Wilsdruff station

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Wilsdruff
View from the former depot to the station building (2010)
View from the former depot to the station building (2010)
Data
Operating point type formerly the train station
Location in the network formerly the separation station
opening October 1, 1886
Conveyance May 28, 1972
location
City / municipality Wilsdruff
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 2 '41 "  N , 13 ° 32' 17"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '41 "  N , 13 ° 32' 17"  E
Height ( SO ) 271.37  m
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
i11 i16 i18

The Wilsdruff station was an operating point of the narrow-gauge railway Freital-Potschappel-Nossen and the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff-Gärtitz branching off here in the municipality of the city of Wilsdruff in Saxony. The Wilsdruff station was the operational center of several interlinked narrow-gauge railways, which have become known in particular among railway enthusiasts as the "Wilsdruff network". Until it was closed in 1973, Wilsdruff was the second largest station on the Saxon narrow-gauge railways after Mügeln (b Oschatz) .

The former depot is now used as a museum by the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV.

history

Wilsdruff station for the opening of rail operations

When the Freital-Potschappel -Wilsdruff connection of the former Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway was opened on October 1, 1886 and was extended to Nossen in 1899 , Wilsdruff station had three through tracks , a small reception building with two storeys in the middle and on the sides was one-story, a two-track engine shed with two stands, some outbuildings and siding to the road from Tharandt to Meißen and to some agricultural customers on the other side of the station. The main features of the station building corresponded to a construction common to the Royal Saxon State Railways . Similar buildings can be found in Geyer and Oberrittersgrün as well as mirror images in Reichenau . Wilsdruff had been fighting for a connection to the railway network of the Royal Saxon State Railways since 1863. Even the implementation as a standard-gauge railway was considered.

Railway administrator's garden at the boiler house around 1890
Reception building (2015)

With the opening of the line to Nossen , the station had reached its capacity limit. With the planned opening of the line to Meißen , it was necessary to plan an expansion of the station. Original plans provided for the construction of a new train station at the location of today's Wilsdruff stop . This station should be designed as a terminus for the narrow-gauge Freital-Potschappel – Nossen and as a through station for the connection from Potschappel to Meißen. At the later fork in Saubachtal , a track triangle was planned for the turn-off towards Nossen. For cost reasons, this idea was discarded and only the expansion of the existing system was decided.

In 1908/1909 the station area was completely rebuilt. The station building was given two floors throughout and the attached goods shed was expanded to double its size. In addition, the number of continuous tracks has been increased from three to seven. The small engine shed was dismantled. A new shed was built in the southwest area of ​​the station. In addition to the loading facility on the road from Tharandt to Meißen , the station was given a parking facility consisting of five tracks at the southern entrance to the station. The loading track before this road, which colloquially as America track was called, was up to the entrance to the road longer. Since the space was very narrow, this track had to be operated via a turntable.

When the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff – Gärtitz was opened in 1909 , its branching point was located behind the Saubach Bridge when viewed from the station . It was the only switch that had to be set remotely with a wire pull . The station was now at its greatest extent. Until the track dismantling began in 1973, there were hardly any changes to the position of the tracks.

The main area of ​​responsibility of the railway around Wilsdruff was freight traffic, for which leader locomotives had to be kept ready if necessary. Passenger traffic was also not small. In 1927, 45,582 tickets were sold at Kesselsdorf station . Large projects such as the construction of the Niederwartha pumped storage plant required large transport capacities. After a period of stagnation, the 1930s brought another huge boom. The construction of the highway required once mighty load transport and the provision of many locomotives for these tasks. This additional demand for locomotives was largely absorbed by the Wilsdruff locomotive station and led to considerations to re-gauge the Freital-Potschappel-Wilsdruff section. With this measure, the Wilsdruff station was to be expanded as a lane changing station . However, due to the beginning of the Second World War , this did not happen.

After the Second World War, overall operation in the Wilsdruffer network was still very high, and large loads had to be hauled especially for the beet campaign . For example, 45,000 to 50,000 tons of beets and 15,000 to 20,000 tons of other agricultural products had to be transported on the Wilsdruff – Meißen route during a harvest campaign . Nevertheless, the overall operation was unprofitable, and the overall situation of the lines slowly deteriorated. Efforts were made to make the overall operation more effective by using new traction devices. But they were only carried out half-heartedly. With the discontinuation of the railway line to Meißen from 1966, the Wilsdruff railway station increasingly lost its importance, which ultimately led to the general discontinuation of the Wilsdruff network in 1972. 1973 all tracks were dismantled.

Platforms

When operations were closed, Wilsdruff station had seven tracks, four of which were used as platform tracks for passenger traffic. All tracks were directly accessible from the station building.

traffic

The course book 1965/1966 gave the traffic of two trains on the Wilsdruff - Meißen route daily, on the narrow-gauge Freital-Potschappel-Nossen there were six trains daily in 1971 between Freital-Potschappel and Wilsdruff, one pair of which connected to Nossen was. Another two pairs of trains ran between Wilsdruff and Nossen.

