Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway

Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway
MPSB's route network in its largest extent (dark green)
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Ferdinandshof-Friedland-Jarmen
Legend 0.0 Ferdinandshof (transition to the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway ) 4.42 Big meadow 5.37 Mariawerth 7.50 Rimpau Like to bog culture 9.26 Mariawerth hay switch 10.50 Loading point settlement switch according to Anklam 14.26 Uhlenhorst School forest branch Boulder garden 15.73 Schwichtenberg (depot and workshop) 17.64 Klockow 19.54 Kotelov 20.75 Sandhagen to Jatzke / Rattey / Groß Daberkow 22.2 Jatzke Weiche 23.06 Heinrichshöh 25.0 Farmers home 27.1 0 Friedland (transition to the Neubrandenburg-Friedländer Bahn ) 3.0 Salow 3.9.1 0 Bresewitz village 3.5 Zinzow 5.3 Rubenov 7.7 Borntin 5.3 0 Bresewitz brickworks 1.8 Dishley 4.5 Ownership 7.7 Ramelow Forest House 9.7 Ramelow village 11.6 Rebelow Japenzin 4.6 Drewelow 2.7 Spantekow 0 15.0 Wegezin-Dennin according to Anklam and Janow 16.8 star 20.1 Krien 23.8 Stonemason 24.1 Krusenfelde 26.4 Klein Below Kadow 28.1 Kadow-Padderow 30.5 Toitin 34.5 Jarmen (transition to Demminer Bahnen and Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft Greifswald – Jarmen )
Uhlenhorst – Anklam
Legend by Ferdinandshof to Friedland 0.0 Uhlenhorst 2.3 Charlottenhorst 4.8 0 Loewitz 0.9 Sophienhof 4.3 Putzar 4.8 0 2.7 Schwerinsburg 7.6 Schmuggerow 8.2 Marienthal 9.6 Luisenau 11.3 Mollwitz 12.0 Charlottenhof 4.8 Ducherow 4.1 Agneshof 15.3 0 Dargibell 16.1 Kagendorf by Wegezin-Dennin 19.1 Gellendin Wrong mill from Leopoldshagen (see below) Anklam (transition to the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway ) Anklamer train to Lassan
Anklam-Leopoldshagen
Legend Anklamer Railway from Lassan 0.0 Anklam (transition to the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway ) according to Janow and Uhlenhorst (see above) Angermünde-Stralsund Railway 3.9 Bargischow 6.8 Auerose Ducherow – Heringsdorf route 9.6 Rosenhagen 10.9 Busow 12.5 Bugewitz village 13.3 Bugewitz Dairy 13.8 Bugewitz Good 15.2 Hoheheide 17.8 Leopoldshagen

The Mecklenburg-Pomerania Narrow Gauge Railway ( MPSB ) was a narrow-gauge railway network over 250 kilometers long with a gauge of 600 millimeters in what is now Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

The routes were built by the Mecklenburg-Pomeranian Schmalspurbahn AG , which was founded on May 2, 1892 by the public sector and private interested parties. The company was based in Friedland in what is now the Mecklenburg Lake District . In 1939 the majority of the shares were owned by the district of Anklam ; in addition, the state of Mecklenburg and the city of Friedland should be mentioned. In 1999 the Schwichtenberg – Uhlenhorst section was rebuilt by a railway association with a museum.

history

The Mecklenburg-Pomerania Narrow Gauge Railway AG 1882–1945

Share over 1000 marks of the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway from July 20, 1892

Former reception building at the MPSB train station in Friedland

Locomotive MPSB No. 1 "Jacobi", built in 1906, later BR 99 3351 of the DR

Boulder garden at the MPSB in Schwichtenberg

Between 1888 and 1891, a 27-kilometer commercial railway was laid from the Ferdinandshof state train station on the Greifswald – Pasewalk line via Uhlenhorst and Heinrichshöh to the Friedland sugar factory. According to a sales contract dated July 23, 1892, it was transferred to the newly founded MPSB. The other routes were opened between 1892 and 1927. This started public freight traffic here on October 1, 1892, and scheduled passenger traffic only on August 1, 1894.

