Lübeck–Puttgarden railway

The railway line connects Lübeck- Puttgarden as part of the international Vogelfluglinie Lübeck and the Baltic island of Fehmarn in Schleswig -Holstein.

• 4.1 Highway
• 4.2 Regional Transport

Route description

From Lübeck from the tracks of the railway route Kiel -Lübeck be used to Bad Schwartau. The route follows then Timmendorfer beach, Scharbeutz Haffkrug and Sierksdorf the Baltic coast. In the freight yard at Neustadt in Holstein, a branch line branches off to the Neustadt passenger station. The main route continues through East Holstein and finally reached via Lensahn, Oldenburg in Holstein, Großenbrode and after crossing the Fehmarnsunds on the Fehmarnsundbrücke the Puttgarden station on Fehmarn.

History

Emergence of the route Neustadt ( Holst ) - Oldenburg ( Holst )

The first section of the railway line Lübeck- Puttgarden was the 23- kilometer route piece of Neustadt (Holstein ) to Oldenburg ( Holstein). This was built by the county Oldenburg Railway and opened on September 30, 1881. It was further expanded in the direction Lütjenbrode and Holy port (20 km) until 17 January 1898.

A direct connection from Lübeck to Neustadt was missing for decades, because Neustadt was associated only with a change in Eutin ( railway Eutin -Neustadt ) with Lübeck. The direct connection Lübeck- Neustadt by the Deutsche Reichsbahn was made until June 1, 1928.

Idea of ​​a " bird flight line "

Already in the 1920s, attacked the German Reichsbahn (DR) and Danske Statsbaner (DSB ) on the idea of the engineer Gustav Kröhnke ( 1826-1904 ), set up a rail ferry link across the Fehmarn Belt between Puttgarden and Rodby. Also, a bridge over the Fehmarn was first planned in 1921. On the German side there was, as mentioned above, by this time the routes from Lübeck to Hamburg Lübeck - Büchener Railroad ( LBE ) and Neustadt in Holstein Heiligenhafen the circle Oldenburg Railway ( KOE ) equipped with a small train ferry belonged to Fehmarn.

The first final construction plans for the Vogelfluglinie created in 1940 by Heinrich Bartmann. A formal intergovernmental agreement between the German Reich and the occupied Kingdom of Denmark was signed on 8 April 1941. After the LBE was taken over by the DR on January 1, 1938 were with the ELE on 1 January 1941 and the KOE nationalized the rest of the railway companies on the German side on August 1. In September of the same year, work began both in Germany and in Denmark. They were due in 1943 interrupted by the Second World War.

From 1951: Großenbrode Kai

The work was resumed in 1949. The route of the former KOE was modernized, built a bypass curve Lütjenbrode and completed the link to bypass Neustadt. On the grounds of the former Seefliegerhorstes Großenbrode Großenbrode the quay station was built. On 15 July 1951, the German Federal Railways and the DSB opened from here the railway ferry Großenbrode Online Magazine to Gedser on the Danish island of Falster.

From 1963: Fehmarnsundbrücke

With the construction of the connection of Großenbrode to Puttgarden in the north of Fehmarn began only in 1958. On May 14, 1963 was attended by the Federal President Heinrich Lübke and the Danish King Frederik IX. with the Fehmarn bridge and ferry across the Fehmarn Belt, the Vogelfluglinie in its present form in operation. At the opening were the German Federal Post Office is issuing a special stamp. The parallel-running railway ferry from Großenbrode ferry across the Fehmarn Fehmarn up to the same place on the island of Fehmarn was abandoned.

About the Vogelfluglinie since been wrong many important long-distance trains such as the Northern Express and Express Italia Rome and Copenhagen. There was also a lively freight train traffic. For example, 190 757 freight cars in 1994, according to German train trajektiert. The D- trains, the TEE Mercury and the TEEM freight trains Puttgarden were 221, later covered by diesel locomotives of the series with the series 218 double unit and the major Soviet diesel locomotives of the series 232.

In regional and local transport continued the German Federal Railways between Lübeck and Puttgarden with the 212 series hauled push-pull trains with a silver pieces, some of which even sailed the random routes to the Holy harbor and castle on Fehmarn.

Furthermore, went from 1963 to 1983 in the summer months of used mainly by travelers Fehmarn Baltic Express which traveled from Cologne via the Ruhr area, East Westphalia, Hannover, Lauenburg and a few resorts on the Bay of Lübeck to Puttgarden or Burg on Fehmarn. Too many are not located at the track seaside resorts, for example after Dahme and Grömitz, there were bus connections.

Because of the heavy traffic on the single track was the track in 1971 for experimental purposes initially fitted with train radio. Already in the 1970s, the operation of most intermediate stops between Neustadt and Puttgarden was abandoned and carried out the mass transit buses. On the branch line from the track triangle Lütjenbrode east to Holy harbor passenger on May 30, 1976, and freight traffic on 31 October 1984 has been set. The track is now closed and was dismantled. Partly this is a cycle.

