Horka Pbf station
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 Platforms on the Berlin – Görlitz line
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | former tower station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BHR |
| IBNR | 8010174 |
| opening | June 1, 1874 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Horka_Pbf |
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| City / municipality | Horka |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '14 " N , 14 ° 54' 9" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 165.047 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
Horka Pbf is the passenger station in the municipality of Horka in Upper Lusatia . The Berlin – Görlitz and Węgliniec – Roßlau (Elbe) lines intersect in the station . The latter railway line is also known as the Lower Silesian Freight Mainline and leads to Poland via the Horka freight station to the east and the Lusatian Neisse . It opened in 1874.
history
Since the opening of the Berlin-Görlitzer Bahn by the Berlin-Görlitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BGE) on December 31, 1867, a north-south line ran here, but Horka had no stop of its own at that time. Initially, the travelers had to use the Uhsmannsdorf train station, about three kilometers to the north . Only since the opening of the railway line from Kohlfurt ( Węgliniec ) to Falkenberg / Elster by the Upper Lusatian Railway Company (OE) the place received its personal stop. The OE route ran in an east-west direction, so the decision was made to build the station at the intersection of the two routes. Both railway companies shared the construction costs for the station. On June 1, 1874, traffic began.
The route crossing in an east-west direction ran on an approximately six meter high embankment and led over the older route. A 1.8 kilometer long connecting curve in the north-east of the station has linked both routes since they opened. Freight wagons were handed over between the two railway companies on the connecting track. After their nationalization in 1883, the two crossing lines were each subordinate to a different railway directorate. The Berlin – Görlitz line was under the control of the Royal Railway Directorate (KED) Berlin and the Kohlfurt – Falkenberg line was under the control of KED Erfurt . With the administrative reform of 1895, the station changed uniformly to the KED Halle .
Extensive construction work took place in the station in 1905 and 1906. The embankment on the Kohlfurt – Falkenberg line was widened for a second track. The line also received a new double-track bridge over the Berlin-Görlitzer Bahn. The bridge was manufactured by the LE Christoph machine factory in Niesky . The abutments of the old bridge were preserved for a possible extension to include a freight train track. With the two-track expansion of the lower line, the old platform was converted into a covered island platform . It was accessible through an underpass west of the reception building. A toilet building was built on the island platform south of the overpass of the Kohlfurt-Falkenberger Bahn and at the northern end of the platform roof a waiting hall, which also housed service rooms. The lower house platform was still used as a baggage platform, at the northern end of which was the express goods shed. There was also a toilet facility at the western end of the upper platform in the direction of Kohlfurt. Opposite her, on the Falkenberg platform, was post house 22, which also housed the stopping point attendant. In addition to a staircase on each of the northern and southern sides of the eastern bridge abutment, a free-standing electric freight elevator led to the upper platforms.
In 1936 the station and the place were renamed Wehrkirch . Slavic place names should be replaced by Germanized place names according to the National Socialist ideology. After the end of the Second World War and the shift of the German-Polish border to the Oder-Neisse line , Horka was in the immediate vicinity of the new border. The second tracks on both main lines were dismantled as reparations by the Soviet occupying forces in autumn 1945 . On the upper side, the main track in the direction of Kohlfurt was removed and on the lower side the track in the direction of Berlin was removed. The station track 4 also fell under the reparation payments. Only a piece of track 5 remained. Platform track 1 could still be used for train crossings and track 3 for overhauls. The stairs to the platform in the direction of Kohlfurt were closed and the platform overgrown. The post building 22 served as a sports and cultural space. During the GDR era, the siding for the unification of mutual farmers' aid (VdgB) and various buildings between the water tower and the signaling facility were built.
There has been no platform supervision at the station since 1993. In addition to the two platform tracks, there is currently a passing track and the branch to the freight station. The tracks are connected to one another by a total of six switches. In 2007 the platform on the Węgliniec – Roßlau (Horka Hp) railway line was demolished. In the same year a new bridge was built over the Berlin-Görlitzer Bahn.
In spring 2016, the water tower south of the railway bridge was largely dismantled. The tower is now only a third of its original height, but has been given a new roof.
By 2018, the railway line from the German-Polish border via Horka to Knappenrode had been electrified and expanded to double-track throughout. The construction of an autotransformer station was planned for this in Horka .
Today, Horka is only served by the ODEG line RB 65 (Cottbus-Görlitz-Zittau) . There is no longer any scheduled tourist traffic on the route from Węgliniec to Niesky. Travel systems were not rebuilt on this route when the route was renewed until 2018.
Buildings
Service and waiting rooms were initially located on the ground floor of the two-and-a-half-storey reception building. The service chief and his deputy lived on the upper floor. After the turn of the century, the station building was extended to the north. In addition, there was an extension on the Falkenberg side with a waiting room for the upper platform and a staircase as a staircase. The previous waiting rooms on the ground floor have been converted into the station management. The service rooms with ticket issuance, baggage handling, the cash desk and the chief's room have since been on the left of the entrance. On the former staircase to the platform of the Falkenberg-Kohlfurt railway line, the Prussian State Railroad built the service toilets in the station. The passengers reached the platform via the new paved side path. The upper floor of the northern wing of the station is now uninhabited, while the former DB subsidiary Arcor had operating rooms in the upper southern part . The reception building is now privately owned.
With the expansion of the station at the turn of the century, post 147 was created for operating the barrier at the level crossing in the direction of Görlitz . The signal box Hpb ( Horka Personenbahnhof command signal box , from 1952 B2 ) at the northern end of the lower platform and the guard signal box Hpn ( Horka Personenbahnhof Nord , from 1952 W1 ) have only existed since 1913. Other high-rise buildings were the signal and telecommunications control room with living spaces between the water tower and the post 147 as well as a fire extinguisher room behind the express goods shed and the toilet facility on the station forecourt.
The station's island platform has a usable length of 160.5 m and a platform height of 34 cm.
See also
literature
- Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Infrastructure register. DB Netze, accessed on April 18, 2019 .
- ^ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. Part 1 . 2010, p. 106 f .
- ^ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. Part 1 . 2010, p. 107 f .
- ^ A b c Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. Part 1 . 2010, p. 108 .
- ^ A b c Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. Part 1 . 2010, p. 109 .
- ↑ Construction at the railway: Knappenrode – Horka. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 13, 2014 ; accessed on August 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Building at the railway: Knappenrode – Horka: The project. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original ; accessed on July 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Platform information Horka Pbf. Deutsche Bahn AG, October 20, 2017, archived from the original on December 16, 2017 ; accessed on December 15, 2017 .