Elbe terrain railway
| Heidenau – Heidenau Elbe terrain railway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 6675; sä. BDE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4,337 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | A. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 12.5 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 180 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Elbgeländebahn was a branch line in the urban area of Heidenau that only served freight traffic and was last operated as a connecting line until it was closed in 2007 .
history
A large paper factory has existed in Heidenau since 1893, which at the time of its founding was known as Krause & Baumann AG , after 1945 as VEB Papierfabrik Heidenau and today belongs to Dresden Papier AG . The company is located on a plot of land on the eastern outskirts of Heidenau, which is bordered by the Elbe and the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway line . For reasons of space, the company's original siding only consisted of a short stump track that was connected to the main line via a shunting turntable and an underpass.
When the four-track expansion of the main line was planned from 1915, the old siding had to be abandoned for reasons of space. The paper mill now favored a connecting line that would branch off the main line in the Sporbitz corridor and then lead in a right-hand arc around the center of Heidenau to the paper mill. On September 13, 1915, seven interested parties, including the communities of Mügeln and Heidenau, founded a civil law partnership (GbR) to finance the route privately. The Saxon state approved the project and agreed to cover part of the construction costs.
However, the implementation of the project did not begin until after the First World War . In 1919, the total cost of building the line was estimated at 1,435,000 marks, of which the GbR had to finance a total of 435,000 marks. On August 28, 1919, a construction company in Sebnitz began construction work, which was completed by March 1921. On March 14, 1921, the new industrial line was fully commissioned. The current Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Dresden, took over the operation of the line .
The original project was based on a continuation to the Pirna train station . Although a building contract was even placed in November 1926, it was never realized.
Until about 1963 the DR operated the railway as a connecting railway. At the beginning of the 1960s, at the beginning of the railway, a large concrete plant was built as a prefabrication company for the housing construction of the VEB Housing Combination Dresden in the Dresden- Sporbitz district . After a working group consisting of representatives of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and the new connection at the beginning of the line had recommended that responsibility for the operation of the entire railway should be transferred to VEB Housing Combine, the latter assumed sole management from the site of the concrete plant from 1963 with its own factory railway from the DR transfer point at the Sporbitz concrete works (several tracks) for the entire route to the VEB paper factory Heidenau . For this purpose, a separate connecting railway company (as a sub-organization of the concrete plant) was set up. The railway also served the VEB Mühlenbau siding in the direction of Dresden. The newly built transfer tracks DR / Werkbahn were located at the beginning of the concrete plant north of the Reichsbahn tracks. As part of the investment project “New Concrete Plant Sporbitz”, the Werkbahn initially acquired a V 15 diesel locomotive and later, from 1965, two V 18 diesel locomotives from VEB Lokomotivbau Babelsberg that can be operated in double traction from a driver's cab. Their maintenance (so-called deadlines) took place in the RAW Karl-Marx-Stadt, where the locomotives drove on their own. In the mid-1960s, many block trains successfully went from the concrete plant to certain construction sites, such as the expansion construction site of the VEB Chemiewerk Nünchritz (now Wacker Chemie ) or the NVA military site in Warenshof, Neustrelitz district.
Today there is only one track of the entire connecting line and the transfer system on the site of the concrete plant, which used to lead to the locomotive shed, approx. 200 to 300 m long (the locomotive shed itself has been demolished), as well as a longer section of track in the direction of Dresden-Niedersedlitz ( former connection mill construction).
After the political change in eastern Germany in 1990, the route lost a large part of its traffic. The concrete plant went bankrupt in 1994 and by around 1998 all of the plant's facilities were demolished. By then at the latest, Deutsche Bahn resumed operations itself. An industrial area jointly planned by the cities of Dresden and Heidenau has been planned for years on the former concrete factory site. Until the end of 2012, however, only the development had taken place and a large storage and multi-purpose building was built on the western part of the area. From then on, the paper mill relied on road transport, most of the other affiliated companies ceased production. After that, the Sachsen-Malz GmbH plant, established in 1990, was the only freight customer. On November 5, 2004, DBAG officially gave up freight transport. In March 2007, the dismantling of the track system began. The section from the Mühlenbau connection via the Dresden-Zschachwitz Hp to the former transfer tracks in the concrete plant is still there. There is also the stump of the track to the company Präg, formerly Trunkel OHG. It is not certain whether there will still be freight traffic on this remnant. .
literature
- Johannes Raddatz: Railway in Saxon Switzerland Volume 1; Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer 2010.
- Kurt Kaiß, Mathias Hengst: Dresden's Railway 1894-1994 ; Alba Verlag Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5 .
- Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Saxon State Railways. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-344-70700-0 .