were in use. The extension to Magdeburgerforth Mitte is planned for the years 2019-2020. The first work for the reconstruction of this section took place in December 2019.

Club vehicles

The association owns the LKM V 10 C diesel locomotive 199 041 and several historical KJI wagons that need to be refurbished. The operation is carried out with the open observation car 973-001 (Graz 1907, ex ÖBB) and the Reko passenger car 970-823 (loan from SOEG Zittau), which was in use on the Burger route network in the 1950s. An NS3 is available as a shunting locomotive. Since 2015, the association has owned the non-operational steam locomotive 99 4721 (second occupation). In 2017, the association received funding for a further renovation of the rolling stock, as it was a matter of preserving a technical monument.

Routing

The route begins in the narrow-gauge station Altengrabow. A bypass track and a siding on one side are planned there. The building there (built in 1912) is partly used as an operating room for the museum railway, the other part can be used as an exhibition room. The route runs north of Dörnitz-Altengrabow, crosses the Drewitz-Altengrabow road and runs in a north-easterly direction to Altengrabow train station. The Dörnitz - Drewitz road is crossed directly behind the train station with a siding. The route runs along the Gloinebach past the copper hammer mill to Magdeburgerforth. After the crossing of the Loburg - Ziesar road, the Magdeburgerforth Mitte station follows, also with a siding. Behind the station there is a tight right turn through the forest, at the intersection with two forest paths the new (historically non-existent) Lindenstrasse stop was created. After the bridge over the Gloinebach and the crossing with the road to Reesdorf, the operating center is reached with the Magdeburgerforth train station. The historic station building from 1896 with goods shed is located here (in front of it is Gw 97-60-41 on an original KJI track) and a half-timbered locomotive shed built in the 1920s. In 2014–2016, a vehicle hall was also built. From Magdeburgerforth in the direction of Schopsdorf, the 800 m long historic route to the Lumpenbahnhof (stop without transfer track) has been rebuilt. A siding to the raw cardboard factory Magdeburgerforth began at the Lumpenbahnhof in the times of the Kleinbahn, to which rags were delivered on open wagons, hence the historical name of the stop.

See also

• Biederitz – Altengrabow railway line

literature

• Dirk Endisch: Class 99.480 - The 1'D machines of the small railways of the Jerichow district I. Verlag Dirk Endisch, Leonberg-Höfingen 2006, ISBN 3-936893-24-1
• Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß: Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . 2nd Edition. Transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1982
• Rüdiger Siemß: Narrow gauge railways in the district of Jerichow I. Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-40-0

Web links

• Homepage of the traditional association Kleinbahn des Kreis Jerichow I eV
• Disused narrow-gauge railways in Saxony-Anhalt. In: stillgend.de. Retrieved February 6, 2017 . 
• Further funding for historic railway line in Magdeburgerforth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Schütze: 50,000 euros for the track to Lindenstrasse. In: Volksstimme. August 7, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2018 . 
2. ^ Traditionsverein Kleinbahn of the district Jerichow I. Accessed on December 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Ministry of State Development and Transport: Further funding for the historic narrow-gauge railway in Magdeburgerforth - press release no .: 155/2017. November 13, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2018 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 57.91 "  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 45.84"  E