Oldenburg Railway District

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KOE: Heiligenhafen-Großenbrode-Orth

The Oldenburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (KOE) was founded on May 13, 1880 in Oldenburg in Holstein . Half of the capital was signed by the Oldenburg in Holstein district in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein , the other half was taken over by the Prussian state and the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (AKE). For these, the KOE formed a continuation of their route from Eutin to Neustadt in Holstein since May 31, 1866 .

Route network

Main route Neustadt – Heiligenhafen

The first section of the KOE from Neustadt to Oldenburg (23 km) was opened on September 30, 1881. The continuation to Lütjenbrode and Heiligenhafen (20 km) did not follow until January 17, 1898 . A direct connection from Lübeck to Neustadt was missing for decades; it was not manufactured by the Deutsche Reichsbahn until June 1, 1928 .

Railway stations:

Kleinbahn Lütjenbrode – Orth

The KOE was also the owner of the Kleinbahn Lütjenbrode-Orth, which since October 23, 1903 has operated a 7 km long standard-gauge line from KOE's Lütjenbrode station to the Großenbrode ferry. From there, a train's own steam ferry made the connection across the Fehmarn Sound to the island of Fehmarn . From September 8, 1905, this was followed by a 22 km long route via Burg to Orth in the southwest of the island.

Most of the small railroad trains already started at Heiligenhafen station. For the section on Fehmarn there were separate locomotives, which were stationed in Burg, so that only the wagons had to be transported on the ferry.

Railway stations on the mainland:

  • (km 0.00) Lütjenbrode , closed
  • (km 3.04) Grossenbrode
  • (km 7.10) Großenbroder ferry , closed
  • The Großenbrode Kai station existed on a siding in Großenbrode from 1951 to 1963 .

Train stations on Fehmarn ; all are abandoned today, the corresponding places belong to the city ​​of Fehmarn :

  • (km 0.00) Fehmarnsund
  • (km 2.57) Wulfen (Fehmarn) , Hp
  • (km 5.30) Burgstaaken , Hp
  • (km 7.33) Burg (Fehmarn)
  • (km 10.68) Country churches
  • (km 12.78) Alt Jellingsdorf , Hp
  • (km 14.80) Lemkendorf
  • (km 16.89) Petersdorf (Fehmarn)
  • (km 20.79) Orth (Fehmarn)

Operational management

The management of the KOE routes was initially in the hands of AKE, which also provided the vehicles. With the end of the AKE (1887), it was transferred to the Royal Altona Railway Directorate of the Prussian State Railroad on November 1, 1888, and from 1923 to the Schwerin Railway Directorate of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft . On January 1, 1925, however, the KOE concluded an operations management contract with the Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn and on July 1, 1931, finally took over operations again and procured its own vehicles.

nationalization

In the course of planning a railway connection from Germany to Denmark called the " Vogelfluglinie ", the Deutsche Reichsbahn acquired the entire operation of KOE on July 31, 1941, the main shareholders of which - after the departure of AKE - were still the Oldenburg district with 52% and the Prussian state with 41% were. The Vogelfluglinie was only completed after the Second World War and was put into operation on May 15, 1963 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn to Puttgarden .

This led to a preference for long-distance transport over regional transport. Operation on the Lütjenbrode – Heiligenhafen section was discontinued on May 30, 1976 in passenger traffic and on November 1, 1984 in freight traffic. The discontinuation of the small rail lines on the island of Fehmarn was completed in the summer of 1984 for passenger trains and four years later for freight trains.

Of the KOE route network, only the section from Neustadt via Oldenburg to south of Lütjenbrode is still in operation as part of the Vogelfluglinie. This is followed by a new line that touches the small railway line at Großenbrode station and west of Burg and ends in Puttgarden.

The northern entrance to Neustädter Bahnhof was also given up on December 1, 1968. Since then, trains from Oldenburg to Neustadt have passed the city to the west, headed into Neustadt station (formerly called Neustadt Gbf) and entered the platform track from the south. In the current operating concept for the route (December 2010), regional trains between Lübeck Hbf and Neustadt station are served with two multiple units. After the separation of the two railcars in Neustadt station, one of the trains enters the Neustadt platform track and ends there; the other part of the train will continue (without traffic stop in Neustadt) to Puttgarden.

vehicles

Locomotive GES No. 16, former KOE No. 11

The only remaining traction vehicle of the Oldenburger Eisenbahn is its steam locomotive No. 11 . The superheated steam tank locomotive without running axles with four coupled axles ( D-h2t wheel arrangement ) was built by AEG in Hennigsdorf near Berlin in 1928 under the serial number AEG 4230 and delivered to KOE in 1929.

After nationalization in 1941, the machine was added to the DR vehicle fleet under number 92 442 . It went to the Hohenzollerische Landesbahn as No. 16 in 1949 and with this designation is today a museum locomotive at the Society for the Preservation of Rail Vehicles (GES), Stuttgart.

On June 17, 1940, the Oldenburger Eisenbahn received 3 wagons from a delivery of 12 wagons originally for the Turkish State Railways. The cars had a price of 43,428 RM. The car no. 18. Source: Gottfried Lindner AG works archive in Ammendorf near Halle a. Saale

Trivia

In the population, KOE jokingly stood for "come without hurry".

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Part 1: Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg. Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9 .
  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 12: Schleswig-Holstein (eastern part). Freiburg i. Br. 2011, ISBN 978-3-88255-671-1 .

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