Chomutov – Vejprty / Reitzenhain railway line

Chomutov – Křimov (–Reitzenhain)

Course book series (SŽDC) :

137

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Route class :

A1

Maximum slope :

20 ‰

Top speed:

60 km / h

Legend

	from Praha-Bubny (formerly BEB )
	from Cheb (formerly BEB )
0.000	Chomutov formerly Komotau	355 m
	to Ústí nad Labem hl. n. (formerly ATE )
	Podkrušnohorský přivaděč
	Street I / 7
	vlečka ZZN Rakovník as
4.300	Černovice u Chomutova formerly Chernowitz	420 m
	Street I / 7
14.054	Domina formerly Domina-Schönlind	590 m
18,838	Křimov-Suchdol formerly Dörnthal (b Komotau)	680 m
21.305	Křimov zastávka formerly Krima Hp	730 m
22.774	Křimov formerly Krima-Neudorf	750 m
	to Vejprty
~ 24.200	Farm road
25.000	Farm road
25.570	Street Hora Sv. Šebestiána – Menhartice (4.47 m)
25.712	Menhartice formerly March village	786 m
26,167	Farm road (4 m)
26,594	Farm road (3.6 m)
27,479	Farm road (3.6 m)
28.900	Vertex	826 m
30.119	Hora Sv. Šebestiána formerly Sebastiansberg	818 m
30.484	Chomutovka (80 m)
31,036	(51.5 m)
31.678	Farm road (4.5 m)
33.260	(2.5 m)
35.621	Reitzenhain v Čechách formerly Reizenhain	780 m
35.794	Street I / 7 (11.2 m)
35.86 0 0.000	Schwarze Pockau (40 m, Czech Republic / Germany)
1.390	Reitzenhain	776 m
	to Flöha

Křimov – Vejprty

Course book series (SŽDC) :

137

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Route class :

A1

Top speed:

90 km / h

Legend

	from Chomutov
0.000	Křimov formerly Krima-Neudorf	750 m
	to Reitzenhain
	Street I / 7
1.105	Nová Ves u Křimova formerly Neudorf	765 m


	Farm road
5.300	Výsluní formerly Sonnenberg (formerly Bf)	800 m

	Street II / 223
11.500	Rusová formerly Preßnitz-Reischdorf	825 m
	Street II / 224



16.100	Měděnec formerly Kupferberg (formerly Bf)	830 m
18.400	Měděnec zastávka formerly Kupferberg Hp	850 m
	vlečka důl Měděnec
	Vertex	875 m
22.200	Kovářská městys formerly the Schmiedeberg market	865 m
25.700	Kovářská formerly forge	850 m
27.300	České Hamry formerly Böhm. hammer	845 m


30.600	Vejprty zastávka formerly Weipert Neugeschrei	790 m

32.900	Vejprty koupaliště formerly Weipert Hp	745 m

	Street II / 224
34.807 0.000	Vejprty formerly Weipert	715 m
0.577	Pöhlbach Viaduct (Czech Republic / Germany)
	to Annaberg-Buchholz unt

The Chomutov – Reitzenhain railway with the branch to Vejprty is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic that was originally built and operated by the kk priv. Buschtěhrad Railway (BEB). It begins in Chomutov ( Komotau ), crosses the Ore Mountains and ends today in the border station Vejprty ( Weipert ), where there is a connection to the German railway network via the Vejprty – Annaberg-Buchholz railway line. The branch to Reitzenhain in Křimov was closed in 1972.

According to a decree of the Czech government, the Chomutov – Vejprty line has been classified as a regional railway ("regionální dráha") since December 20, 1995.

history

Prehistory and construction

The Buschtěhrad Railway received the permit for a “ locomotive railway from Kommotau to Weipert to the royal Saxon border to connect to the Chemnitz-Annaberger Bahn ” on July 1, 1868 in connection with the concession of the line from Prague via Komotau to Eger. The licensed line should be completed and opened to public transport within three years of the granting of the license. The construction of a second track was required if the " annual gross profit for two consecutive years exceeded the sum of 140,000 florins ". On September 29, 1869, the State Treaty “ on the railway connections on the Bohemian-Saxon border near Weipert, Georgswalde and Warnsdorf ” was concluded with Saxony . Weipert was chosen as the connection point with the Saxon railway network. Saxony undertook to complete the line from Annaberg to Weipert by July 1, 1871. If no private investor could be found for the construction of the route, construction at state expense was planned.

The Komotau – Weipert line was finally put into operation on August 1, 1872. The construction deadline stipulated by the concession was exceeded by over a year. The connecting line in Saxony from Weipert to Annaberg began general operations two days later - on August 3, 1872.

