Riesa – Nossen railway line

Riesa-Nossen
Route number :	6613; sä. RN
Course book section (DB) :	508 (1998)
Route length:	33.533 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Minimum radius :	400 m
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Dresden-Neustadt -0.18 Riesa 106 m to Leipzig Hbf to Chemnitz Hbf 0.920 Infrastructure border DB Netz / NRE Federal Highway 169 Rst 3.04 EÜ farm road (11 m) 3.12 Flood bridge (17 m; filled) 3.22 Jahnabrücke (34 m) 3.36 EÜ farm road (12 m) 4.33 Nickritz (formerly Bf) 114 m 5.01 Keppritzbach Bridge (13 m) 7.75 Prausitz 140 m Bundesstrasse 6 14.09 Lommatzsch 158 m Narrow-gauge railway to Döbeln-Gärtitz and Wilsdruff 18.15 Leuben Bridge (34 m) ( Wilsdruff – Gärtitz narrow-gauge railway ) 18.30 Ketzerbach Bridge (13 m) 18.69 Bridge Bahnhofstrasse (22 m) 18.99 Leuben (near Riesa) (formerly Bf) 160 m 20.11 Ketzerbach Bridge (24 m) 21.03 EÜ (11 m) 21.31 EÜ (16 m) 21.38 Ketzerbach Bridge (13 m) 22.05 EÜ (13 m) 22.45 Goat Grove (Sachs) 185 m 23.03 EÜ (11 m) 25.40 Oberstößwitz (formerly Ldst ) 200 m 25.66 EÜ (10 m) 27.15 EÜ (13 m) 27.31 Starbach (formerly Bf) 218 m 28.75 Awanst Rewe Federal motorway 14 29.78 Awanst tank farm Rhäsa 31.79 Freiberger Mulde bridge (90 m) 32.01 EÜ Zellaer Strasse (10 m) from Borsdorf (Sachs) from (Moldava–) Holzhau 33.36 Nossen 220 m Narrow-gauge railway to Freital-Potschappel to Coswig (b Dresden)

The Riesa – Nossen line is a branch line in Saxony . It runs through the Lommatzscher care from Riesa via Lommatzsch to Nossen . At the moment, only the Rhäsa tank farm is served by freight traffic from Nossen, the rest of the route has been closed since 2008 and has been reactivated in sections for individual freight traffic operations since 2014.

history

Lommatzsch station around 1910

Bridge at Kreißa in the Ketzerbachtal

Starbach station (2012)

Railway station in Lommatzsch (2013)

When the line between Nossen and Freiberg was put into operation in 1873, the demand for continuation of this line to Riesa to connect to the Leipzig-Dresden railway soon arose in the northern towns of Lommatzsch and Riesa . The desire for an inexpensive transport route for Bohemian coal played a role here, as the continuation of the Nossen-Freiberg line to Bohemia was already under construction. The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (LDE) was granted the concession for the Riesa – Nossen line in 1873.

Construction began in Riesa in July 1875. The route was ultimately completed under the direction of the Royal Saxon State Railways ; On January 1st, 1876, the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie had become state property. The section to Lommatzsch was opened on April 5, 1877, the remaining section to Nossen on October 15, 1880.

In December 1884 the continuous rail route to Bohemia was completed, so there was now a direct connection from the North Bohemian lignite mining area to central Saxony. Nevertheless, the Riesa – Nossen line did not achieve the importance it was intended for in the following years, which is also reflected in the classification as a secondary line in 1880 . For the development of Lommatzscher care, however, the route was definitely important. Between 1909 and 1972 Lommatzsch was a gauge changing station for the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff-Gärtitz . The removal of agricultural products - especially sugar beets - was important here.

After the political change in eastern Germany , an industrial park was built near the federal motorway 14 near Rhäsa . Two new sidings to a tank farm and a logistics center of the REWE Group were built there, which are important for freight traffic .

When the Free State of Saxony canceled travel on most of the weakly used branch lines in 1997, the Riesa – Nossen connection was given a grace period. Although the districts of Riesa-Großenhain and Meißen advocated continued operation, the now responsible Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe decided to cancel the passenger train service for financial reasons. With the timetable change on May 24, 1998 the passenger train service was stopped. From January 1, 2000, freight traffic between Riesa and Starbach was no longer possible. On December 31, 2007, the line from the connection between the Rhäsa tank farm and Riesa was officially closed.

Since then, only freight trains have been running to service the Rhäsa tank farm. The construction of the Riesa bypass of the federal highway 169 interrupted the route near Riesa, a new bridge was no longer built.

In January 2009, the deedication of the line requested by DB Netz was rejected by the Federal Railway Authority. This was justified with a still existing need for traffic . The costs for the now necessary new construction of two bridges in Riesa and Lommatzsch were given as 3 million euros.

On January 16, 2014, after long negotiations, a lease agreement for the approximately 30 km long route from the Rhäsa tank farm to Riesa was concluded between DB Netz AG and Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie (NRE) GmbH , which was founded in 2008 and which is used for freight transport wants to reactivate. On June 30, 2014, the first section of the route to the former Starbach station was removed as a connecting line . On July 1st, it was used for the first time in 12 years by a train that brought grain from the local warehouse to the Baltic Sea port of Vierow , about 450 kilometers away .

On June 1, 2015, the NRE finally took over the section from Nossen to Rhäsa from DB Netz AG, so that it now leases the entire route. On January 10, 2018, the NRE received approval from the State Railway Authority of Saxony to operate the Starbach – Ziegenhain section as a connecting line. On this occasion, on June 23, 2018, passenger trains were running again for the first time in 20 years. The renovation and recommissioning of further sections of the route was originally planned for 2018.

See also

• List of disused railway lines in Saxony

literature

• Erich Preuss, Rainer Preuss: Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0

Web links

Commons : Riesa – Nossen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie GmbH
• Route and operating points on the OpenRailwayMap
• Description of the route on sachsenschiene.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden edition of January 31, 2009
2. ^ Sächsische Zeitung, Riesa edition of February 10, 2014
3. ^ Thomas Rietz: Acceptance of the connecting line to Starbach. Accessed July 2, 2014 (German). 
4. ↑ Christoph Feldhaus: Press release reactivation Starbach. Retrieved February 1, 2018 . 
5. ↑ News from the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie GmbH. Retrieved February 1, 2018 . 
6. ↑ News from the Nossen-Riesaer Eisenbahn-Compagnie GmbH. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .