Pirna – Großcotta railway line

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Pirna Süd – Lohmgrund junction
Section of the Pirna – Großcotta railway line
Section of the route map of Saxony from 1902
Route number : 6604, see PGc
Course book range : 165b (1960)
Route length: 7.217 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : C3 (1999)
Maximum slope : 29  ‰
Minimum radius : 190 m
Legend
   
 from Pirna (km 0)
   
 1.704 Abzw Pirna South
   
 to Gottleuba
   
 1,867 Pirna south 122 m
   
 2,784 Seidewitz Bridge (12.9 m)
   
 3.481 Seidewitz Bridge (12 m)
   
 3.760 Bridge Eulengrundbach
   
 3.810 Pirna- Zehista (new) 143 m
   
 3.957 Pirna-Zehista (old)
   
 4.041 Seidewitz Bridge (16 m)
   
 4.124 Mühlgraben Bridge
   
 4.450 Bahrebach Bridge (14.6 m)
   
 6.130 Ottendorfer Wasser bridge
   
 6.340 Dohma 185 m
   
 6.506 Dohma Bridge (50.5 m)
   
 8.230 Large cotta 226 m
   
 8.565 Cotta tunnel (256 m)
   
 8.800 (Sidings)
   
 8,921 Lohmgrund 213 m

The Pirna – Großcotta railway was a branch line in Saxony . It ran from Pirna to Großcotta and ended in Lohmgrund , a center of Saxon sandstone mining .

history

When the Gottleubatalbahn from Pirna to Berggießhübel was built in 1880, a narrow-gauge connecting railway to the quarries there was originally supposed to be built at the expense of the quarry owners in Lohmgrund. However, one could not agree on this, so that the cumbersome road transport of the broken stones was still necessary. A few years later, the project of a standard-gauge connecting railway was presented, which, starting in Pirna, should lead directly to the upper Lohmgrund. In the meantime, the stone industry in Lohmgrund experienced an enormous upswing, so that the Saxon government now considered such a railway to be economically viable.

Construction work on the route began in April 1893. In order to reach the upper Lohmgrund, a 256 m long tunnel had to be excavated shortly before the end point, otherwise the new route managed without any major engineering structures. On March 21, 1894, the line was opened for passenger and freight traffic.

The insignificant passenger train service was stopped on March 20, 1935.

At the end of the Second World War , the tunnel in Lohmgrund served as a bomb-proof hiding place for the museum holdings of the Dresden art collections . The most important paintings from the Old Masters Picture Gallery, such as the Sistine Madonna, were supposed to survive the war unharmed in air-conditioned freight wagons . It was not until the end of April 1945 when the electricity supply collapsed after an Allied bombing raid on Pirna that the stored works of art suffered irreparable damage. Shortly after the end of the war, all museum holdings stored there were brought to the Soviet Union as spoils of war .

On June 22, 1946, the passenger train service was resumed because there were no operational buses. The reconstruction of the war-torn cities demanded enormous amounts of building material after 1945, which ensured increasing transport volumes in freight traffic. It was not until the end of the 1950s that industrial housing construction began in the GDR that the transport volume sank to a minimum. 1957 the passenger traffic was stopped, in March 1963 the freight traffic in the section Pirna-Zehista-Lohmgrund ended. In Pirna-Zehista, the industrial connections there were served until November 1, 1998.

On February 28, 1999, the Pirna Süd – Pirna-Zehista line was closed. In 2002 the tracks were dismantled.

gallery

  • Route with remaining track near Dohma

  • dismantled bridge in Dohma

  • former Großcotta train station

    former Großcotta train station

  • Route at the north portal of the Cotta tunnel (256 m)

  • Southern tunnel mouth in Lohmgrund

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ STREDA - Total distance directory DBAG; Status: February 1, 2003
  2. ↑ Pirnaer Anzeiger of March 21, 1935

literature

  • Rainer Fischer: Secondary railways from Pirna to Großcotta and Gottleuba . Verlag Kenning Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-38-9 ( secondary line documentation 12).
  • Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .
  • M. Ziesch: 100 years of the Pirna - Großcotta railway. In: The press courier . Volume 2, 1994, pp. 12-13

Web links

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