Railway line Nossen – Moldava v Krušných horách

Nossen – Moldava v Krušných horách
Section of the route map of Saxony from 1902
Route number :	6614; sä. NM
Course book section (DB) :	514
Route length:	63.399 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C3 / C4
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Minimum radius :	212 m
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend by Coswig Abzw B 0.000 Nossen 220 m to Borsdorf (Sachs) and Riesa 0.960 Infrastructure boundary NRE / RISS 1,240 Altzella Monastery Federal motorway 4 5.032 Zellwald Hp 288 m 5.140 Zellwald Ldst 288 m 10.252 Großvoigtsberg 363 m 13,190 Large company 383 m Awanst Getreide AG 18,331 Kleinwaltersdorf 408 m 21.500 Abzw Werdau Arc Triangle – Dresden Hbf 22.130 Anst KASA Technoplan 22.870 Infrastructure border RISS / DB Netz from Abzw Werdau arc triangle 23.967 Freiberg (Sachs) 413 m to Dresden Hbf and to Halsbrücke 24.805 Infrastructure boundary DB Netz / RPE 28.261 EÜ farm road (10.2 m) 28.975 Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) ( wedge station ) 449 m to Großhartmannsdorf 29.800 Awanst Freiberger paper factory in Weißenborn 30,474 Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) place 33.660 Lichtenberg Viaduct (Freiberger Mulde, 165 m) 34.190 Lichtenberg (Erzgeb) 400 m 35.784 Freiberger Mulde bridge (16.5 m) 36.965 Freiberger Mulde bridge (20.3m) Narrow-gauge railway from Sayda (until 1966) 38.255 Mulda (Sachs) 429 m 41.090 Freiberger Mulde bridge (15.72 m) 41.530 Freiberger Mulde bridge (15.72 m) 45.164 Freiberger Mulde bridge (15.72 m) 45.474 Nassau (Erzgeb) 497 m 47,250 Clausnitz 515 m 50.130 Bee mill 545 m approx. 51.3 Rechenberg School 51.986 EÜ Alte Strasse (19.2 m) 52,450 Rechenberg 570 m 53,420 Holzhau ski lift since 2000 54.710 Holzhau 618 m 55.100 End and end of the RPE lease line 57.380 Pond house 665 m 57.753 EÜ farm road (19 m) Narrow gauge railway from Schmiedeberg (not realized) 60.690 Hermsdorf - Rehefeld 737 m 63,099 State border between Germany and the Czech Republic 63,399 Moldava v Krušných horách (formerly Moldau) 782 m to Most (formerly PDE )

The Nossen – Moldava v Krušných horách railway is a branch line in Saxony that was originally built and operated as a main line by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company (LDE) as part of a supra-regional connection from central Saxony to Prague . The Royal Saxon State Railways ran them under the line abbreviation NM, which is the basis for the kilometering to this day. The section from Nossen via Freiberg to Holzhau is still in operation today . The further route to the Czech Moldava (Moldau) was shut down in sections between 1945 and 1972. The northern section from Nossen to Freiberg is also known as the Zellwaldbahn , the southern section from Freiberg to Holzhau is known as the Freiberger Muldentalbahn .

The sections of the route in Saxony are operated by the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie (NRE, 0.96 km in the area of the Nossen station ), Regio Infra Service Sachsen (22.835 km), the DB Netz (1.935 km in the area of the Freiberg station (Sachs ) ) and RP-Eisenbahn (31.295 km) operated by four different railway infrastructure companies. In addition, DB Station & Service operates most of the traffic stations from Freiberg (Sachs) up to and including Holzhau, only the stations Berthelsdorf Ort, Rechenberg Schule and Holzhau Skilift are operated by RP-Eisenbahn.

The systems in the Czech Moldava v Krušných horách train station are now operated by the state railway infrastructure administration SŽDC .

history

Prehistory and construction

Nossen-Freiberg

The city of Freiberg, in particular, had campaigned for a route from Nossen to Freiberg, having sent a petition to the Saxon state parliament in 1866 for construction at state expense. The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (LDE) received the approval for the preparatory work and on October 16, 1871 the concession for the construction and operation of the line.

