Eutin–Neustadt railway

Eutin–Neustadt (Holst) railway
Overview
Locale	Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Line number	1023
Technical
Line length	15.6 km (9.7 mi)
Route number	146 (1982)
Route map
	Legend
	Source: German railway atlas [1]

Last updated March 31, 2019

The Eutin–Neustadt railway was a 16-kilometer-long, non-electrified branch line, running from Eutin to Neustadt in Holstein in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Eutin is the district capital of Eastern Holstein county located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. As of 2015, the town had some 17,000 inhabitants.

Neustadt in Holstein is a town in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, on the Bay of Lübeck 30 km northeast of Lübeck, and 50 km southeast of Kiel.

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig. Its capital city is Kiel; other notable cities are Lübeck and Flensburg.

Geography

Eutin station Eutinbahnhof.JPG — Eutin station

Neustadt in Holstein station BahnhofNeustadt001.JPG — Neustadt in Holstein station

The line ran through the terminal moraine of Ostholstein. It joined the county town of Eutin with the Baltic port of Neustadt.

A terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the snout (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated by plucking and abrasion, and has been pushed by the front edge of the ice, is driven no further and instead is dumped in a heap. Because the glacier acts very much like a conveyor belt, the longer it stays in one place, the greater the amount of material that will be deposited. The moraine is left as the marking point of the terminal extent of the ice.

Ostholstein is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by the districts of Stormarn, Segeberg and Plön, the Baltic Sea and the city of Lübeck.

The Baltic Sea is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, northeast Germany, Poland, Russia and the North and Central European Plain.

These were three stations on the line: Röbel, Bujendorf and Oevelgönne. Of these, only Bujendorf had a substantial station building. All three stations were quite far from population centres.

Süsel is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 23 km north of Lübeck, and 10 km southeast of Eutin. The small lake Barkauer See is located here.

Sierksdorf is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, situated on the Bay of Lübeck. The Hansa Park amusement park is located in Sierksdorf.

The line was part of an east-west axis, connecting Neustadt, Neumünster and Büsum.

Neumünster station is the main railway station of the town of Neumünster in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It is at the junction of lines to Flensburg, Heide, Hamburg-Altona, Kiel, Bad Oldesloe, Kaltenkirchen and until 1985 Ascheberg. It is currently operated by Deutsche Bahn, which classifies it as a category 2 station.

Büsum is a fishing and tourist town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the North Sea coast, approx. 18 km southwest of Heide.

History

The Neumünster–Ascheberg–Eutin–Neustadt line was opened on 31 May 1866. The line was operated by the Altona-Kiel Railway Company (German : Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, AKE), which was nationalised in 1884. In railway timetables, the line was soon shown in three sections. From Eutin to Ascheberg it was considered part of the Kiel–Lübeck railway. The westernmost section from Ascheberg to Neumünster was now managed as a separate line (the Neumünster–Ascheberg railway).

The Altona-Kiel Railway Company was a joint-stock company, established under the law of Denmark in personal union with the Duchy of Holstein, that built and operated an 105 km railway line between Altona and the Baltic Sea port city of Kiel. Altona was at that time the second largest city under Danish rule and the railway line was the first built in Danish-controlled territory.

German is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol (Italy), the German-speaking Community of Belgium, and Liechtenstein. It is also one of the three official languages of Luxembourg and a co-official language in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland. The languages which are most similar to German are the other members of the West Germanic language branch: Afrikaans, Dutch, English, the Frisian languages, Low German/Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, and Yiddish. There are also strong similarities in vocabulary with Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, although those belong to the North Germanic group. German is the second most widely spoken Germanic language, after English.

The Kiel–Lübeck railway is a non-electrified, mostly single-track railway line in eastern Schleswig-Holstein in north Germany. It links Kiel and Lübeck, the only two large cities in the state. Passenger services on the 81-kilometre route are currently (2010) operated by DB Regio.

In the 1970s, a single daily pair of services ran between Heide and Neustadt and six pairs of stopping services operated. The express train stopped between Eutin and Neustadt only in Bujendorf. Its travel time was 19 minutes, while the stopping trains took about 22 minutes. Services were operated mainly by class 515 accumulator railcars and class 798 Uerdingen railbuses, but there were also locomotive-hauled trains. Around 1976 there was a pair of express trains on the Kiel–Puttgarden route, which operated in summer. In 1980. “Trans-Europ-Express-Marchandises” international freight trains operated of the Hamburg-Eidelstedt–Neumünster–Eutin–Neustadt–Puttgarden route. Finally in October 1981, long-distance trains on the Lübeck–Puttgarden railway were diverted via the line. On 22 May 1982, passenger services were closed on the line. Freight traffic was closed on 31 December 1982 (according to other sources on 30 December 1983^[2] or 3 June 1984). The tracks were removed in 1984/85. In the town of Eutin there are still tracks to a tank loading facility at the local army barracks, but they have not been used for years.

Heide is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the Kreis (district) Dithmarschen. Population: 21,000.

DB Class ETA 150 class of German battery-electric railcars

The accumulator cars of Class ETA 150 were German railbuses used extensively by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) over 40 years. The driving cars were very comfortable to travel in because they were quiet, rode well on the rails due to the weight of the batteries and were pollution-free. They ran on both main and branch lines.

The Uerdingen railbus is the common term for the multiple units which were developed by the German firm of Waggonfabrik Uerdingen for the Deutsche Bundesbahn and private railways after the Second World War. These vehicles were diesel-powered, twin-axle railbuses of light construction. The diesel motors were built into the chassis underneath the vehicle. The VT 95 and VT 98 of the former Deutsche Bundesbahn in particular, are associated with this concept. These vehicles were employed in passenger train duties on branch lines where steam or diesel train operations were less profitable. Including the units built under licence, a total of 1,492 power cars were built from 1950 to 1971; and the total number of units, including trailer and driving cars, was 3,306.

Notes

↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. p. 13. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
↑ Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb (2008). Abschied von der Schiene. Güterstrecken von 1980 bis 1993 (in German). Stuttgart. p. 17.

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References

Erich Staisch, ed. (1994). Der Zug nach Norden (in German). Hamburg: Ernst Kabel. ISBN 3-8225-0298-7.
Olaf Hamelau, ed. (2010). Die Eisenbahn in Ostholstein (in German). Erfurt: Sutton-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86680-589-7.

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[Eisenbahnatlas-1] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. p. 13. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[2] Urs Kramer, Matthias Brodkorb (2008). Abschied von der Schiene. Güterstrecken von 1980 bis 1993 (in German). Stuttgart. p. 17.