Old Leipzig connection train

Leipzig Dresdner Bahnhof – Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof
Route length:	approx. 5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Leipzig Dresden train station to Dresden Connecting tracks to Magdeburg and Thuringian train stations Connecting track to the Berlin train station then the Leipzig – Dresden route Leipzig – Eilenburg (from 1874) Leipzig Bavarian train station to court Status 1860 plus the crossing line to the Eilenburg train station, which was put into operation in 1874 . The integration into the Dresden train station was apparently rebuilt in the late 1860s, see map from 1871.

The old connecting line was a 5 km long, single-track railway line in Leipzig , originally designed for freight traffic only , which connected the Bavarian railway station in the south of the city initially with the Dresden , later also with the Magdeburg , Thuringian and Berlin railway stations in the north of the city Association.

history

The single-track connecting line, planned and built by the Saxon-Bavarian State Railroad from 1847 , went into operation on July 20, 1851, five days after the final gap in the Saxon-Bavarian Railway between Reichenbach and Plauen in the Vogtland region. The route was designed for the exchange of freight wagons; in passenger traffic, transfers were planned between the terminal stations of the individual railway companies. From 1859, the connecting line was also used for passenger traffic, and the railway companies have since handed over individual through cars .

After 1859 the Berlin train station was directly connected by a branch. Traffic on the route increased sharply until 1870, so that it no longer met the requirements. The rapid expansion of the city also created many dangerous, level crossings. Therefore, from 1873, the construction of a new connecting line was planned. With the commissioning of this new connecting line on August 20, 1878, the old line was shut down and dismantled.

Route description

The connecting line on a city map from 1871 (on the right edge of the picture), still without the crossing route to the later Eilenburg train station

The line was integrated with a hairpin in the Bavarian train station. It led in an arc to the east around Leipzig's Ostvorstadt, including in the course of today's Johannisallee. It crossed the Ostplatz at the same level, and from 1874 also at the same level as the Eilenburg Railway, which was then in operation . It crossed the Täubchenweg and the Dresdner Straße at the same level and further north by means of a bridge the former route of the route to Dresden , today the Eisenbahnstraße. In the further course it branched into several arms, which led initially to the Dresden and Magdeburg train stations, and later also to the Thuringian train station. After 1859 a fourth arm was added to the Berlin train station.

Route length

A contemporary source gave the length of the route as 0.65 miles. In another, more recent source, the length of the route is estimated at exactly 5.00 km, in a third source it is a little less precise of 5 km.

literature

• Wolfram Sturm: Leipzig Railway Center. Pro Leipzig eV, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-9807201-9-5 .

Web links

• The old connecting line at www.leipzig-lexikon.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ André Marks: The railway junction Leipzig . 1st edition. Sutton Verlag GmbH , Erfurt 2016, ISBN 978-3-95400-678-6 , p. 13 .
2. ^ Manfred Berger : Leipzig Central Station . 1st edition. Transpress Verlag , Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-344-70474-3  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 34 f .
3. ^ The Saxon State Railways. 1849-1850 . In: Eisenbahn-Zeitung: Organ of the associations of German railway administrations and railway technicians . tape 10 . Verlag der JB Metzlerschen Buchhandlung, Stuttgart October 24, 1852, p. 181 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways . 1st edition. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH , Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 , p. 139 .
5. ^ Rolf Bayer, Gerd Sobek: The Bavarian train station in Leipzig . 1985, p. 72 .