The construction work began on January 24th, 1872. For cost reasons, the railway was laid out on the shortest possible route, making best use of the topographical conditions. Most of the train stations on the route were therefore outside the eponymous towns, and the town of Siebenlehn, two kilometers from the route, did not have a train station. Thanks to a mild winter, the work progressed quickly, so that the subgrade was completed at the end of 1872. There were some delays when the rail manufacturer was unable to deliver the track material ordered on time. The track structure was intended for double-track operation throughout, but only one track was laid. On July 15, 1873, the LDE opened the route with a pageant.

Freiberg – Moldau

As early as 1864 there were several projects to connect Freiberg with the North Bohemian Basin in order to be able to supply the lignite extracted there to the Freiberg mining and ore processing companies cheaply. The Diet of 1867 authorized the Saxon government for granting a license for a range Klingenberg - Dux , which was not carried out. Around 1870, the LDE and a consortium applied to build the Freiberg – Dux line. In the State Treaty of December 24, 1870, Austria assured the continuation on Bohemian territory.

The Bienenmühle station was the end point of the route from 1875 to 1885 (equidistant map, 1880)

The concession for the route Freiberg-border received the LDE on 1 December 1873. On Bohemian region was the concession on September 4, 1872, the Prague-Duxer Railway were given (PDE), but soon due to the economic crisis of 1873 in ran into serious economic difficulties. Construction in Bohemia was initially delayed and was finally abandoned entirely. Without the connection to Bohemia, however, the Freiberg – Moldau line could not be operated economically. The LDE therefore decided in an extraordinary general assembly in 1875 to also take over the construction and operation of the Bohemian section of the route. The LDE opened the Freiberg – Lichtenberg section on July 8, 1875, and the section to Mulda on November 2, 1875. The incomplete route and the Riesa Elbe bridge, which collapsed during a flood in February 1876, became such a financial burden for the LDE that it offered itself to the Saxon state for purchase on March 26, 1876. The state took over the company on July 1, 1876 and completed the section to Bienenmühle on August 15, 1876.

After the Prague-Dux Railway had managed to raise the missing funds, the route was later completed. Taking advantage of the new legal options, the K.Sächs.Sts.EB built the section from Bienenmühle to Moldau as a secondary railway . In particular, the elimination of railway surveillance and tighter radii enabled significant cost savings in construction and operation. However, due to the expected traffic with heavy coal trains, the superstructure was designed according to the standards for main railways. A total of 13,420 meters of track was laid with nine switches in the Holzhau and Hermsdorf-Rehefeld stations. In 1884, 733 workers were employed on the construction site. They came from the surrounding area, but also from Bohemia and Italy.

From December 6, 1884, freight trains could run on a provisional basis, and the line was officially opened to all traffic on May 18, 1885. The first timetable, which was valid from May 18, 1885, provided for three mixed trains for travel.

business

In freight transport, the line met the expectations placed on it. Before the First World War, the maximum in freight traffic was reached with ten freight trains per day in each direction, each made up of 45 wagons with a load capacity of 10 tons. Mainly coal from the North Bohemian Basin was transported, but also wood and the products of local industry. The line between Freiberg and Lichtenberg was expanded to double tracks in 1892 due to the high volume of traffic.

From 1893 there was a serious project to build a narrow-gauge Pöbeltalbahn . The route should begin in Schmiedeberg on the Weißeritztalbahn and lead through the Pöbeltal to the Hermsdorf-Rehefeld station, where extensive freight transport facilities were planned for the handling of coal. The narrow-gauge railway was to be led to the Moldau border station via a three-rail track (or a parallel route). However, construction of this line was canceled in the 1920s. In contrast, the construction of the Mulda – Sayda narrow-gauge railway , which went into operation in 1897, was realized .

