Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen
Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen was the name of a railway company in Brandenburg and Berlin. Today the company operates under the name Havelländische Eisenbahn . They operated several railway lines. In addition to the ones listed, it also includes the Bötzowbahn . The traffic has now been almost completely abandoned.
history
Nauen – Ketzin (Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen) |
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Route number (DB) : | 6888 Neugarten – Ketzin , 6508 Nauen – Röthehof |
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Course book range : | 596b (1940) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 15.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nauen – Velten (Mark) (Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen) |
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Route number (DB) : | 6509 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book range : | 596f (1940) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 25.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Immediately after the Prussian Small Railroad Act came into force in 1893, the Osthavelland district in the province of Brandenburg and the communities of Nauen and Ketzin as well as the Nauen sugar factory decided to open up the district with railway lines across the board.
As the first line of the Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen, the 16 km long Nauen– Ketzin small railway was opened on October 4, 1893 for goods traffic and on December 13, 1893 for passenger traffic. It began in the small train station of the district town on the Berlin – Hamburg railway and led south to the Havel . It crossed the Berlin-Lehrter Railway at Röthehof, from where a connecting line for the transfer of freight wagons to the Neugarten station had existed since July 1, 1896.
For the account of the Osthavelland district, the corporation built and operated two more small railroad lines, which it bought in 1924 and thus expanded its entire network to 60 kilometers in length. On the one hand, it was the 26-kilometer line leading from Nauen in an easterly direction to Velten , where it reached the Berlin – Kremmen line operated by the Prussian State Railway on October 1, 1904 . This line began in Nauen north of the state train station, while the Ketziner line had its station south. Only when the state railway was raised was an underpass built and the Veltener Bahn introduced into the southern station.
As the second route , the Bötzow Railway to the Spandauer Johannesstift branched off from the Bötzow intermediate station since June 1, 1908 (passenger traffic from May 1, 1909) .
In the 1939 summer timetable, four daily connections between Nauen Kleinbahnhof and Ketzin were noted, or three backwards (timetable number 596 b), with two or three additional trains, mainly on weekends. There were also up to five regular buses in each direction. Leaving out the stops "Nauen Berliner Straße" and "Röthehof", the buses made the distance in about the same travel time, which was a little less than 40 minutes for the trains for the 15.6 km (and thus only about 10 minutes slower than today's bus connection).
- After 1945
The company was expropriated in 1946 by the Soviet occupying power in the Soviet zone of occupation and the railways were initially subordinated to the Brandenburg State Railways and then to the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Only the Berlin part of the Bötzowbahn was retained by the company. The passenger trains from Nauen to Ketzin ran until May 22, 1963. The Nauen small station was abandoned in 1966. Freight traffic on this section ceased on September 15, 1997 between the Ketzin and Ketzin landfill, and on July 1, 2000 between the Mosolf connection and the landfill. Passenger traffic on the Nauen – Velten line was discontinued on December 8, 1963, and goods traffic on May 31, 1964. It was then dismantled with the exception of a remnant in Nauen.
- Planned reactivation of the Ketzin – Röthehof / Neugarten section for passenger traffic
Since 2019, the city of Ketzin has been campaigning intensively for a rail connection from Ketzin to Wustermark (via Röthehof and Neugarten). A detailed feasibility study was presented to the state of Brandenburg in December 2019. It provides for an electric regional train (RB 32) operated by a power storage system, which will commute from Ketzin to Wustermark and there will allow for connection options to Potsdam and Berlin - every hour from the early morning hours until around 11 p.m. The travel time from Ketzin to Berlin Central Station should be around 50 minutes (24 minutes faster than today). The cost of reactivation is estimated at 15 million euros.
literature
- Jörg Schulze, Bernd Neddermeyer: Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen. Havelländische Eisenbahn . Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941712-23-2 .
- Gerd Wolff: The private railways in the Federal Republic of Germany . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 1984, ISBN 3-88255-650-1 , p. 15-17 .
Web links
- Route description - OHE
- history
- BahnInfo - pictures of the route (2017)
- Tradition on the Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ↑ deutsches-kursbuch.de DR Kursbuch summer timetable 1939