Railway line Leipzig-Plagwitz – Leipzig-Lindenau
The Leipzig-Plagwitz – Leipzig-Lindenau railway was a branch line in Saxony that only served freight . The line has been shut down since 2004 and partially dismantled, only a short section is still used as a connecting line for Kirow Leipzig AG .
history
The line was opened on April 1, 1906 as the PX industrial line.
On January 1, 1918, the Royal Saxon State Railways became an independent line from Plagwitz-Lindenau Sächs. Stb – Leutzsch-Lindenau levied. In the Saxon route designation scheme , from then on it had the abbreviation LX , later PLLL , from June 1, 1922 PLi .
From 1938 onwards, the Leipzig harbor was built in the course of the planned Elster-Saale Canal on areas that had previously been used by the Leipzig Westend construction company for sand and gravel extraction . At the same time, a siding to the planned port station was built. Because of the Second World War, the facilities were only partially completed by 1943, and the associated port station was no longer implemented.
Most of the line was in operation until the early 1990s. The closure of most of the factories as a result of the political change in the GDR caused the cargo volume on the route to drop sharply. Kirow Leipzig remained as the last connection, who was, however, dependent on rail transport . With the dismantling of the Plagwitz industrial station, the former part of the station in Saxony, the line would have lost its connection to the railway network. The most sensible solution proved to be the establishment of an alternative junction on the Plagwitz – Miltitzer Allee track . After completion of the alternative junction at Brünner Strasse, the line was shut down on September 1, 2004, with the exception of a short section under the Antonienstrasse bridge that was used as a pull-out siding, and then dismantled including the steel bridge superstructures over Diezmannstrasse and Plagwitz station.
Before the renovation of the Luisenbrücke (Lützner Strasse), the superstructure that had remained in the construction area was also removed. Track remains have been preserved in several places. After the reopening, the extension of the Karl Heine Canal began and another part of the route was removed. The next 800 m parallel to the harbor basin are expected to be converted to 800 mm gauge from 2017 and then used by the Leipzig-Lindenau museum field railway . As a preliminary construction work, a narrow-lane crossing was built into the new access road to the new residential area at the harbor in summer 2014.
Route description
course
The line, which followed the former line from Connewitz , began at the Leipzig-Plagwitz industrial station (formerly: Plagwitz-Lindenau Sächs. Stb ) and opened up the Lindenau industrial area in the west of Leipzig . It led first to the south and then swung to the north in a large semicircle with a diameter of around 300 meters. She crossed the railway lines to Gaschwitz and Zeitz by means of several truss arched and solid wall bridges. In its further course to the north, it crossed under the railway line to Grünau and then ran parallel to the Karl-Heine Canal to Lützner Strasse . Then it swiveled to the northwest, passing close to the Lindenau harbor. After a curve to the north, it reached its nominal end point, the Lindenau loading point on today's Merseburger Strasse .
Connecting tracks
Current connection
- Kirow Ardelt GmbH , mechanical engineering company in Leipzig, world market leader for railway cranes
Historical connections
- Leipzig cotton spinning mill , the largest cotton mill in continental Europe
- RÜMA (VEB Blechverpackungswerk Rückmarsdorf near Leipzig), manufacturer of tin packaging, formerly also of tin toys
- VEB Baustoffversorgung Leipzig, later Wirich Baumarkt
- VEAB (state-owned collection and purchase company) Leipzig, later Leipziger Kraftfuttermittel GmbH (Leikra)
- VEB Baustoffwerke Leipzig, later Dyckerhoff company
Historical connections via industrial tracks PXVI – PXX
- Rhenania-Ossag , later VEB Minol , supply of fuel and lubricants
- VEB cylinder foundry Leipzig, formerly the Central German cylinder foundry Mayer & Steudel
- VEB Bau-Union Leipzig, formed in 1951 as a merger of 13 individual companies
- And later VEB German forwarding in VE Kombinat Deutrans risen
- VEB Montan, formerly Fa. Mosenthin later the Kombinat TAKRAF assigned
- VEB Spezialbau Leipzig, construction of chimneys, cooling towers, etc.
literature
- Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
- Wolfram Sturm: Leipzig Railway Center. Pro Leipzig eV, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-9807201-9-5 .
- Explanation for the development plan No. 359 Lindenauer Hafen - central area, Annex 4, City of Leipzig, October 6, 2009
Web links
- Route description on sachsenschiene.net
- Pictures of the former route on regio-schiene.de
- German photo library - pictures of the port railway system
Individual evidence
- ↑ STREDA - Total distance directory DBAG; Status: February 1, 2003
- ↑ Announcement in the Official Gazette of the Royal. General Directorate of the Saxon State Railways from March 24, 1906
- ↑ Preuss 1991; P. 150
- ↑ Hans-Christoph Thiel: Abbreviated designations for Saxon railway lines ( Memento from September 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Description of the route on Sachsenschiene.net
- ↑ City of Leipzig for the opening of the Luisenbrücke called on February 5, 2016
- ↑ Museumsfeldbahn Leipzig-Lindenau Review 2014 , accessed February 5, 2015