Randower Kleinbahn

125z (1944/45)

Route length:

48.7 km

		from Szczecin
	0.0	Stobno Szczecińskie (Stöven Kleinbahnhof)
		to Bützow
		Stobno Szczecińskie Wieś (only around 1945)
	3.8	Dołuje (Neuenkirchen)
	5.4	Wąwelnica Szczecińska (Wamlitz)
	8.3	Redlica (Marienthal)
	10.2	Dobra Szczecińska (Daber)
	13.6	Boeck (Buk)
	15.4	Nassenheider brickworks
	17.3	Nassenheide (Rzędziny)
	20.3	Stolzenburg (Stolec)
		today's Polish-German border
	22.5	Lenzen
	26.1	Stolzenburger Glashütte
	29.7	Zopfenbeck
	32.1	Hintersee
	34.1	Hintersee north
	36.8	Ludwigshof
	40.2	Rieth
	40.8	Mützelburger Waldbahn (until 1910)
		today's German-Polish border
	45.3	Albrechtsdorf (Karszno)
	47.4	Neuwarp Kirchhofsweg
	48.7	Neuwarp (Nowe Warpno)

The Randower Kleinbahn AG operated the regular gauge small railway line Stöven - Neuwarp , also called Randower Bahn . From 1945 only the section from Stöven (now Stobno Szczecińskie ) to Daber (Dobra Szczecińska) was operated by the Polish State Railways, the remaining line was dismantled.

history

Until 1945

From 1892 there were efforts to connect the Stolzenburger Glashütte to the railway network from the Bützow – Stettin railway line. 1895 Finally, in Szczecin the Randower Kleinbahn AG founded, the capital of the Prussian State Pomerania , the rural county Randow , the Forestry Commission and private shareholders was applied. The company Lenz & Co. was commissioned to build and operate the small railway . The route from Stöven to the glassworks was opened on May 10, 1897.

Soon there were plans to expand the route to Ueckermünde , but this failed for reasons of profitability. In 1905, however, an extension to Neuwarp came about, which initially ended temporarily on the outskirts and in 1906 reached the terminus. The connection of Neuwarps to the railway network led to an economic boom in the community. In addition, the railway was used to connect the Stolzenburger Glashütte and to transport wood, especially from Hintersee . In Nassenheide there were sidings to a distillery and a brick factory. Several private residents had also brought light railways to the route; in Rieth the Mützelburger Waldbahn operated until 1910 was crossed.

The Pomeranian Provincial Association took over management in 1910, the Mittelpommerscher Kleinbahnen GmbH association in 1920 and, from 1937, the Pomeranian regional railway directorate. From 1939 the line belonged to the Pomeranian State Railways, which led the line under the name Randower Bahn .

When the glassworks closed in 1929, the railway lost its most important freight customer. The competition from bus routes that was also emerging was countered in 1928 with the opening of the railway's own bus route Stettin-Nassenheide-Stolzenburg-Ueckermünde. The procurement of a Wismar rail bus in 1933 also made passenger transport by rail more attractive again. In 1935 the railway carried 64,312 people and 29,003 tons of goods.

After 1945

At the end of April 1945 rail operations were stopped because of the advancing front line, but could be resumed after a few days. Since the German-Polish border was not determined until later, the places on the railway initially remained part of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. However, on August 8, 1945, the line had to be stopped again because the line from Daber to Neuwarp was dismantled as a reparation payment in favor of the Soviet Union . The approximately 10 km long section from Stobno Szczecińskie (previously Stöven Kleinbahnhof ) to Dobra Szczecińska (Daber) continued to be operated by the Polish State Railways, while the passenger trains to Szczecin Główny (Stettin Central Station) were tied through. On the remaining route, passenger traffic ended on June 2, 1973. The section beyond Dołuje (Neuenkirchen) was dismantled in 1987, the remaining part of the route was finally closed on November 28, 2000. Later considerations to rebuild the line to Dobra Szczecińska and even to extend it to Police (Pölitz) came to nothing.

The buildings of the Stolzenburger Glashütte station were managed by the Deutsche Reichsbahn until 1989 , all other properties of the former Kleinbahn on German territory came into the ownership of the neighboring communities.

Todays use

In 1993 the Rieth – Hintersee section was prepared as a cycle path. At the former train stations Rieth, Ludwigshof, Hintersee Nord and Hintersee station signs and z. Sometimes not authentic railway signals set up. The section between Glashütte (from the crossroads at Gorinsee) and Rieth can also be used as a cycle path, where the Oder-Neisse cycle path runs . On the German side, the station building in Hintersee and the three-part building ensemble of the Stolzenburger Glashütte station were also retained. Since 2016, an asphalt bike path has also been built on the Polish side from the border bridge near Rieth to near Karszno.

literature

Wolfram Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania . Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Egglham and Munich 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 , p. 164ff.
Heiko Bergmann: The Randower Kleinbahn. 2nd Edition. Schibri-Verlag, Milow 1996, ISBN 3-928878-48-4
Roland Ebert, Wolf-Dietger Machel, Hans-Joachim Pohl: On old railway embankments ... Hike No. 60 on June 6, 2015: The Randower Kleinbahn. Participant booklet, Berlin and Borgsdorf 2015
Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. B1 u. C1

Web links

bahntrassenradeln.de: Documentation of the railway line cycle path (accessed on August 11, 2015)