Rendsburger Kreisbahn
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 Location of the small train station in Rendsburg
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| Course book range : | 113 k (1944) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 46 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rendsburger Kreisbahn was owned by the then Rendsburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .
history
After the district council of the Rendsburg district had long sought better development of the rural area, on January 18, 1893 an application was made to the district committee for a small train from Rendsburg to Hohenwestedt with a branch from Legan to Itzehoe . This route was then approved without the branch on July 3, 1893. The securing of the financing dragged on for several years, and the planning was not completed until 1900. The crossing of the Kiel Canal and the route in Rendsburg turned out to be particularly difficult , as large areas of the fortress town were owned by the military. For this reason, there was no direct connection between the small train and the state train station . The small railway was finally created as a meter- gauge small railway. It has been running from Rendsburg in a southerly direction to Hohenwestedt since December 21, 1901 , which had been connected to the standard gauge Neumünster – Heide line of the West Holstein Railway Company , which was later taken over by the State Railway, since August 22, 1877 . Their train station was only a few meters away from the small train station, which made it possible to change trains quickly. The Kiel Canal was crossed on a swing bridge in Rendsburg . A port railway ran from the Rendsburg district train station, located south of the old town about ten minutes' walk from the state train station, to the district port on the canal. This also established the - partly four-track - connection for goods to the state railway. There was a transfer station at the port where the goods were reloaded.
Five pairs of trains ran daily, later six pairs.
It was not until 15 years later, on November 10, 1916, that the Hohenwestedt circular path, where a terminus station made it necessary to change the direction of the train, continued south to the Schenefeld terminus . This made the route 45.4 kilometers long. The planned extension to the marshland at Vaale did not take place. Three pairs of trains operated on the Hohenwestedt-Schenefeld section.
The end of the circular path was already apparent in the mid-1950s. On October 18, 1954, she was released from the obligation to operate the Hohenwestedt – Schenefeld section. In 1956/57 it gradually withdrew from the rest of the route. On the last section from Rendsburg to Jevenstedt , traffic ended on May 15, 1957. Some vehicles were sold to the Sylter Inselbahn . At the end of 1960, the orbit was also organizationally dissolved. It remained the operation of the harbor track by a diesel locomotive of the former circular track converted to standard gauge.
Vehicle fleet
Operation began with five two-axle tram locomotives , eight passenger cars, two baggage cars with a post compartment , 32 covered and 17 open freight cars and four long timber cars. The vehicles were braked with the lever brake. 1911-1913 she was the Körting - vacuum brake replaced.
In 1913 and 1914 two three-axle steam locomotives were purchased for reinforcement. In 1916, four more passenger cars were bought for the extension to Schenefeld. Two more three-axle locomotives were procured in 1925 and 1926.
In 1925, modern traction also returned to the Rendsburger Kreisbahn, and two railcars were procured. In 1939 four steam locomotives and two railcars were available. The railcars, which initially ran on benzene and were converted to diesel in 1939 and 1948, earned the railway the nickname “Rosa” because of their red and white paintwork.
The first diesel locomotive on the Kreisbahn was a locomotive built by Krupp in 1941 (factory number 2446); it was transferred to the port railway after it was closed. The second RK 12 diesel locomotive was bought by the Jung Lokomotivfabrik in 1951 . This was sold in 1957 to the Kleinbahn Selters – Hachenburg .
traces
Today traces of the railway can be found in many places. Numerous station buildings remained, for example the one in Hohenwestedt , which is now called "Gleis 3" and serves as a youth center. Two vehicles that were in use on Sylt after the circular path was closed will be kept at the museum railway of the German Railway Association in Bruchhausen-Vilsen , namely a railcar and a passenger car. While the latter is operational, the railcar has not yet been refurbished. In addition, since 1978, the Krupp locomotive of the circular and later port railway has been in operation there as the third vehicle after its renewed conversion to 1000 mm gauge.
literature
- Andreas Kerber: Rosa's times. The Rendsburger Kreisbahn . Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1991, ISBN 3-89264-641-4
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways. Volume 13: Schleswig-Holstein (western part) . Eisenbahn-Kurier, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-88255-672-8 , p. 167-187 .
Web links
Hohenwestedt - Schenefeld at OpenStreetMap