And thus the freight train traffic on the Vogelfluglinie - - After the commissioning of the fixed rail link across the Great Belt between the Danish islands of Funen and Zealand in 1997, the Trajektierung of freight trains across the Fehmarn Belt has been set. The international freight traffic between the metropolitan areas of Hamburg and Copenhagen and is still owned about Flensburg and Fredericia. This means a detour of 160 kilometers. Because of the reduced number of trains, the stations Sierksdorf Bbf, Hasselburg and Beschendorf were abandoned as a crossing station.

A reactivation of part of the island of Fehmarn track was chosen to Castle, the largest town on the island Fehmarn, to be able to approach close to the center with passenger trains again. The Statewide Verkehrsservicegesellschaft Schleswig -Holstein ( LVS) presented several reports, which constitute the establishment of a railway budget in the immediate local vicinity as verkehrlich most appropriate solution. Against stir spot sporadic protest. The construction work should be completed by Easter 2010, the new station was opened finally the timetable change in the end of July 2010. Regional express trains from Lübeck branch since in Castle - West of the main line and go to the new station Fehmarn - Burg on the outskirts. Some of the trains turn immediately and continue their journey continues to go to Puttgarden station, other trains run direct from Burger Station back to Lübeck.

Locomotives and railcars

IC3 (DSB, Hamburg- Copenhagen) at the exit from the ferry in Rødbyhavn (2007)

ICE 38 (DB, Copenhagen -Hamburg ) Puttgarden iH coming with an intermediate stop in Oldenburg (2010)

The most famous locomotives Vogelfluglinie were the diesel locomotives of the DB Class V 200.1, the factory fresh from the depot Lübeck took over in 1963 from the operation. They were alongside the ferry and the Fehmarn bridge for years as a symbol of modern and fast travel and have been shown in the advertising of the German Federal Railways and the region. Earlier, fast multiple units of the VT series were used as 12 Copenhagen Express between Hamburg and Copenhagen on Großenbrode.

From 1978, the transport of these trains was gradually taken over by inserted in double traction locomotives DB Class 218.

The German Bahn AG continued after the turn and diesel locomotives of the series 232 and 234, on the flight of birds line a.

Steam locomotives wrong in the 1950s after Großenbrode Kai. They drove to the completion of the Fehmarn bridge in the plan service Puttgarden lack of hub or other reversal opportunities in the depot Puttgarden not. Today occasionally run special steam trains to Puttgarden ( see below).

In 1993, Danish MF sets the entire long-distance transport of bird flight line. Since 2007, most trains with the German series 605 regional trains from Puttgarden to Lübeck and Hamburg associate with double-deck push-pull trains and covering by class 218 and class 648 railcars

Each year the Ascension weekend drives a steam train museum with historical cars three times a day the distance from Oldenburg to Puttgarden and back.

Presence

Bahnhof Neustadt in Holstein

ICE Copenhagen -Hamburg outdated RB - Neustadt Lübeck Haffkrug Station

The extensive freight tracks in Puttgarden lie fallow.

The earlier to greatly reduced now compared railway traffic between Hamburg and Copenhagen is operated by Intercity Express trains of the DB and Euro City trains MF DSB Danske Statsbaner. The Neustadt train station is a terminal station on a short, branching off from Lübeck to the east branch line. Therefore, the long-distance trains from Hamburg / Lübeck drive past Neustadt to Puttgarden / Copenhagen. Between Town and Lübeck regional trains every hour between Puttgarden or Burg on Fehmarn and Lübeck every two hours. These trains between Sierksdorf and Lübeck are combined and the Neustadt railway station united Gbf ( southbound ) or separately ( in the north ).

As the successor of Fehmarn Express - this umfuhr Hamburg via Büchenberg -Lüneburg - operate intercity trains, which in the summer season every day ( in the holiday season, two times daily ) Frankfurt (Main ) Hauptbahnhof, Cologne Main Station and the Ruhr region via Hamburg connect to Fehmarn - Burg.

• Lubeck
• Timmendorfer beach
• Scharbeutz
• Haffkrug
• Sierksdorf
• Oldenburg ( Holstein)
• Fehmarn - Burg

• Lubeck
• Oldenburg ( Holstein)
• Puttgarden (and further to Denmark)

Long-distance traffic

Overall, there is an approximate two- hour intervals with a gap in the morning with EC or ICE trains from Hamburg to Copenhagen.

Regional Transport

Planning for the link across

By 2021 the Fehmarn Belt fixed link is to be built as a tunnel.

The section from Luebeck to Puttgarden to be electrified until the completion of the new tunnel, but carried a double-track lines only seven years after completion of the fixed link. The Fehmarnsundbrücke to remain single track. As a benefit-cost ratio for the hinterland connections to the fixed link was 6.7: 1 is specified.

The state of Schleswig -Holstein announced on January 9, 2013 announced that the regional planning process for the development of hinterland connections for celebrations Create link across; the plans subject from 11 February to March 11, 2013 publicly, written statements are possible until 25 March 2013.

The Ratekau station should be reopened, according to national transport plan by 2012. Because of the still incomplete plans for the expansion of hinterland connections to the fixed link, this was initially postponed.