Dresden Albertbahnhof

The coal station on a city map from 1898 (center left)

The coal station on a city map from 1927 (center left)

The Albertbahnhof was a train station in the Dresden district of Wilsdruffer Vorstadt . The station, which opened in 1855 as the terminus of the Albertsbahn , served primarily to supply Dresden households and industry with hard coal from the Plauen reason . In 1868 the railway line was integrated into the Bohemian railway station and the station , henceforth known as the coal station, served only goods traffic from 1869. After the Second World War, the station gradually degenerated into insignificance.

Investments

Albertbahnhof was located west of the city center between Freiberger Strasse and Weißeritz (after the Weißeritz had been rerouted in 1893: between Freiberger and Löbtauer Strasse ).

The former station building was a single-storey half-timbered construction. After cessation of passenger traffic, it was used for officials' apartments and for shipping goods.

history

From 1853 the Albertsbahn AG built a railway line between Dresden and Tharandt to better develop the coal mining areas in the Plauenschen Grund. The line was opened on June 18, 1855 and ended at the Albertbahnhof in Dresden. As a result, several long loading streets next to the Albertbahnhof were used to reload coal from freight cars to carts. The Elbezweigbahn , opened in 1856 , a 4.30 kilometer long branch track from the Albertbahnhof to the disembarkation point on the old town side of the Elbe, north of the Marienbrücke, served for better onward transport across the Elbe . In the years that followed, industry grew rapidly around the Albertbahnhof. The Michel cement factory was established in 1857 and in 1862 Hans Siemens bought the Löbtau plate glass factory and expanded it.

The importance of the route in passenger traffic only increased when it found a continuation from Tharandt to Freiberg in 1862 . On July 1, 1868, however, the Saxon state bought the Albertsbahn and then linked the line to the Bohemian Railway Station a little further to the east. The Albertbahnhof was therefore closed to passenger traffic on March 1, 1869. From then on, it was mainly used to load hard coal and was given the name Dresden-Altstadt coal station .

At the turn of the century, the throughput of the coal station was around 500,000 tons per year, which is more than all of Dresden's other freight stations combined. From 1900 the coal station also supplied the Westkraftwerk with fuel.

Dilapidated building of the freight yard, which was demolished in 2017

With the gradual exhaustion of the coal deposits in Plauenschen Grund in the 1930s, the importance of the coal station decreased. After the station's facilities were severely damaged in World War II, they were only poorly repaired. Only the local coal trade still took place in the station itself. For the construction of the neighboring World Trade Center in Dresden , a concrete mixing plant was built in 1993 in the area of ​​the coal station. Sand, gravel and aggregates were delivered by rail. In the following years, the track systems that were no longer needed were dismantled step by step in the course of building projects and road renovations.

Today the Weißeritzgrünzug is located on part of the station . There is a sign pointing to the former coal station.

literature

• Adolph Canzler , Alfred Hauschild , Ludwig Neumann: The buildings, technical and industrial plants of Dresden . Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1878.
• Kurt Kaiß, Matthias Hengst: Dresden's Railway: 1894–1994 . Alba publication, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5 .

Web links

Commons : Albertbahnhof Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} kaiß / Hengst: Dresdens Eisenbahn, page 94ff

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 55 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 55"  E