The First World War , which led to the disintegration of Austria-Hungary , brought about the first turning point for rail operations . As a result, the new state of Czechoslovakia emerged on the Bohemian territory . As a result, coal traffic declined, eventually stabilizing with four to five pairs of freight trains a day. In 1922, the Nossen – Bienenmühle section, previously operated as the main line, was downgraded to a branch line . This resulted in a reduction in the permitted line speed from 75 to 50 kilometers per hour.

On May 7, 1945 at 5.30 p.m., the last train from Moldova to Freiberg left. The German Wehrmacht blew up the Lichtenberg viaduct on the same day and thus interrupted the railway line. With the dismantling of a few meters of track at the state border, the line was finally interrupted in 1948.

The remaining track section to the border was used until 1952 with occasional handovers for a coal dealer in Neurehefeld. In the spring of 1953, the Deutsche Reichsbahn dismantled the line from the Hermsdorf-Rehefeld station to the state border.

Eastern bridge abutment of the bridge at Teichhaus, which was blown up in 1972 (2019)

On February 7, 1972, the section between Holzhau and Hermsdorf-Rehefeld was also closed. From then on, all trains only ran to Holzhau. The railway bridge at the Teichhaus (km 57.753) was blown up in 1973 during the shooting of the DEFA feature film “Shots in Marienbad” .

Passenger traffic between Nossen and Freiberg ceased on September 25, 1977. However, the route remained important for freight traffic, with three to four pairs of freight trains running daily. Only as a result of the political change in eastern Germany did the freight train journeys decrease. On December 31, 1994, the freight traffic between Nossen and Großvoigtsberg was stopped, the section to Großschirma followed four years later. The only goods customer in this section remained the grain warehouse in Großschirma, which is still occasionally served by whole grain trains to this day.

FEG train in Holzhau station (2016)

Unused track near Hermsdorf-Rehefeld (2014)

On May 27, 2000, passenger trains operated by Deutsche Bahn AG ran from Freiberg to Holzhau for the last time. The RP Eisenbahn GmbH leased the south of the station Freiberg (Sachs) lying section from kilometer 24.805 to the current route end at kilometer 55.1 for a period of 20 years and started on 14 August 2000 with the renovation work on the track renewal. In this context, the maximum permitted line speed has been increased from 50 to 80 km / h. In addition, two new stops were set up on the route. On November 25, 2000, the Freiberg – Holzhau travel service was resumed by the newly founded Freiberg Railway Company (FEG).

In the period that followed, rebuilding the cross-border route to the Czech Republic was repeatedly discussed. A Czech study from 2006 even provided for inclusion in the Regiotram Most project . Due to high costs and a lack of political will, the project, which was particularly aimed at tourism, failed.

On November 5, 2005, the route between Nossen and Freiberg was put back into operation by the Chemnitz railway infrastructure company Regio Infra Service Sachsen GmbH (RISS). On August 11, 2008, the German Regional Railway (DRE ) initialed a 20-year lease with the line owner DB Netz AG and the previous leaseholder Regio Infra Service Sachsen GmbH to take over the Zellwaldbahn (Nossen – Freiberg). Although the route was scheduled to be handed over on October 31, 2008, the previous route leaseholder RISS extended the contract with DB Netz. The RISS lease line covers a total of 22.835 kilometers, begins at the infrastructure border to the NRE, around one kilometer from Nossen train station and ends in front of Freiberg (Sachs) train station at 22.870 km.

Connecting line of the Weißenborn paper mill in Berthelsdorf station (2019

In the 2012 annual timetable, FEG passenger trains run between Freiberg and Holzhau every hour on weekdays with an intersection in Mulda at the usual minute of symmetry . On weekends, there is a limited timetable with two-hour intervals, which is particularly geared towards excursion traffic. Museum trains with steam locomotives run between Freiberg and Nossen on special occasions . The last regular freight customer between Freiberg and Holzhau was the Freiberg paper factory in Weißenborn , which relocated its transports to the road in 2015. The connection Getreide AG in Großschirma is only served irregularly with block trains.

