Żnińska Kolej Powiatowa
| Zniner circular path | |
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 Route network of the Zniner Kreisbahn,
the current museum railway is also marked | |
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) |
The Żnińska Kolej Powiatowa ( German Zniner Kreisbahn ) is a narrow-gauge railway with a track width of 600 mm in the powiat Żniński .
history
The small town of Znin with 4,500 inhabitants (1910) had been connected to the Hohensalza – Elsenau – Wongrowitz – Rogasen line of the Prussian State Railways since 1889 ; In 1895 the Znin – Schubin branch line was added. From this railway junction , the then district of Znin built its own small railway lines with 600 mm gauge in the southern part of the district, which belonged to the administrative district of Bromberg in the Prussian province of Posen.
The first section connected Znin via Biskupin Dorf / Urstätt with Schelejewo / Borkendorf (15.7 km) and, like the branch from Biskupin to Rogowo / Seebrück (11.5 km), became the general passenger and service route on July 1, 1894 Hand over freight traffic. However, beet traffic had already started on October 13, 1893.
When the line from Rogowo to Oschnau station was extended by 12.7 km on June 9, 1895, it joined the Exin – Janowitz – Gnesen state railway there . It wasn't until more than ten years later that the network expanded even further. From June 7, 1908/28, the main line branched out. May 1909? in Riedelhausen / Rydlewo, two kilometers south of Znin, a nine-kilometer branch line to Stillersee / Ostrowce.
Starting from the Znin small train station, another line ran from October 19, 1911/1. June 1912 in a westerly direction to Oberhof Gut / Obiecanowo (15.8 km); a freight railway to Berghausen / Wola (5 km) branched off from it in Uscikowo / Wieneck. The route Borkendorf – Hötzendorf / Adlig Grochowiska (5 km), which was put into operation on October 16, 1913, was also used only for freight traffic. The line had reached a length of 75.42 kilometers when the Znin district came to Poland after the First World War . After that, the two-kilometer-long Oberhof – Wiesensee freight railway was only built in 1930, which was used to remove gravel. The following vehicles are named for 1914: 8 steam locomotives, 11 passenger cars, 4 baggage cars and 190 freight and special cars. This inventory was largely unchanged in 1944.
Renamed during the Second World War
After the invasion of Poland , the place name Żnin zu Dietfurt was Aryanized . The Kreisbahn traded first as "Kleinbahnen des Kreises Dietfurt" and finally as "Dietfurt Railway"; The Gaubahnen Wartheland was responsible for the management .
post war period
After the end of the war , the Polish railway company Polskie Koleje Państwowe took over the narrow-gauge railway. Before 1980 the sections Brandhöft – Stillersee, Borkendorf – Adl. Grochowiska, Wieneck – Gut Wola and Oberhof – Wiesensee closed. In 1992 the Rosenberg – Oschnau and Żnin –Obiecanowo sections followed. On the 11.9 kilometer stretch between Żnin and Gąsawa , the Wenecja narrow-gauge railway operates as a tourist railway during the summer months .
Just like the Gnesener Kreisbahn and the Mecklenburg-Pommersche Schmalspurbahn AG , the Zniner Kreisbahn received wagons from Carl Weyer & Co. in Düsseldorf. Three of the passenger cars built in 1894 were in use in Bad Malente after refurbishment from 2008 to 2010 on the narrow-gauge Malente-Gremsmühlen-Lütjenburg railway line .
Rome or Wittenberg?
On the Znin – Oschnau route, at km 21.3, there was a stop for the town of Rome, which at that time had 155 inhabitants. After the district fell to Poland in 1919, the village was named Rzym. About twenty years later, during the Second World War , this name was abolished. However, they did not fall back on the earlier place name Rome, which probably seemed too "Catholic" to the new rulers. It was "reformed" and the place name was now Aryanized - like Lutherstadt - Wittenberg (Posen) . However, in the course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn for 1943 the Rosenberg station appears at this point and in the timetable of July 3, 1944 in table 130x of the "Dietfurt Railway" the former station name Rome (Wartheland) appears again.
literature
- Carsten Recht: The small railways in 600 mm gauge. 2nd Edition. Kleinbahn-und-Karten-Verlag Recht, Buchholz 1996, ISBN 3-931122-01-8 .
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in East Brandenburg and Posen. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-33-0 ( East German Railway History 2).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Koch's station directory, 52nd edition, supplement 1940, p. 51.