Lichtenberg Train Station (Ofr)
The Lichtenberg (Ofr) train station is the former train station in the Upper Franconian town of Lichtenberg .
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 The former Lichtenberg train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | August 15, 1901 |
| Conveyance | May 23, 1971 |
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| City / municipality | Lichtenberg |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 23 '34 " N , 11 ° 41' 19" E |
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history
The station was built between 1897 and 1901 as part of the extension of the Triptis – Blankenstein railway through the Höllental valley more than a kilometer northeast of the city in the Blechschmidtenhammer part of the municipality . Since the route was built by the Prussian State Railroad on the basis of a state treaty between Bavaria, Prussia and the House of Reuss , the station building with goods sheds was also built in the style of Thuringian train stations. However, the station had no operational function, the next train registration points were Blankenstein and Marxgrün . Operationally, the station was classified in 1944 as an agent-occupied stop for passenger and freight traffic.
The station is only a few hundred meters from the border with Thuringia. After the division of Germany, the line was interrupted on July 3, 1945 between Blankenstein and Lichtenberg, Lichtenberg became the terminus from the direction of Marxgrün. On the Bavarian side there was no longer any passenger traffic. Freight traffic from Marxgrün to Lichtenberg was carried out until May 23, 1971, after which the line was closed and the tracks dismantled in 1982.
Infrastructure
Buildings
The station building is a small single - storey half-timbered building with a crooked roof and gables . It is a listed building. In 1986 the entrance building, threatened with demolition, was renovated and given a new use. The adjoining and toilet building is no longer available today.
Track system
The track system of the Lichtenberg stop was on a slope of 1: 500. It consisted of three points, the continuous mainline track, a loading track connected on both sides and an approx. 150 m long butt track. The loading track and butt track were parallel to the main track on the side of the reception building. A bulk platform was laid out on the main track (between this and the loading track) for passenger traffic. A side ramp was used for freight traffic on the loading track and a loading gauge on the stump track. The tracks were dismantled at the end of 1981.
Security technology
The switches and the track barrier in the loading siding were secured against unauthorized adjustment with locks. The keys were kept on a key board in the office. The approach signal for the neighboring Blankenstein station had been on the platform in Lichtenberg since the mid-1930s.
Todays use
The Blechschmidtenhammer information center of the Franconian Forest Nature Park has been housed in the station building since 1986 . It houses a model railway that reproduces the course of the Höllentalbahn in the Selbitztal between the stations Lichtenberg and Hölle. On the former distance track is a short train, consisting of a 1993 by the few kilometers from pulp and paper mill Rosenthal the licensed as a gift vapor storage locomotive ( Babelsberg 1969), a personal and a van type Donnerbüchse and a covered freight wagon . The vehicles are also listed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Roman Rossberg : Border over German rails 1945–1990. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1991, ISBN 3-88255-829-6 , pp. 221-227
- ^ Official station directory , Deutsche Reichsbahn, 1944, digitized version on Gen-Wiki , p. 473
- ↑ a b Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments List of monuments of the city of Lichtenberg , administrative region Upper Franconia, Hof, as of February 1, 2012 ( PDF , 128 kB ; 131 kB)
- ↑ a b c The Franconian Höllentalbahn in a model on the website of the model railway club 01 Münchberger Eisenbahnfreunde, accessed on April 23, 2012
- ^ Info center Blechschmidtenhammer at naturpark-frankenwald.de, accessed on April 23, 2012