Vierländer Bahn

Vierländer Bahn
Hamburg-Bergedorf Süd train station
Route number (DB) :	9124
Course book section (DB) :	formerly 110d
Route length:	10.842 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend 0.000 Bergedorf North from Hamburg-Bergedorf Gbf 0.799 Willow Tree Path 1.079 Schleusengraben 1.309 Vierlandenstrasse 1,490 New way 1,570 0.000 Hamburg-Bergedorf Süd 0.839 Route to Geesthacht A 25 1.732 Figure eight 1,788 Pollhof 4,372 Curslacker dyke 4,532 Curslack - Neuengamme 4,750 Dove Elbe , Odemann Bridge 4,788 Neuengammer house dike 5.790 At Neuengamme concentration camp 6.003 Neuengammer collecting ditch 6,955 Neuengammer Hinterdeich 6,972 Hst Achterdiek 7,072 Gose Elbe , Achterdiekbrücke 7.240 Kirchwerder house dike 7.512 Norderquerweg 7.602 Kirchwerder North 8.003 Kirchwerder collecting ditch 8,430 Heel path 9.038 Kirchwerder collecting ditch 9.428 former routes from Billbrook / Geesthacht 9.978 Zollenspieker Querweg 10.020 Süderquerweg 10,704 Zollenspieker 10,842 Swell:

The line between Hamburg's Bergedorf Süd and Zollenspieker stations is known as the Vierländer Bahn . Zollenspieker is located in the Vierlanden in the Kirchwerder district . The construction of the line began on March 25, 1911 by the Bergedorf-Geesthacht Railway (BGE)

Routing

From the Bergedorf Süd train station with three freight loading tracks, the line ran on a single track in an easterly direction to near the Pollhof street, where it led in an almost quarter-circle arc in a southerly direction, initially to the Pollhof train station . In addition to the through track, this had a loading track initially connected on one side, which was later extended and connected to the main line at both ends. The rest of the route went over eleven kilometers mostly in a straight line southwards with an offset of about three kilometers to the west to Zollenspieker. The intermediate stations with train station buildings were Curslack-Neuengamme and Kirchwerder-Nord . There was an Achterdiek stop between the Neuengammer Hinterdeich and the Achterdiekbrücke

Branch of the Marschbahn at Teufelsort, to the left of Billbrook, to the right of Geesthacht, in the middle the Vierländer Bahn from Bergedorf. The middle strand continues backwards according to Zollenspieker (2014).

Halfway along the Feldstegel road, a track branched off southeast to the Neuengamme concentration camp site . On what was then Zollenspieker Querweg (between Fersenweg and Süderquerweg), coming from Billbrook in the east and Geesthacht in the west, the tracks of the Hamburg Marschbahn ran southwards with one curve each into the track of the Vierländer Bahn. In the 1930s, this was where the four-track Zollenspieker Querweg railway station was located with a signal box instead of an actual railway station building. For the last 900 meters, the line ran on two tracks to the Zollenspieker terminus.

The Zollenspieker station had three tracks for goods loading and storage purposes, three parallel tracks, which were joined at the end with switches to form a switchback track . For the most part, the station was used to transfer the locomotives to the other ends of the train for the purpose of changing the direction of travel, the size of the freight facilities did not indicate a high turnover of goods.

The intermediate along the route Dove Elbe and Gose Elbe and several Entwässerungssiele were crossed by bridges.

Operational management

The route opened in 1912 had the course book number 51c in 1913/1914 together with the BGE route to Geesthacht, 1936 93f and finally 110d . BGE was responsible for the management, which also took over the infrastructure in the 1920s. In 1942 she built a branch in Neuengamme with a siding to the Neuengamme concentration camp site . In some cases, the prisoners wanted to be transported smoothly and inconspicuously, and in others the goods produced by the prisoners in forced labor were to be transported cheaply and quickly. There were manufacturers located in the concentration camp as well as foreign companies whose branch in the concentration camp was integrated into their other production processes. Regular traffic to Veddel is known , for which the Hamburg march railway was used to the west.

Passenger traffic on the railway was stopped on May 16, 1953. BGE's omnibus traffic has existed here since 1927; it was taken over by VHH in 1954 . Freight traffic between Pollhof and Zollenspieker was stopped on May 27, 1961.

In 1978 the last track between the connection to the Bergedorf Süd - Geesthacht line and the Pollhof was dismantled. The former embankment is now used as a cycle path.

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  Former Pollhof train station

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  Former train station Curslack-Neuengamme, platform side

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  former Odemann bridge over the Dove Elbe

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  Achterdiekbrücke over the Gose Elbe

See also

• Rail transport in Hamburg

literature

• Stefan Meyer: 100 years of the railroad between Bergedorf and Geesthacht. From the BGE to the AKN freight railway. Lokrundschau, Gülzow 2006, ISBN 3-931647-21-8
• Jürgen Opravil: The Bergedorf-Geesthacht Railway . Kurt Viebranz, Schwarzenbek 1978, ISBN 3-921595-01-0
• Rolf Wobbe: Chronicle of the four-country railway . Walter Flügge, Geesthacht 1984, ISBN 3-923952-03-1

Web links

Commons : Vierländer Bahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gleismannsbahnhof, closed: The Bergedorf - Zollenspieker railway line ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) private website
• The Vierländer Bahn and the Hamburg Marschbahn. ( Memento of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) With maps and photos (PDF file; 3.1 MB) private page
• Curslack-Neuengamme station, 1912 side view (private page)
• Curslack-Neuengamme station, 1912 gable view (private site)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gleismannsbahnhof, closed: The Bergedorf - Zollenspieker railway line ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) private website
3. ↑ ^{a b} Die Vierländer Eisenbahn Bergedorf - Zollenspieker ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Topographic map "Bergedorf, 1: 25,000, Geographical Section, General Staff No. 4414, Published by War Office, 1944. Third Edition, 1951. " ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Model Railway Forum: The former Zollenspieker station near Hamburg, with track plan ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (private site)