page_title: Hagenow Land–Bad Oldesloe railway
section_title: The western section
hierarchical_section_title: Hagenow Land–Bad Oldesloe railway / History / Separate decline / The western section
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Brücke der ehemaligen Kaiserbahn (Bahnstrecke Hagenow Land-Bad Oldesloe) in Berkenthin im Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland English: Bridge of der former Kaiserbahn (Hagenow Land-Bad Oldesloe railway line) in Berkenthin, district Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
context_page_description: The Hagenow Land–Bad Oldesloe railway was a railway line in the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein. It linked the towns of Hagenow, Ratzeburg and Bad Oldesloe with each other and formed with lines continuing via Bad Segeberg and Neumünster the shortest rail link between Berlin and Kiel, the difference with the other two routes is about 55 kilometres in each case. Today, only the short section between the stations of Hagenow Land and Hagenow Stadt is regularly served by passenger services, although the Hollenbek–Ratzeburg section is used for draisine rides. The Hagenow–Zarrentin section is served occasionally. The other sections are closed and dismantled. Its alternative name Kaiserbahn refers to Emperor Wilhelm II, who often used it.
context_section_description: Immediately after the German surrender and the division of Germany into occupation zones, the Zarrentin–Hollenbek section, which was cut by the border between the UK and Soviet zones, was closed and the line at the border was dismantled in 1952. In 1949 the status of the line was downgraded to a branch line.
  However, on the western side, the Hollenbek–Klein Zecher section was reactivated as early as 1950; apart from the new terminus, the stations of Hakendorf, Sterley and Alt Horst were re-opened. It was operated with railbuses. The section between Hollenbek and Mölln was closed on 3 September 1959, finally ending passenger services on the entire West German section between Klein Zecher and Bad Oldesloe.
  On 1 September 1971, the transport of freight between Hollenbek and Klein Zecher and between Ratzeburg and Bad Oldesloe was abandoned; a year later was the track was dismantled on these sections. On the remaining 13 km to Ratzeburg, however, a little freight traffic remained, mainly consisting of the transport of sugar beet to Uelzen in Lower Saxony. This section continued to be operated until 14 December 1994, but it was then also closed due to its unprofitability.
caption: Railway bridge in Berkenthin
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