Wechselburg station

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Wechselburg
Station building, track side (2016)
Station building, track side (2016)
Data
Operating point type railway station
Design former separation station
Platform tracks 2 (formerly 4)
abbreviation DWB
opening May 29, 1876
location
City / municipality Wechselburg
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 59 '55 "  N , 12 ° 46' 43"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '55 "  N , 12 ° 46' 43"  E
Height ( SO ) 194.94  m
Railway lines
Railway stations and stops in Saxony
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The Wechselburg Station is an operating agency of the railway line Glauchau Wurzen and the earlier beginning here railway Wechselburg-Küchwald on the territory of the municipality Wechselburg in Saxony . Railway operations at the station have been suspended since 2002 and the facilities are in ruins.

location

The Wechselburg train station is located in the south of the village, east of the Zwickauer Mulde .

history

Surname

In the course of time, the station only bore the name of Wechselburg .

business

Postcard from 1913
202 735 on January 18, 1994 in Wechselburg
Platforms in Wechselburg station (2016)

The Wechselburg station was opened on May 29, 1876 together with the Penig - Rochlitz section of the Glauchau – Wurzen railway. Initially, the station consisted of only three tracks, only with the integration of the Wechselburg – Küchwald (Chemnitz Valley Railway) line that opened on June 30, 1902 , the station was significantly expanded. Before that, the slope east of the train station had to be removed for the track extensions. After the renovation, the station had seven tracks, but only a few trains began and ended in Wechselburg. Most of the trains from Chemnitz were tied through to Rochlitz. With the expansion of the station, a siding to a sand pit was built, which was served until the 1970s. In addition to the station building, the Wechselburg train station had a goods shed, platform scales, farm buildings, a passenger tunnel and two signal boxes.

The gradual loss of importance of the station began with the discontinuation of goods traffic on the Chemnitz Valley Railway between Wechselburg and Markersdorf-Taura on December 31, 1994. On May 24, 1998, passenger traffic on the Chemnitz Valley Railway from Wechselburg to Chemnitz ended. On the Muldentalbahn, freight traffic on the Wechselburg – Großbothen section was discontinued on December 5, 1999, the Glauchau – Wechselburg section followed on July 1, 2000. On June 9, 2001, the last passenger trains ran between Rochlitz and Wechselburg. Until August 13, 2002, a train from Glauchau reached Wechselburg station every four hours, which took over an hour for the 32 km route. After the Elbe flood in 2002 , which became known as the flood of the century and which also affected the Zwickauer Mulde, train traffic was stopped due to flood damage and the urgent need for renovation of various engineering structures. Since then, the station building and the tracks have been falling into disrepair.

Since July 11, 2009, nostalgia trips with motorized trolleys have been taking place on a few days between Rochlitz and Wechselburg by the “Muldentalbahn Förderverein” founded in 2006 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Kluttig, Ronny Preußler, Achim Poller: Along the rails from Chemnitz to Wechselburg - the Chemnitz valley and its railway. Bildverlag Thomas Böttger, Witzschdorf, ISBN 3-9808250-2-7 , p. 70.
  2. ^ Steffen Kluttig: Railway history in the Muldenland - the Rochlitz railway junction and its sand railways. P. 59 f.
  3. ↑ Steffen Kluttig, Ronny Preußler, Achim Poller: Along the rails from Chemnitz to Wechselburg - the Chemnitz valley and its railway. Bildverlag Thomas Böttger, Witzschdorf, ISBN 3-9808250-2-7 , p. 83.
  4. ↑ Schienentrabi.de: trips on the Muldentalbahn (accessed June 24, 2011)