Wilsdruff depot

Extension to the old boiler house around 1894
The extended boiler house around 1895
Locomotive shed (2015)

With the re-planning of the station facilities in the course of the opening of the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff-Gärtitz , the original two-track small locomotive shed of the station was demolished and a two-track locomotive shed with four stalls was built on the site of the current depot. The new locomotive shed had 90 m 2 of workshop space at the time , and was built in 1909 by the Potschappl builder Heger. In the 1920s the engine shed was extended and from then on had six stalls. With the addition of two more repair tracks and their enlargement by 300 m 2 , the building got its present size in the 1950s. At the same time it received the status of a depot from that time . At that time, the factory still had a boiler house , of which only the chimney remains today. The planned introduction of traction operation with diesel locomotives would have brought another expansion. An alternative creation of a diesel locomotive depot at the northeastern exit of the station was planned, but this did not happen.

The work of the railway depot was locomotive maintenance and locomotive maintenance of the locomotives in the Wilsdruffer network. Two locomotives were located here at the start of operations , ten locomotives were located at the turn of the century, 1899/1900, in 1935 there were eleven locomotives in Wilsdruff and when operations ceased in 1972, eight locomotives were still located.

After the end of the locomotive maintenance, cylinder heads for diesel engines of the Dresden depot were refurbished in the depot until 1996 .

Local locomotives

99 713 in the exhibition (2015)

At the start of operations, operations in Wilsdruff started with two class I K locomotives . These small locomotives soon no longer met the requirements of the growing operational service, and so from 1894 they were replaced by the stronger type IV K , which took over the entire operation in the Wilsdruffer network until the First World War . After that, these locomotives no longer met the requirements. From 1919 the VI K came to Wilsdruff station. Compared to their predecessors, these locomotives had a doubling of the pulling power, and the more economical operation with superheated steam was also an advantage. These locomotives, of which many were modernized and seven were reconstructed after 1945 , were from then on the main locomotives in Wilsdruff and were based here until the end of operation.

There have been isolated missions of the DR series 99.73-76 in Wilsdruff, but there has not been a permanent home. There were railcar use and diesel locomotive tests in the Wilsdruffer network, they played no role with the railway depot.

Local cars and ancillary vehicles

At the start of operations, the wagon fleet in Wilsdruff consisted of thirteen two-axle passenger cars , nine covered and 26 open freight cars . In 1896 trolleys were introduced , and trolleys were used around 1910 . The importance of the Wilsdruffer network is shown by the fact that in 1972 37 passenger cars, nine baggage cars, six closed and nine open freight cars, four slag cars , two snow plows and 35 trolleys were available when operations were closed . The best-known surviving vehicle is the rail mail car No. 2680, only four copies of which were produced in 1908. He owes his survival to his work in the rescue train from Wilsdruff.

Some of the vehicles from the railway maintenance depots were also part of the Wilsdruff depot. Among the best known were among some motor Handcars the type SIMPLEX , one based on the Simson KR50 developed railcar or SKL , which had been built on a chassis from 1919 1960th

Todays use

Photo at the beginning of the redesign of the Wilsdruff depot in 1993

In 1984, the construction of the Wilsdruffer museum complex on the site of the former Wilsdruff Hp station began. In addition to the exemplary renovation of the preserved infrastructure in the entire Wilsdruff network, the active members of the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV considered the preservation and use of the former Wilsdruff railway station and depot. When the 99 715 from the museum train of the traditional Radebeul railway could be photographed in front of the former boiler house of the railway depot in 1993 , that was apparently the start of the continued use of the railway depot as a museum after its closure. In 2000, the city of Wilsdruff acquired the station area for further use. Together with the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV and the VSSB , an idea sketch was drawn up for the further use of the station area. The station building has been developed as a conference room, and the former track installations in the field of railway operation work were as trolley track provided.

In 2007, the redesign of the depot as a railway museum began. Today, on the area of ​​three tracks, there is a collection of railway vehicles and objects related to railway operations in the Wilsdruffer network. In addition, the history of the Saxon narrow-gauge railways and the Wilsdruffer network is presented.

In the immediate vicinity of the train station is the Saubach Valley Viaduct , which has been preserved at least over its largest extension. Only the area across Parkstrasse was removed.

literature

  • Peter Wunderwald: The Wilsdruffer narrow-gauge railway network - over 100 kilometers of narrow-gauge lines in central Saxony. IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff e. V., Freital 1995.
  • Peter Wunderwald: Wilsdruff station - once the second largest narrow-gauge station in Germany. Wilsdruffer Bahnhücher, Nossen.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Wilsdruff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV
  2. ↑ Peter Wunderwald: The Wilsdruffer narrow-gauge railway network - over 100 kilometers of narrow-gauge lines in central Saxony ; IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV, Freital 1995, track plan on page 95 above
  3. ↑ Internet page about the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff - Meißen at www.sachsenschiene.net
  4. ↑ Website about the narrow-gauge railway Freital-Potschappel - Wilsdruff - Nossen at www.sachsenschiene.net
  5. ↑ Peter Wunderwald: The Wilsdruffer narrow-gauge railway network - over 100 kilometers of narrow-gauge lines in central Saxony ; IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV, Freital 1995, page 78
  6. ↑ Peter Wunderwald: The Wilsdruffer narrow-gauge railway network - over 100 kilometers of narrow-gauge lines in central Saxony ; IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV, Freital 1995, page 77
  7. ↑ Website about the museum complex Wilsdruff Haltpunkt on the website of the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV
  8. ↑ Internet site about the museum of historic locomotive sheds in Wilsdruff on the Internet site of IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV