3. Railway Operations

Railway operations

Use of the buildings 1939-1945

This area was home to the arsenal's railway station, which was connected to the Reichsbahn railway network via a connecting track through Fahrenkrug station for the transport of ammunition and materials, but also for passenger transport.

This is why the arsenal was also given the name “Fahrenkrug.”

For transport within the arsenal, a widely ramified, 52 km long light railway network was also used, connecting all workshops, production facilities, warehouses, and bunkers with each other and with the arsenal station.

The arsenal had two of its own standard-gauge shunting locomotives and several freight cars at its disposal, as well as 15 light rail locomotives and 297 heavy-duty wagons.

It also owned four passenger cars, which were used to provide regular passenger service between Wahlstedt and Bad Segeberg at the beginning and end of the working day.

1945–1947 Demilitarization and dissolution of the arsenal

The loading ramps, the station guardhouse, and the passenger platform at the bathhouse

were demolished, the entire narrow-gauge network and most of the

standard-gauge switches were dismantled, and the locomotives and wagons were handed over.

Use from 1947 Tenants and owners in succession

In 1952/53, the standard gauge network was rebuilt in a modified form and extended across the

premises of the Glaswerke and Pelz companies to Arko.

The property to the right behind the sign, with the two long former trolley and locomotive sheds for the light railway, was acquired in 1958 by the transport company Willy Knöfler, Transport- und Lagerhausgesellschaft.

When the freight forwarding company ceased operations, its vehicle fleet was sold on September 1, 2001, and the property belonging to the warehouse company was finally sold on December 4, 2013, to the

company Kleinwächter GmbH & Co, Spedition und Silotransporte from Bromskirchen.

After renovation, the property was later acquired by the Holcim, cement works, Lägerdorf.

The neighboring property on the left, with the former signal box and the locomotive shed for

one of the two shunting locomotives, was acquired by the blacksmith Köhnke. The smithy later became

the property of Pomian GmbH - Metallbau, Wahlstedt, and is now used by a scrap dealer.

Current status 2025

- Holcim, cement factory, Lägerdorf

- Scrap dealer