Grünstädtel station
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 Grünstädtel station (2016)
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Design | former connection station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | DGS |
| opening | July 1, 1889 |
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| City / municipality | Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. |
| Place / district | Grünstädtel |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 31 '49 " N , 12 ° 49' 0" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 441 m |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Grünstädtel station is the name of the station in the Grünstädtel district of the large district town of Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis .
The station was once the starting point of the Grünstädtel – Oberrittersgrün narrow-gauge railway . After the cessation of passenger traffic on the standard-gauge railway line Annaberg-Buchholz-Schwarzenberg in 1997, the station is without scheduled rail traffic. Since 2009, this route has been used on individual weekends in the summer half-year as an Ore Mountains observation train for tourist excursions. The responsible railway company is the Verein Sächsischer Eisenbahnfreunde eV
location
The Grünstädtel train station is in the north of the town on the border with Raschau (municipality of Raschau-Markersbach ). To the north of the station, the Pöhlwasser flows into the Große Mittweida .
history
Surname
In the course of time, the station only bore the name Grünstädtel .
business
The Grünstädtel stop was opened on July 1, 1889 together with the Schwarzenberg –Grünstädtel section of the Buchholz – Schwarzenberg standard-gauge railway and the Grünstädtel – Oberrittersgrün narrow-gauge railway. On December 1, 1889, rail traffic was opened on the Buchholz –Grünstädtel section and traffic on the entire normal-gauge line began. Since May 1, 1905, the Grünstädtel station was run as a train station.
During the construction of the railway, a goods shed, a loading hall , a loading ramp and a combined locomotive and coal shed were built next to the station building . The separate locomotive shed was only dimensioned for locomotives of the I K series, the machines used later were too long for the building and were partly in the open air. In 1966 the dilapidated shed was demolished. Due to the curve radius of only 90 m directly on the slope at the Siegelhof stop , trolley traffic could never be carried out on the narrow-gauge route , which means that the goods always had to be reloaded onto narrow-gauge wagons. The standard-gauge systems divided the freight and passenger traffic area of the narrow-gauge Pöhlwassertalbahn, which started at the Grünstädtel station, to Oberrittersgrün. The three level crossings between narrow and standard-gauge railways that existed as a result significantly hampered operations at the station. Grünstädtel was the only narrow-gauge railway station in the Pöhlwassertal that was secured with an entry form signal . With the planned construction of the Markersbach pumped storage plant , the Grünstädtel station was expanded considerably in 1968.
With the closure of the narrow-gauge railway to Oberrittersgrün on September 25, 1971, the time as a gauge changing station ended . On the standard gauge railway line Annaberg-Buchholz-Schwarzenberg, freight and passenger traffic fell dramatically after German reunification . As a result, freight traffic on the railway line was stopped at the turn of the year 1994/95. Only the Grünstädtel train station remained as a wagonload station, and operations are from Schwarzenberg. The last scheduled train crossed the Grünstädtel station on September 27, 1997. Since then, the station has been run as a freight station.
The Annaberg-Buchholz-Schwarzenberg line was taken over on January 1, 2002 by DB's own Erzgebirgsbahn . Since 2009, the route has been used on individual weekends in the summer half-year as an Ore Mountains observation train for tourist excursions. The responsible railway company is the Verein Sächsischer Eisenbahnfreunde eV While the locomotive shed was demolished in 1966, the freight shed was demolished in 2008. The former reception building is now used as a residential building. On April 13, 2012, a transformer for the Markersbach pumped storage plant was reloaded onto the street in Grünstädtel station and transported to the pumped storage plant by low-loader.
Web links
- The Grünstädtel train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
- The Grünstädtel train station on www.stilllege.de
- Location, course, signals and permissible speeds of the station on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of Sächsischer Eisenbahnfreunde e. V .: Erzgebirgische Aussichtsbahn ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website about the Siegelhof stop
- ^ Association of Sächsischer Eisenbahnfreunde e. V .: Erzgebirgische Aussichtsbahn ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reloading of the transformer in the Grünstädtel station on www.erzgebirgsbahner.bplaced.net
