Kirchberg (Sachs) railway station
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.jpg&filetimestamp=20111211112335&) Railway station around 1900
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| Location in the network |
Through station (1882–1967) Terminus (1881–1882, 1967–1973) |
| opening | October 16, 1881 |
| Conveyance | 3rd July 1973 |
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| City / municipality | Kirchberg |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 37 '39 " N , 12 ° 31' 15" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 335 m |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Kirchberg (Sachs) train station was the train station in Kirchberg in Saxony , and the town had a second train station with one stop. Located at 6.50 kilometers of the Wilkau-Haßlau-Carlsfeld narrow-gauge railway , the station was the most important station on the line.
Kirchberg station is a station on the Saxony steam train route .
history
Surname
During its operating time, the station had six different station names, in detail these were:
- until October 31, 1882: Kirchberg
- until September 30, 1900: Kirchberg train station
- until June 30, 1911: City of Kirchberg train station
- until May 14, 1927: Kirchberg city
- until December 21, 1933: Kirchberg (Sa)
- since December 22, 1933: Kirchberg (Sachs)
business
The station was initially opened as a terminal station of the narrow-gauge line Wilkau-Haßlau-Kirchberg on October 16, 1881. When operations opened, the station consisted of 740 m of track with nine switches, a reception building with an attached goods shed , a loading street and a boiler house . As early as 1882, the station was slightly expanded in connection with the opening of the line to Saupersdorf, in the course of which the station became a through station.
In 1888 the next renovations took place, including a. A new, separate goods shed and a loading ramp were built opposite the station building. In connection with the extension of the route from Saupersdorf to Wilzschaus, the station was expanded again in 1893. By relocating the Rödelbach , the necessary building clearance could be created. a. the old boiler house, which was only twelve years old, was torn down and replaced by a new four-unit. All in all, the station was supplemented by 800 meters of track and five switch units. Since the goods area was relocated from the reception building side to the side facing the Rödelbach, the old loading road was superfluous and the two platforms could be extended. The former freight tracks were now used as sidings, while the old attached freight shed was used for baggage handling.
In 1912, the facilities had to be changed again with the introduction of trolley traffic; in addition to the addition of another track with two stands to the boiler house, the freight transport facilities in particular were expanded. The reception building was enlarged in 1927, ultimately the station had 30 points and 16 tracks and remained largely unchanged in this structure until the 1960s.
With the closure of the Kirchberg – Saupersdorf ob Bf section on July 15, 1967, Kirchberg became a terminus again. Freight traffic ceased on September 30, 1972, passenger traffic on July 3, 1973.
With the closure of the Wilkau-Haßlau-Kirchberg section in 1973, the idea of setting up a "technical display system" in the Kirchberg station as well as on the grounds of the Oberrittersgrün station, the terminus of the Pöhlatalbahn , arose in the city of Kirchberg . For this purpose, the 99 581 was bought before the route was dismantled and brought to Kirchberg; two four-axle passenger cars and one four-axle baggage car also remained in Kirchberg. However, the project failed due to excessive costs in the following years, so that in June 1983 the locomotive and the three vehicles were finally scrapped.
The station building and the goods shed are still there today, the locomotive shed was demolished in 1987. Much of the site is now used commercially.
Entrance building from the street side (2012)
Freight shed (2012)
Information board of the steam train route Saxony
Former Kirchberg train station, track side (2018)
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traffic
The station was the most important station on the narrow-gauge railway and contributed significantly to the volume of traffic in both passenger and freight traffic. For example, in 1964 the station accounted for almost 17% of the total transport volume on the railway line. Four sidings belonging to the station played a major role in this, three more were no longer served in 1964. Textile products dominated shipping, and most of the receipts consisted of fuel.
Railway depot Kirchberg
Locomotives had been stationed in Kirchberg since 1881. Initially, the use of locomotives was still a matter for the railway administration ; it was not until 1927 that a locomotive station of the Zwickau railway depot was founded in Kirchberg with branch offices in Schönheide and Carlsfeld. For a short time until February 29, 1936, the Oberwiesenthal locomotive station was also subordinate to the Kirchberg locomotive station.
Initially, only locomotives of the class IK were stationed in Kirchberg . From 1893 the locomotives of the class IV K (class 99.51-60) replaced the IK in service. Machines of type III K were also occasionally used. For a while, the standard locomotives of the class 99.73-76 of the narrow-gauge railway Cranzahl-Kurort Oberwiesenthal belonged to the Kirchberg locomotive station. These machines never ran on the Wilkau-Haßlau-Carlsfeld narrow-gauge railway.
After the Second World War, the maintenance of the IV K was combined in Kirchberg, and the locomotives of the narrow-gauge Mosel – Ortmannsdorf railway were also subordinated to the Kirchberg locomotive station. This led to a rapidly growing workforce, as a result of which the locomotive station was elevated to a depot on April 1, 1949 . In 1949 the Pöhlatalbahn locomotives were also subordinated to the Kirchberg depot. In 1953 a total of 135 people were employed.
On January 1, 1967, the depot was dissolved and converted into an operation site of the Aue (Sachs) depot . With the closure of the remaining Wilkau-Haßlau-Kirchberg section, the locomotive operation site was given up in 1973.
literature
- Rainer Heinrich, Gordon Parzyk: The narrow-gauge railway Wilkau-Haßlau - Carlsfeld , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1995, ISBN 3-88255-418-5
- Author collective: Die Schmalspurbahn Wilkau-Haßlau-Carlsfeld , Verlag Jacobi, Fraureuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-937228-24-2
Web links
- www.dienstplanschatte.de Page about the Kirchberg train station with numerous images
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.sachsenschiene.de Railway stations in Saxony Ho - Ko (accessed on July 1, 2011)
- ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Schmalspurbahnen in Sachsen , transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-71205-9 , p. 55
- ↑ Dirk Lenhard, Gerhard Moll, Reiner Scheffler: Die Sächsische IV K - Die Reichsbahn-series 99 51-60 , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2004, ISBN 3-88255-199-2 , p. 161
- ^ André Marks (Ed.): Sächsische Schmalspurbahnen - Impressions for the 125th birthday in Eisenbahn-Bildarchiv Volume 28, EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-88255-367-7 , p. 68
- ↑ Bernd Kramer, Rainer Heinrich: The narrow-gauge railway Grünstädtel – Oberrittersgrün , Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-30-2 ; P. 77
- ↑ Dieter Bäzold: The Thumer narrow gauge network , Bufe-technical book publishing house, Egglham, ISBN 3-922138-51-9 , p 57