Railway line Schönberg – Hirschberg

Schönberg (Vogtl) –Hirschberg (Saale)
Section of the route map of Saxony (1902)
Route number :	6657; sä. SH
Course book section (DB) :	548 (1994)
Route length:	19.940 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Minimum radius :	250 m
Legend from Leipzig Bayer Bf 0.000 Schönberg (Vogtl) 515 m to Hof Hbf to Schleiz 3.767 Wisenta (17 m) 5.705 Lower Moscow 530 m 8.405 Tanna 571 m 14.068 Göttengrün - Gefell 598 m 16,158 Ullersreuth (Rettenmeier) 19,940 Hirschberg (Saale) 486 m At the Hirschberg leather factory

The Schönberg – Hirschberg railway is a single-track branch line in Saxony and Thuringia , which was originally built and operated by the Royal Saxon State Railways . The route, which has been traffic-free since 2012, runs from Schönberg (Rosenbach) to Hirschberg (Saale) .

history

In order to better develop their national territory, the government of the Principality of Reuss Younger Line planned a railway line that would branch off from the Leipzig – Hof railway line at Schönberg and lead to Hirschberg an der Saale . A narrow-gauge connection route along the Saale should also create the continuous connection to Lobenstein. In 1885 the Principality of Reuss Younger Line signed a contract with Saxony to build the lines. A little later, the Prussian State Railway planned its own route, which was to lead from the main line Leipzig – Saalfeld to Lobenstein . Thereupon the project of the narrow-gauge railway was abandoned, the construction of the regular-gauge secondary railway to Hirschberg was agreed on July 26, 1890 with a state treaty.

Construction work began in July 1891 and progressed very quickly, so that the line was completed a year later. The 19.94 km long route was opened on July 1, 1892.

Passenger traffic is set since 29 May 1994, the section from the junction of the siding to the sawmill Save Meier (km 16.2) to Hirschberg (Saale) has been shut down since August 21, 2000. The remaining section was initially operated under the direction of DB Netz , but closed in December 2005 for technical reasons. A subsidiary of the sawmill, Rettenmeier Air & Rail Betriebs GmbH & Co. KG , leased the connection on September 1, 2006, while at the same time converting the public infrastructure into a siding. After a renovation carried out in spring 2007, it was put back into operation at the beginning of June 2007.

The Rettenmeier company was approached several times a week by block trains from various railway companies until mid / late 2008 . Since then there have only been irregular transfers to the sawmill, and since June 29, 2012 there has been no traffic on the route.

Route description

course

The Schönberg (Vogtl) station is located at the Leipzig-Hof railway . The line leaves the station together with the Schönberg – Schleiz railway in a south-westerly direction. Behind Tanna it reaches its apex at the crossing of the Rosenbühl at a height of about 610 m. Shortly before reaching the Göttengrün - Gefell train station , the route makes an arc so as not to touch the Kingdom of Prussia . The gradient to the Saale valley was 21 per thousand. Travel to Hirschberg became more difficult after the GDR state border was established and a restricted area was introduced. Passengers without a valid pass had to leave the train in Tanna.

Operating points

Schönberg (Vogtl) ⊙

Schönberg Railway Station (2006)

→ Main article : Schönberg (Vogtl) train station

Until the Schleiz railway line was built, there was only one insignificant station on the Leipzig – Hof railway line in Schönberg. From 1886 a one-story station building, a boiler house and a coal shed were built. A goods shed had existed since 1875. With the construction of the Hirschberg line, the station was enlarged again at the beginning of the 20th century. The island train station was last significantly rebuilt in the 1990s.

Lower Moscow ⊙

The ten by five meter large reception building in Unterkoskau contained the waiting hall with service and luggage room. A free toilet and a car body completed the service building. The stump track on one of the tracks extended the loading route . The cattle were loaded at the end of the loading road.

Tanna ⊙

Reception building, farm building, goods shed, several car bodies, loading gauge and track scales made Tanna the largest on-the-go station. The generous head and side ramp was used to load cattle. Tanna was known for regular cattle markets. The railway buildings were a type of construction made of yellow brick .

Göttengrün-Gefell ⊙

In Göttengrün - Gefell , the reception building was a two and a half story type building like in Tanna. The service and waiting area was on the ground floor, the station master lived on the upper floor and his deputy lived on the top floor. The equipment of the station included a tool shed, the 18 meter long goods shed and a well. The station restaurant, which was not only used by passengers, also became famous.

Ullersreuth ⊙

As Ullersreuth station , the facilities of the connecting line of the Rettenmeier Holzindustrie Hirschberg company have been administratively managed at the current end of the line near Ullersreuth since 2013 . The connecting railway was built in 1995 together with the construction of the plant on the open road.

Hirschberg (Saale) ⊙

The station building in Hirschberg was also the well-known type construction. Behind it was the relatively narrow farm building. This was followed by the two-storey boiler house , each with an examination channel. Extinguishing pit, sand store, coal shed and water crane were part of the steam locomotive era . To change traction , a diesel filling station was built next to the boiler house. In the station area there were two connecting lines that were operated with a winch. There was a weighbridge in each of the three sidings and in one track of the station. There was a head and side loading ramp for goods traffic, an 18-meter-long goods shed with an expedition extension and loading dimensions. The warehouses around the train station were used by a leather factory and a wage mill.

The connecting line of the Hirschberg leather factory (formerly Heinrich Knoch), the most important freight customer on the line at the time, began at the station. Production of the plant ended in 1992.

literature

• Angela Carl, Mario Carl: Schönberg (Vogtl.) - Hirschberg (Saale). History of a branch line in the Russian Oberland . edition bohemica, Himmelkron 2010, ISBN 978-3-940819-14-7 .

Web links

Commons : Schönberg – Hirschberg railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European private railways '08 / 09 . DVV Media Group, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7771-0383-9 , p. 348-349 .
2. ^ Railway report . No. 2/06 , 2006, ISSN  0178-4528 , p. 68 .
3. ^ Railway report . No. 6/06 , 2006, ISSN  0178-4528 , p. 77 .
4. ↑ Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 1: Development, main lines, vehicles, depot and buildings. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-686-2 , p. 38 f.
5. ^ "Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, accidents and anecdotes , p. 33 f."
6. ^ "Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, accidents and anecdotes , p. 33 f."
7. ^ "Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, accidents and anecdotes , p. 35 f."
8. ↑ Data on Ullersreuth at www.sachsenschiene.net
9. ^ "Wilfried Rettig: The railways in Vogtland, Volume 2: secondary and narrow-gauge lines, accidents and anecdotes , p. 35 f."

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