On August 13, 2018, the new Rechenberg Schule stop in the municipality of Rechenberg-Bienenmühle went into operation. Around 161,000 euros were invested for this.

At its association meeting on September 14, 2018, the Verkehrsverbund Mittelachsen decided to extend the transport contract with the Freiberg Railway until 2024. With four additional pairs of trains, the gaps in the weekends are to be closed and an almost continuous hourly service is to be offered in daytime traffic.

On March 29, 2019, the representatives of twelve Czech and seven German communities on the railway line between Freiberg and Most, as well as other interested parties, signed a memorandum, an intergovernmental declaration of the transport ministries of the Free State of Saxony and the Czech Republic regarding the closing of the gap between Holzhau, which was already negotiated in October 2008 and to bring Moldava back to life. On June 14, 2019, the Saxon Transport Minister Martin Dulig announced at a meeting with the Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in Prague that he wanted to commission a feasibility study to close the gap. On June 25, 2019, the Prime Minister of Saxony Michael Kretschmer and Andrej Babiš agreed a declaration in Dresden, which should lay down the common will to renew the route. At the association meeting on June 26, 2020, the Verkehrsverbund Mittelachsen decided to support the "reactivation" and to order transport services.

Route description

course

simplified elevation profile of the route

The Nossen station leaves the route in a westerly direction and then swings to the south. In the valley of the Pitzschebach the track ascends through the Zellwald and then leads over a flat undulating plateau parallel to the valley of the Freiberg Mulde to Freiberg. The line joins the railway station in the mountain town from the west. To the south of Freiberg, the track initially touches part of the Freiberg mountain district , and then falls into the valley of the Freiberg Mulde. At Lichtenberg, the bottom of the valley is reached, which is no longer left until the current end of the route in Holzhau. The disused section was from the pond house in the Hirschbachtal. At the Moldau / Moldava train station, the route finally reached the ridge plateau. In winter, the Osterzgebirgsloipe / Skimagistrale Erzgebirge / Krušné hory runs on the abandoned track .

Operating points

Nossen ⊙

Nossen train station

→ Main article : Nossen train station

The Nossen station was opened by the LDE on October 25, 1868 as part of the Borsdorf – Coswig railway line. With the construction of the lines to Freiberg (1873) and Riesa (1877/1880) it became an important regional railway junction with a large depot that existed until the 1990s. Since regular local rail passenger transport on the Döbeln – Meißen route was discontinued in December 2015, it has only been used for freight transport.

The 6614 Nossen – Moldava line leased by RISS begins at the head platform, track 21, with a distance of 0.035 km. At distance kilometer 0.465 there is a switch connection to the Borsdorf – Coswig railway line and thus to the other facilities of the station. According to the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie (NRE), which has been operating the Döbeln – Meißen section including the Nossen train station since April 2016, the NRE / RISS infrastructure border, however, is located at kilometer 0.960 on the Nossen – Moldava line.

Altzella Monastery ⊙

Stop at the Altzella monastery

The route of the Nossen – Freiberg section leads directly past the eastern wall of the Altzella monastery . It was not until October 24, 2006 that a stopping point financed by donations was opened there. So the station was never a scheduled stop. There is an old car body at the location.

Zellwald ⊙

Zellwald stop (2016)

In the Zellwald west of the town of Siebenlehn , the non-public timber loading point Zellwald was opened on August 25, 1878 at kilometer 5.14 . It owned an office building that was the headquarters of the NM I railway maintenance department until the move to Nossen on October 1, 1916. The loading point was particularly important for the nearby sawmill. It was not until May 15, 1938 that the Zellwald stop opened to passenger traffic at kilometer 5.032 . The service building of the loading point was used until 1966. Then the charging point in Zellwald went out of service. Scheduled travel ceased at the Zellwald stop on September 25, 1977. It is located directly south of the federal motorway 4 .

