Aue (Sachs) station

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Aue (Sachs)
Aue station with a train of the Erzgebirgsbahn (2008)
Aue station with a train of the Erzgebirgsbahn (2008)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network former crossing station
Design Island station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation DAU
IBNR 8010010
opening 1858
location
City / municipality Aue-Bad Schlema
Place / district Aue
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 35 '30 "  N , 12 ° 41' 54"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '30 "  N , 12 ° 41' 54"  E
Height ( SO ) 348.77  m
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
i16 i18

The Aue (Sachs) train station is located in the center of the district of the same name in the large district town of Aue-Bad Schlema . It is a railway junction on the Zwickau – Schwarzenberg and Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf railway lines , which is why the station was of great importance in the past. This was due to the previously extensive freight transport due to the heavy industry and uranium mining based in Aue. The Aue depot used to be located north of the station . The station has been extensively dismantled since 2003, with the depot, the reception building and most of the signal boxes being demolished by 2010.

history

Station name

The station has already had five different station names in its history, in detail these were:

  • until December 23, 1904: Aue
  • until June 30, 1911: Aue i Erzgeb
  • until December 31, 1930: Aue (Erzgeb)
  • until December 21, 1933: Aue (Sa)
  • since December 22, 1933: Aue (Sachs)

business

Aue station after the reception building was demolished, view from Heidelsberg (2010)
Aue (Sachs) station with Aue-cell underpass and Erzgebirgsbahn (2014)

The Aue station was opened in 1858 as a three-track through station. At that time it was part of the Zwickau – Schwarzenberg railway line, which was built primarily for the transport of goods, especially hard coal. With the construction of the railway, the industry began to flourish in Aue, which is why the station area was constantly expanded. In 1875 the Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf line was opened by the private railway of the same name. Since this line was a private railway, its tracks were not allowed to cross the state railway tracks, which is why the newly constructed reception building was located on an island. In Aue, the Chemnitz-Aue-Adorfer Railway set up a small depot , which had a small, two-tier locomotive shed and a turntable . However, the CAAE ran into financial problems a year after the line went into operation, whereupon the line was bought by the state of Saxony. The former private railway tracks then became freight tracks and passenger traffic was completely relocated to the old state railway side. In 1885 the depot was moved to the northern exit of the station and enlarged. By 1900 the Aue station had grown to a total of 12 continuous tracks and 15 stub tracks. However, the Lößnitzer Chaussee crossed the entire railway area, which is why the longest prestressed concrete bridge at that time was built over the Auer train station between 1934 and 1937.

Aue (Sachs) station during renovation (June 2016)
Aue (Sachs) station with redesigned access and changed tracks (October 2016)

The station survived the Second World War largely unscathed. With the discovery of uranium deposits in the Ore Mountains, the heyday of the Auer station began, after which it was expanded from 1949 to 1952: the track systems and the railway plant were extensively expanded, the station now had 96 station tracks with 190 points, controlled by four new signal boxes . There was also a separate Reichsbahnamt for the Aue area. The traffic in Aue was as dense as it is now hard to imagine. This lasted until the reunification and in 1989 even thought was given to electrifying the Zwickau – Aue – Johanngeorgenstadt line.

With the fall of the Wall, there were also profound changes in Aue station. Rail traffic declined to such an extent that the use of locomotives in the Aue depot ended on January 9, 1995 and the remains of the depot were finally closed on May 27, 1999. Freight traffic continued on the freight tracks until 1998, a year later the now responsible Deutsche Bahn AG had the entrance to the freight yard blocked.

In the 21st century, there are only two freight trains per week in Aue that use the former passenger station.

The Free State of Saxony , which was newly founded after 1990, and the Deutsche Bahn reached agreements that included the renovation and partial dismantling of some railway lines and stations. These contracts were with several million German marks realized in the long term. RegioNetworks were also created , including the Erzgebirgsbahn subsidiary , which serves Aue station. In the course of these contracts, Aue train station was “operationally rebuilt” in 2003 and connected to the existing bus routes. This involved the closure of all facilities that were no longer needed, such as the freight station, the Aue depot , the station building and all signal boxes (except for the Aue 1 signal box ); they were demolished by 2010. Since then, ticket sales have taken place in a sales container for a while. In 2003, all of the station's track systems that were no longer needed were dismantled. However, the area was no longer used and has been fallow ever since. Due to the renovation in 2016, the platforms are at ground level, i.e. barrier-free . The access tunnel under the tracks was buried in parallel.

From 2017, the regional trains from Thalheim to Aue will be extended and will run every hour. This was decided by the Central Saxony Transport Association under pressure from city administrations and citizens' groups. This process, known as the Chemnitz model , is a regional light rail system used in the Chemnitz region to link rail and tram routes.

Aue depot (Bw Aue)

Model of the BW Aue for the model railway exhibition in Bad Schlema (2018)

With the opening of the Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf line in 1875, Aue station also received a two-storey boiler house and a turntable . Ten years later, the boiler house was demolished and an eight permanent roundhouse replaced, which was extended by four more items to the 1905th In 1908 the boiler house was raised to an independent service. A boiler house that had already been planned could no longer be built because of the First World War , only a new 16 m turntable was still built.

After the Second World War , the depot was expanded again, including a new administration building and a new workshop, a 20-meter turntable and the locomotive shed was enlarged up to 14 stands. In 1956, the previously independent railway depot Schwarzenberg was incorporated into the Aue depot as a locomotive deployment point. The Annaberg-Buchholz, Kirchberg and Thum railway depots followed in 1967.

In 1994, Deutsche Bahn AG had the Aue depot liquidated as an independent office. The maintenance of locomotives was also ended in 1994, although locomotives and wagons were still scrapped in Aue until 1997.

traffic

line Line course Cycle (min) EVU
RB89 Chemnitz - Burkhardtsdorf - Thalheim - Zwönitz - Aue 120 (until September 2018) Erzgebirgsbahn
RB95 Zwickau - Hartenstein - Aue - Schwarzenberg - Johanngeorgenstadt (- Karlovy Vary dolni n) 60 Erzgebirgsbahn

gallery

  • Dismantled part of the station and fallow land of the demolished reception building (right)

  • The station underpass is only half in use (as of 2014)

  • The station underpass in 2014

  • Entrance to the station underpass demolished in 2016 (2014)

  • Station underpass shortly before demolition (2016)

  • Disused train station underpass shortly before demolition (2016)

  • Ground level access since 2016

  • Aue (Sachs) station after the renovation (2016)

literature

  • Otto Haase: The conversion of the Aue train station in Saxony / An urban development and traffic solution. In: Verkehrstechnik , Volume 17, Issue 9 (May 5, 1936), pp. 235–238.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegfried Bergelt: In the footsteps of the old West Saxony main line - The Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf railway line , Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9808250-7-8 , p. 30.
  2. ↑ Andreas Funkhänel The railway has a long tradition in Aue… , October 2004 on the fansite for the steam train ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Homepage of the Association of Historical Westsächsische Eisenbahnen e. V.
  4. ↑ several articles by Falk Thomas in the Preß-Kurier , online.
  5. ↑ Homepage of the Erzgebirgsbahn
  6. ↑ Reconstruction of the Auer train station , In: Freie Presse , Aue local edition, April 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ In the future, the tram should roll through to Aue on train tracks - a success for the people and the region! , Press release from the Auer city administration, October 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ Siegfried Bergelt: In the footsteps of the old West Saxony main line - the Chemnitz – Aue – Adorf railway line , Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9808250-7-8 , p. 114 f.
  9. ↑ www.bimmelbahn.de The Aue railway depot 1908–2007