Saxon Northeast Railway
A railway project in Upper Lusatia was designated as the Saxon Northeast Railway , which provided for a direct railway connection between Löbau and Riesa parallel to the Saxon-Prussian border . Until the First World War, only the Löbau– Radibor line and a short section near Kamenz serving only goods traffic were completed. In January 1927, the construction of the connection was finally canceled.
history
Löbau – Radibor
The standard gauge secondary line Löbau - Weißenberg / OL was already on August 1st, 1895 . opened. Originally intended as a section of a planned main line to Weißwasser , this line was later included in the Saxon Northeast Railway project. In 1898, the preparatory work for the Weißenberg – Radibor line began. Since a continuation from Radibor was not yet guaranteed, the route was created from 1902 as a standard-gauge secondary line with the parameters of a main line. A later double-track expansion was prepared in particular for all bridges.
On November 10, 1904, the first section Weißenberg – Baruth was opened. On May 1, 1906, the entire line to Radibor went into operation.
Radibor – Kamenz
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On January 13, 1912, the Saxon State Government approved the construction of the Radibor – Kamenz connection with Decree No. 29. In April 1912 the Kgl. Saxon State Railways commissioned with the first preparatory work for the route construction. A total cost of 6.29 million marks was planned. To reduce construction costs, the necessary building land should be transferred to the state free of charge. In the Saxon route designation scheme, the abbreviation RK (for Radibor – Kamenz) was intended for the new route.
Two variants in particular were discussed for the alignment:
- A southern variant should begin in Kleinwelka at the secondary railway Bautzen – Hoyerswerda and lead via Sollschwitz and Räckelwitz to Kamenz. There the line was to merge into the existing line Kamenz – Bischofswerda . The Bautzen – Kleinwelka line should be upgraded to two tracks due to the expected increase in traffic.
- The northern variant should begin at the connection of the already existing route in Radibor and lead via Crostwitz and Nebelschütz . The integration into the Kamenz train station was planned from the north. Part of the route was identical to the southern variant.
In addition to initial preparatory work, however, construction did not start. The main reason for this was the strong resistance of the mostly Sorbian population against the project, which was not prepared to provide the required land free of charge. In addition, the cut through area was very village-like. There was almost no industry that relied on cheap rail transport, so that there were no local advocates for the project. With the beginning of the First World War, the work on the construction of the line finally came to a standstill.
During the First World War, a military airfield was built north of Kamenz from 1916 . In 1917, a connecting line was planned there according to the northern variant up to a provisional end point near Bernbruch . The short industrial railway was opened in 1918.
Kamenz-Radeburg
At no time were there more specific plans for the section between Kamenz and Radeburg . From Kamenz, the route should lead along the Pulsnitz valley to Königsbrück. A connecting curve to the Klotzsche – Schwepnitz line was to be built near Königsbrück Ost , and a new Königsbrück Nord stop was planned for passenger traffic.
Another variant provided for a route further south through the Haselbachtal. In that case, the line would only branch off the existing Kamenz – Pirna line at Bischheim. The connection to the numerous quarries near Häslich would have been advantageous, as they would have guaranteed a brisk freight traffic.
Radeburg – Priestewitz
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The connection between Radeburg and Priestewitz was one of those projects that began as emergency work after the First World War. Work on the route began in the summer of 1919. Construction costs of 5 million marks were planned. In the Saxon route designation scheme , the abbreviation PR (for Priestewitz – Radeburg, corresponding to the kilometers from Priestewitz) was intended for the new route.
As a result, the track between Radeburg and Beiersdorf was largely completed, but tracks were not laid because of the missing bridges. A new Radeburg Nord train station was built near Radeburg . The future terminus of the narrow-gauge railway Radebeul Ost – Radeburg was also planned in Radeburg Nord . The two-kilometer-long extension of the narrow-gauge railway had initially been provisionally completed in order to serve construction train traffic. The first renovation work had also begun at Böhla station on the Berlin – Dresden line .
On November 14, 1923, the construction of the connection was canceled due to excessive costs. When the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft was founded on October 1, 1924, the project was finally given up completely due to financial constraints. In January 1927 the work was officially stopped. From June 23, 1931, the land expropriated for railway construction was returned to the previous owners. A sports field was later built on the site of the Radeburg Nord train station. To the west of Ebersbach, the street name Am Bahndamm on a path following the route still reminds of the unrealized railway connection.
In connection with the expansion of the main line Leipzig – Dresden , a complete reorganization of the rail traffic in the Dresden node was planned. Since December 2010, long-distance traffic from Leipzig has been carried from Böhla to Dresden via the Berlin – Dresden main line. A new line was built between Priestewitz and Böhla , which roughly follows the route design of the 1920s.
literature
- Wolfram Wagner, Peter Wunderwald: The big book of the Lößnitzgrundbahn Radebeul Ost - Radeburg , Wilsdruffer Bahnbücher, Nossen 2008; Pp. 146-149