Johanngeorgenstadt station
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.jpg) Johanngeorgenstadt station, reception building on the street side
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | DJ |
| IBNR | 8011967 |
| opening | September 20, 1883 |
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| City / municipality | Johanngeorgenstadt |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '15 " N , 12 ° 43' 43" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 676 m |
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The Johanngeorgenstadt station is a station classified operating agency of the railway line Johanngeorgenstadt-Schwarzenberg and here subsequent route to Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) . It is located in the area of the city of Johanngeorgenstadt in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis . The Johanngeorgenstadt station has been a border station to Austria-Hungary and its successor states Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic since it opened in 1883 .
location
The Johanngeorgenstadt train station is located in the Schwarzwasser valley north of the old town of Johanngeorgenstadt at an altitude of approx. 670 m above sea level in the Ore Mountains . Immediately past the train station, the road leads to the Pachthaus district . The Johanngeorgenstadt train station is the starting point for the Johanngeorgenstadt mining trail .
Investments
Today (2018) the station has two through tracks on a central platform, a head track from / towards Schwarzenberg on the main platform and a siding.
The two-storey entrance building in clinker construction is a listed building along with the one-storey southern outbuilding. The goods shed to the north was demolished in 2009.
history
prehistory
When the Upper Ore Mountains Railway was built from Zwickau to Schwarzenberg (1855–1858), it was planned to extend it further across the border to Bohemia. In the State Treaty between Saxony and Austria of December 24, 1870, a connection between Karlsbad and Johanngeorgenstadt was specifically named for the first time. In December 1873 the Saxon state government applied for the construction of the Johanngeorgenstadt – Schwarzenberg railway following this line at state expense. The Saxon state parliament approved the construction of the standard-gauge main line. Due to the difficult topographical conditions in Bohemia, the enormous financial means for the construction of the railway could no longer be raised after the financial crisis of 1873 , the concession on the Bohemian side expired on May 6, 1880, without the construction of the line had started. The project of the Saxon connection route Johanngeorgenstadt – Schwarzenberg has now been changed to the effect that a standard-gauge secondary railway has now been designed. The narrower curve radii permitted in this case enabled a more cost-effective route, which now managed to a large extent without expensive engineering structures.
Johanngeorgenstadt station until 1945
In March 1881, construction of the Johanngeorgenstadt – Schwarzenberg railway began , and on September 20, 1883, it was opened at the same time as the Johanngeorgenstadt railway station. On May 5, 1884, Saxony committed itself in a state treaty with Austria to convert the Johanngeorgenstadt station into a border station when the line to Karlsbad was built. The connection to Bohemia was finally realized as a second-class main line by the Karlsbad – Johanngeorgenstadt railway . The Saxon state was responsible for the reconstruction of the railway station in Johanngeorgenstadt and the construction of the short section of the state border - Johanngeorgenstadt in Saxony. On April 1, 1899, the Karlsbad – Johanngeorgenstadt railway was initially opened for limited freight traffic, and passenger trains started running on May 15, 1899. The management of the state border – Johanngeorgenstadt section was taken over by the State Railway Directorate of Pilsen on a lease basis.
The station building was demolished in 1898 and replaced by a more spacious new building. In Unterjugel, the old station building of Johanngeorgenstadt was rebuilt as a residential building.
After connecting the Sudetenland to Germany in the autumn of 1938, the railway line Karlovy Vary-Johanngeorgenstadt was like all Sudeten German railway lines between Karlovy Vary and Liberec together with the located there Bahnbetriebswerke on 10 October 1938, the Reichsbahn Dresden the German Reichsbahn assumed. However, initially there was still no through traffic over the former national border. The route was later listed in the timetables as the route book route 171f Schwarzenberg – Neurohlau – Karlsbad / Chodau . When the war began, the use of the railcars on the Bohemian side ended. In the 1944 annual timetable, four pairs of trains ran continuously between Schwarzenberg and Karlsbad, one of them to and from Marienbad .
Johanngeorgenstadt station from 1945 to 1990
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At the end of the Second World War , the scheduled train traffic over the restored state border came to a standstill. After 1945, the Karlovy Vary – Johanngeorgenstadt line returned to the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). For the time being, the trains from Karlovy Vary continued to run to Johanngeorgenstadt, as the Breitenbach station (from 1948: Potůčky ) was unable to relocate the locomotives and take on new supplies. A little later, the necessary systems were retrofitted. From then on all Czech trains ended in Potůčky. Except for individual business trips - for example for snow clearing operations - there was no longer any cross-border train traffic. For strategic reasons, however, the cross-border track was retained.
