Railway line Dresden-Klotzsche-Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf

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Dresden-Klotzsche-Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf
Route number (DB) : 6606; sä. KStr
Course book section (DB) : 226
Route length: 39.676 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : CM4
Maximum slope : 17 
Minimum radius : 200 m
Top speed: 60 km / h
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from Dresden-Neustadt
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-0.482 Dresden-Klotzsche 192 m
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0.000 Klotzsche (narrow-gauge railway until 1897)
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0.400 Dresden-Klotzsche port
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to Dresden Airport
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0.964 Dresden-Klotzsche port W4
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to Görlitz
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2.765 Weixdorf 190 m
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3.045 Weixdorf bath 192 m
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4,383 Weixdorf formerly Lausa (formerly Bf) 182 m
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6.508 Hermsdorf (b Dresden) (formerly Bf) 165 m
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6.744 Bridge Große Röder (27 m)
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7.380 federal motorway 4 (52 m)
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8.018 Ottendorf-Okrilla south 177 m
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9.450 Ottendorf-Okrilla Hp 174 m
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9,897 Kleine Röder bridge (16 m)
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10,546 Ottendorf-Okrilla North 179 m
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17,454 Laußnitz (formerly Bf) 185 m
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19,473 Koenigsbrück 185 m
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20.244 Pulsnitztal Viaduct (214 m)
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20,899 Königsbrück East 180 m
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22,589 Weißbach (b Königsbrück) (formerly Bf) 191 m
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25.129 Schmorkau (b Koenigsbrück) 154 m
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29,414 Schwepnitz 149 m
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Bridge water stroke
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33.950 Bulleritz - Great Grave 143 m
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from Kamenz (Sachs)
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39.194 Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf (Upper Lusatia) 146 m
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to Lübbenau
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to Hoyerswerda

The Dresden – Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf line is a branch line in Saxony . It branches off the main Görlitz – Dresden line in Dresden-Klotzsche and leads via Königsbrück to Straßgräbchen - Bernsdorf . The Königsbrück – Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf section has been closed since November 5, 2000.

history

Narrow gauge railway

Today's standard-gauge railway line from Dresden to Königsbrück and on to Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf has its origin in a narrow-gauge railway from Klotzsche to Königsbrück. The construction of the line was decided on January 17, 1882 by the Saxon State Parliament and carried out from October 23, 1883. The festive inauguration followed on October 16, 1884 and the commissioning the next day. It ran from Klotzsche to Lausa on today's track of the Dresden tram line 7 next to the Königsbrücker Landstrasse. The tests carried out on the route with a container system , the so-called "relocating boxes", are remarkable . Complete car bodies could be reloaded from normal to narrow gauge using a crane .

Standard gauge railway

Class 642 railcars at Ottendorf-Okrilla Nord station
The end of the passable section near Königsbrück (February 2014)

From 1885 to 1894, freight traffic on the route increased from 16,400 tons to 44,800 tons per year. In addition, the infantry firing range set up in 1892 and 1893 and the garrison of mounted artillery in Königsbrück set up in 1895 provided additional traffic. Therefore, the Saxon state parliament decided in 1896 to convert the line to standard gauge and extend it to Schwepnitz . In August 1896, while the narrow gauge was in operation, the conversion began and on April 1, 1897, the company switched to standard gauge. As part of the work, the Lausa (now Weixdorf) and Moritzdorf train stations were expanded with longer crossing tracks and the Königsbrück train station with extensive loading facilities for military transports. In 1910, two more tracks for military purposes followed in Königsbrück station after the Königsbrück military training area had been laid out in 1906 .

Drive over the Pulsnitztal Viaduct (1997)

The extension of the line began on October 1, 1898 and went into operation a year later on October 1, 1899, after the line had been inaugurated the day before. The crossing of the Pulsnitz valley required the construction of a viaduct. The riveted steel structure is 212 meters long and 14 meters high and runs in a curved track.

During the First World War, the military used the railway line very intensively, among other things for transporting prisoners of war and hospital trains . Therefore, the double-track expansion of the line from Klotzsche to Weixdorf began in 1915 and was completed in 1921. After the Second World War, the second track was dismantled as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union.

From June 2, 1933, the line was extended to the Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf station on the Saxon-Prussian border. This line extension was inaugurated on December 17, 1934.

After the Second World War, in addition to business and excursion traffic, troop and military transports for the Soviet Army troops stationed in Königsbrück made up a substantial part of the traffic.

