Goetheweg station

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Goetheweg
Train crossing in Goetheweg station (2010)
Train crossing in Goetheweg station (2010)
Data
Operating point type Depot
abbreviation LGOM
opening June 17, 1900
location
City / municipality Wernigerode
country Saxony-Anhalt
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 47 '18 "  N , 10 ° 35' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '18 "  N , 10 ° 35' 37"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Saxony-Anhalt
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The Goetheweg station is a station located on the Brocken Railway , which is now only used for train crossings . Entry and exit for travelers is not possible.

location

The station, at an altitude of 956 m above sea level, is at 13.55 kilometers between the Schierke and Brocken stations . Near the train station, the Goetheweg Torfhaus - Brocken meets the Brocken Railway, which it used to cross. Since the Harz National Park , in the area of ​​which the train station is located, was created in 1990 , the section of the Goetheweg to the Brocken summit east of the Brocken Railway is no longer accessible. Instead, the Neue Goetheweg was laid out parallel to the railway line in the direction of Brocken . A few hundred meters west of the station runs the border with the state of Lower Saxony , the former inner-German border .

history

The establishment of the station is based on an initiative of the Harz Club , which, soon after the Brockenbahn opened in 1898, wanted hikers to get on below the Brocken summit. The station, in the construction of which the club contributed financially, was opened for passenger traffic on July 17, 1900. On September 30, 1944, passenger traffic on the route was temporarily suspended. In the same year the station building of the train station was destroyed during an air raid.

A little north of the station, at the Hirschhornklippen , the Brocken Railway ran for a length of 300 meters through the British occupation zone after the end of World War II , while the rest of the route was in the area of ​​the Soviet occupation forces . Based on an agreement between the local commanders, the border was corrected in favor of the Soviet side in 1945. After the resumption of freight traffic in 1949 and passenger traffic in May 1950, the station was only used as a crossing station due to its close proximity to the inner-German border and was closed to travelers. From June 9, 1952, the Goetheweg station, like the entire Brocken Railway, had been in the restricted area , which required a permit issued by the People's Police to enter it ; this also applied to the people traveling on the train and the railway staff. As a result of the border security measures, the Schierke – Brocken line was closed to passenger traffic from August 14, 1961; only freight trains were allowed to run. The station was therefore taken out of service on June 10, 1963. Until the 1980s, the border area on the Brocken was expanded like a fortress. The building materials required for this were transported with the Brocken Railway. After completion of the work and due to wear and tear of the track system, freight traffic to Brocken was given up in 1988; the troops stationed on the Brocken were now supplied via the Brockenstrasse. For military reasons, however, the Brocken Railway was to remain accessible, which is why there were still isolated operating trips until August 1989. A shutdown did not take place.

After the opening of the inner-German border and the decision to fully operate the Brocken Railway again, the Goetheweg station has been used again since July 1, 1992. However, for nature conservation reasons, it only serves operational purposes; a change of passengers is not possible. While traffic on the Brocken Railway was idle between mid-September and May due to the weather conditions until 1963 and the station was therefore closed, trains have been running all year round since it was restarted.

Furnishing

Train to Schierke on the return track during a train crossing (2015)

When the station opened, it was given a wooden station building that could no longer be used in 1922. Two years later, a stone building was handed over to its intended use, but it was destroyed during the Second World War.

At the station there is still the crossing track connected to the main track with a manually operated switch and repaired in 1992, into which the uphill train originally pushed back at a train crossing . The crossing track is laid out horizontally so that the train can accelerate more easily when leaving. Such a push-back track used to be on the Harzquerbahn at the Drängetal depot. Today, the train crossings at Goetheweg station are also carried out in such a way that the downhill train enters the crossing track.

Until it was temporarily shut down in 1963, the station was equipped with two form signals, which were removed in autumn 1974. After the station was put back into operation in 1992, the installation of signaling technology was initially dispensed with - trapezoidal panels were set up. Since May 8, 2002, the station has had Ks signals , which are operated by the electronic signal box in Wernigerode .

literature

  • Dirk Endisch: From GHE to HSB. Tradition and innovation on meter gauge tracks in the Harz Mountains. Volume 2: The Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH . Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2011, ISBN 978-3-936893-70-0 , p. 147-148 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Additions to the article “The correction of the boundaries on the Goetheweg”. ( Memento from January 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Harzbahnpost 4/2010, p. 28.
  2. ↑ Dirk Endisch: From the GHE to the HSB. Tradition and innovation on meter gauge tracks in the Harz Mountains. Volume 2: The Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH. Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2011, ISBN 978-3-936893-70-0 , p. 23.
  3. ↑ Dirk Endisch: From the GHE to the HSB. Tradition and innovation on meter gauge tracks in the Harz Mountains. Volume 2: The Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH. Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2011, ISBN 978-3-936893-70-0 , p. 27.
  4. ↑ Dirk Endisch: From the GHE to the HSB. Tradition and innovation on meter gauge tracks in the Harz Mountains. Volume 2: The Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH. Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2011, ISBN 978-3-936893-70-0 , p. 40.
  5. ↑ Oberverwaltungsgericht Magdeburg, judgment of March 29, 1995, file number 4 L 299/93, published in: Landes- und Kommunalverwaltung 1995, pp. 326–328 (under 2.3).
  6. ↑ Dirk Endisch: From the GHE to the HSB. Tradition and innovation on meter gauge tracks in the Harz Mountains. Volume 2: The Harzer Schmalspurbahnen GmbH. Verlag Dirk Endisch, Stendal 2011, ISBN 978-3-936893-70-0 , pp. 147–148, 153–154.