From Friedland, which had been connected to the rail network by the Neubrandenburg-Friedland Railway Company since 1884 , a "main line" 35 kilometers in length was built in a northerly direction via Bresewitz - Dennin - Klein Below to the (later) Jarmen junction on the Peene in the Demmin district. Freight traffic also began here on October 1, 1892, and passenger traffic the following year.

From this basic network, two cross-connections then led to Anklam, on which passenger trains had been used since 1895, and freight trains were able to run in part as early as 1892. A route of 21 kilometers in length connected Dennin via Thurow with the then district town and the other was 19 kilometers long from Uhlenhorst via Dargibell, where a seven-kilometer branch line to the state railway in Ducherow departed. Both strands joined four kilometers from Anklam in Gellendin.

For passenger traffic, the Dennin – Janow (seven kilometers) and Anklam – Leopoldshagen (18 kilometers) branch lines were still used. In addition, there were numerous short branch lines that only served the goods traffic of individual manors. A large part of them, around 80 kilometers in length, did not belong to the MPSB, but to the landowners themselves and were only operated with horse power at harvest time.

It was only after the turn of the century that the network grew by another 40 kilometers. In the years 1908 to 1911, the line from Heinrichshöh was opened in a southerly direction to Brohm, which branched out to Jatzke and Rattey. Finally, Brohm established a connection to Groß Daberkow on the Strasburg – Neustrelitz line of the Mecklenburg Friedrich-Wilhelms-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1926. The route of the Woldegker Kleinbahn , which was closed in 1917 due to the bankruptcy of the Woldegk sugar factory, was largely used . This was built in 1893 by Brohm via Klein and Groß Daberkow to Woldegk with a gauge of 750 millimeters. The branches in Klein Daberkow to Matzdorf and Schönhausen were not reactivated.

In 1935 the MPSB carried 77,908 people and 390,536 tons of goods. That was by far the strongest freight transport of the small Western Pomerania railways.

Further development after 1945

Former Wegezin-Dennin station, center of the Friedland – Anklam line

At the end of the war in 1945, operations were stopped and the rails dismantled for reparation purposes. Only the 36 kilometer long Friedland – Dennin – Anklam route was spared and was managed by the state-owned Mecklenburg-Vorpommerschen Treuhandgesellschaft mbH.

But because the supply of the population via the roads could not be secured, the Soviet military government ordered the reconstruction of the most important routes in 1946. However, only a small part was restored and on November 7, 1947, passenger and freight trains ran on the main route from Friedland to Ferdinandshof.

After the improvement of the country roads, the small railways lost their importance. The Deutsche Reichsbahn , which had been the owner of the lines since April 1, 1949, began in the 1960s to gradually shut down traffic on this remainder, which is only around 65 kilometers in length. On November 30, 1960 the time had come between Ferdinandshof and Uhlenhorst, on May 29, 1965 passenger traffic ended on the subsequent section Uhlenhorst – Friedland and on June 1, 1966 also goods traffic. Passenger traffic was last only maintained on the Anklam – Dennin – Friedland route until May 31, 1969 and freight traffic until September 29, 1969.

MPSB museum railway

Train of the museum railway in Uhlenhorst on April 8, 2012

From 1999 rail enthusiasts rebuilt the section between Schwichtenberg, where the depot and workshop are today , and Uhlenhorst. Halfway there was a track triangle with a branch to the Erratic Boulder garden (service only in the direction of Uhlenhorst). This branch line is modeled on a private connecting railway from Fleethof connected to Schwichtenberg . Overall, the track length is over 2.6 kilometers, and regular museum railroad operations are also carried out by an association with steam locomotives . 48,000 passengers have already been carried since the start of operation in 1999.

Timetable

• 1888 Opening of the first section as a non-public light railway
• 1894 Start of regular passenger traffic
• around 1910 the MPSB was considered the most modern narrow-gauge railway in Germany
• 1945 dismantling of almost all routes as a reparation payment
• 1946 Reconstruction from Friedland to Ferdinandshof
• 1970 route dismantling by the Deutsche Reichsbahn
• from 1999 reconstruction of the Schwichtenberg – Uhlenhorst section and museum railway operation

vehicles

The Mecklenburg-Pomerania Narrow Gauge Railways had 44 locomotives in their fleet over the course of history. The maximum number of locomotives was 24.