On May 24, 1998 the passenger train service between Königsbrück and Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf was discontinued, on September 27 of the same year the carriage of goods was discontinued. Until November 5, 2000 Schwepnitz was still served by freight traffic from Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf. This section was closed on August 1, 2001, and the track dismantled in 2004 and 2005.

Since December 12, 2010, the city ​​railway of Saxony has been providing all public transport services. The line RB33 Dresden-Neustadt - Königsbrück runs every hour, on weekends every 2 hours. The crossings take place every hour in Ottendorf-Okrilla Süd. The symmetry time is a few minutes earlier than usual.

Large parts of the route can be driven at 50 km / h. In the area of ​​several level crossings, the permissible speed is 10 km / h. 60 km / h are permitted in the direction of Dresden from the entrance signal from Dresden-Klotzsche station. (Status: 2014)

According to information from the Upper Elbe Transport Association from April 2014, around 1100 passengers were counted between Dresden and Ottendorf-Okrilla or Königsbrück on weekdays. A survey conducted by the Ottendorf-Okrilla trade association among 106 companies revealed that 617 out of 6,000 employees in the Ottendorf industrial park used public transport. The hourly offer and the lack of late connection were often criticized. Almost 1,800 respondents indicated that they wanted to switch to better public transport if it had a more attractive offer.

An improved passenger train schedule has been in force since December 10, 2017, which provides for an hourly service between Dresden-Neustadt and Königsbrück during the day, including Saturdays . Two pairs of trains are tied through on working days in rush hour traffic to and from Altenberg (Erzgeb). The train crossings take place at the usual minute of symmetry in Ottendorf-Okrilla Süd. On December 9, 2018, the hourly service was extended to include Sundays and public holidays.

Future prospects

In 2012, the association assembly of the VVO commissioned the association and the Dresden transport company to investigate the construction of a light rail link between Dresden and Königsbrück. For this purpose, line 7 of the Dresden tram , which so far ends in Weixdorf (and affects the Weixdorf Bad stop ) , would be linked to the route. Due to the high population and job density in Ottendorf-Okrilla and the surrounding area, a high passenger potential is forecast for such a connection. If there is a positive cost-benefit calculation, operations can be started by 2019. The Ottendorf-Okrilla-Königsbrück section would be converted to bus operation.

Despite the low number of passengers, VVO managing director Burkhard Ehlen advocates keeping the regional train to Königsbrück. However, more than 7 million euros must be invested in upgrading the route. An upgrade to a tram route would initially be more than 60 million euros, but it would be significantly cheaper to operate. While the municipality of Ottendorf-Okrilla advocates a half-hourly regional train service to Ottendorf-Okrilla Süd with a connection to further bus lines in order to be able to remove the inner-city level crossings, the district council of the Bautzen district voted in March 2018 for the entire railway line to be preserved. The preferred variant provides for an extension of the regional trains to Dresden Hauptbahnhof and a compression to every half hour to Ottendorf-Okrilla Nord.

The DB Netz is planning the conversion of the section Ottendorf-Okrilla South - Ottendorf-Okrilla Nord train control .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Dresden-Klotzsche – Straßgräbchen-Bernsdorf railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Route data on www.sachsenschiene.de
  2. Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 . , Pp. 60, 73
  3. STREDA - total route directory of the DB AG; Status: February 1, 2003
  4. a b c d e f g Königsbrücker Eisenbahn ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , U. Steckel (Königsbrück local chronicle). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koenigsbrueck.de
  5. Jana Mundus: More and more commuters take the train . In: Saxon newspaper . April 19, 2014, ZDB -ID 2448502-0 , p. 19 .
  6. VVO press release of December 6, 2017
  7. Timetable course book route 226 - valid from December 10, 2017
  8. Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe provides impetus for 2019. (PDF) Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe, November 13, 2018, accessed on November 27, 2018 .
  9. Press release of the VVO of June 7, 2012 ( Memento of December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 80 kB)
  10. Uwe Menschner: Good reasons for maintaining the route. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. February 17, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017 .
  11. Uwe Menschner: Signals on green for Königsbrück. In: Alles-Lausitz.de. April 12, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2018 .
  12. Frank Oehl: Tram is off the table. In: Saxon newspaper. March 28, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
  13. Migrations of new operating procedures currently being implemented and planned. (PDF; 54.1 kB) DB Netze, August 20, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2019 .