Railway line Dessau – Gohrau-Rehsen

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Dessau Wörlitzer Bf – Gohrau-Rehsen
Route number (DB) :	6856 (Dessau Hbf – Wörlitz)
Course book section (DB) :	257
Route length:	24.0 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Leipzig Hbf from Koethen -0.4 Dessau central station Bundesstrasse 184 (Bahnhofsbrücke) 0.0 Dessau Wörlitz train station to Trebnitz (-Biederitz) 1.1 Bundesstrasse 184 1.7 Anst FTD Fahrzeugtechnik Bahnen Dessau 2.5 At the slaughterhouse and thermal power station trough 3.4 Instead of Jonitzer Mühle 4.0 Dessau-Waldersee 4.2 Mechanische Werke / STROMAG 5.0 Mildensee West (1938–1968 Dessau East) 5.7 Scholitzer Bridge (1905-1911) Scholitzer Bridge-Scholitzer See 6.5 Dessau-Mildensee (1894–1935 Dellnau) Anst motorway construction site (1935) 7.3 Federal motorway 9 7.8 Dessau Adria (1935–1968 Dessau-Waldbad) To the Army Munitions Establishment / Chemical Plant Kapen 9.4 Kapen Biosphere Reserve 13.0 Anst Kraftwerk Vockerode (today a trolley line ) 13.0 Bundesstrasse 107 13.0 to Ferropolis and former Burgkemnitz 13.9 Oranienbaum (Anh) 14.0 Bundesstrasse 107 Cape trench 16.0 Horstdorf 18.7 Woerlitz 21.9 Huge 24.0 Gohrau - Rehsen

The Dessau – Gohrau-Rehsen line is a branch line in Saxony-Anhalt that was originally built and operated by the Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway Company . It leads from Dessau via Oranienbaum to Wörlitz , the further route to Gohrau - Rehsen has been closed since 1968. The Dessauer Verkehrs- und Eisenbahngesellschaft (DVE) is today both the owner of the infrastructure and the operator of the travel traffic on the route.

The preserved systems of the railway line are under state protection as a cultural monument , in addition several station buildings on the line are protected as individual monuments.

history

Share of the Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft dated February 1, 1894 for over 1,000 marks

Wörlitz train station in Dessau

The 18.7 km long Dessau - Wörlitz line was opened by AG Dessau – Wörlitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (DWE) on September 22, 1894 due to the Anhalt concession. The DWE also built an 11 km coal railway starting from Oranienbaum in 1897 to Großmöhlau and in 1909 to Golpa . However, in 1918 this property became the property of Elektrowerke AG Zschornewitz. In 1908, the Zschornewitz small railway was connected to Golpa in Oranienbaum . On October 7, 1934, the extension by 5 km to Gohrau-Rehsen was put into operation.

owner

The management was initially in the hands of the local railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter and, from April 1, 1899, the German railway operating company founded by them . From April 1, 1905, the central administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein was temporarily responsible. After the DWE had run the operation on its own from November 1, 1908, the Anhaltische Landes-Eisenbahngemeinschaft (ALE) took over the operation of both the Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway and the Zschornewitzer Kleinbahn on November 20, 1920 .

Although 53% of the shares belonged to the State of Anhalt and almost 19% to the Dessau-Köthen district at the end of the war , the railway came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) on April 1, 1949 via Sächsische Provinzialbahnen GmbH . With the merger of DR and Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB), the line was transferred to Deutsche Bahn in early 1994 . This leased the line in 1999 to the railway infrastructure company Dessauer Verkehrs- und Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (DVE) , a subsidiary of DVV Stadtwerke Dessau .

Post war history

The Deutsche Reichsbahn stopped passenger traffic on February 15, 1965 between Wörlitz and Gohrau-Rehsen. Decommissioned freight wagons were parked between Riesigk and Wörlitz. On May 25, 1968, passenger traffic was also stopped on the rest of the route. However, Wörlitz and Oranienbaum could still hand in luggage for a long time. The Wörlitz – Gohrau-Rehsen section was largely dismantled in the 1970s. The BHG buildings in Riesigk were demolished. The bus shelter was brought into town as a bus stop. The station buildings in Gohrau and Horstdorf were converted into residential buildings. For the freight was founded in 1985 at the breakpoint Kapen a container terminal for a chemical plant. At the urging of railway enthusiasts and local authorities, the Deutsche Reichsbahn resumed passenger services from Dessau to Wörlitz on May 23, 1982, although the excursion trains only ran from spring to autumn.