When uranium mining began in 1946 by the Soviet SAG Wismut in the Western Ore Mountains, the Johanngeorgenstadt – Schwarzenberg railway on the Saxon side quickly became extremely important both for the removal of the uranium ores that were extracted and for rush hour traffic to the newly established mine shafts in Johanngeorgenstadt. Between 1948 and 1950 the line was expanded for two-track operation, which gave the Johanngeorgenstadt station its final size. A new loading track system was also built east of the old train station, which was integrated via a double crossing switch directly at the state border (at the connection to Eisenwerk Wittigsthal). The Georgental junction was newly built between Erlabrunn and Johanngeorgenstadt . The connecting railway branching off here led to a loading facility for uranium ore for shipment to the Soviet Union. The new line was completed in 1950. On October 5, 1952, the double-track line was elevated to the main line . Just a few years later, mining in Johanngeorgenstadt was stopped again and traffic performance fell back to normal. On July 1, 1964, the line was downgraded again to a branch line. The second track between Erla and Johanngeorgenstadt was dismantled in the 1970s. In the 1980/81 winter timetable, a total of 14 pairs of passenger trains ran from the Johanngeorgenstadt station, the majority of which were connected to and from Zwickau (Sachs) Hbf. The travel time between Johanngeorgenstadt and Schwarzenberg was around 35 minutes, and from and to Zwickau around two hours.
Johanngeorgenstadt station since 1990
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The Johanngeorgenstadt train station received new perspectives with the political upheavals in the GDR and Czechoslovakia in 1989 and 1990. After decades of separation, both sides wanted to renew the old traditional traffic connections across the border. On April 17, 1992, a passenger train passed the state border at Johanngeorgenstadt for the first time since 1945. With the timetable change in June 1992, regular cross-border travel and goods traffic was resumed. Contrary to the original plans, however, direct trains on the Zwickau – Karlsbad route did not run through. In 1999 the remaining freight traffic on both sides of the border was stopped. Most recently, mainly raw wood was transported, which was loaded in Johanngeorgenstadt. The station, which was badly damaged by a fire, was comprehensively repaired after 2000, which also included the construction of new platforms. The freight transport facilities that were last used for timber handling have largely been dismantled today.
From the year 2000 it was planned to integrate the two railway lines touching Johanngeorgenstadt station into the regular traffic of the EgroNet . That year, for the first time, continuous regional express trains ran from Zwickau to Karlovy Vary via Johanngeorgenstadt. In the 2008 annual timetable, a total of seven cross-border train pairs were planned for the weekends, two of which run continuously on the Zwickau – Karlovy Vary route. In 2012 timetable operated on the Saxon side the regional trains of Erzgebirgsbahn in Einstundentakt , where all trains to and from Zwickau (Sachs) Hbf were bound. At the weekend, individual trains ran in cooperation with the Czech railway company České dráhy (ČD) on the Zwickau – Karlsbad route.
Transport links
The following lines stop in Johanngeorgenstadt in the 2018 timetable:
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| RB 95 | Zwickau - Aue - Schwarzenberg - Johanngeorgenstadt | 60 | Erzgebirgsbahn |
| 142 | Karlovy Vary dolní nádraží - Karlovy Vary - Nová Role - Potůčky - Johanngeorgenstadt | several trains daily without a cycle | České dráhy |
Web links
- Johanngeorgenstadt station on www.sachsenschiene.net
- Tracks in service facilities (DJ) , DB Netz AG (PDF; track plan)
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://denkmalliste.denkmalpflege.sachsen.de/CardoMap/Denkmalliste_Report.aspx?HIDA_Nr=09229857
- ^ Announcement by the Minister of Commerce of May 6, 1880
- ↑ Annual timetable 1944 - valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice
- ^ Club M 131.1 (ed.): Krušnohorský Semmering Karlovy Vary - Johanngeorgenstadt Erzgebirgische Semmering , self-published by Sokolov, 1999
- ^ Course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, valid from September 28, 1980 to May 30, 1981
- ↑ 2012 annual timetable of the Erzgebirgsbahn - valid from December 11, 2012
