Malente-Gremsmühlen–Lütjenburg railway

The railway line Bad Malente- Gremsmuehlen - Luetjenburg is a disused standard gauge branch line in Schleswig -Holstein. Operators for the construction was the merchant Janus, who ran the hotel Holstein Switzerland, which also gave its train on the track name.

Route

The track has a length of approximately 17 kilometers. It connects the Bad Malente- Gremsmuehlen station with Luetjenburg in the Holstein Switzerland.

The following stations and stops were served:

• Gremskamp ( flea market) (formerly Malente goods station )
• 0.00 Bad Malente- Gremsmuehlen; formerly operationally wedge between the railway station Kiel-Lübeck route and the route covered here; from May 31, 1866
• 2.01 Malente -Nord ( since September 13, 2008 Egger village); from the summer of 1954
• 3.89 Holstein Switzerland; from 25 May 1890 Located on the Kellersee station was named after the eponymous hotel. Track 1 had a platform roofing, which was implemented in 1896 to Prince Plön station and 1910 Plön station.
• 5.49 Bruhnskoppel; 1890
• 6.72 Malkwitz; from the summer of 1954
• 8,32 Benz; 1890
• 9.60 Flehm; from the summer of 1955
• 11.15 Kletkamp; from December 8, 1890
• 13,00 Blekendorf; from the summer of 1954
• 15,20 Friederike Thal; from the summer of 1954
• 16.57 Schmiedendorf; from 1 June 1891 to October 1, 1892
• 17.26 Luetjenburg

History

The contract for construction of the line was signed on May 15, 1888. The line was opened in sections.

The railway station built in 1866 in the chain Gremsmuehlen of the Altona- Kiel Railway Company built East Holstein Railroad (now the railway Neumünster - ash mountain railway route Kiel - Lübeck railway Eutin -Neustadt ) between Neumünster and Neustadt in Holstein from. For the construction of the section of the Gremsmuehlen station had to be rebuilt in 1893.

Thereafter, the newly built station was as a wedge between the station platform tracks for the trains of direction Luetjenburg or Kiel and Lübeck. On November 17, 1905, the Directorate Altona changed the name of the station Gremsmuehlen in Malente- Gremsmuehlen. In the summer of 2004, the junction points was expanded towards Luetjenburg. First endpoint of the segment was from the opening on December 8, 1890 to June 1, 1891, the station Kletkamp. From this point, the line was extended to the breakpoint blacksmith village on the outskirts of Luetjenburg. He was, until October 14, 1892 terminus of the route. Then, the residual portion was opened to its final stop Luetjenburg, blacksmith village was abandoned. The only rail connection along the route was in Malkwitz (km 6.90). He served a brickworks, was taken around 1890 and operated until the early 1970s. The Holstein Switzerland train station at Kellersee was opened on 25 May 1890. Track 1 had a platform roofing, which was dismantled in 1896 back to them at Ploen Prince station ( right: Plon - Park Station ) rebuild. Since 1910, this canopy is at Plön station. In the station Luetjenburg with turntable, roundhouse with treatment plants, head and side ramp with crane led from 1910 to the narrow-gauge railway Kirchbarkau - Preetz Luetjenburg (KPL ), whose route einmündete on Lütjenburger main platform. Since that time, there was a second platform. The little train had Luetjenburg a roundhouse with treatment facilities. For the use of the state railway tracks the KPL had to pay a fee. After the narrow gauge railway in 1938 ceased their operations, the military took over the section Luetjenburg -Neuhaus as siding for the Seefliegerhorst Bellin on Selenter lake. The operation of the siding took over the German Reichsbahn until 1942, after which the tracks were canceled.

In Benz station managing the Reichsbahndirektion Szczecin took place after the end of the war their home. The resolution of the Directorate in July 1945. A plaque on the station building is reminiscent of the resolution.

Big changes on the track there was in the 1960s, when for the up to 1400 ton military trains that operated the military training area in Todendorf near Luetjenburg, the route had to be renewed. For the sands of bed rails were fishplated 1962/63 laid on the entire route, those of the profile S 54 in a new ballast and continuously welded.

For summer timetable from 23 May 1954, the rail car found its way on the track. The VT 95 Series with VB 142 and later the VT 98 series with VS 98 dominated the track image to the setting of the passenger traffic on 29 May 1976.

The military freight ended in the mid-1990s. The line was officially shut down in 1996. Seasonal steam trains between Hamburg and Luetjenburg - Hamburg she sailed with special permission even to the year 2000. 2008 a large part of Lütjenburger station area was demolished in favor of a new supermarket.

In March 2011, the entire route was freed from vegetation. In media reports, the resumption of the operation of the route was announced and the German private railway GmbH wanted to ride from May 2012 trains from the 1950s daily on the route between Malente- Gremsmuehlen and Luetjenburg. However, these plans could not be implemented and the EBC railway operations and consulting GmbH presented beginning of July 2012 as the competent railway infrastructure company the application for closure of the route.

The project " Hein Schüttelborg " and the small train operating company

The acquisition of the route through the Mittenwald railway real estate company in April 2005, the route could be saved from demolition. From 2006 to 2008, there were between Bad Malente- Benz Gremsmuehlen and trolley traffic. The Mittenwald railway real estate company sold the track on September 15, 2008 to the German private railway in Hameln.

The German private railway company leased the track to the field and small train operating company gGmbH ( FKBG, later Klbg ), which had formerly the Museum Field track "Wild Heather " operated and in the meantime, tried in vain to the re-establishment of the railway line Ellrich - Zorge. The FKBG spurts, 2006, the track to the former goods station in Malente to 600 mm around and planned to convert tracks from 2009, the total distance and to operate as a project " Hein Schüttelborg ". For the FKBG received approval as a railway infrastructure company in November 2008. In April 2009, the approval of the company was withdrawn at his own request again because it was organizationally, financially and technically unable to meet the safety requirements associated with this status. Then wanted the FKBG operate the route as a web of special construction without official approval. A section of the route was actually umgespurt added the operation in June 2009. This operation prohibited the municipality Malente on 19 June 2009 due to a threat to public safety and order. Appeal against the Klbg here initially had success. The re- recorded on July 3, 2010 Running was banned on July 6 by the competent railway supervisory authority. The traffic is resting since then, up Bruhnskoppel vice spurts line was dismantled to standard gauge by the Westphalian Almetalbahn ( WAB). Although the district court prohibited the re-gauging, the WAB and the Klbg agreed to cancel the lease retrospectively. The project " Hein Schüttelborg " will not be pursued.

The FKBG / Klbg set up two locomotives of the type Deutz OMZ 122 F. For the carriage two covered wagons of the former narrow-gauge railways in Ortelsburg and Znin further four Polish-born open wagons with benches were available.

According to the magazine " The Museum Railway " the failed business of FKBG / Klbg has left a lot of excitement and anger in Malente, because the railway was run without permission and so the law had been broken. Neither have a public interest in the 600 mm track gauge submitted to nor have reached the company under museological aspects of something. The intriguing and naivety project is called " Keep the fun fizzles Less ".