Neumünster–Heide railway

Neumünster–Heide
Route number:	132
Line number:	1042
Line length:	63
Track gauge:	1435
State:	Schleswig-Holstein
Operating points and lines
From Hamburg 0.0 Neumünster To Ascheberg To Kiel and Flensburg 2.3 Neumünster Stadtwald 6.4 Wasbek 13.8 Aukruguntil about 1990: Innien 22.7 Hohenwestedt To Rendsburg and Schenefeld 1901–1956 Hohenwestedt–Schenefeld 1916–1954 28.2 Osterstedt 30.9 Beringstedt 35.6 Gokels 39.2 Hademarschen 43.1 Beldorf Grünental High Bridge Kiel Canal 48.4 Albersdorf 56.3 Nordhastedt From Itzehoe 62.6 Heide To Husum and to Büsum

The Neumünster–Heide railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, connecting the city of Neumünster in central Holstein and Heide, the seat of the district of Dithmarschen.

The line leaves the Hamburg-Altona–Kiel railway north of Neumünster station. From then on, it runs west through the Geest landscape. In addition to Neumünster, it passed through the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde and Dithmarschen. The most important station on the line is Hohenwestedt. Near Beldorf the line crosses the Grünental high bridge (Grünentaler Hochbrücke) over the Kiel Canal. It runs to the eastern side of Heide station and continues as the Heide–Büsum railway under the Hamburg–Husum–Westerland railway.

The Neumünster–Heide–Weddinghusen–Karolinenkoog line was opened on 22 August 1877 by the Westholsteinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (West Holstein Railway Company). In Karolinenkoog a steam ferry connected to the port of Tönning in Eiderstedt (see Heide–Karolinenkoog railway). In 1878, the company built a branch line was built from Weddinghusen to Wesselburen. This line was extended to Büsum in 1883. The Western Holstein railway company was taken over by the Prussian state railways on 1 July 1890.

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