On June 28, 1872, the Buschtěhrad Railway was granted the same benefits by law for the line from Krima to Reitzenhain still to be built as for the existing lines. The realization of this route should take place after the conclusion of another state treaty with Saxony.

The concession to build and operate the line to Reitzenhain to connect to the Chemnitz-Komotau railway line was finally issued on November 12, 1872. The line was opened on August 23, 1875.

In operation by the Deutsche Reichsbahn

After the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany in autumn 1938, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Dresden . In the imperial course book the connection was now contained as KBS 169 Chemnitz – Weipert – Komotau and 169a Chemnitz – Reitzenhain – Krima. For a few years now there was also a continuous express train from Chemnitz to Reitzenhain to Komotau.

The decline after World War II

After the end of the Second World War , the route was completely returned to the ČSD. The German station names have now been replaced by a Czech version. In the process, curiosities such as Reitzenhain v Čechách or Šmídeberk emerged , which were due to the lack of an official Czech name. With the official renaming of all locations between 1946 and 1948, all train stations were given their current names.

Due to the completely changed political situation, no more cross-border traffic took place after 1945. The track connection between Weipert and Bärenstein was retained for military reasons . The remaining passenger traffic on the junction to Böhmisch Reizenhain (Pohraniční) was stopped on May 9, 1948 as a result of the expulsion of the German population there . The Hora Sv. Šebestiána continued to be used in freight traffic until the end of the 1950s.

The line to Reitzenhain, which was closed in 1972, began in Křimov (2007)

On October 12, 1972, the Czechoslovak Ministry of Transport finally approved the closure of the line from Křimov to the state border near Reitzenhain. In place of the border bridge, the new road border crossing Hora Sv. Šebestiána – Reitzenhain (State Road No. 7 / Federal Road 174 ) newly built. The former railway track at the state border was completely removed. Between 1985 and 1987 the tracks and all bridges were dismantled.

In the 1980s there were efforts on the part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn to put the cross-border connection via Vejprty back into operation for the exchange of empty wagons, which, however, was not desired by the Czechoslovak side.

Railcar train to Chomutov at the Kovářská městys station (2015)

The cross-border connection in Vejprty for passenger traffic has been in operation again since 1993. At the end of the 1990s, the border bridge over the Pöhlbach was also completely renewed with EU funding. Since then, the route has been used again for cross-border freight traffic if necessary. The only regular user so far has been the Saxon Steam Railway Company , which obtained locomotive coal for the narrow-gauge Cranzahl – Oberwiesenthal railway from the Czech Republic.

With the timetable change on December 9, 2007, the passenger train service was canceled by the responsible Ústecký kraj . The main reason given for the discontinuation was the low utilization of the trains.

Since December 9, 2007, only a tourist-oriented traffic with two pairs of trains has been maintained on the weekends, including a continuous connection Leipzig – Chemnitz – Chomutov of the Erzgebirgsbahn . From December 14, 2014 to May 1, 2016 there was no longer any scheduled travel between Cranzahl and Vejprty. Since 2015, operations between Chomutov and Vejprty have been limited to the summer months from May to September. Since May 2016, passenger trains have been running again between Cranzahl and Vejprty.

Since the timetable change on December 9, 2018, the trains have been running on the newly introduced tourist line T7 . After a new tender, travel will be operated by Die Länderbahn from 2020 . RegioSprinter railcars operate on the routes in Ústecký kraj, Středočeský kraj and to Cranzahl .

Route description

course

simplified elevation profile Chomutov-Reitzenhain

The route begins in Chomutov at the foot of the Ore Mountains following the connection between Praha and Cheb. The maximum gradient of 20 per mille begins in the urban area. The route now winds its way up the steep slope of the Ore Mountains in several serpentines and narrow 180 ° bends . Noteworthy is the favorable routing using the existing terrain, which avoided the construction of tunnels and large bridges. The ridge plateau is reached at Křimov station, where the route forked into the branches to Reitzenhain and Vejprty.

The existing route to Vejprty now follows the Ore Mountains ridge, which is crossed shortly before the Rusová station, which is now abandoned . For the last few kilometers, the track runs down the Pöhlbachtal to Vejprty. Between České Hamry and Vejprty zastávka, parallel journeys are possible with the narrow-gauge Fichtelbergbahn in Saxony.

The branch to Reitzenhain rose sharply from Křimov. The Menhartický vrch was bypassed in a large arc , where the apex was before the Ore Mountains. The connection had a slight gradient from Hora Svatého Šebestiána to Reitzenhain. The valleys of Chomutovka and the Schwarzen Pockau were crossed with larger bridges.

