Moldava v Krušných horách railway station
| Moldava v Krušných horách | |
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 Moldava v Krušných horách railway station (2005)
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| Operating point type | Railway station (simplified operational management D3) |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | December 6, 1884 |
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| City / municipality | Moldava |
| Okres | Teplitz-Schönau district |
| region | Ústecký kraj |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 43 '4 " N , 13 ° 41' 28" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 780 m |
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| List of train stations in the Czech Republic | |
The Moldava v Krušných horách station (until 1945 German: Moldau ) is a station ("Stanice") classified operating point of the Most – Moldava v Krušných horách railway and the line to Freiberg (Sachs) and Nossen, which has been dismantled since 1953 . It is located on the territory of the Moldava municipality at Moldava 130 in the Czech Republic . From its opening in 1884 to 1951, Moldava was the border station to Saxony in Germany .
history
Moldava station has existed since the provisional route opening on December 6, 1884. It was designed from the beginning as a border station between Saxony and Bohemia. The Royal Saxon State Railways (K. Sächs. Sts. EB) and later the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) had the right to use the facilities on a lease basis. In its greatest expansion before 1945, the station had nine tracks. In addition to the station building, there was a four-tier boiler house, two goods sheds (one for each railway administration) and a water station to supply the steam locomotives.
From 1893 there were more specific plans in Saxony for a narrow-gauge Pöbeltalbahn to Schmiedeberg to connect to the Weißeritztalbahn (Freital-Hainsberg-Kurort Kipsdorf). If it had been realized, the route would have ended on the station forecourt or at the front of the reception building.
In 1930, 11,300 freight cars were handed over between the railway administrations. In 1938, the Czech writer Adolf Branald was the station's dispatcher. A memorial plaque on the house platform reminds of him.
The first fundamental change in the operation of the station occurred with the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany on October 1, 1938. The Reichsbahndirektion Dresden now ran the operation as the Moldau station . When the state border no longer existed, it also lost its status as a border station. While the travelers initially had to change trains, there were later direct passenger trains from Nossen to Brüx.
A turning point was the end of the Second World War and the subsequent re-establishment of the state of Czechoslovakia. On May 7, 1945 at 5.30 p.m., the last train from Moldova in the direction of Freiberg, then all train traffic on the ridge of the Ore Mountains came to a standstill due to the destruction of bridges and facilities. ČSD trains did not reach the station again until October 1946, after the viaduct near Mikulov, which was blown up at the end of the war, had been repaired. Cross-border traffic was not resumed after 1945. In 1949 the Soviet occupying forces dismantled 250 meters of track on the German side, later the line was completely dismantled there.
There was another enormous increase in traffic from 1952 to 1962, when building material for the Fláje dam had to be handled. An eight kilometer long cable car starting at the station delivered the building materials directly to the construction site. Remains of this system are still visible at the train station today.
Over the years, the station lost its extensive track system, which was no longer needed. At the end of the 1980s there were only two main tracks and branch tracks to a total of three loading docks. In addition to the station building, there were also high-rise buildings, the Saxon goods shed, the (already heavily devastated) water station and the boiler house. The former Bohemian goods shed had already been demolished. The loading tracks were last used for handling lime, which was used to combat forest damage caused by acid rain.
On July 15, 1998, the railway line from Louka u Litvínova to Moldava, including all buildings and facilities, was listed as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic. Since then, the remaining facilities in Moldava have also been under monument protection. However, financial resources to secure and renew the facilities have not yet been available. In 2014, some of the remaining tracks were repaired with used concrete sleepers.
Reception building
Boiler house
Water station
Ticket issuance
Waiting room
Memorial plaque for Adolf Branald
literature
- Bohumil Šádek, Martin Žaba, Jan Urban: Moldavská horská dráha. Lokálka Group Rokycany, 1999
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ data on www.zelpage.cz
- ↑ Description of the Pöbeltalbahn at www.sachsenschiene.net
- ^ Siegfried Bufe, Heribert Schröpfer: Railways in the Sudetenland. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1991, ISBN 3-922138-42-X , p. 74
- ↑ Timetable 1939
- ↑ Timetable 1944
