Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft Greifswald – Jarmen

Greifswald – Züssow / Jarmen
Course book range :	125b (1944)
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend from Stralsund (state railway) 0.0 Greifswald to Wolgast 0.5 Greifswald Landesbahn 5.2 Klein Schönwalde to Züssow (state railway) 6.5 Potthagen- Weitenhagen 9.9 Grubenhagen 13, 0.0 Busdorf 1.5 New Dargelin 2.8 Dargelin 5.2 Old Negentine 6.2 New Negentin 7.2 Sestelin 8.9 Little Zastrow 14.8 Behrenhoff 17.8 Kammin 19.3 0.0 Dargezin 0.5 Dargezin Good 2.1 Fritzow 3.5 Kölzin soft 5.4 Gribow 7.8 Ranzin from Greifswald 11.4 Züssow Landesbahn according to Anklam 21.3 Vargatz 22.9 0.0 Gützkow - Wieck 2.0 Gützkow starch factory 6.1 Gützkow ferry 26.9 Neuendorf Peene 28.9 Jarmen from the port; to the MPSB after Demmin to the DKBO

The Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft Greifswald – Jarmen ( GJK ) was founded on October 24, 1896. It opened up the area around the university and Hanseatic city of Greifswald in New Western Pomerania between the Ryck in the north and the Peene in the south. The province of Pomerania and the state domain administration , as well as the district , city and university of Greifswald , the city of Gützkow , the municipality of Weitenhagen and several manor owners participated in raising the capital .

history

The small railway network with a track width of 750 millimeters and a circumference of 49 kilometers was opened on September 16, 1897. From Greifswald the route led south via Busdorf, where only from March 23, 1912 a branch line for freight traffic only branched off to Klein Zastrow (8.93 km), to Dargezin . This is where the track split: in an easterly direction you reached Züssow on the Stralsund – Greifswald – Pasewalk state railway , and in a south-westerly direction it continued via Gützkow-Wieck to Jarmen , where connections to the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway and the Demminer Kleinbahnen Ost were made. Jarmen lay across the Peene, which was crossed on a swing bridge.

In Gützkow-Wieck there was a four-kilometer branch line for goods traffic to the starch factory and on to the Gützkow ferry on the Peene River. Since the Greifswald small train station was about 800 meters away from the state train station, the departure point for trains there was extended in 1898.

The management initially took over the construction company Lenz & Co. , Which also operated the neighboring small railway company Greifswald – Wolgast , until it was handed over to the small railway department of the Pomeranian Provincial Association in Stettin in 1910. After its dissolution, it was replaced in 1920 by the Association of Western Pomerania Small Railways and in 1937/1938 by the Pomeranian State Railway Directorate . The Pomeranian State Railways took over these two companies with effect from January 1, 1940 under the name "Greifswalder Bahnen" with a route length of 107 kilometers and subordinated them to the State Railroad Office in Greifswald. At the same time, the Anklam Railway was also assigned to this administration after the Anklam-Lassan small railway company had also lost its independence.

The overall favorable development of the small railroad in passenger and freight traffic came to an end when the front also reached Western Pomerania in the Second World War . On April 30, 1945, operations were finally closed. The tracks were dismantled and transported to the Soviet Union together with some of the vehicles as reparations .

vehicles

Vehicles before 1949

Type / series	Company number		design type	Construction year	comment
	GJK	Pomeranian State Railways
Lenz type m	1 m -4 m	212-215	B n2t	1897	1945 given to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment
Lenz type M	10 M.	254	D n2t	1913	To the 1931 AG Demminer Kleinbahnen West issued
Lenz type Mh	11 Mh	260	D h2t	1925	1945 given to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment
	T 1 and T 2	1081 and 1082	(1A) (A1)	1934/1936	T 1 1942 by Rügensche Kleinbahnen , in 1945 given to the Soviet Union as reparation

gallery

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  Wieck-Gützkow station of the GJK 1897

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  GJK swing bridge over the Peene between Breechen and Jarmen 1897

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  GJK labor riot at Wieck-Gützkow 1900

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  Wieck-Gützkow station of the GJK

literature

• Wolfram Bäumer and Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania . Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Egglham and Munich 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 , pp. 140ff.
• Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuss and Elfriede Rehbein : Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1980
• Werner Hormann and Wolf-Dietger Machel : Small railways in the old district of Greifswald . Kenning, 1998
• Werner Hormann and Wolf-Dietger Machel: Greifswalder Kleinbahnen. A look back at the history of the railway . German Model Railway Association of the GDR, Rostock 1983
• Werner Hormann and Wolf-Dietger Machel: Greifswalder Kleinbahnen. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-941712-37-9