DB passenger train at Wörlitz station (1994)

As of December 31, 1995, the remaining freight traffic (last only Dessau – Oranienbaum) was discontinued. DB AG intended to shut down the line, particularly because of the poor condition of the bridges over the Mulde . In order to prevent this, the Association for the Promotion of the Dessau-Wörlitzer Museumsbahn e. V. formed (from 2001: Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn e.V.), who designed a renovation concept. In the years 1998 to 2001, after the DVE took over the line, it was possible to fundamentally renovate the line with public funding, with the financial outlay almost doubling due to the unplanned construction of the new Mulde bridges. In 1997, the association founded the Anhaltische Bahn-Gesellschaft mbH (ABG) as a railway company , which began seasonal traffic on June 29, 1997 on behalf of the DVE. The ABG was operated seasonally on three days of the week until 2010.

The Wörlitz train station in Dessau was around 300 m east of the main train station. The station building has been used by the Federal Environment Agency since 2002 , while the rest of the station area was built over by the Federal Environment Agency in the following years. The former station building as well as part of the neighboring gas equipment plant were integrated into it. The trains to Wörlitz now depart from the new platform 1a (since 2011 platform 1) of the Dessau main station . A relocation of the Dessau-Waldersee stop from the industrial area to the west in the immediate vicinity of the Jonitzer Mühle has so far failed due to funding.

stretch

Trunk line

(maximum expansion 1934 - today's condition)

• 0.0 Dessau DWE - closed
• 3.2 Switch slaughterhouse (freight traffic only) - closed
• 4.0 Jonitz (Waldersee)
• 5.0 Mildensee West - closed, train station converted into a residential building
• 6.5 to 1935 Dellnau, then Mildensee - closed, station dismantled
• 7.8 Mildensee Waldbad Adria
• 9.4 capes
• 13.9 Oranienbaum , transition to Golpa
• 16.0 Horstdorf - closed, train station converted into a residential building
• 18.7 Wörlitz - train station
• 21.9 Riesigk - shut down, train station dismantled, track remains from the former level crossing
• 24.0 Gohrau-Rehsen - shut down, dismantled, the train station converted into a residential building

Play media file Ride from Dessau Hbf to Wörlitz in June 2012

Play media file Ride from Wörlitz to Dessau Hbf in June 2012

Branch line to Golpa

• Oranienbaum
• Golpa

business

"Fürstin Louise" double-decker rail bus at Wörlitz station (2012)

After the route was renovated in 2001, the Anhaltische Bahn-Gesellschaft (ABG) operated the route every two hours on behalf of the Dessau Transport and Railway Company on Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The double-decker rail buses 670 002, 005 and 006 of the 670 series were used for regular traffic. After accidents with rail buses at level crossings, traffic had to be stopped in the late summer of 2010, as a result the ABG filed for bankruptcy.

At the turn of the year 2010/11, the Dessau Transport and Railway Company announced that it would resume operations with two double-decker railcars for the 2011 season. The VT 670 004 (NVR number, ex 670 005) was not started until June 19, 2011. In order to make up for the days of driving, we drove from Wednesday to Sunday, even daily during the summer holidays. In the 2012 and 2013 season, from Easter to October 3, people drove to the Wörlitz Advent market on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays / public holidays, during the Whitsun and summer holidays every day and on the first weekend in Advent.

The DWE turned 120 years old in 2014 without any major celebrations. Since then, it has been running every two hours during the current season from April to October, initially with five pairs of trains running between Dessau Hbf and Wörlitz. Around 20,000 passengers each used the trains in 2016 and 2017. In 2018, the number of train pairs was increased to six and the journeys were postponed by one hour. Nevertheless, the number of travelers fell this season to 15,000, which is justified by the heat wave in summer. For 2019, in addition to the Louise railcar, the Franz railcar should also be repaired in order to enable stable rail operations. The latter was not implemented due to the foreseeable high costs. At the end of 2019, DVE acquired three LVT / S multiple units (672 902, 913 and 915). These were transferred to Dessau on the night of January 14, 2020. Vehicles 672 913 and 915, which still had valid deadlines, were put into operation there by the end of March 2020. The passenger toilet was expanded to create space for a bicycle parking area. In the future, the DVE would like to replace the LVT / S railcars with still-to-be-procured used vehicles that will be converted to a CO ₂ -neutral gas engine as part of the TRAINS project funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology and tested on the Dessau-Wörlitz railway should.

While the railcars needed 35 minutes for the route today, the steam trains needed 50 minutes in 1944. The maximum line speed is 60 km / h, although the real speed is often lower because of the numerous unsecured level crossings.