Operating points

Section Chomutov – Křimov – Reitzenhain

Chomutov ⊙50.45662 13.39964

Chomutov railway station (2015)

The Chomutov station (until 1945: Komotau ) was opened on October 8, 1870 at the same time as the Dux –Komotau section of the Aussig – Komotau railway line. In the following years the sections of the railway lines Prague – Komotau (1871), Bodenbach – Komotau (1872), Komotau – Weipert / Reitzenhain (1872), Komotau – Eger and the Potscherad – Wurzmes (1887) railway opened , which were one of them Established a rail link from Komotau to Pilsen . Since all routes originally belonged to three private railway companies, the Aussig-Teplitz Railway , the Dux-Bodenbacher Railway Company and the Buschtěhrad Railway each had their own part of the track system, their own board of directors and their own staff at the Komotau station. The extensive station area had a length of 1,600 meters, 14 main and 25 secondary tracks, and 140 points.

After the founding of Czechoslovakia , the private railways were integrated into the network of the state-owned Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) in the early 1920s . The different parts of the station were merged into one unit and placed under a single board. With the annexation of the Sudetenland to the German Reich on October 1, 1938, the station with the depot on October 10, 1938, was subordinated to the Reichsbahndirektion Dresden of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . Shortly before the end of the war, in April 1945 an air raid resulted in the complete destruction of the Komotau Central Station.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the station came back to the ČSD . In the following years the station was an important transport hub for the lignite mining and industry in the North Bohemian Basin . The locomotive depot of the National Technical Museum in Prague has been located on the area of the Chomutov train station since 2007 , in which the majority of the exhibits are located with around 100 locomotives, railcars, wagons and draisines of various gauges.

Černovice u Chomutova ⊙50.454491 13.363497

The Černovice u Chomutova train station (until 1945: Chernowitz ) is located northeast of the town of Černovice u Chomutova in an industrial area. Until 2014 the station had a stately reception building, four tracks and several sidings. Following the demolition of the reception building in 2014 and the dismantling of the tracks in the northern part, the station has a massive shelter, two tracks and a siding from the industrial company ZZN Cernovice u Chomutova. The last regular freight service on the route takes place on the section to Chomutov station .

Černovice u Chomutova station (2010), the reception building was demolished in 2014
Černovice u Chomutova station, modern waiting hall (2018)

Dominatrix ⊙50.480012 13.349965

Domina station (2010), the station building was demolished in 2013

The Domina train station (until 1945: Domina-Schönlind ) is located 800 m southwest of the village of Domina and southeast of the village of Krásná Lípa (Schönlind) above the Hačka valley . Both places will bypassed the Chomutov – Vejprty railway line from south to north in several curved tracks. The stately reception building and the remaining high-rise buildings were demolished in autumn 2013, so that the station now only has a massive waiting hall. After the siding was tied off the main line at the end of 2017, the Domina station is operationally just a stopping point.

Křimov-Suchdol ⊙50.490189 13.325015

Křimov-Suchdol stop (2017)

The Křimov-Suchdol stop (until 1945: Dörnthal (b Komotau) ) is located in the south of the Suchdol (Dörnthal) part of Křimov . The station only has a bus shelter on high-rise buildings.

Křimov zastávka ⊙50.487721 13.295502

Křimov zastávka stop (2017)

The Křimov zastávka stop (until 1945: Krima Hp ) is located on the north-western edge of the village of Křimov (Krima) and thus closer than the Křimov train station further west . The station consists only of a wooden waiting hut.

Křimov ⊙50.489997 13.276177

Locomotive 414.407 parked in front of the locomotive shed in Křimov station (August 2009)

The Křimov station (until 1945: Krima-Neudorf ) had a generously dimensioned reception building and a two-tier engine shed as the starting point for the branch line to Reitzenhain. The railway association společnost LOKO-MOTIV is based in the former locomotive deployment station . In the future, a small museum on the history of the route is to be built there.

Menhartice ⊙50.507504 13.285533

The Menhartice stop (until 1945: Märzdorf ) was only opened on May 15, 1933, after the community had pushed for a rail connection at the beginning of the 1930s. The service ended with the cessation of passenger traffic to Hora Sv. Šebestiána on May 9, 1948.

