Cottbus – Guben railway line

		from Halle (Saale) Hbf
		from Berlin Görlitzer Bf
		from Großenhain Cottb Bf
	174,000	Cottbus central station
		to Żary and to Görlitz
		Spree
	176.047	Cottbus-Sandow
	176.700 0.000	(Start of route 6220)
		(Re-routing 2002)
		Bundesstrasse 168
	1.191	Cottbus-Merzdorf
	1,310	Sandow
	179.000	Merzdorf (b Cottbus)
		to Frankfurt (Oder)
	183.900	Neuendorf (Lower Lusatia)
	6.685	Cottbus-Willmersdorf North
	9.411	Pond land

	11,371 186,680	(End of route 6220)
	188.144	Peitz Ost
		Hammergraben
		Malxe
		from Abzw Preilack
	192.644	Jänschwalde
	195.715	Jänschwalde East
	197.800	Grabko
	202.621	Kerkwitz
		Federal road 112
		from Forst
	208.980	Guben South
		Wroclaw – Berlin
		from Wrocław
	211.047	Guben ( Inselbahnhof )
		according to Zbąszynek
		to Berlin

The Cottbus – Guben line is a double-track electrified main line in the southeast of Brandenburg . It connects the independent city of Cottbus with the German-Polish border town of Guben on the Lusatian Neisse . The connection is in the passenger traffic every hour by the Regional Express Line 1 , which also connects Cottbus and Guben with Eisenhüttenstadt and Frankfurt (Oder) . From 2002, parts of the route had to be relocated in the Cottbus area in favor of the Cottbus-Nord open-cast lignite mine .

history

The railway was the first section of the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (HSGE) to open to traffic on September 1, 1871. With the Guben – Bentschen line , which was completed a year earlier, there was a direct connection between Poznan and Cottbus. With the expansion of the HSGE network to the west, a direct rail line was also created to Halle (Saale) and Leipzig . Since the railway, together with the adjacent lines, represented the first southern bypass of the Berlin railway junction , it was expanded to two tracks before the end of the 19th century. In addition to the local transport connection between Cottbus, Guben and Bentschen , there were also express trains between Frankfurt (Main) and Eydtkuhnen on the German-Russian border. Later, a pair of express trains ran between Leipzig and Königsberg and between Halle and Allenstein .

After 1945, the Oder-Neisse line was set as the German eastern border and traffic in Guben was interrupted. However, the line gained new importance in both passenger and freight traffic with the construction of Guben and above all Eisenhüttenstadt as new industrial centers. The second track, which was dismantled after the war as a Soviet reparation , was rebuilt between 1948 and 1957.

Most of the passenger trains between Cottbus and Guben were tied through to Frankfurt (Oder) . In the 1980s, for example, several express trains ran between Frankfurt (Oder) or Angermünde and Dresden, as well as an interzonal train from Frankfurt (Oder) to Frankfurt (Main). In the summer there was also an express train to Stralsund .

The entire line was released for electrical operation on December 15, 1990.

On September 18, 2002, the section between Cottbus and Peitz Ost was closed because the Cottbus-Nord opencast mine had to be given way here. The line was therefore given a new route that runs northwest of the opencast mine and uses parts of the Cottbus – Frankfurt (Oder) railway line that was closed in 2000 . The diversion route was opened to traffic on August 18, 2002. Since initially only one track was completed, some trains continued to use the old route until October 7, 2002.

The extension of the Jänschwalde opencast mine , which has meanwhile been canceled, would have cut the railway line between the Jänschwalde East and Guben South operating points and therefore required further relocation.

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Individual evidence

↑ The railway evades the coal. In: Punkt 3 , 2002/15. August 8, 2002, p. 4 , accessed January 10, 2015 .

[1] The railway evades the coal. In: Punkt 3 , 2002/15. August 8, 2002, p. 4 , accessed January 10, 2015 .