Special trips

Special train of the DWE Vulkanexpress

On the occasion of eruptions of the artificial volcano in Wörlitzer Park , special trips to Wörlitz were organized in 2005 and 2006. In the 2009 timetable, the new Wörlitz – Ferropolis connection was set up with two pairs of trains over the connecting curve from Oranienbaum to the Zschornewitzer Kleinbahn, which was reopened in 2008 . In 2010 only a few special trips were carried out on the Ferropolisbahn. On September 6, 2014, on the occasion of the 'Pyro Games' event, after four years of inactivity, a special train ran for the first time on the Oranienbaum-Ferropolis route. During the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, the offer was partially reduced to hourly intervals, with a change in Oranienbaum.

architecture

The design for the neo-Gothic brick building of the “Wörlitzer Bahnhof” in Dessau comes from the architect Lembke. The station buildings of the Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE) in Gütersloh, also built by Vering & Waechter, and the Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer Railway (GMWE) in Gera-Pforten were later built based on the model of this building . Comparisons of the striking street fronts (shape and design of decorative elements in the exposed brickwork , clock tower and stepped gable ) to the almost identical facade structure and design of the platform sides illustrate this. The reception building of the Wörlitz train station in Dessau is now a listed building .

Toilet at the Wörlitz train station

Likewise, the station buildings in Wörlitz and Oranienbaum are protected as individual monuments and the railway system of the Dessau-Wörlitz Railway in the Dessau, Oranienbaum and Wörlitz districts as a whole are protected as cultural monuments. In Wörlitz a fading inscription from the times of the GDR on the track side of the station toilet announces: “ Freedom to the peoples [,] peace of the world! "

Lore

The records relating to the Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway are in the Dessau department of the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives .

literature

• Ludger Kenning: Dessau-Wörlitz Railway . Verlag Ludger Kenning, Nordhorn 2014, ISBN 978-3-944390-05-5 , pp. 160 .

Web links

Commons : Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Stadtwerke Dessau on the Wörlitz Railway
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway Company in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Tradition of the Dessau-Wörlitz Railway in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anh. Collection of Laws, 1893 vol. 14 no., 907 page 329
2. ↑ See Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway. Anhaltische Bahn Gesellschaft mbH and Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn eV 2010, accessed on April 2, 2011 . 
3. ↑ See timetable Dessau – Wörlitz 2010. Accessed on January 1, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Danny Grid: Missing funding: “Gateway to the Garden Realm” remains just a dream. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. November 30, 2017. Retrieved March 29, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Two seriously injured people in a train accident. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 3, 2010, accessed on January 1, 2011 . 
6. ↑ Anhaltische Bahn files for bankruptcy. (No longer available online.) Eurailpress.de, December 30, 2010, archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; Retrieved January 1, 2011 . 
7. ↑ Train runs daily from 2014. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, November 8, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Internet timetable 2014. (PDF) Dessauer Verkehrsgesellschaft, November 8, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Timetable. In: www.dvg-dessau.de. Retrieved September 20, 2016 . 
10. ^ Danny lattice: Two hours longer in Wörlitzer Park: New timetable for Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. February 23, 2018, accessed March 29, 2018 . 
11. ↑ Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn starts the new season on March 23rd. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, March 8, 2019, accessed on March 11, 2019 . 
12. ^ Railway companies from A – Z - DVE . In: Bahn-Report . No. 6 , 2019, pp. 26 .
13. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/dessau-rosslau/verstaerkung-fuer--louise--dessau-woerlitzer-eisenbahn-will-mit-drei-neuen-zuegen-starten-33745228
14. ↑ Dessau-Wörlitz Railway . In: Bahn-Report . No. 3 , 2020, p. 39  .
15. ^ Frank Schulze: Driver's cab ride in Dessau Hbf-Wörlitz. September 4, 2013, accessed September 20, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Timetable of the Ferropolisbahn 2010. September 3, 2009, accessed on January 1, 2011 . 
17. ^ Heinrich Lakämper-Lührs: Traffic: traffic routes. Teutoburg Forest Railway. (No longer available online.) In: Gütersloher Stadtgeschichte 1825–1914. Gütersloh City Archives, 2009, archived from the original on June 9, 2015 ; Retrieved June 9, 2015 . 
18. ↑ In the footsteps of GMWE. Former Gera-Pforten station. In: The history of the narrow-gauge railway Gera-Pforten - Wuitz-Mumsdorf. S. Bergholz, July 8, 2001, accessed June 9, 2015 . 
19. ^ Ludger Kenning: Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway . Verlag Ludger Kenning, Nordhorn 2014, ISBN 978-3-944390-05-5 , pp. 160 .
20. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 55 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 32 ″  E