Großvoigtsberg ⊙

The Großvoigtsberg station was opened on 15 July 1873 as a stop dedicated in 1905 to the station. It has been a freight yard since 1977. He is looked after by a leisure group of the railway social work called "Museumsbahnhof Großvoigtsberg". This put the entire site under monument protection in 1999. In the rooms on the ground floor, a considerable exhibition on railway safety technology and the history of the Zellwaldbahn line was created during this time.

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  Großvoigtsberg station

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  Großvoigtsberg station (2016)

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  Großvoigtsberg station, reception building (2016)

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  Großvoigtsberg station, track systems (2016)

Large company ⊙

Großschirma stop (2016)

The former Großschirma station was opened as a stop on July 15, 1873 and dedicated to the station in 1905. Since March 1, 1962, it has only been a stopping point. Scheduled travel was discontinued on September 25, 1977. The grain store of the farmers' trading cooperative (today Getreide AG ), which was built in 1959 and has its own connecting railway, is significant for freight traffic . The reception building, goods shed and farm buildings still exist at the site.

Kleinwaltersdorf ⊙

Kleinwaltersdorf stop (2016)

The Kleinwaltersdorf stop was opened on July 15, 1873 and consecrated as a train station in 1905. In 1953 it was downgraded to a stop and in 1967 to a stop. Scheduled travel was discontinued on September 25, 1977.

Freiberg (Sachs) ⊙

→ Main article : Freiberg (Sachs) train station

The Freiberg (Sachs) Station was built in 1862 as the end point of the route of Dresden , which was continued in the direction of Chemnitz 1869th With the construction of the Nossen – Moldau railway line (1873/1885) and the branch lines to Halsbrücke , Langenau and Großhartmannsdorf (1890), Freiberg became one of the most important railway junctions in Saxony. The station had the following names:

• until 1911: Freiberg
• until 1933: Freiberg (Sa)
• since 1933: Freiberg (Sachs)

Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) ⊙

Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) station (2019)

→ Main article : Berthelsdorf train station (Erzgeb)

The station Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) existed as a stop since the line was opened in 1875. After the construction of the branching line Berthelsdorf – Großhartmannsdorf in 1890, the station was elevated to a station in 1905. It had the following names:

• until 1893: Berthelsdorf
• until 1899: Berthelsdorf near Brand
• until 1911: Berthelsdorf i Erzgeb
• since 1911: Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb)

Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) place ⊙

Stop Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) Ort (2016)

The Berthelsdorf (Erzgeb) Ort stop was rebuilt in 2000 as part of the renewal of the route by RP-Eisenbahn and opened on November 25, 2000.

Lichtenberg (Erzgeb) ⊙

The Lichtenberg stop was opened on July 8, 1875 and upgraded to the station in 1905. In 1911 the station was named Lichtenberg (Erzgeb) . The station, which was later downgraded to a stop, has a stately reception building and a goods shed.

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  Lichtenberg (Erzgeb) station (2016)

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  Lichtenberg (Erzgeb) station, reception building (2016)

Mulda (Sachs) ⊙

Mulda (Sachs) train station

→ Main article : Mulda (Sachs) train station

The Mulda (Sachs) station has existed since the opening of the Freiberg – Mulda section on November 2, 1875. Initially opened as a loading point, it was elevated to a stop in 1878 and a station in 1901. It got its current size with the construction of the narrow-gauge railway to Sayda , which opened on June 30, 1897. After the cessation of rail traffic on the narrow-gauge railway to Sayda in July 1966, the time as a gauge changing station ended . In its history, the station has already had three different names, in detail these were:

• until May 15, 1935: Mulda
• until May 4, 1941: Mulda-Randeck
• from May 5, 1941: Mulda (Sachs)

Nassau (Erzgeb) ⊙

The Nassau stop was opened on August 15, 1876 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In 1911 the station was named Nassau (Erzgeb) . The station has been a stopping point since September 25, 1969. It has a modern waiting hall, the reception building and a goods shed are also available on site. The station in the valley of the Freiberg Mulde is remote from the town of Nassau to the east in a side valley.

