Gryfów Śląski – Jindřichovice pod Smrkem railway line
| Gryfów Śląski – Jindřichovice pod Smrkem | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 284 (D29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 253 (1967) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 10.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gryfów Śląski – Jindřichovice pod Smrkem line was a standard-gauge branch line in Poland and the Czech Republic , which was originally operated by the Prussian State Railways . It ran at the foot of the Jizera Mountains of Gryfów Śląski ( Greifenberg ) about Mirsk ( Friedeberg ) to Jindřichovice pod Smrkem ( Heinersdorf ad Tafelfichte ) and had there after the local railway Friedland-border next Heinersdorf the Friedlander District Railway (FBB).
history
Prehistory and construction
After the Silesian Mountain Railway reached Greiffenberg, the villages in the Queis Valley also wanted a railway connection. From Friedland in Bohemia a railway connection to Heinersdorf ad Tafelfichte was started at the same time . As a result, the Prussian State Railroad planned a railway line from Greiffenberg to Friedeberg and a cross-border connection to Heinersdorf to revitalize the traditional craft businesses.
The section from Greifenberg to Friedeberg was completed in 1884, the section to Meffersdorf (later Wigandsthal-Bad Schwarzbach) was completed by 1897.
The new line required little engineering work. In the first part to Friedeberg the Queis was crossed on a stone bridge, in the following section two sheet metal girder bridges followed over the Schwarzbach near Friedeberg and over the Lucycz (Lausitzbach) near Volkersdorf . Stationary station buildings were built in Neundorf-Greiffenstein, Friedeberg and Meffersdorf / Wigandsthal . From Greiffenberg the railway line followed the valley of the Queis, after which it was steep up almost to the Iserkamm .
The basis for the construction of the cross-border section to Austria was a state treaty of November 20, 1902, which came into force on July 3, 1903 with the exchange of the ratification documents. The Austrian state undertook to award the concession for the Austrian section to the Friedland district railway, while in Prussia construction was planned by the state. The operation on the new line, however, should be carried out consistently by the Prussian State Railways. The already existing Heinersdorf station of the Friedländer district railway was therefore intended as the border station, which was to be expanded into a common customs and exchange station.
The concession to build the Austrian section had already been awarded to the Friedland District Railway on September 8, 1900, so that construction could begin immediately after the State Treaty came into force. On November 1, 1904, the entire route was completed.
business
From the beginning, the line served to transport products that meet the needs of the population. Tourism was a source of income that should not be underestimated; Those seeking relaxation were transported to the spas on both sides of the border. The trains often ran together as a GmP from Greiffenberg to Friedeberg, then they were separated and each drove towards their destination Heinersdorf or Bad Flinsberg (today: Świeradów-Zdrój). The pre-war timetables recorded three or four pairs of trains running from Greiffenberg to Heinersdorf in Bohemia. They were mainly used by German day trippers who wanted to visit the nearby Jizera Mountains. The customs and passport formalities were processed at the Heinersdorf border station.
After the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany on October 1, 1938, the entire route was now on German territory. Train traffic to Heinersdorf was significantly increased, with a total of nine pairs of trains now running to and from Heinersdorf. The trains to and from Friedland in Bohemia were still not allowed to run through.
The railway line survived the Second World War unscathed. Cross-border traffic was not resumed afterwards. The section from Greiffenberg to Pobiedna was henceforth operated by the Polish State Railways (PKP) and was considered constant for years.
Shutdown
The section between Mirsk and Pobiedna was closed on July 1, 1987 and then dismantled.
On December 12, 1996, the PKP also stopped travel between Gryfów Śląski and Mirsk. Since the abandonment of freight traffic on January 1, 2002, there has been no more regular traffic.
In connection with the plans to reactivate the Gryfów Śląski – Mirsk – Świeradów-Zdrój connection , the Lower Silesian Voivodeship is considering putting the cross-border route to Jindřichovice pod Smrkem back into operation.
Vehicle use
Initially, the vehicles of the Prussian T 9.3 series took over the service , from 1930 these were replaced by more modern locomotives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn such as the 86 series .
literature
- Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Silesia. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham et al. 1989, ISBN 3-922138-37-3 ( East German Railway History 4).
- Miroslav Jelen: Zrušené železniční tratě v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Dokořán, Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-7363-129-1 .
- Wilfried Rettig: Railways in the border triangle East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ) - Part 2: Secondary, small and narrow-gauge railways, railway operations and repair shops, railway mail , EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3 -88255-733-6
Web links
- Description (Polish)
- Route information on kolej.one.pl (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ State treaty of November 20, 1902 between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire for the establishment of the railway connection between Friedeberg aQ and Heinersdorf
- ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe from September 19, 1900
- ↑ "Poláci chtějí na Frýdlantsko vlakem. Nejel tam sedmdesát let “on idnes.cz