Gutenfürst station
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| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | DGF |
| IBNR | 8011790 |
| Price range | 7th |
| opening | 1848 |
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| City / municipality | Weischlitz |
| Place / district | Good lord |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 25 '11 " N , 11 ° 57' 39" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 571 m |
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The station Gutenfürst is the station of Weischlitzer hamlet Gutenfürst in Saxony Vogtlandkreis . The station on the Leipzig – Hof railway line was opened as early as 1848, but only gained greater importance after the Second World War . From 1945 to 1990 Gutenfürst was a border station on the demarcation line and later the inner German border between the US and Soviet occupation zones and between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR . Today only local trains stop here .
history
Until the end of World War II
The Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company received the concession to build a railway line from Leipzig to Hof in the early 1840s. The first sections from Leipzig were opened in the first half of the 1840s. Since the further construction costs on the Crimmitschau – Plauen section had been misjudged, the company ran into financial difficulties and was sold to the Saxon state in 1847. At that time, work was already underway on the Plauen – Hof section in order to generate additional income for the expensive bridge construction as soon as possible. On November 20, 1848, the Plauen – Hof section was opened together with the Gutenfürst stop. The entire route was only passable from 1851.
The station was initially insignificant, two platforms and a waiting hall were sufficient for the modest tourist traffic. After all, the breakpoint was upgraded to a stop in 1877, and a massive station building was erected at the same time. Around 700 m of track and four switches were laid for the freight traffic that is now approved, and a timber loading ramp was also built. A goods shed was added to the facilities in 1878. A head and side loading ramp was built around 1900.
The stop was elevated to a station in 1905 , and the facilities now comprised five tracks, including a passing track for both directions, the reception building with the main platform, an outside platform accessible via a pedestrian tunnel, the goods shed and an office building. Over time, the Werdau − Hof section of the Leipzig - Hof railway line in particular developed into one of the busiest sections in Germany, with traffic in Gutenfürst station always being modest. The station was always at the rear of the station in terms of both freight and passenger traffic compared to the other Saxon train stations. In 1899 only 4,300 t were handled, in 1913 it was around 8,700 t. In the same years around 25,000 and 29,000 people were processed.
The station survived the Second World War undamaged, due to the destruction of the Leipzig – Hof railway line, train traffic could be maintained until April 1945 at the most.
Border station
Thuringia and parts of Saxony were still occupied by the Americans in April and May 1945, who withdrew to the demarcation line established in spring 1945 in early July 1945 . The Red Army then occupied the vacated areas assigned to it . As the last station before the demarcation line, Gutenfürst had become a border station . In the early days, trains ran only irregularly; in addition to returnees and refugees , coal was mainly transported.
From December 20, 1945, freight trains with coal from the central German lignite area ran regularly across the zone border. Initially, Mehltheuer station was designated as a transfer station , as Gutenfürst did not have the opportunity to do so. The trains were changed to Gutenfürst only after installing another track.
Limited travel was possible from the first half of 1947, when people were allowed to use a mail train. However, the cross-zone connection was repeatedly blocked, for example between October 20 and November 1, 1947, during the Berlin blockade (June 1948 to May 1949) and in May 1952. Unrestricted inter-zone traffic via the Gutenfürst border station was not started until 1954. From September 1964, the volume of traffic increased again when freight trains to West Berlin were also directed via Gutenfürst. Until 1952, the station was under the Soviet military administration , later the German border police . This was initially stationed in the western hamlet of Stöckigt , whose population had to leave the place in the course of border security until 1959. Between 1961 and 1990 the border troops of the GDR were responsible for the Gutenfürst station. The official name was GÜSt (border crossing point) for rail traffic.
In the first decades the border crossing was not overly secured, between 1975 and 1980 the Gutenfürst station was expanded like a fortress to prevent escapes. Larger projects were the construction of a show bridge over all tracks, a spacious floodlight system with eight masts and a stump track for local passenger traffic within the GDR in the direction of Plauen, which was located outside the strictly secured control zone. So-called sand switches would have derailed any train that would have passed through the Gutenfürst border station without stopping (GDR jargon: peace switch). The renovation work cost a total of 16 million marks, various remaining work dragged on until 1982. Since one had a good view of the Gutenfürst border station and the border apron from the 593 m high Zapfenstein south of the desert of Stöckigt, a command post for the border troops was built on the Zapfenstein in the 1970s.
Like other inner-German border stations, it was unofficially named "Station of Tears" .
Development from 1989/90
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After the fall of 1989/90 , the importance of the station declined rapidly. In the early days after the opening of the border on November 9, 1989, train traffic was chronically overloaded, but soon returned to normal. No border controls have been carried out since July 1, 1990 (on which day the monetary, economic and social union came into force).
From 1990/91, an apprentice workshop was set up in the station buildings by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . There were Kommunikationselektroniker trained. This vocational training officially took place from August 1, 1987 to August 1, 2003; it partially replaced the skilled worker for BMSR technology . Deutsche Bahn invested several million DM here . A dormitory was later integrated. The training courses were discontinued at the end of the 1990s. So there was de facto only one final year that was trained here from 1991 to 1995 as a communications electronics technician in the information technology department .
The buildings have essentially remained unchanged to this day. During the electrification of the Reichenbach − Hof railway line, the Schaubrücke was removed at the beginning of 2013.
Today only the local trains of the Erfurt Railway and the Vogtland Railway stop at the station .
literature
- Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - A Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-728-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Rettig : The railways in Vogtland - Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, railway depots and buildings , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-686-2 , p. 10 ff.
- ↑ a b Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - a Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 57
- ^ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland - Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, accidents and anecdotes , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2002, ISBN 3-88255-687-0 , p. 214
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - a Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 75
- ↑ a b Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - a Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 82
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - A Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 82 ff.
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - a Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 91
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - a Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 116
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - A Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 116 f.
- ↑ Stöckigt on a private website during the GDR era
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - a Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 142 f.
- ↑ Gero Fehlhauer: With the Reichsbahn across the zone border - A Saxon-Bavarian post-war history , p. 58
- ↑ www.vogtland-anzeiger.de Zollbrücke floats on crane hooks above Gutenfürst station (accessed on June 21, 2013)