Klingenberg-Colmnitz station

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Klingenberg-Colmnitz
Reception building on the standard gauge side, view towards Dresden
Reception building on the standard gauge side, view towards Dresden
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network former connection station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation DKC
opening August 11, 1862
Profile on Bahnhof.de Klingenberg-Colmnitz
location
City / municipality Klingenberg
Place / district Klingenberg-Am Sachsenhof
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 55 '33 "  N , 13 ° 30' 3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '33 "  N , 13 ° 30' 3"  E
Height ( SO ) 436.1  m
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
i11 i16 i18

The Klingenberg-Colmnitz station is an operating point of the Dresden – Werdau railway and the former narrow-gauge railways Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Oberdittmannsdorf and Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein on the southern edge of the Tharandt Forest .

location

The station is located entirely in the area of ​​the municipality of Klingenberg in the west of the Saxon district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , mainly in the district of Klingenberg , and to a lesser extent in the district of Colmnitz . North of the station is a section of the historic salt road to Bohemia and the Tharandt Forest , south of the station is the Klingenberg settlement Am Sachsenhof .

The station is located at 25.4 km of the standard-gauge Dresden – Werdau railway and 436 meters above sea level, which is 228 meters higher than Tharandt station , which is 11.6 km away, in the direction of Dresden . Especially before the route electrification took place, the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station was the operational "mountain station" of the well-known Tharandter Steige . It has always been the highest operating point on today's Dresden – Werdau railway line.

history

Momos model kit around 1970.
historical photo of Klingenberg-Colmnitz station from 1898/1899

The station was put into operation on August 11, 1862 with the Tharandt – Freiberg line extension, part of today's Dresden – Werdau line. As the mountain station of the Tharandter Steige , which is feared by steam locomotives , the station was of great importance immediately after it opened, as almost all trains from Tharandt station up to this point had to be pre-tensioned or pushed in during the steam locomotive era. In doing so, 230 meters in altitude had to be overcome from the valley station on a twelve-kilometer route.

The station initially had fewer regional connections, but it was important as a transformer station for the trains after completing the ascent. Two platforms on both tracks can already be seen in old photographs. The freight train tracks look rather modest with five total tracks.

Track plan of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station from the times with narrow-gauge connections

That only changed on September 14, 1898 with the opening of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Frauenstein narrow-gauge railway , to which the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Oberdittmannsdorf narrow-gauge railway was added in 1923 . Now the station got bigger dimensions, as can be seen on the track plan shown. The track systems increased the size and number of tracks by the same number of tracks. The track systems remained in this form until the early 1970s. To exchange goods, the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station only had a reloading hall and two loading cranes, one at the station forecourt and one at the exit of the narrow-gauge railway towards Frauenstein and towards Oberdittmannsdorf . There were never trolleys or trolleys on the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Frauenstein narrow-gauge railway; the use of trolleys was only practiced on the narrow-gauge railway from Oberdittmannsdorf to Naundorf . Furthermore, a two-track, two-tier locomotive shed, a coal shed and a coal bunker were built on the narrow-gauge section of the station. This locomotive treatment system was built when the line to Frauenstein was opened. This meant that the railway station's tracks were essentially complete.

It was not until 1927 that the two signal boxes W1 and B2 were built on the standard gauge side, which took over the position of the standard gauge section north of the EC. Around 1930, vehicles could be turned to the east of the station's farm building. The turntable had three tracks and could be used to turn the narrow-gauge locomotives.

2010 still existing coal shed of the narrow-gauge railway of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station

On September 25, 1966, the railway line was electrified on the standard gauge side. When the two narrow-gauge railways were shut down in 1972, the narrow-gauge tracks at Klingenberg-Colmnitz station were dismantled, but the standard-gauge tracks were largely retained. Instead of the possibility of reloading to narrow gauge, a crane system was used for a shipment to a steel construction company, the other one was dismantled. The high-rise buildings of the narrow-gauge railway remained standing except for the loading hall and a loading crane. The four tracks in the narrow gauge area were used to park wagons in addition to shipping. In 2000 the station was connected to the ESTW . That was the reason to thoroughly bring the station up to the requirements of today. The station forecourt was converted into a combined bus waiting stand and parking lot. Since then, the station has been operated with three through tracks; the two next to the station building are the holding tracks with an outside platform , and there is also a northern passing track. A slightly too small elevator connection was created between the two outer platforms. The connection to track 7 is still preserved, as is the standard gauge tracks on the former narrow-gauge side. It is no longer passable. In 2009 the freight shed at the station was demolished. The functionless signal boxes have since been torn down. The coal shed, which can still be seen in photos in 2011, is a functionless relic from the narrow-gauge era.

