Jüterbog – Röderau railway line

Jüterbog – Junction Zeithain arch triangle
Herzberg train station, listed reception building
Route number :	6133
Course book section (DB) :	204 Jüterbog – Falkenberg (Elster) 216 Falkenberg (Elster) –Riesa
Route length:	80 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	CM4
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	Falkenberg – Röderau
Legend from Berlin 62.8 Jüterbog (Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof : km 0.0) Bundesstrasse 102 to Potsdam to Lutherstadt Wittenberg 70.8 Oehna 75.2 Zellendorf (since December 15, 2013) 75.8 Zellendorf (until 1995) State border Brandenburg / Saxony-Anhalt 79.0 Linda (Magpie) At Schönewalde / Holzdorf Air Base 84.0 Holzdorf (Elster) Premsendorf railway bridge ( Schwarze Elster ) State border Saxony-Anhalt / Brandenburg 101.1 Herzberg (Elster) Bundesstrasse 87 Abzw Großrössen , connecting curves towards Uckro Connection curve towards Roßlau Railway line Węgliniec – Roßlau from Roßlau by Uckro 111.9 Falkenberg (Elster) Halle – Cottbus to Ruhland 121.7 Saxdorf (until 1995) from Mühlberg 125.7 Neuburxdorf (passenger traffic until 2004) Brandenburg / Saxony border 135.7 Jacobsthal (closed in 2004) At the Zeithain military training area Strategic railway from Oschatz (Anst Kieswerk) 140.9 Röderau (passenger traffic until 2004) from Leipzig 142.04 Abzw Zeithain Bogendreieck to Dresden and Elsterwerda

The Jüterbog – Röderau railway is an electrified main line in Brandenburg , Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony . It runs from Jüterbog via Falkenberg (Elster) to Röderau . There it branches out in a curved triangle and joins the main line Leipzig – Dresden in the direction of Riesa or Dresden. In the Jüterbog – Falkenberg section the line is single-track, and in the Falkenberg – Röderau section it is double-track.

history

The first years

→ Main article : Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company

The Neuburxdorf station in the southern part of the route, inaugurated in 1848, has not had any passenger traffic since 2004.

The Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BAE) was one of the most important railway companies in Germany for more than four decades in the 19th century. The Berlin – Dresden connection was a particular concern for them. At the end of the 1830s there were already ideas for a railway line from Berlin to Riesa and Dresden. First, however, the line via Jüterbog, Wittenberg and Dessau to Köthen , which was opened in 1841, was built. In the same year, the Prussian state had given the BAE the prospect of approving a route from Jüterbog to Riesa. A number of route variants were examined. One variant envisaged a route east of Herzberg and Liebenwerda , another idea was a western route via Annaburg and further through the Elbe valley near Torgau . In the end, it was decided to go in a straight line west of Herzberg and Liebenwerda.

After some delays, the line was inaugurated in two stages, on July 1, 1848 from Jüterbog to Herzberg and on October 1 of the same year on the entire route. It connects Jüterbog on the main line of the Anhalter Bahn, opened in 1841, today's Berlin – Halle line , with Röderau near Riesa, where the line was connected to the Leipzig-Dresden Railway .

The route mainly served traffic from Berlin to Dresden. In 1875 it got competition from the direct line Berlin – Dresden of the Berlin – Dresdener Eisenbahn , which connected the two cities on the twelve kilometer shorter route via Elsterwerda . Until the end of the Second World War , both routes shared long-distance traffic. Most of the trains going via Falkenberg were split up in Röderau, one section continued to Chemnitz, the other to Dresden.

The Halle-Sorau-Gubener Railway has crossed the Jüterbog-Röderau line in Falkenberg since 1871 . The station in Falkenberg became a railway junction in the form of a tower station .

Further development

Diverted Eurocity in Falkenberg station

With the division of Berlin, long-distance traffic to Berlin no longer went to the Anhalter Bahnhof, but via the Berlin outer ring to the east of Berlin. The tour via the Anhalter Bahn was a detour for the Dresden trains, from now on they went there exclusively via Elsterwerda . Some express trains to Chemnitz remained via Falkenberg (from 1953 Karl-Marx-Stadt). After the expansion of the Zeithain – Elsterwerda railway line , these trains also disappeared from the line via Falkenberg in the early 1970s. It only served freight and regional traffic. The only higher quality train was an express train from Dresden – Falkenberg – Dessau (later Koethen) and back on Fridays and Sundays.