Hora Sv. Šebestiána ⊙50.519063 13.259861

The Hora Sv. Until May 14, 1930, Šebestiána (until 1945: Sebastiansberg ) was the only stopover on the stretch to Reitzenhain. The tracks were partially dismantled as early as after the Second World War. Passenger traffic was stopped on May 9, 1948. The station was used in freight traffic until the end of the 1950s. Wood from the surrounding forests and products from the local peat factory were handled. Only remnants of the combined head and side loading ramp have been preserved from the railway systems.

Reitzenhain v Čechách ⊙50.54667 13.2288

The Reitzenhain v Čechách stop (until 1938: Reizenhain , until 1945: Reitzenhain (Bohemia) ) is one of those stops that were newly established after the introduction of railcar traffic in the early 1930s. It was opened on May 15, 1930, directly on the border on Bohemian territory. After the Second World War it was no longer important, the service ended on May 9, 1948. A renaming in favor of the new place name Pohraniční no longer took place.

Reitzenhain ⊙50.559099 13.219952

View of the former reception building of the Reitzenhain border station

Reitzenhain train station (in ČSD timetable documents: Reitzenhain ČSD ) is located on German territory and was a border station for alternating traffic between Saxony and Bohemia. In addition to passport and customs control, the locomotives were changed in cross-border traffic. The BEB and later the ČSD had usage rights on a lease basis for the track systems and the reception building. On the "Bohemian side" of the station area, there was also a separate residential building for the officials and a separate locomotive deployment point. After 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn continued to operate Reitzenhain station as the end of the line from Flöha until 1992. The systems have only been partially demolished since then.

Section Křimov – Vejprty

Nová Ves u Křimova ⊙50.495585 13.26471

Stop at Nová Ves u Křimova (2014)

The breakpoint Nova Ves u Křimova (up to 1945: Neudorf ) located on the south edge of the to Hora Svatého Šebestiána ( German Sankt Sebastiansberg ) associated local part Nova Ves ( German Neudorf ). The station only has a massive waiting hall on high-rise buildings.

Výsluní ⊙50.481144 13.211923

Výsluní stop, reception building (2006)

Today's Výsluní stop (until 1945: Sonnenberg ) was opened as a train station in 1872. Because of the difficult route in the mountains, the railway line was laid south of the Neudorfer (Novoveský vrch) and the Muckenberg (Komáří vrch) so that the station is over two kilometers northwest of the city. After 1945, the place was briefly called Suniperk until, in the course of the official renaming of all places in Czechoslovakia in the years 1946 to 1948, the city was given the name Výsluní . The striking reception building is still present at the site. The track systems of the station were dismantled except for the continuous track, so that Výsluní is only a stopping point.

Rusová ⊙50.450246 13.169209

The Rusová railway station, inaugurated in 1872 (until 1945: Reischdorf ) is located in the open countryside south-east of the Preßnitz dam (Czech: Vodní nádrž Přísečnice). Reischdorf (renamed Rusová in 1948 ), which belongs to the train station and is located north of the station, was cleared in connection with the construction of the Preßnitz dam in the early 1970s and demolished by 1974. Thus, the station building, which was also the highest in the village, remained the last remaining building in Rusová. In 2012 the badly dilapidated building was torn down. Since then there has been a massive waiting hall at the station.

Rusová station, reception building (2010)
Rusová station, reception building shortly before demolition (2012)
Rusová station, replacement of the waiting hall (2017)

Měděnec ⊙50.428876 13.130064

Měděnec railway station (2018)

The Měděnec train station (until 1945: Kupferberg ) is located in the northeast of Měděnec on the southern boundary of Kotlina (Köstelwald) and at the junction to Petlery (beggars). Except for the goods shed, the station's high-rise buildings were demolished in 2010, so that today there is only a wooden waiting hut next to this building. Furthermore, all tracks except for the main line were removed, so that the station is now only a stopping point in terms of its function.

Měděnec zastávka ⊙50.427293 13.107783

Měděnec zastávka stop, waiting hall (2018)

The Měděnec zastávka stop (until 1945: Kupferberg Hp ) is located near the disused Měděnec mine northwest of Měděnec. The Měděnec mine with its distinctive winding tower had a siding from the breakpoint until 2010. The massive waiting hall of the station is in poor structural condition.

Kovářská městys ⊙50.44017 13.069556

Kovářská městys stop (2017)

The Kovářská městys stop (until 1945: Schmiedeberg Markt ) is located outside the village in the east of Kovářská. The station only has a wooden waiting hut.

Kovářská ⊙50.43018 13.035034

The Kovářská train station (until 1945: Schmiedeberg ) is located away from the village in the southwest of Kovářská. The station, which opened in 1872, still has three of the four tracks. The station also had two goods ramps, which suggest that there was once an increased volume of goods. In addition to the station building, Schmiedeberg station had a goods shed, a water house and a caretaker's house.

