Görlitz – Seidenberg railway line
| Görlitz – Hagenwerder (–Zawidów) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | DB 6590 PLK 290 |
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| Course book section (DB) : | 220 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 15.87 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Görlitz – Seidenberg railway was a main line in Prussia , which was built bypassing Saxon territory as a section of a long-distance connection between Berlin and Vienna . After the Second World War , the section east of the Lusatian Neisse remained in Poland and became part of the Polish State Railways (PKP). Only the Görlitz - Hagenwerder and Wilka - Zawidów junction are still in operation today .
history
The Görlitz – Seidenberg connection was opened on June 1, 1875. In the years that followed, the line was an important link in cross-border north-south traffic between Prussia and Austria . Due to the difficult topography of the Austrian connecting route, however, the traffic performance fell short of expectations. Continuous express trains between Berlin and Vienna were routed over the longer, but topographically more favorable routes in the Elbe Valley or in Upper Silesia .
After the Second World War
The section that remained in Poland after 1945 initially had no direct connection to the rest of the Polish railway network. In 1948 the former Schönberg – Nikolausdorf ( Sulików - Mikułowa ) small railway was extended to Zawidów. The new line was opened on October 3, 1948. Soon after 1945, the tracks from Hagenwerder and the new Polish line to the Oder-Neisse border were demolished on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse . To the north of Radomierzyce , the old railway embankment is a reminder of the connection across the Neisse. Remnants of the Neisse bridge have also been preserved. In 1950 a new connection to the Neisse Valley Railway was created to enable continuous train traffic to the Turów power plant in Turoszów, which is currently under construction, and to Bogatynia in 1960. In freight traffic, the connection via what is now Zawidow regained its old importance, but cross-border passenger train traffic to Czechoslovakia was not resumed.
The Görlitz – Hagenwerder section that remained in Germany was downgraded to a branch line on November 1, 1948 . In 1985, the section between Görlitz-Weinhübel and Hagenwerder was redesigned as part of the extension of the Berzdorf open-cast lignite mine .
On April 3, 2000 the passenger train service of the PKP between Mikułowa and Bogatynia was stopped. Freight traffic between Mikułowa and Turoszów or the Czech Republic is still taking place.
During the Neisse floods on 7./8. August 2010 the line was flooded in several places. At Deutsch-Ossig and Hagenwerder, the railway embankment was submerged in sections. After the rail traffic was temporarily suspended for this reason, it was able to resume on April 1, 2011 on the entire Neißetalbahn Zittau – Görlitz after repairs had been carried out.
course
The route leads eastwards from the Görlitz station to the north of the tracks in the direction of the Neißeviadukt and swings in a wide curve to the southwest in front of the Neißetal. It crosses under the railway line to Poland through the 76 meter long blockhouse tunnel. The route leading out of the south portal of the blockhouse tunnel runs along the Neissetal slope and past the Landskron brewery . Through a deep cut in the vineyard, the route continues in the direction of the Weinhübel train station with its once numerous commercial sidings, including to the cold store west of the route. From Weinhübel the railway line bends south and circumnavigates the spoil heaps north of Berzdorfer See in an elongated S-curve. The former straight route is partly used for the new access road for the north beach of the lake. Along the shores of Lake Berzdofer, it runs parallel to federal highway 99 past the former Deutsch Ossig stop to Hagenwerder train station. The once extensive track system with a defrosting hall for coal trains has shrunk significantly. The Neißetalbahn branches off to Zittau south of the station. The route to Seidenberg ran from the southern exit of Hagenwerders past the engine shed over the Pließnitz towards the east. The former embankment is still used as a road south of the Pließnitz. It crossed the Lusatian Neisse over a railway bridge in the direction of Radmeritz (from 1945: Radomierzyce). To the east of Radmeritz, the route swings back in a wide arc towards the south to Seidenberg station (from 1945: Zawidów).
According to the Federal Government's package of measures, the Görlitz – Hagenwerder section is planned for electrification as part of the Görlitz – Zittau connection .
literature
- Bernd Kuhlmann: Railways across the Oder-Neisse border . Ritzau KG - Zeit und Eisenbahn Verlag, Pürgen 2004, ISBN 3-935101-06-6 .
- Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia / (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 .
Web links
- Treaty between the German Empire and Austria-Hungary for the construction of a railway between Görlitz and Reichenberg
- Course book 1944
- Lukáš Soukup, Petr Möller, Nákladní doprava ve Frýdlantském výběžku II , K-Report, January 9, 2010 (Czech)
Individual evidence
- ^ Eisenbahn-tunnel-info.de: German railway tunnels, sorted by directorate . Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
- ↑ North beach on Berzdorfer See is being developed. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ The coal exit billions are to flow into these projects , rbb24 of April 4, 2020, accessed on April 8, 2020