At the end of 1986 electrical operation was started between Falkenberg and Röderau, and in 1989 also between Jüterbog and Falkenberg.

After the reunification, the connection to Berlin improved for the northern section Jüterbog – Falkenberg. The trains were clocked and tied directly to Berlin. The demand on the southern section across the state border to Riesa, however, decreased more and more. As of December 2004, passenger traffic on this section was canceled by the Upper Elbe Transport Association. A year later there was again brief long-distance passenger traffic on this section. Due to construction work on the Berlin – Elsterwerda line, Interregio Line 14 (the last German InterRegio line) between Berlin and Chemnitz via Falkenberg was rerouted in the 2005/2006 winter timetable . The trains ran between Riesa and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport without stopping.

Due to construction work, further long-distance trains were rerouted on the Röderau – Falkenberg – Jüterbog line until September 2006, including many EuroCity trains on the Berlin – Dresden – Prague line. In the southern section in particular, various speed restrictions had a negative effect on the punctuality of the trains, for example the Neuburxdorf station could only be driven through at 20 km / h.

“Blue Wonder”, built in 1912 and replaced in 2013

In 2011, the Jüterbog – Falkenberg section will be connected to Berlin by regional express trains on the RE5 line every two hours . On the southern section there is no longer any scheduled passenger traffic, only freight trains. Since 2010, as part of the expansion of the Berlin – Dresden line, the line has been used regularly to divert individual trains on IC / EC line 27 (Berlin – Dresden – Prague). There are no additional traffic stops. The scheduled travel times between Berlin and Dresden will be maintained despite the almost 16 km longer route.

To the northwest of Herzberg (Elster) , the route crosses the Black Elster on the Premsendorf railway bridge . Until 1912 this consisted of two wooden bridges with supporting pillars on which the ice accumulated in winter. That led u. a. to dike breaches , which is why the old bridge construction by two riveted iron arch bridges (known locally as the "Blue Wonder") was replaced without any pillars. At the beginning of the 20th century they were among the longest cantilever bridges in Europe.

Shortly before the end of the war in April 1945, the bridge was blown up. After provisional reconstruction, the first train to Luckau drove over the bridge on May 23 .

Parts of the bridge were brought to the Soviet Union as reparations . Since the reconstruction in 1945, the bridge has only been single-track. That did not change with the replacement building in 2013, when the decrepit bridge was replaced by a new two-lane steel bridge.

The stop in Zellendorf , which was closed in 1995 , was rebuilt in 2013 in a different location and went back into operation when the timetable changed in December 2013. The costs for the 140 m long platform amounted to 290,000 euros.

In 2017, the maximum speed limit in the northern section of the line was increased from 100 to 120 km / h.

The DB Netz is planning to build a new siding for raw materials Berger GmbH in the station Neuburxdorf, of the expanded open pit gravel Altenau should lead.

literature

• Werner Nüse, Wolfgang Neubauer, Reiner Scheffler, Rainer Müller, Günter Scheiblich, Dieter Weidl, Ramona Geißler, Heike Berthold: The Riesa railway junction . Ed .: Museumsverein Riesa e. V. 2nd edition. Riesa 2007, p. 13 f .

Web links

Commons : Jüterbog – Röderau railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route, operating points and permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
• Anhalter Bahn on bahnstrecken.de
• Files and plans in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Halle in the State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau department

Individual evidence

1. ↑ STREDA route data directory of the DBAG; As of 2004.
2. ^ Peter Bley, 150 Years of the Berlin-Anhalt Railway . alba, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN 3-87094-340-8 , p. 37/38.
3. ↑ Birgit Rudow: Bridges blown to stop the Red Army. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 23, 2015, accessed May 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Zellendorf gets a platform again. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . September 19, 2013, accessed November 2, 2013 . 
5. ↑ Project: Extension and modification of the Altenau opencast mine - here: Changes to the track systems of DB Netz AG in the Neuburxdorf station. (PDF; 122 KB) Federal Railway Office , October 30, 2018, accessed on December 21, 2018 .