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Historic railcar at Neuenburg Station

Historic railcar at Neuenburg Station

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Historic railcar at Neuenburg Station

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Location: Zetel, Landkreis Friesland, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

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VfB1897

September 22, 2022

Old wagon at the disused train station in Neuchâtel

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Ludger 🚴🌳🌲🍄🏞️🌅🔮

March 5, 2024

Here you are at the old disused train station in Neuchâtel.

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Alwin R 🚲

July 22, 2024

In Neuenburg, the station building and the remains of the tracks are still there. In 1993, a BDyg conversion car with the number 50 80 82-12 216-1, built in 1959 in the Neuaubing depot, was placed on a track. Apparently, a restoration was started in recent years, but was not completed.

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Alwin R 🚲

July 22, 2024

Portal of modernity

In 1896, the railway section between Neuenburg and Zetel was put into operation. "And with that, Müller and with him all Neuenburg residents had access to all accessible locations in the then Reich territory. The train stations in the Oldenburg region became the portals of modernity," says Meiners.

An excerpt from the NWZ from May 25, 1954: "Shortly before the turn of the century, people - as we were told by an eyewitness from Zetel - stood head to head on the platform in joyful anticipation of that first steaming and hissing machine that called itself a locomotive. Hardly anyone among these enthusiastic people would have suspected at the time that the Varel-Neuenburg and Ocholt-Ellenserdamm railway lines would become superfluous for passenger traffic on May 22, 1954, that a promising development that was beginning at that time would find an almost tragic farewell."

The automobile had become serious competition to the railway. Under the headline "

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Ralf Kusmierz

October 2, 2022

There is a toilet in the immediate vicinity ;-)

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Alwin R 🚲

July 22, 2024

Demolition prevented

The fact that the building is still standing is thanks to committed Neuenburg residents, especially Hein-Jürgen Thalen. While the tracks in the Friesische Wehde were being dismantled, the then newly founded association "Die Bahner" prevented the station in Neuenburg from being demolished. Hein-Jürgen Thalen bought the building in 1982, renovated it and turned it into a "communications center" for artists. There was also a restaurant in the station. When this era came to an end, Hein-Jürgen Thalen rented the station out as a doctor's office. And even today, people still come and go to the Neuenburg station heritage site - whenever they need to see the dentist.

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Alwin R 🚲

July 22, 2024

Before, people walked

The railway was the primary means of transport for over 50 years - and it made many things possible, including terrible things. Professor Meiners says: "As late as the end of 1942, Nazi propaganda was still blaring that the wheels had to roll into victory. And at the same time, hundreds of thousands of people were transported by rail to the extermination camps of the barbaric regime."

Nevertheless, the railway's merits remain, especially in rural areas. The NWZ wrote in 1954: "It was the railway that saved the residents of the Wehde from having to travel between the individual towns or even to Varel or Wilhelmshaven on foot or later by bicycle. With the transport of goods over the last 50 years, it has undoubtedly also contributed to the economic rise in the towns of the Wehde."

However, nothing remains of the routes that reminds us of the railway lines. Professor Meiners says:

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Rolli

October 1, 2024

The beautiful station and the wagon, a great backdrop

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Location: Zetel, Landkreis Friesland, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany

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