Platforms

At the time of the narrow-gauge railway, the station had two elevated outer platforms on the normal- gauge railway section and two level platforms for the two narrow-gauge railway lines.

traffic

Narrow-gauge railways

Both narrow-gauge railways can be seen as connecting lines of the network around Wilsdruff and the Erzgebirge town of Frauenstein , the residents took the train to work in the Plauenschen Grund or to relax in the Eastern Ore Mountains . In the first year of operation, the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Frauenstein narrow-gauge railway carried 134,000 passengers and around 35,000 t of freight. Due to the failure to take up rolling carriage traffic, the volume of goods stagnated and leveled off at around 30,000 t per year. Between 1911 and 1914, a narrow-gauge works railway also ran to the Klingenberg dam construction site . In 1914 four pairs of trains ran between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Frauenstein every day. In 1922, two pairs of trains ran between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and the then terminus Naundorf of the narrow-gauge railway Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Oberdittmannsdorf. In 1925 there were already five pairs of trains between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Frauenstein, and two pairs of trains between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Oberdittmannsdorf. In 1932 there were six pairs of trains between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Frauenstein, and only one train between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Oberdittmannsdorf, which was forwarded to Mohorn . In 1939, eight pairs of trains ran between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Frauenstein. In the war year 1943, a pair of trains ran between Klingenberg-Colmnitz and Mohorn. The timetable for 1946/1947 shows only three pairs of trains for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Frauenstein route. In 1950/1951 there were again three pairs of trains on the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Mohorn route, one of which ended in Naundorf. In 1960 six pairs of trains ran on the route to Frauenstein. In the last full year of operation, four pairs of trains ran on the line from Klingenberg-Colmnitz to Mohorn, in the same year there were also four pairs of trains on the line to Frauenstein, one of which only ran on Saturdays.

Standard gauge railway

As of 2019, the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station will be served by the regional train line RB30 Dresden – Freiberg – Chemnitz – Zwickau and the S-Bahn line S3 Dresden – Tharandt – Freiberg. The former runs daily and every hour (start shortly after 5 a.m. and end at night just before 1 a.m.), the second also hourly (and offset every half hour to the RB30), but only during the weekday rush hour in the morning (three pairs of trains) and in the afternoon (four Train pairs). The S-Bahn line is operated by DB Regio Südost , the regional train line RB30 operated by Bayerische Oberlandbahn GmbH under the marketing name Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn .

Klingenberg-Colmnitz locomotive station

The station's locomotive shed was under the control of the Nossen depot until 1952 and then the Wilsdruff depot until operations were closed . A water crane with a water house with a capacity of 13 m³ stood between the tracks of the locomotive shed . The right track in the shed and the one in front of it had an inspection pit . The coal shed became inoperable after a conveyor belt was used to coal the locomotives in 1962 . The locomotive shed had two different smoke outlets per track, as the locomotives on the Mohorner line could have different directions. After the line was closed, the buildings were left standing. The engine shed was demolished in 2001, the coal shed is still standing today.

Local locomotives

First locomotives of the I K series were at home, which soon reached their limits on the mountainous sections. The IV K was not up to the conditions in the long run. Only the Sächsische VI K met the requirements of the company and was in use until the end of operations. Locomotives of the V K series are said to have been used on a trial basis . Use of the 99.73-76 occurred sporadically when there were problems with the use of the VI K (around 1930 and in the 1960s).

Local cars and ancillary vehicles

At the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station, a large number of narrow-gauge freight cars for handling goods traffic and passenger cars for passenger train service were stationed on the two narrow-gauge railways. From 1890, four-axle vehicles were primarily used.

On the standard gauge side, there were also a number of freight wagons to be kept available for cargo handling. In terms of passenger traffic, the station's priority was through traffic.

literature

  • Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß : Narrow Gauge Railway Archive . transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin, 1980, without ISBN.
  • Ludger Kenning: Narrow-gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Klingenberg-Colmnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photograph of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
  2. ^ Photograph of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
  3. Photograph of the narrow-gauge section in Klingenberg-Colmnitz station with the standard-gauge freight train waiting at the exit in the direction of Frauenstein, photographed on www.sachsenschiene.net
  4. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 , p. 210.
  5. Photograph of the locomotive shed in Klingenberg-Colmnitz station at www.sachsenschiene.net
  6. Drawing of the coal shed in Klingenberg-Colmnitz station on www.sachsenschiene.net
  7. Photograph of the coal shed in Klingenberg-Colmnitz station on www.sachsenschiene.net
  8. Drawing of the track plan of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station with the two signal boxes on www.sachsenschiene.net
  9. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 , p. 222.
  10. Track plan of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz station after the narrow-gauge railway was dismantled on www.sachsenschiene.net
  11. Photo of the goods shed from Klingenberg-Colmnitz station on the standard gauge page, photographed on www.sachsenschiene.net
  12. Photo of the goods shed from Klingenberg-Colmnitz station on the narrow-gauge side, photographed on www.sachsenschiene.net
  13. Photo of the signal box W1 from Klingenberg-Colmnitz station on the standard gauge page, photographed on www.sachsenschiene.net
  14. ^ Photo of the B2 signal box from Klingenberg-Colmnitz station on the narrow-gauge side, photographed on www.sachsenschiene.net
  15. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 , p. 210.
  16. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1914 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  17. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1922 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  18. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1925 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  19. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Oberdittmannsdorf route in 1925 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  20. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1932 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  21. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Mohorn route in 1932 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  22. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1939 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  23. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Mohorn route in 1943 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  24. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route 1946/47 on www.sachsenschiene.net
  25. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Mohorn route 1950/51 on www.sachsenschiene.net
  26. Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1960 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  27. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Mohorn route in 1971 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  28. ^ Course book for the Klingenberg-Colmnitz – Frauenstein route in 1971 at www.sachsenschiene.net
  29. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 , p. 223.
  30. Data on the demolition of the locomotive shed on www.sachsenschiene.net
  31. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 , pp. 246-247.