Dresden port railway
| Dresden Friedrichstadt – Dresden-Altstadt Elbe bank | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 König-Albert-Hafen and Hafenbahn on a map from 1904
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| Route number : | 6608; sä. DEH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.531 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | CM4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 7.69 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dresden Hafenbahn was a branch line in the urban area of the Saxon state capital Dresden that was only used for freight traffic and is now only partially operated as a station siding of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt station. It was founded in 1893 by the Kgl. Saxon State Railways to connect the newly built König-Albert-Hafen .
history
Between 1891 and 1895, Dresden's Alberthafen was built in Dresden's Friedrichstadt - in the south of the Großer Ostragehege - as one of the largest inland ports in Germany at that time. The connection to the railway network was made by a " secondary railway ", which begins at today's Dresden-Friedrichstadt station . The line was opened on August 1, 1893 and initially used as a siding to the construction site. The port itself was first used for wintering ships in the winter of 1894/95; fully expanded, it went into operation on November 1, 1896.
An extension of the port railway led to the old port facilities on the Old Town Elbe, which remained in operation even after the opening of the new Alberthafen. There - at Dresden-Altstadt Elbufer station - there was a connection to the Elbezweigbahn , which had originally been built by Albertsbahn AG as part of their coal railway network .
In 1930, a total of 465,000 tons of freight were reloaded between rail and ship in the Alberthafen. This amount remained largely constant until the political change in eastern Germany in 1989/1990. In the 1970s and 1980s, block trains with gravel from Ottendorf-Okrilla often reached the port, where they were transferred to barges.
In 1991 and 1992 the volume of traffic on the port railway sank to an all-time low. The Dresden-Altstadt Elbufer station was no longer served due to a lack of demand, and the main line leading there was dismantled in the mid-1990s. In the Dresden harbor itself, traffic increased again from 1993. Mainly building materials such as cement and gravel, but also large containers, were reloaded. In 1993 the port handled 750,000 tons of cargo.
On 22 November 1996, the still remaining distance to Dresden harbor by decision of was the Federal Railway Authority declared a siding the train station Dresden-Friedrichstadt. Since then, all train traffic has been handled as shunting, and the remaining mechanical signal box in Dresden Harbor has been abandoned.
The private ITL railway company has had its headquarters in Dresden's Alberthafen since 1998 .
Route description
course
The port railway begins on the west side of the Dresden-Friedrichstadt station. There it is integrated into the entry and exit group of the marshalling yard via the tracks of the Berlin – Dresden railway line . In a 180 ° right-hand bend, the track leads past the former Dresden-Friedrichstadt depot , crosses under Hamburger Straße (before it crosses with the Flügelweg leading immediately afterwards to the Flügelweg bridge) and reaches the port station south of the port basin. A branching track crosses on the harbor bridge , a striking iron framework construction, the harbor entrance and leads to the loading tracks north of the harbor basin. The further route to the old town's bank of the Elbe, which has now been dismantled, ran along Magdeburger Strasse and joined the Elbezweigbahn from Dresden's old town near the former “ Yenidze ” cigarette factory .
Operating points
- Dresden-Friedrichstadt
Dresden-Friedrichstadt station is one of the largest marshalling yards in Germany. It is the starting point of the port railway.
Dresden harbor
The Dresden Hafen train station (formerly: Dresden König Albert-Hafen ) is located south of the port area. The nine-track facility is still in full operation today as a freight station. The station was closed in 1996 as an independent operating site.
Dresden old town Elbe river
The Dresden-Altstadt Elbufer station was put into operation as early as 1855 by Albertsbahn AG as part of their Elbezweigbahn . It was located on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden's old town and was originally used for loading coal. The station, which had become inoperative, was abandoned around 1990. Today there is a parking lot for tourist buses in its place. Several times a year the area is also used as a festival area by the Dresden bird meadow .
Connecting tracks
Connection Total Germany (tank farm Dresden)
Today's Total Deutschland GmbH tank farm on Hamburger Strasse has existed since the late 1920s. The company's connecting line branches off the port railway immediately after the Hamburger Straße underpass.
Connecting railway to the municipal cattle and slaughterhouse
The municipal cattle and slaughterhouse was built between 1906 and 1910 in the Ostragehege on the other side of the flood channel. The connecting line began on the northern port tracks and crossed the flood channel on its own bridge. When the slaughterhouse was closed in 1995, the connecting railway was also closed. Today it is dismantled.
Connection to Dresdener Mühle
The Dresden mill was built between 1912 and 1914 as the "Bienert'sche Hafenmühle" at the southeast end of the harbor basin. The siding that still exists is at the current end of the port railway line. It is only rarely used.
Connection Bramsch
The Bramsch spirits and yeast factory , founded in 1820, was one of the most traditional companies in Dresden. The short siding, which no longer exists today, was only installed after the First World War .
literature
- 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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Line closures in Saxony since 1994. (No longer available online.) Federal Railway Office , May 21, 2015, archived from the original on July 18, 2016 ; Retrieved July 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
