Lübeck-Segeberger Railway

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Lübeck – Segeberg
Route - straight ahead
from Puttgarden , Kiel and Travemünde
Station, station
0.0 Lübeck Hbf on the north side outside the station hall
   
to Hamburg , Lüneburg , Bad Kleinen and Schlutup
   
2.7 Lübeck-Schönböcken
   
Mandrel width
   
Mori
   
5.2 Stockelsdorf
   
8.6 Arfrade
   
11.5 Wellbeing
   
13.6 Pronstorf-Butterstieg
   
16.4 Strukdorf
   
18.7 Westerrade
   
21.4 Geschendorf- Steinbek
   
24.9 Weede
   
from Bad Oldesloe
Station, station
28.9 Bad Segeberg Lübeck small train station
   
to Kiel
Route - straight ahead
to Neumünster

The Lübeck-Segeberger Eisenbahn (LSE) was a standard gauge small railway in Schleswig-Holstein .

prehistory

The construction of the Lübeck-Segeberger rail link was preceded by long-term negotiations, during which various routes were discussed. Both the city of Segeberg and the Lübeck Senate were interested in a rail link Lübeck – Segeberg, but were rejected by the Altona Royal Railway Directorate, which had been responsible for the network of the nationalized Altona-Kiel Railway since 1884 and a weakening of the volume of traffic on the line Neumünster – Segeberg – Oldesloe feared. Therefore, they wanted to approve the construction of a direct connection Segeberg – Lübeck only as a narrow-gauge railway, alternatively to make the ban on through traffic from Segeberg to Lübeck a condition.

After further negotiations, which were delayed, among other things, by Alfred Graf von Waldersee's military considerations , in 1904 the Prussian declaration of consent for the construction of a Segeberg – Lübeck small railway was finally available. The Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn (LBE) then carried out leveling work on behalf of the railway construction committee.

Extensive discussions followed about the financing of the railway. Lübeck and the Segeberg district agreed to give away the required building site free of charge, the other regional authorities were rather reluctant. On January 11, 1913, Lenz & Co. was finally able to commission the preparatory work on the now fixed route. By May of the same year, the concessions of the participating governments were available, so that the Lübeck-Segeberger Eisenbahn AG could be entered in the Lübeck commercial register on August 9, 1913 with a capital of 1,816,000 marks. LBE was to take over the construction and operation of the line on behalf of the newly founded railway company. The LBE shareholders had already given their approval for this at their general meeting on June 6, 1912.

Due to the war that had broken out in the meantime and the unexpectedly difficult terrain, however, there were considerable delays in the construction of the railway. After the sections from Lübeck to Arfrade, Obernwohlde and Westerrade had already started operation on July 1, 1916, the connection could only be opened in full on December 6, 1916 (instead of 1915 as planned). At 2.4 million marks (including 400,000 marks for the purchase of land), the construction costs were finally 204,000 marks above plan.

business

The railway connected the rural area in the northeast of the Segeberg district with the district town of Bad Segeberg and Lübeck. The regular-gauge , single-track line was about 29 km long and was opened in 1916 in three sections. The company was managed from the beginning by the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn, after its nationalization in 1938 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and from 1949 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

The traffic developed moderately. Three pairs of trains ran daily. Around 1930 37,000 people were transported and 13,000 tons of goods were transported. The first own vehicle was a railcar from Waggonfabrik Uerdingen with a baggage trailer (initially owned by LBE), which accelerated passenger traffic and increased the number of passengers. At the end of the 1930s, around 120,000 passengers were carried annually. The use of railcars ended in 1939, however. After the Second World War, the two stops Dornbreite and Mori were set up. From 1950 the LSE had its own vehicles again. Since their concession did not permit the continuous transport of goods beyond the endpoints, the services in the goods traffic remained moderate. LSE passenger traffic was stopped on September 26, 1964, as did freight traffic between Arfrade and Westerrade . Freight traffic between Westerrade and Bad Segeberg ended on December 31, 1966 and between Lübeck and Arfrade on December 31, 1967. The line was then dismantled. On the western part of the route near Weede runs the federal motorway 20 (formerly federal highway 206 ), on the eastern part a cycle path .

In the 1950s, a Uerdinger type of rail bus (pre-series VT 95) was used as the vehicle, which occasionally also had a single-axle trailer for transporting luggage. During the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg, special trains with steam locomotives also ran .

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, part 1: Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg , Gifhorn 1972, ISBN 3-921237-14-9
  • Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen, Volume 12: Schleswig-Holstein 1 (eastern part) EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-671-1 (complete revision)

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