Schönermark – Damme circular path

Schönermark – Damme
Route south of Kleinow (2008)
Route number (DB) :	6770
Course book range :	292 (1995) Gramzow-Damme ; 924 (1989)
Route length:	26.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Szczecin Schönermark to Berlin 0.0 Schönermark Nord formerly Schönermark Kreisbf. Catfish 1.9 Biesenbrow stop 2.9 Biesenbrow loading point 6.0 Golm (Uckerm) 8.7 Fredersdorf (Uckerm) 12.3 Zichow 15.1 Gramzow (Uckerm) 17.9 Lützlow 21.9 Kleinow (Uckerm) from Eickstedt 25.3 Damme (Uckerm) to Prenzlau

The Schönermark – Damme district railway was a single-track branch line in the Uckermark in the north-east of Brandenburg . It always had only local significance. The traffic on the south branch of the line between Schönermark and Gramzow was stopped in 1979 and the line in this area was dismantled. Traffic on the northern part of the line ended in 1995. This section was taken over by the Brandenburg Museum for Small and Private Railways in Gramzow , which offers museum traffic there.

history

Building of the small train station in Schönermark (2010)

The eastern Uckermark received a railway connection with the Berlin-Stettiner- and in 1863 with the Angermünde-Stralsund railway as early as 1843 . At the turn of the century, the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen opened up the agricultural area. In 1898 a line from Löcknitz to Brüssow was created , which was extended in 1902 via Damme and Prenzlau to Strasburg . There was also interest in a rail connection in the neighboring district of Angermünde , namely on the part of Gramzow , the most important town in the area. The Schönermark station on the Berlin-Stettiner-Bahn, opened in 1882, was chosen as the starting point and the route from there led via Gramzow to Damme, where there was a connection to the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen. The line was opened on December 13, 1905. The management was from the beginning with the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen; At times they were also formally run jointly as Prenzlau and Angermünder Kreisbahnen .

After the Second World War, the line was dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union ; however, a quick reconstruction was possible. Between 1946 and 1949 the line was gradually reopened. The destroyed bridge over the catfish near Schönermark had to be replaced by a new one.

In 1979 the traffic on the southern part of the route between Gramzow and Schönermark ended. The line was dismantled in the following years. Passenger traffic on the northeast section remained until the timetable change on May 27, 1995. On June 30, 1997, the line was closed.

In 1996, 17 years after it had lost its role as a transit station, the Schönermark station on the Berlin-Stettiner Bahn was closed entirely to passenger traffic. After the sponsoring association was founded in 1992, the Brandenburg Museum for Small and Private Railways opened on June 1, 1996 in Gramzow station. In 2008/2009, the museum was able to gradually acquire the section between Gramzow and Kleinow , and later to Damme , plus the section from Damme to Eickstedt on the route towards Brüssow. Museum trips have been offered on selected days between Damme and Gramzow since 2009.

Route

former Lützlow stop (2008)

Gramzow train station

The route began in Schönermark in a separate train station, formerly Schönermark Kreisbahnhof , also known as Schönermark Nord by the railway authorities . The tracks of the small station were almost at right angles to those of the main line. A connecting curve connected the north head of the station on the main line with the circular path. From Schönermark, the route initially led parallel to the Chaussee on a dam through the Welsebruch in a north-west direction to Biesenbrow, stop at the village of the same name, which became known as Kummerow through the stories of Ehm Welk . From there, the route turns north through hilly, poorly forested landscape via Biesenbrow loading point , Golm (Uckerm) and Fredersdorf (Uckerm) to Zichow . There the route crosses the federal highway 166 . From Gramzow (Uckerm) the tracks are still in place, the station is the seat of a railway museum. The route continues north via the Lützlow and Kleinow (Uckerm) stops (near the village of Falkenwalde ) to Damme (Uckerm) , where it joins the route from Brüssow. The federal motorway 11 is crossed under between Lützlow and Kleinow .

The rails are or were laid in gravel bedding. With the exception of Schönermark and Gramzow, the stations only had simple waiting rooms. The reception building of the Kreisbahn in Schönermark is privately owned and is used as a residential building. The locomotive shed and some outbuildings of the Gramzow station belong to the railway museum.

literature

• Wolf Dietger Machel, Rudi Buchweitz : Small railways in the Uckermark . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933254-88-7 .
• Erich Preuß : Archives of German small and private railways: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin . transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , pp. 125-128 .

Web links

Commons : Kreisbahn Schönermark – Damme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schönermark-Damme route , Gramzow track plan (PDF; 45 kB) and Damme track plan (PDF; 39 kB) from Ralfs Eisenbahnen
• Gramzow Railway Museum
• Kreisbahn Schönermark - Damme on bahnstrecken.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Publication by the Federal Railway Authority , XLS file, 24 kB ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Official Journal for the Office Gramzow No. 6/2009 of June 17, 2009, p. 10. (PDF; 1.1 MB)