In 1945 the German station name Schmiedeberg was initially replaced by the Czech version Šmídeberk due to the lack of an official Czech name . With the official renaming of all places in Czechoslovakia between 1946 and 1948, the station was given the name Kovářská , which is still valid today . In 2015, the collapsed roof and ceilings of the reception building were rebuilt. The dilapidated goods shed, however, was demolished. A ramp, the water house and the keeper's house are still there. A wooden waiting hut provides shelter for travelers.

Kovářská railway station (2008)
Kovářská station, reception building with a collapsed roof (2013)
Kovářská station, reception building (2017)
Train in Kovářská station (2014)

České Hamry ⊙50.438926 13.020959

Stop at České Hamry (2010)

The stopping point České Hamry (until 1945: Böhmisch Hammer ) is the stopping point of the district České Hamry (German: Böhmisch Hammer) of the city of Vejprty. The breakpoint is located above in the east of the village. He only has a wooden waiting hall.

Vejprty zastávka ⊙50.466307 13.022388

Vejprty zastávka stop in Nové Zvolání (2018)

The Vejprty zastávka stop (until 1945: Weipert Neugeschrei ) is the stop of the Nové Zvolání (German: Neugeschrei) part of the city of Vejprty. When the railway line opened in 1872, the town did not have its own station. The establishment of the stop was only achieved in the late 19th century by the trimmings manufacturer Kanneberger. The station only has a massive waiting hall. The German translation of today's station name Vejprty zastávka means Weipert Hp . This name was used until 1945 for the breakpoint in the south of Vejprty, which is now called Vejprty koupaliště (German: Weipert Bad ).

Vejprty koupaliště ⊙50.48333 13.03388

Vejprty koupaliště stop (2010)

The Vejprty koupaliště stop (until 1945: Weipert Hp ) is the stop in the south of the city of Vejprty. The station only has a massive waiting hall. Today's name Vejprty koupaliště (German: Weipert Bad ) refers to the nearby outdoor pool. The former German name Weipert Hp (Czech: Vejprty zastávka ) is used today for the former Weipert Neugeschrei stop in the Nové Zvolání district .

Vejprty ⊙50.500416 13.033954

Vejprty station (until 1945: Weipert ) is the border station between the Czech Republic and Germany. It is located in the north of the city of Vejprty. The once extensive facilities of the station have been in a progressive decline since the end of cross-border traffic after 1945. The large station building was largely demolished in spring 2012. Only the northern wing, formerly used by the Saxon officials, has survived. It was renovated in 2008.

Vejprty station, reception building (2003)
Vejprty station with the rest of the reception building (2017)

literature

Jan Kadlec: Zaniklá železniční trať Křimov – Reitzenhain , Oblastní muzeum v Chomutově, 2005 (PDF; 8.4 MB)
Miroslav Jelen: Zrušené železniční tratě v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku , Dokořán 2009, ISBN 978-80-7363-129-1
Siegfried Bufe, Heribert Schröpfer: Railways in the Sudetenland , Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Egglham 1991, ISBN 3-922138-42-X
Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007 , 2nd edition; Publishing house Pavel Malkus, Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1

Web links

Commons : Chomutov – Vejprty / Reitzenhain railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

Chomutov – Vejprty on www.zelpage.cz
Timetable 1944 Chemnitz – Weipert – Komotau
Timetable 1944 Chemnitz – Reitzenhain – Krima
www.zeleznice.vanovi.net Křimov - Marienberg (Czech)
Historical maps and plans e.g. B. Reitzenhain train station and Weipert train station
Description and photos (Czech)
Season timetable 2018
Krušnohorským Semmeringem do Saska. In: ceskatelevize.cz. Retrieved on May 23, 2019 (in Czech, from about 6th minute report on the railway line (3rd film section)).

Individual evidence

↑ Prohlášení o dráze 2017 ( Memento from August 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995

^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the Austrian Empire of October 17, 1868

↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe of July 12, 1871

↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe of June 28, 1872

^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe from January 4, 1873

↑ www.zelpage.cz/zpravy/5040?oddil=1

↑ Erzgebirgsbahn reintroduces seasonal traffic to the Czech Republic. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn, April 27, 2016, archived from the original on April 28, 2016 ; Retrieved April 28, 2016 .

↑ Press release from Die Länderbahn

^ Website of the locomotive depot at Chomutov station

↑ Article in the "Freie Presse" from July 4, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2018

^ The Černovice u Chomutova train station on the website www.ceskedrahy.de