Vehicles before 1949

Operating number numbering plan				Surname	design type	Construction year	comment
1.	2.	3.	German Reichsbahn
1	-	-	-		B n2t	1887
2 and 3	4 II , 20	-	-		B n2t	1888
4th	-				B n2t	1886
5	9 II				B n2t	1892
6 and 7	21, 22				B n2t	1892
8th	20 II				B n2t	1893
9 to 15	10-15	15, 23-25, 27			C n2t, C1′n2t	1893-1895	No. 10–15 converted to C1′n2t
16 to 19	16 to 19	16 II , 25		FRIEDLAND , ANCLAM , JARMEN , DENNIN	B n2t	1895-1896
	1 II to 7 II	1 II to 7 II	99 3351-3353	JAKOBI , REUSS , BARON OF TROSCHKE , KAYSER , COUNT SCHWERIN LÖWITZ , KATTER , RAT VOSS	C1′n2t	1906-1913
	8 II	8 II	99 3451	VD LANCKEN	C1′h2t	1914
		9 III	99 3461		D h2	1925
		10 II to 12 II	99 3462		D h2	1930-1934
		13 II and 14 II	99 3361		D h2	1937-1938
		17 II , 18 II			E n2t	1918
		19 II , 20 III , 21 II - 23 II , 26			D n2t	1914-1919	HFB brigade locomotive
		21 III , 22 III	99 3651, 99 3652		B n2t	1940, 1941
		31-33					Test vehicles from Orenstein and Koppel

After 1949, the 99 3001 was used on the Jarmen – Schmarsow line until 1958. When operations ceased on May 31, 1969, there were still six steam locomotives in stock.

In 1938 the MPSB acquired a triple-coupled small locomotive. This was given the road number 30. The locomotive used in the Heinrichsruh gravel pit did not prove itself and was sold in 1956. The Deutsche Reichsbahn also used the two diesel locomotives Kö 0405 and Kö 0408 on the Jarmen – Schmarsow route.

After the railway was closed, a large number of original vehicles were preserved. MPSB steam locomotives found their way into the non-socialist economic area , u. a. to France, wagons to West Germany . In the Friedland City Museum , an entire section with many original items and documents has been dedicated to the MPSB, and there is also a steam locomotive there.

Until 1993, the pioneer railway in Halle used open "convertible cars" on converted MPSB freight cars from the late 19th century.

literature

• Wolfgang Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania . Bufe, Egglham and Munich 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 , p. 155 ff.
• Klaus Jördens: The Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn-AG , in: Die Museumseisenbahn, issue 2/1981, p. 7ff.
• Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß : Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . VEB Transpress, Berlin 1980, p. 105 ff. Licensed edition: Narrow gauge between the Baltic Sea and the Erzgebirge alba, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-87094-069-7
• Wolf-Dietger Machel : The Mecklenburg-Pomerania Narrow Gauge Railway . 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-71053-6
• Wolf-Dietger Machel: The Mecklenburg-Pomerania Narrow Gauge Railway. Special edition of the Friedländer Heimatblätter. Friedland 1992
• Wolf-Dietger Machel: The narrow-gauge railways of the sugar factories at the MPSB . Herdam Fotoverlag, Gernrode 2002, ISBN 3-933178-11-8
• Wolf-Dietger Machel: The optional wagons of the former Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway. In: The Museum Railway. Issue 3/1990, p. 7ff.
• Wolf-Dietger Machel, From Ramelow to Michigan - whereabouts of former MPSB vehicles. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Issue 3/1992, p. 50ff.
• Wolf-Dietger Machel, Günter König: The Wismar passenger car of the former Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway. In: The Museum Railway. Issue 3/1993, p. 7ff.
• Werner Hormann, Wolf-Dietger Machel: Small railways in the old district of Greifswald . Kenning, 1998, ISBN 3-927587-85-0

Web links

Commons : Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature on Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway in the state bibliography MV
• Website of the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway friends for the MPSB
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Mecklenburg-Pomerania narrow-gauge railway in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. 22 in some literature incorrectly referred to as No. 32