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  Nassau (Erzgeb) stop (2016)

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  Nassau (Erzgeb) stop, reception building (2016)

Clausnitz ⊙

Clausnitz stop (2016)

The Clausnitz stop was only opened on May 20, 1951. It is located northeast of the village in the valley of the Freiberg Mulde. The stop has a storage facility from 2001, which replaces the original waiting hall.

Bee mill ⊙

The Bienenmühle station was originally designed as the operational center at the beginning of the incline to the Erzgebirgskamm. For its construction, an area that was undeveloped at the time was selected in a valley widening, which also offered space for later extensions. Although originally located on Clausnitzer Flur, it got its name from a lonely watermill in the valley. A new settlement later developed around the station, which was later merged with Rechenberg to form the municipality of Rechenberg-Bienenmühle . In 1880, 15 engine drivers and around 200 other workers were employed at the station. With the extension of the route to Moldova in 1884/85, the facilities in Bienenmühle were extended by another 1200 meters of track with ten switches. At the exit to Moldova, a ten-long roundhouse with a 16-meter turntable was built.

Goods customers at the Bienenmühle station were a large sawmill, a furniture factory and two wood grinding shops. The collapse of the Biermann company's large loading crane in 1923, in which one loading worker was killed, was spectacular. After the Second World War, the no longer required facilities at the Bienenmühle station were gradually reduced. In 1968 the engine shed was demolished.

The station building was demolished in March 2017 after a long period of vacancy and increasing dilapidation.

The municipality of Rechenberg-Bienenmühle intended to set up a public transport interface at Bienenmühle station in 2018 to better link bus and rail services. In July 2020, the work on this was only about half finished. In addition, the community would like to take over the remaining goods shed at Bienenmühle station from Deutsche Bahn AG and set up a small museum there.

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  The station building at Bienenmühle station has since been demolished (2009)

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  Bienenmühle station after the reception building was demolished (2019)

Rechenberg School ⊙

Rechenberg School Stop (2019)

The Rechenberg Schule stop was rebuilt by RP-Eisenbahn from April 15, 2018 and put into operation on August 13, 2018 at the start of the new school year. It is intended, in particular, to simplify the way to school to the Rechenberg-Bienenmühle Oberschule for many pupils in the surrounding communities , but also to make the route more attractive overall. The stop is about 300 meters from the Rechenberg secondary school.

Rechenberg ⊙

The Rechenberg stop has existed since the line opened. The only building structure was a wooden waiting hall with a service room, supplemented by an old freight car body. For general cargo to be handled, an open hall was built later, the roof of which was pulled over the platform to the track area. Above all, the products of the local chair making industry, which could be temporarily stored protected from the weather, were handled. The loading into freight wagons took place during breaks in the train directly on the platform track. Rechenberg's wooden waiting hall, which has been preserved true to the original, was restored by local residents in 2016.

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  Rechenberg stop, direction Freiberg (2016)

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  Rechenberg stop, towards Holzhau (2016)

Holzhau ski lift ⊙

Haltpunkt Holzhau Skilift (2016)

The Holzhau Skilift stop was rebuilt in 2000 as part of the route renewal by the RP-Eisenbahn and opened on November 25, 2000. It shortens the way to the downhill slope, especially for skiers.

Holzhau ⊙

Holzhau station (2009)

The station Holzhau has since 1972 endpoint of the segment. Originally, Holzhau was primarily important for freight transport. The most important goods customer here was the Hermsdorf lime works . From 1924 to 1972 there was a 2664 meter long material ropeway connecting the plant and the station. It not only transported the factory's products to the train station, but in the opposite direction also transported the coal required for the burning process. The cargo handling for the lime works ended shortly after 1990, when the production of the lime works was (temporarily) stopped.

