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| Course book range : | 113t (1940) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 37.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 51.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 23.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Stolper Bahnen were part of the Pomeranian State Railways . Its route network had been built since 1894 by Stolpethalbahn AG and the Stolper Kreisbahn within the boundaries of the district and the independent city of Stolp .
Allegedly, the district of Stolp in the Pomerania region was the largest in all of Prussia. After all, around 1939 he owned a rail network of over 230 km in length, more than half of which belonged to Stolper Kreisbahnen AG, over which the district was able to exert significant influence with over 60% of the capital. After the integration of the lines into the Pomeranian State Railways from January 1, 1940, the district, along with the State of Prussia and the Province of Pomerania , held almost 2 million Reichsmarks in this corporation, i.e. almost 10% of the share capital.
Stolpethalbahn AG
The expansion of the small railway network began with the Stolp – Rathsdamnitz line, which was opened by Stolpethalbahn AG on August 15, 1894. It was standard gauge and led 19 kilometers from the county seat to the south.
In 1904 the shareholders' meeting, in which the Kingdom of Prussia, the Province of Pomerania and the district of Stolp were represented, decided on a continuation of the route in a south-easterly direction along the Stolpe to Jamrin (or Muttrin?), Which was built by the district and opened on October 12, 1895. ) to buy and to extend to Budow . It could be opened to Budow on August 1, 1906; the total route was 38 kilometers.
The Stolpethalbahn provided the municipal connecting railway in Stolp, which opened on December 1, 1899 and was expanded on May 12, 1903. The route from the Stolpethalbahn train station to Bütower Chaussee (1.84 km) was opened up by the municipal gasworks and had a branch to the municipal lumber yard (1.61 km).
The operation of the Stolpethalbahn was initially run by Lenz & Co. GmbH, and from 1910 to 1920 the small railroad department of the Pomeranian Provincial Association.
Stumbling circular path
The Stolper Kreisbahn, an in-house operation of the Stolp district, initially opened up the north and northeast of the district with narrow-gauge railways with a gauge of 750 mm. The first route led from August 14, 1897 from Stolp via Gabel and Wendisch Silkow to Dargeröse (46 km) and from November 14, 1902 a further six kilometers to Zezenow . In Wendisch Silkow, later called Schwerinshöhe, a branch branched off to Schmolsin (nine kilometers) from August 14, 1897 .
However, this was shut down again on December 6, 1913 between Wendisch Silkow and Zietzen, because at that time a new line was opened from Dominke (Gabel) to Kuhnhof, which branched here on the one hand to Zietzen and on the other to Stolpmünde on the Baltic coast.
These new lines, built from 1913 onwards, were laid out in standard gauge and the existing lines were re-gauged over the following years:
- by October 25, 1920, the Stolp – Gabel section was re-gauged and partially re-routed;
- by October 1922, the fork-Klenzin section was re-gauged and partially re-routed;
- by October 8, 1933, the Klenzin – Dargeröse section was re-gauged and partially re-tracked;
- the last section Dargeröse – Zezenow was shut down and dismantled in September 1933.
The Pomeranian operations management of the company Lenz & Co GmbH, which had built the routes, ran the circuit. Around 1920 the two small railways based in Stolp were jointly managed with the neighboring Schlawer Kreisbahn .
Stolper Kreisbahnen AG
At the beginning of 1930 the Stolpethalbahn AG took over all routes of the circular railway with a circumference of 89 kilometers; of which the Dargeröse – Zezenow section, six kilometers in length, was closed in 1933. Together with the main line of the Stolpethalbahn (38 km), the new company owned a network of 121 kilometers of standard-gauge small railways. In addition to the district of Stolp (62%), the province of Pomerania (18%), the Prussian state (16%) and the German Reich (4%) were involved in the company operating as Stolper Kreisbahnen AG.
In 1938, the Pomeranian regional railway management took over the management tasks until the Stolper Kreisbahnen - called Stolper Bahnen - were incorporated into the newly founded Pomeranian regional railways on January 1, 1940. In 1945 all lines were dismantled and the material was transported to the USSR.
literature
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. A4-5
- Wolfram Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 .
- Roman Witkowski: Kolej Doliny Słupi (Stolpe Valley Railway) , Świat Kolei 6/2004, Emi Press, Łódź
- Roman Witkowski: Słupska Kolej Powiatowa (Stolper Kreisbahn) , Świat Kolei 9/2005, Emi Press, Łódź
- Roman Witkowski: Słupskie Koleje Powiatowe (Stolper Kreisbahnen) , Świat Kolei 11/2005, Emi Press, Łódź
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfram Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 , p. 240