West Havelland circular paths

Röthehof – Brandenburg Krakauer Tor

596c (1940)

Route length:

26.4 km

		from Nauen (Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen)
	0.0	Röthehof
		after Ketzin
	3.8	Tremmen
	6.0	Niebede
	7.8	Wachow
	11.5	Päwesin
	15.6	Roskov
		to Brandenburg old town
	18.1	Weseram
	20.3	Saaringen
	23.0	Klein Kreutz
	26.4	Brandenburg Cracow Gate

Roskow – Brandenburg old town

Course book range :

596d (1940)

Route length:

19.2 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

		from Röthehof
	0.0	Roskov
		to Brandenburg Krakauer Tor
	1.8	Weseram Chaussee
	4.0	Lünow
		Beetzsee
	6.1	Heretic
	8.7	Butzow
	10.7	Bike paths
	11.6	Radewege brickworks
	13.3	Brielow
	15.1	Brielow expansion
	17.5	Brandenburg Silo Canal Bridge (from 1945)
		Silo channel
		from Rathenow
		Bundesstrasse 1
	19.2	Brandenburg old town
		to Brandenburg Hbf

Westhavelländische Kreisbahnen is the name of two railway lines in Brandenburg . The traffic has meanwhile been given up except for a final stretch in Brandenburg an der Havel and Brielow expansion , on which freight train traffic still takes place.

history

Freight wagons parked at the buffer stop in Brielow expansion, today's end of the branch line

Krakow Gate Railway Station monument

The Havelländische railway AG already operated the 1893 Osthavelländischen orbits . In the neighboring district of Westhavelland , the railway company built two small railways with a total length of 46 kilometers, and they took over management of them.

From Röthehof south-west of Wustermark , one line ran from July 5, 1901 in a south-westerly direction via Roskow to Brandenburg an der Havel , where the terminus Brandenburg Krakauer Tor (originally Brandenburg Cathedral ) was located in the Kraków suburb. Röthehof could be reached from Nauen via the Osthavelländische Kreisbahnen to Ketzin.

Another route connected Roskow from October 1, 1904, also with Brandenburg, but where it was introduced into the Brandenburg-Altstadt station of the Brandenburg city railway .

In the summer timetable of 1939 there were up to three trains per direction and day from Roskow to Brandenburg Altstadt or back (timetable number 596 d), with one train being tied through from Röthehof. The travel time for the 19.2 kilometers was a good hour. It took a good two hours from Nauen, with short transfer times in Röthehof and Roskow. From Röthehof to Brandenburg Krakauer Tor (timetable number 596 c) there were also up to three trains per day, with an additional one or two trains that only ran between Röthehof and Roskow or Roskow and Krakauer Tor. The driving time for the 26.4 kilometers was just over an hour. In this way, one could reach Brandenburg from Nauen in one and a half hours.

The company was expropriated by the Soviet occupation forces in 1946 and the railways were initially subordinated to the Brandenburg State Railways and then to the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

The passenger trains ran between Roskow and the Brandenburg Krakauer Tor station until October 4, 1959, between Roskow and Brandenburg Silokanalbrücke, where the line originally running to the old town station ended after 1945, until September 25, 1966. Freight traffic was still on the line Operated continuously until September 28, 1969. After the extensive dismantling of the line, there is only one track from the Altstadt train station to the Brielow expansion , on which goods traffic takes place, for example to port facilities on the silo canal and a Heidelberg printing press plant , and which is used as a siding in its end.

Web links

Commons : Westhavelländische Kreisbahnen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Deutsches-Kursbuch.de , DR course book summer timetable 1939

[1] Deutsches-Kursbuch.de , DR course book summer timetable 1939