The importance of the Holzhau train station today lies primarily in tourist traffic. In winter snow conditions, the embankment trail to Moldava begins right at the train station .

Pond house ⊙

Former Teichhaus stop (2019)

At the Teichhaus , no stop was originally planned due to the low traffic demand. It was not until after the Second World War that tourism in the Eastern Ore Mountains took off again that the Deutsche Reichsbahn approved the application to set up a stop in 1962. Residents from Teichhaus and Holzhau built the platform and the access routes within the framework of the national structure , a waiting hall or other high-rise structures were not planned. It was opened on September 29, 1963. Just nine years later, with the closure of the Holzhau – Hermsdorf-Rehefeld section on February 8, 1972, the breakpoint went out of service.

Hermsdorf-Rehefeld ⊙

Former Hermsdorf-Rehefeld station (2007)

According to the original plans of the LDE, only one stop was provided in place of the later Hermsdorf-Rehefeld station. It was only when the rafting operations on the Freiberger Mulde and the Wilden Weißeritz were stopped in 1874 and 1875 that a train station was set up because of the expected timber handling. In addition, the royal family , who owned a hunting lodge in Rehefeld, had a need for transport . For their purposes, the reception building was given a royal reception salon , which is still preserved today.

Until the construction of the material ropeway to Holzhau station in 1924, the entire cargo handling for the Hermsdorf lime works in Hermsdorf-Rehefeld was handled. In the last years of operation, the lime works blast furnace slag that there was to alumina cement was further processed. In addition, a coal trader had his seat at the station, who supplied the local population with house fuel and other necessities. From 1953 the company belonged to the rural trading cooperative (BHG) Hermsdorf.

From 1945 until its abandonment on February 7, 1972, Hermsdorf-Rehefeld was the line's terminus. The buildings were used by the Deutsche Reichsbahn until the political change in 1989/90 as a "base for patriotic education" for the Karl-Marx-Stadt company school and as a holiday home. Railway workers' apprentices received pre-military training here . In 1992 the building complex was sold by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The new owners set up a hotel with a restaurant (“Skibahnhof”).

Moldava v Krušných horách ⊙

Moldava Railway Station (2014)

→ Main article : Moldava v Krušných horách railway station

The Moldava v Krušných horách station (until 1945 German: Moldau ) was a border station for cross-border traffic to Bohemia. After the end of cross-border traffic, the facilities, which were now only used by Czech domestic traffic, fell into disrepair. The once extensive track system has now been dismantled to a platform and transfer track.

Vehicle use

Regioshuttle of the FEG (2008)

Initially, the Royal Saxon State Railways mainly used the triple-coupled VV type tender locomotives in front of all trains that could still be rotated on the 14-meter turntable in Moldova. Later the locomotives of the class XII H2 (DR class 38.2-3) and the DR class 86 were located on the line. From the change of traction on March 19, 1967 until the end of passenger traffic by Deutsche Bahn in May 2000, all trains ran with locomotives of the DR series V 100 (from 1970: series 110, from 1991 partly with new engines: series 201 to 204). The FEG has been using low-floor railcars of the Regioshuttle type (series 650) since November 2000 .

literature

• Mira Hellmann: The old Hermsdorf-Rehefeld train station, shaped by kings and still used today. In: Petra Binder (Ed.): On roads, rails and paths. Country calendar book 2011 for Saxon Switzerland and the Eastern Ore Mountains. Schütze-Engler-Weber-Verlag, Dresden 2010, pp. 15-18 ISBN 978-3-936203-14-1 .
• Heinz Lohse (Ed.): 130 years of the railway in the upper valley of the Freiberg Mulde Bienenmühle - Moldau , Rechenberg-Bienenmühle 2015, without ISBN
• Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen , transpress, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 , p. 101f.
• Jörg Richter: 100 years of the Freiberg - Bienenmühle - Holzhau railway line. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , No. 6/1975, pp. 263–266.

