Railway worlds in the health resort Rathen

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Railway Worlds in the health resort of Rathen is the world's largest garden railway exhibition in G gauge. It is located in Rathen, Saxony . The exhibition mainly depicts typical local landscape scenes around the state capital Dresden and Saxon Switzerland .

Emergence

From the beginning of 2005, the owner Lothar Hanisch from Dresden / Stuttgart planned to buy a dilapidated three-sided courtyard in the health resort of Rathen and the surrounding property in order to expand it into the world's largest garden railway exhibition with a small guesthouse for railway enthusiasts, cyclists and water tourists. After a two-year construction period (total investment up to 2013: € 1.9 million), the facility was opened in 2007. The "Railway Worlds" are a replica of the railway landscape of the Upper Elbe between the Bohemian-Czech Děčín and Meissen with a double-track main line and seven branch lines. The name of the exhibition was determined by awarding a prize in the Sächsische Zeitung and is completely “Railway Worlds in the Kurort Rathen”. Around 80,000 visitors from all over the world visit the facility every year. It is constantly being expanded and completed.

investment

A garden railway on a scale of 1:25 with a total track length of around 4.6 kilometers, 88 switches, 285 buildings and around 350 meters of streams and rivers has so far been built on the 7,350 square meter area. The rock design was made with the help of around 300 tons of stone material. The 35 trains in continuous operation have to overcome height differences of over four meters. The system is controlled digitally by PC using the LGB MZS III control system.

Replica of the Pirna train station (in the background: the real Elbe Valley Railway )

Are shown in the model including the Moritz Castle , the Decin Castle , osterzgebirgische half-timbered houses that Neumannmühle in Kirnitzschtal , a replica of the Karl-May festival in Rathen , motives of Weißeritztalbahn which Sebnitztalbahn , the route Altenberg Heidenau , the " Lößnitz dachshund ", the narrow gauge railway in the Zittau Mountains , the Weesenstein castle , the castle Stolpen , the Kirnitzschtalbahn and the Elbe valley above Pirna with scenes of Dresden-Děčín , 28 stations in the region.

The Matterhorn and part of the Rhaetian Railway with the Landwasser Viaduct have also been part of the exhibition since 2015 . The "Model Matterhorn" is a good 5 meters high.

The exhibition is in the immediate vicinity of the "Kurort Rathen" train station. The paths through the garden railway exhibition are designed to be barrier-free throughout .

Visitor numbers

  • 2012: 80,000
  • 2016: 47,000

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garden railway between the track and the Elbe , Modellbahn Magazin October 2007
  2. ^ " A piece of Switzerland in Saxon Switzerland ", Sächsische Zeitung (Pirna edition) of July 27, 2015
  3. ↑ " Weesenstein get something onto the roof covering statement ," Saxon newspaper (issue Pirna) from November 12, 2016
  4. ↑ " Weesenstein get something onto the roof covering statement ," Saxon newspaper (issue Pirna) from November 12, 2016

Web links

Commons : Eisenbahnwelten im Kurort Rathen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 21.7 "  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 42"  E