Mecklenburg Friedrich Wilhelm Railway Company
The Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (MFWE) was not a state railway , but always a private stock corporation . It operated the Mecklenburg section of the Wittenberge – Strasburg railway and the Thurow – Feldberg and Mirow – Rechlin lines .
history
The company was created on April 8, 1894 through the merger of the Blankensee-Woldegk-Strasburger Railway Company with the Neustrelitz-Wesenberg-Mirower Railway Company . On January 1, 1941, the railway was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn for military reasons. At that time the main shareholders were the Mecklenburg State with 35 percent and Commerz- und Privatbank with 21 percent of the capital.
The 114-kilometer-long rail network has gradually been opened. The Neustrelitz-Wesenberg- Mirow Railway began on May 18, 1890 with the Neustrelitz - Mirow section (21.7 km). The extension followed on May 18, 1895 between Mirow and the Prussian border at Buschhof (10.7 km). In Buschhof there was the connection to the Prignitzer Eisenbahn AG , which had leased the piece up to the border (2 km).
The Blankensee-Woldegk-Strasburg Railway ran its entire route with a length of 36.9 kilometers from October 15, 1893.
Because the state railway line had to be used between Neustrelitz and Blankensee (14.2 km), a separate line was built, which was opened on December 15, 1907 for goods traffic and on January 4, 1908 for passenger traffic. From it branched off in Thurow since December 21, 1910, a 19.1 kilometer branch line to Feldberg in Mecklenburg. The MFWE station Neustrelitz was the later southern station.
A ten-kilometer military railway Mirow-Ellerholz built in the war years 1917/18 was transferred to MFWE in 1922. Public freight traffic began on July 1, 1933, passenger traffic on January 22, 1934. In 1936, the line was extended by 1.7 kilometers to the Rechlin test site of the Luftwaffe on the southeast bank of the Müritz .
The MFWE also operated the port railways in Neustrelitz and Mirow with a total length of five kilometers.
literature
- Rudi Buchweitz: Mecklenburg Friedrich Wilhelm Railway (MFWE). State railway in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-933254-41-8 .