Treuburger Kleinbahnen

Oletzkoer Kleinbahnen (Treuburger Kleinbahnen)
Underpass at Sedranker Berg, 2018
Garbassen – Marggrabowa / Treuburg – Schwentainen railway line
Route length:	43.10 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend Bittkowen (planned, not executed) 27.2 Garbassen 26.3 Mierunsken / Merunen North 23.2 Mierunsken / Merunen middle 22.6 Mierunsken / Merunen South 20.3 Mierunsken / Merunen Good 17.8 Drosdowen / Drosten 15.5 Buttken 13.6 Bialla / Billstein 11.4 Loan types 8.8 Dombrowsken / Königsruh 6.3 Stobbenort 4.4 Sea tendrils 3.6 Klein Lassek / Liebchensruh 0.9 Marggrabowa / Treuburg Hp 0.0 Marggrabowa / Treuburg Klb Insterburg – Lyck railway line 1.7 Elisenhöhe 4.0 Kukowen / Reinkental Gut 5.1 Kukowen / Reinkental Hp 5.7 Kukowen / Reinkental forest 7.9 Sayden / Saiden 10.6 Giesen 12.5 Duttken 13.8 Konradsfelde 15.9 Schwentainen (Kr Oletzko)

The Treuburger Kleinbahnen were a railway company that emerged from the Oletzkoer Kleinbahn-AG in the East Prussian district of Treuburg .

history

The East Prussian district of Oletzko , which was called the district of Treuburg since 1933, was connected to the railway network in 1879 by the Prussian Eastern Railway with the Goldap – Marggrabowa – Lyck line; In 1908 a branch line was added from Marggrabowa to Kruglanken . Marggrabowa was the capital of the Oletzko district and was renamed Treuburg in 1928.

Oletzkoer Kleinbahn-Aktiengesellschaft

The remaining gaps should be closed by the Oletzkoer Kleinbahn-AG. This was granted by the Prussian state with a share capital of 1,050,000 marks, the Provincial Association of East Prussia and the Oletzko district with share capital of 525,000 marks each, and the East German Railway Company in Königsberg, which belongs to the railway construction company Lenz & Co., with 463,000 marks on December 6th Established in 1909.

Routing

The two lines were laid out in meter gauge and opened on September 18, 1911. The north led from the district town with then over 5,000 inhabitants via Mierunsken (Merunen) on the Russian border to Garbassen and was 27 kilometers long. The original plan was to run the route to Bittkowen . The second stretch stretched southwest to Schwentainen and was 16 kilometers long.

Initially, three pairs of trains ran daily on both routes, with the trains to Garbassen leaving five minutes after those to Schwentainen in Marggrabowa and, vice versa, arriving five minutes earlier. There were no continuous trains. In 1913/14 89,392 people and 18,375 tons of goods were transported. In 1938/39 there were 38,174 people and 20,321 t of goods.

During the First World War, fighting and looting caused considerable damage to the small railway.

The management was transferred to the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (ODEG) in Königsberg, which had also acquired the shares of Lenz & Co in the railway. On June 30, 1924, the Oletzkoer Kleinbahn-AG was incorporated into the Insterburger Kleinbahn-AG, which was then called Ostpreußische Kleinbahnen AG .

The routes were badly damaged in World War II. After the Soviet occupation of the area and annexation to Poland in 1945, the line was not reopened.

vehicles

When the company opened, four identical locomotives were available. Three of them were brought to Poland in the First World War and from there probably went to Russia. In 1915, three locomotives were purchased from Jung , identical locomotives went to the Lycker Kleinbahnen .

List of steam locomotives

designation	Manufacturer	Number / year of construction	Type		Remarks
TKB 1	Union Giesserei , Koenigsberg	1883/1911	1'Cn2t
TKB 2	Union Giesserei, Koenigsberg	1884/1911	1'Cn2t
TKB 3	Union Giesserei, Koenigsberg	1885/1911	1'Cn2t		Loss around 1915/16.
TKB 4	Union Giesserei, Koenigsberg	1886/1911	1'Cn2t		Loss around 1915/16.
TKB 5	Arnold Jung locomotive factory , Kirchen (Sieg)	2293/1915	1'Bn2t	100 hp
TKB 3 '	Arnold Jung locomotive factory, Kirchen (Sieg)	2358/1916	1'Cn2t	160 hp	After 1945 in Ełk, PKP Txa2-3341, later Tya6-3324
TKB 4 '	Arnold Jung locomotive factory, Kirchen (Sieg)	2359/1916	1'Cn2t	160 hp	After 1945 in Ełk, PKP Txa2-3342 later Tya6-3325

In 1939 the following vehicles were available: four steam locomotives, eight passenger cars, two pack wagons and 36 freight cars. The locomotives were probably so damaged during the war that further use was out of the question.

literature

• Siegfried Bufe (Ed.): Railways in West and East Prussia . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1986, ISBN 3-922138-24-1 , ( Ostdeutsche Eisenbahnen 1).
• Gerhard Greß, Jörg Petzold: East Prussia and its traffic routes. Part 1 to 1945. VGB Verlagsgruppe Bahn, Fürstenfeldbruck and Klartext Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 2018, ISBN 978-3-8375-2063-7 , pp. 193–196.

Web links

Commons : Treuburger Kleinbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Treuburger Heimatbrief No. 36 Winter 1998/99. Retrieved July 28, 2018 . 
• The Oletzkoer (Treuburger) Kleinbahn. In: Contributions to East Prussian railway history. Retrieved July 28, 2018 . 

Remarks

1. ↑ according to other sources: 1916

Individual evidence

1. ^ Proof of foundation. District President Gumbinnen, December 13, 1909, accessed on July 28, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Jörg Petzold: The SPREEWALD locomotive and its "sisters" . In: The Museum Railway . No. 3 , 2017, ISSN  0936-4609 , p. 38 .