Dolní Poustevna train station

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Dolní Poustevna
Dolní Poustevna railway station (2010)
Dolní Poustevna railway station (2010)
Data
Operating point type Railway station (simplified operational management D3)
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 1
location
City / municipality Dolní Poustevna
Okres Okres Děčín
region Ústecký kraj
Country Czech Republic
Coordinates 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Height ( SO ) 330  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in the Czech Republic
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The Dolní Poustevna station (until 1945 German: Nieder Einsiedel ) is an operating point on the Rumburk – Sebnitz railway that is classified as a station (“stanice”) . It is located in the town of Dolní Poustevna ( Lower Einsiedel ) at Nádražní 232 in the Czech Republic . Dolní Poustevna is a border station in traffic with Germany .

history

Dolní Poustevna station has existed since the opening of the Nixdorf – Nieder Einsiedel section of the Rumburk – Sebnitz line on November 15, 1904. On June 14, 1905, the cross-border connection to Sebnitz went into operation.

Nieder Einsiedel train station (around 1905)

In the state treaty between Austria-Hungary and Saxony of November 27, 1898, Nieder Einsiedel was intended as the seat of the border customs office, while the neighboring Sebnitz station was to function as a transfer station between the Bohemian Northern Railway (BNB) and the Royal Saxon State Railways . The BNB therefore erected a representative reception building in Nieder Einsiedel that appears oversized for the size of the place . On the ground floor, in addition to the 1st to 3rd class waiting rooms, it contained a train station restaurant, the offices of the customs officers with a common customs hall and the facilities required for rail operations. The first floor contained the customs officers' apartments and the management office of the Bohemian Northern Railway. The apartments of the station staff and the landlord of the station management were on the second floor.

The railway system consisted of a total of 3200 meters of track with 12 points. In addition to the reception building, the high-rise buildings also consisted of a four-part boiler house and two goods sheds.

Before the First World War, the station was served by six pairs of passenger trains to and from Rumburg, five of which continued to Sebnitz. After the establishment of the state of Czechoslovakia , the station lost its importance in cross-border traffic. The official Czech station name was initially Dolní Einsidl and later Dolní Poustevna . In the winter schedule of 1937 there were only two trains left to and from Sebnitz. There were several direct connections to and from Česká Lípa / Böhmisch Leipa.

Reception building, street side (2009)
Train traffic at Dolní Poustevna station before cross-border traffic resumes. The class 810 railcar maneuvered onto the remaining siding (May 2014)

The first fundamental change in the operation of the station occurred with the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany on October 1, 1938. The Reichsbahndirektion Dresden now ran the operation as Nieder Einsiedel station . When the state border no longer existed, it lost its status as a border station. The Deutsche Reichsbahn generally reintroduced direct passenger trains from Rumburg to Sebnitz. Passenger trains only started and ended in Nieder Einsiedel in the outskirts of the day. Twelve pairs of passenger trains were listed in the 1939 timetable, and eight in the war year 1944.

After the re-establishment of the state of Czechoslovakia in 1945, cross-border traffic was not resumed. However, tracks and facilities were not dismantled in this context. The expulsion of the original German-Bohemian population by 1946 led to a significant reduction in the demand for transport. The buildings and facilities that were no longer needed in the past gradually fell into disrepair.

The track system was not rebuilt until 2009 in connection with the planned recommissioning of the cross-border connection to Sebnitz. Since then, there is only the continuous main track with a branch to the boiler house and a loading track. There is no longer a possibility of bypassing via a siding. The main platform was given a new platform edge with a uniform height of 550 mm above the upper edge of the rail. The large reception building is no longer used for rail operations, it is empty and is in ruins. On business, the Dolní Poustevna station is subordinate to the neighboring Mikulášovice dolní nádraží station , where the responsible dispatcher is based.

Since the resumption of cross-border traffic on July 5, 2014, Dolní Poustevna station has been served by passenger trains on the U28 line (Děčín – Rumburk) every two hours .

The unused reception building was advertised for sale to third parties in autumn 2019 for 2.1 million crowns.

literature

  • Johannes Raddatz: Railway in Saxon Switzerland, Volume 4 Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941712-20-1 , pp. 184–191

Web links

Commons : Dolní Poustevna (train station)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ data on www.zelpage.cz
  2. ^ State treaty between Austria-Hungary and Saxony, concerning several railway connections on the Austrian-Saxon state border from March 14, 1885
  3. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937.
  4. ↑ Timetable 1939
  5. ↑ Timetable 1944
  6. ↑ “Správa železnic prodává čtyři nádraží, dosud je nikdo nechtěl” on zdopravy.cz