Web links

Commons : Nossen – Moldava v Krušných horách railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route and operating points on the OpenRailwayMap
• Description of the route Nossen – Freiberg on www.sachsenschiene.net
• Förderverein Zellwaldbahn e. V.
• Homepage of the BSW group at the Grossvoigtsberg museum station
• Closure of the Freiberg – Holzhau railway line, the last train passed on May 27, 2000 around 9:30 p.m.
• Recommissioning of the Holzhau – Freiberg railway line (first departure from Holzhau, November 25, 2000)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Station price list 2017. (PDF, 300 kB) valid from 01.01.2017. (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service , December 16, 2016, archived from the original on August 6, 2017 ; accessed on March 18, 2017 . 
2. ↑ New stop »Rechenberg, Schule«. Central Saxony Transport Association, August 13, 2018, accessed on November 30, 2018 . 
3. ↑ System price catalog for the systems on the Freiberg – Holzhau and Berthelsdorf – Brand-Erbisdorf routes. (PDF, 14 kB) RP-Eisenbahn , January 2003, accessed on March 18, 2017 . 
4. ↑ State Treaty of December 24, 1870
5. ^ Certificate of concession dated September 4, 1872 for a locomotive train from Brüx to the Bohemian-Saxon border near Mulde
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11. ↑ Erlebniswelt Freiberg-Holzhau Summer 2011 (Info brochure of the Freiberg Railway) (PDF; 7.1 MB)
12. ↑ Route data . (PDF, 560 kB) RPE route IIa) "Freiberger Muldentalbahn" Freiberg (Sa.) [DBNetzAG] - Holzhau. RP Railway , November 2010, accessed March 18, 2017 . 
13. ↑ www.lightrail.nl
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15. ↑ "The Zellwaldbahn will also be rolling in the next few years. The 24-kilometer route from Nossen to Freiberg should also be maintained with the help of local authorities." In: Sächsische Zeitung, Meissen edition. October 21, 2009, accessed June 13, 2010 . 
16. ↑ Sketch_NRE network. (JPG) NRE , accessed December 31, 2017 . 
17. ↑ ^{a b} route Nossen - Freiberg. (PDF; 714 kB) RISS , accessed on March 12, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Annual timetable 2012 of the FEG - valid from December 11, 2011
19. ↑ "Schoeller Shuts Down Works" in Freie Presse, Chemnitz, January 17, 2015
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21. ↑ ZVMS Association Assembly. In: vms.de. September 14, 2018, accessed November 30, 2018 . 
22. ↑ http://www.euroreg.cz/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Tiskov%C3%A1-zpr%C3%A1va-%C4%8D.-1-20190328-Holzhau.docx
23. ^ "First step for rail to Bohemia" in Freie Presse from June 17, 2019
24. ↑ http://www.krusnohorske-noviny.cz/?art=a7c3a5e8d8de471dbd45de334cf7103d
25. ↑ "Saxony: PRO BAHN welcomes the decision of principle of the central Saxony transport association to reactivate" in bahnreport.de
26. ↑ Thorsten Adler: Sketch of the NRE route network. Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie , accessed on March 19, 2017 . 
27. ↑ Website of the Förderverein Zellwaldbahn e. V.
28. ↑ The Altzella monastery stop on www.sachsenschiene.net
29. ↑ The Zellwaldbahn on www.sachsenschiene.net
30. ^ The Nassau (Erzgeb) stop at www.sachsenschiene.net
31. ^ ^{A b} Frank Hommel: New stopping point: construction starts in April. In: Free Press . March 12, 2018, accessed March 14, 2018 . 
32. ↑ Article in the "Freie Presse", Freiberg local edition of October 25, 2016
33. ↑ The Teichhaus stop on www.sachsenschiene.net
34. ↑ Heinz Lohse: 130 years of the railway in the upper valley of the Freiberg Mulde Bienenmühle - Moldau , Rechenberg-Bienenmühle 2015, p. 22f