Prignitz Railway (1884–1941)
The Prignitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (PEG) was founded on June 5, 1884 as a stock corporation in Perleberg and named after the landscape in the west of the Mark Brandenburg . Founders were the Prussian state , the province of Brandenburg , the districts of East and West Prignitz and the cities of Perleberg, Pritzwalk , Wittenberge and Wittstock .
The purpose was to build and operate a new railway line as part of the east-west connection from Strasburg (Uckermark) via Neustrelitz , the capital of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , to the Wittenberge railway junction on the Elbe. On May 31, 1885, the first section (44.9 km) from Perleberg via Pritzwalk to Wittstock an der Dosse was opened. Ten years later, on May 18, 1895, the line from Wittstock to Buschhof was built on the Mecklenburg border (18.4 km), where there was a connection to the Mecklenburgische Friedrich-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (MFWE). The 1.8 km long section of the state border, which was operated by the PEG, also belonged to it.
In the west, the line opened in 1881 by the Wittenberge-Perleberger Eisenbahn (WPE), which operated the connection to the main Berlin-Hamburg line in Wittenberge. Since 1931/1932 the PEG also ran the WPE; also for the small railways in the districts of East and West Prignitz, whose narrow-gauge network was more than 90 km in length.
In 1934 the PEG changed its company to Prignitzer Eisenbahn AG . For military reasons, all three railways (MFWE, PEG, WPE) were nationalized on January 1, 1941 and incorporated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
literature
- Gerd Kleinewefers, transport pioneer. Deutsche Eisenbahn- und Straßenbahn-AG 1835-1985 , p. 686ff