Niederau train station
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 Reception building
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | DNDR |
| IBNR | 8012482 |
| opening | May 15, 1842 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Niederau |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Niederau |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 10 '35 " N , 13 ° 33' 38" E |
| Height above SE | 133.06 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Niederau station is a regional station in Niederau at the Leipzig-Dresden railway . The station building of the station, which opened on May 15, 1842, was the oldest operating station building in Germany for a long time, until the Deutsche Bahn gave up the use of the building after 2000 and sold it.
history
After the Leipzig-Dresden Railway opened on April 7, 1839, Oberau station was the closest station to Meißen . However, the unfavorable location of the station high above the cut to the Oberauer Tunnel made it difficult to get to and so Meißen tried to find a more convenient connection to the railway line. The efforts were successful: on April 1, 1842, after a six-month construction period and construction costs of 13,200 thalers , the Meissen company Schubert & Große completed the new train station in Niederau, which opened on May 15, 1842. At the same time, a new straight access road from Meißen to Niederau was built, today's Niederauer and Meißner Straße .
Citizens of Meissen briskly got on the trains to Leipzig at the station, after Dresden carriage rides remained the cheaper alternative in terms of time and money until December 1, 1860, when the newly opened Coswig – Meißen branch enabled direct rail journeys from Meissen to Dresden. From December 1868 there was also a direct rail connection between Meißen and Leipzig via the newly opened railway line to Borsdorf . As a result, Niederau station lost its national importance and traffic fell sharply.
On July 1, 1964, freight traffic in Niederau was stopped.
In 1988, one year before the celebrations of “150 years of the first German long-distance railway Leipzig – Dresden”, the station was extensively restored. At that time the station building was the oldest in the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
In the early 2000s, Deutsche Bahn sold the station building. It is now used as a residential building.
The module building of the electronic signal box (ESTW-A) has been located in the eastern area south of the former reception building since 2000. This is served by ESTW-Z Priestewitz.
Regional traffic
The station is served by the RE 50 Leipzig – Dresden and the RB 31 Elsterwerda-Biehla – Dresden in passenger traffic (as of December 2014).
| line | course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| RE 50 Saxonia |
Dresden Hbf - Dresden-Neustadt - Radebeul Ost - Coswig (b Dresden) - Niederau - Priestewitz - Riesa - Oschatz - Wurzen - Leipzig Hbf | 60 | DB Regio Southeast |
| RB 31 | Elsterwerda-Biehla - Elsterwerda - Großenhain Cottb Bf - Priestewitz - Niederau - Coswig (b Dresden) - Cossebaude - Dresden Hbf | 120 | DB Regio Nordost |
Description of the plants
The peculiar dual position of the main building is due to their history of construction and use. The larger building on the left as seen from the railway side was built as a restoration building, the right building as a station building. Later, both of the Swiss- style buildings were used for other purposes. The building complex is a listed building.
Reception building (originally a restaurant building )
The Baroness von Werthern, the manor owner of Oberau , had the building built and initially operated it as an inn. In 1862 the half-timbered structure of the building was given wooden cladding and 15 years later the basement, made of Cyclops masonry , was plastered. Also in 1877, the premises were converted into apartments for officials and the restaurant found new rooms in the station building. Later the building was used as a combined living and reception building. In order to emphasize the latter function, it was given the station clock and station sign as part of the renovation in 1988 , which creatively loosen up the previously empty space on the gable.
Signal box
The single-storey signal box between the station building and the goods floor connects the two neighboring buildings with a connecting structure and a former command signal box on the track side . The extension, built in 1907 from a functional point of view and expanded in 1923, represents a stylistic break with the neighboring buildings. As part of the renovation work in 1988, the design was improved, in particular the building parts and the adjacent open space were given a common roof. Before that, the connecting structure had a pitched roof and the command signal box had a flat roof. The electronic signal box in Priestewitz has been controlling switches and signals at the station since 2000 ; the old signal box of the station has since been without function.
Güterboden (originally station building )
90 percent of the goods floor was built as a timber framework in 1842 and was initially used as a station building. The car entrance points to a unique provision of passenger cars only practiced in Niederau. In the first years of operation, the wagons destined for Niederau were removed from the station, rotated 90 degrees on a small turntable and pushed or pulled into the station building. The reverse procedure was necessary for the descent. This cumbersome provision was stopped before 1860 and a house platform was built instead.
Due to various changes, the original function of the goods floor was no longer recognizable at the beginning of the reconstruction in 1987, in particular on the gable on the track side and on the long facade facing the loading street. The new facade design developed as part of the reconstruction takes up elements of the original function; the track-side building entrance today consists of a wood and glass construction in the form of a car entrance. In addition, the floor plan of the ground floor was changed to better meet the needs of the technical departments and to accommodate the BASA room. At the time of the renovation in 1988, the building was used as a multi-purpose building.
More buildings
When it opened, the station also had a water station, a goods shed and an outbuilding that served the feeder traffic from Meißen. The latter had stables for 20 horses, a coach house for four wagons and a coachman's and house servant's room. The water station was demolished in 1860.
Web links
- Location, tracks, signals and permissible speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
- Niederau train station on www.sachsenschiene.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Hesse: 150 years Niederau station. The oldest German station building in operation. In: Die Bundesbahn year 68, issue 5/1992, pp. 575-578, ISSN 0007-5876
- ↑ a b c F. Borchert (Ed.): The Leipzig – Dresden Railway, Beginnings and Present of a 150-year-old. transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, p. 102ff
- ↑ Norbert Kempke: In 220 minutes from Leipzig to Dresden , chapter A necessary addendum: festivals then and now , page 72. Ed .: Association of journalists of the Dresden district on the occasion of the solidarity campaign 1989, Dresden, 1989.
- ^ A b Norbert Kempke: In 220 minutes from Leipzig to Dresden , chapter Meissner wanted station in Niederau , page 43f. Ed .: Association of Journalists of the Dresden District on the occasion of the Solidarity Campaign 1989, Dresden, 1989.
- ↑ a b Website: Railways in Saxony
- ^ A b Norbert Kempke: Monument conservation work at Niederau train station . In: Signal und Schiene , 1988, ISSN 0037-5004
- ↑ Norbert Kempke: In 220 minutes from Leipzig to Dresden , chapter Bad surprises under the station roof, page 49f. Ed .: Association of Journalists of the Dresden District on the occasion of the Solidarity Campaign 1989, Dresden, 1989.
- ↑ Railway stations with an uncertain future , Sächsische Zeitung of December 23, 2009
- ↑ Norbert Kempke: The restoration of the reception building and the signal box . In: Signal und Schiene, 1988, ISSN 0037-5004
- ↑ Erich Preuß: This is how a train station works . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, p. 16.
- ↑ Norbert Kempke: The restoration of the goods floor . In: Signal und Schiene, 1988, ISSN 0037-5004