Reitzenhain train station
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 Reitzenhain station (2013)
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| Operating point type | former train station |
| opening | July 12, 1875 |
| Conveyance | December 15, 1998 |
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| City / municipality | Marienberg |
| Place / district | Reitzenhain |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 33 '35 " N , 13 ° 13' 12" E |
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| Railway stations and stops in Saxony | |
The Reitzenhain station was a station classified operating agency of flöha valley railway and here following line to Chomutov . It is located in the Reitzenhain district of the city of Marienberg in Saxony . From its opening in 1875 until the 1960s, Reitzenhain was the border station to Austria and its successor state, Czechoslovakia . After the Reitzenhain – Marienberg line was closed in 1998, the remaining tracks were dismantled in 2013.
history
Reitzenhain station has existed since the line was opened on July 12, 1875. It was designed from the start as a border station between Saxony and Bohemia. In its greatest expansion before 1945, the station had six main and ten secondary tracks with a total of 33 points. A turntable on track 1 was used to turn locomotives with tenders.
The Buschtěhrad Railway (BEB) and later the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) had the right to use the facilities on a lease basis. On the “Bohemian” side of the station, the BEB built its own civil servants' residence and a small locomotive deployment station.
The first fundamental change in the operation of the station occurred with the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany on October 1, 1938. When the state border no longer existed, the station lost its status as a border station. While the travelers initially had to change trains, there were later direct trains from Chemnitz to Krima and Komotau. A pair of express trains from Chemnitz to Komotau with a traffic stop in Reitzenhain is also shown in the 1939 timetable.
A turning point was the end of the Second World War and the subsequent re-establishment of the state of Czechoslovakia. In 1945, part of the station tracks was dismantled as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union . The ČSD operated the Reitzenhain station with a pair of passenger trains until 1948, when all cross-border traffic came to a standstill. From then on Reitzenhain only served German domestic traffic, although the station was officially run as a border station until the 1960s. In 1962, 18 railway workers were employed in the station.
When travel to Reitzenhain ceased on October 1, 1978, there was a further loss of importance. From then on, the station only served goods traffic. In addition to the connections in the station area, Reitzenhain also served the connection to the peat plant at kilometer 3.390. These services only ended on January 8, 1994 with the general suspension of freight traffic on the Marienberg – Reitzenhain route.
In 2001, Deutsche Bahn had all the sidings removed. The Eisenbahn-Handelsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG dismantled the remaining tracks 1 and 2 on behalf of the city of Marienberg in 2013 in order to be able to set up a cycle path on the route.
literature
- Stephan Häupel: The railway in the Flöhatal and its regular- gauge branch lines , Bildverlag Thomas Böttger, Witzschdorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-937496-08-5
Web links
- Reitzenhain train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
- Track plan of Reitzenhain station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timetable 1939
- ↑ Timetable 1944
- ↑ ČSD timetables 1945–1948
