Freital-Potschappel-Nossen narrow-gauge railway

Freital-Potschappel-Nossen
Excerpt from route map of Saxony 1902
Route number :	6978; sä. PNo
Route length:	38.8 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Maximum slope :	33  ‰
Minimum radius :	80 m
Top speed:	30 km / h
Legend 0.000 Freital-Potschappel 162 m (Connection from main line Dresden – Werdau ) Connecting track to the Weißeritztalbahn ( Three- rail track 1435/750 mm) Oppelschacht connecting railway 1.880 Freital- Zauckerode 184 m Albertschacht connecting railway 2.990 Wurgwitz formerly Niederhermsdorf 207 m 3.817 Wurgwitz Bridge (62.2 m) 5.936 Kesselsdorf Bridge (18 m) 6.690 Kesselsdorf 318 m 9.310 Grumbach 287 m 10.900 Wilsdruff 271 m 11,034 Saubachtal Bridge (58.9 m) 11.139 EÜ Landbergweg (13.2 m) 11.300 Saubachtal fork point to Meißen-Triebischtal 13.770 Birch grove - Limbach 279 m 15.262 Kleine Triebisch bridge (17.3 m) 17.910 Helbigsdorf (b Wilsdruff) 254 m 18,351 Triebisch Bridge (12.65 m) 20.160 Herzogswalde 275 m 22.210 Mohorn 335 m 26.020 Oberdittmannsdorf 335 m to Klingenberg-Colmnitz 26.270 EÜ farm road (14.8 m) 27.820 Niederdittmannsdorf 297 m 28.640 Dittmannsdorfer Bach Bridge (11.9 m) 29.150 Dittmannsdorfer Bach Bridge (11.9 m) 29.420 Oberreinsberg 273 m 30.080 Dittmannsdorfer Bach Bridge (11.9 m) 30.306 Dittmannsdorfer Bach Bridge (14.8 m) 30.420 Bridge Dittmannsdorfer Bach (18 m) 30.640 Bridge Dittmannsdorfer Bach (10 m) 30.900 Niederreinsberg 250 m 32,442 Mulde bridge 32.540 Obergruna - Bieberstein 241 m 34.820 Siebenlehn 237 m 37.470 Mulde bridge 37.640 Nossen Hp 219 m 37.685 Mühlgraben Bridge (10 m) 37.904 Mühlgraben Bridge (18 m) 38.035 Mulde bridge (97.6 m) 38.760 Nossen 220 m (Connection to main line Borsdorf – Coswig )

The narrow-gauge railway Freital-Potschappel-Nossen was a Saxon narrow-gauge railway . It ran from Freital - Potschappel via Kesselsdorf , Wilsdruff and Mohorn to Nossen . The line opened in 1886/99 was one of the more frequented narrow-gauge railways and was shut down in 1972.

history

Prehistory and construction to Wilsdruff

The traffic conditions around Wilsdruff were extremely bad until the beginning of the 19th century. Several highways were built and around 1840 Wilsdruff was opened up with stagecoach connections to Nossen and Dresden. The private Albertsbahn AG, with its Dresden – Tharandt line, opened up the coal deposits around Freital from 1855, and other shafts were connected via branch lines, for example in 1856 with the Niederhermsdorfer coal branch line coal pits in Zauckerode and Niederhermsdorf . The city of Wilsdruff in particular wanted a direct rail connection, but it still failed for the time being, although a railway committee was founded specifically for this in 1863. This is how the Borsdorf – Coswig line of the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (LDE) , which was opened in the second half of the 1860s, ran north of the area around Mohorn and Wilsdruff, and the Albertsbahn via Wilsdruff to Freiberg could not be continued.

In the period that followed, the Dresden-Wilsdruff-Altenburg (1871/72) and Potschappel-Wilsdruff-Deutschenbora (1876) projects failed. The reason for this was that the costs were too high; it was only with the Railroad Regulations, which were of secondary importance for German railways, that the cost-effective construction of railway lines became possible from 1878. Since narrow-gauge railways were allowed from now on, the Potschappel-Wilsdruff-Deutschenbora project was taken up again in 1882/83, but with Nossen as the end point. In 1883 the proposal for a narrow-gauge railway Potschappel − Wilsdruff was submitted to the Saxon state parliament , the construction of the line was approved on February 4, 1884.

Initially, preliminary work was carried out, and the actual construction work began in September 1885. In addition to the large bridge near Wurgwitz, a small bridge and numerous culverts were required for the route, larger buildings were only built in Potschappel and Wilsdruff. Around 96,000 m³ of soil were changed for the approximately 11 km long route and around 14.5 km of track with 39 points were laid. Between Potschappel and Niederhermsdorf, the route of the existing Niederhermsdorf coal branch line was shared over a length of 2.3 km by inserting a third rail into the standard-gauge track . The construction costs of the line, which opened on October 1, 1886, amounted to around 730,000 marks.

Extension to Nossen

From the beginning in Wilsdruff an extension to the Borsdorf – Coswig railway line was desired; in addition to Deutschebora (via Blankenstein ), Nossen (via Mohorn) was the final point of discussion. The latter proposal was approved by the state parliament in April 1896. The standard gauge projects Dresden − Wilsdruff − Leipzig and Wilsdruff − Lommatzsch − Döbeln, which were set up shortly afterwards, were not pursued any further.

Mohorn station in 1905

Since the preparatory work took much longer than planned, construction of the railway began in 1898. For the approximately 28 km long continuation, 220,000 m³ of soil had to be moved and around 30.5 km of track with 72 points had to be laid. The opening of the section took place on February 1, 1899.

Route extensions

During its operating time, the line was expanded several times. In 1909 the line from Wilsdruff via Meißen and Lommatzsch to Döbeln was opened. This route enabled a continuous, narrow-gauge connection to the existing routes around Mügeln . The line was closed in sections between 1966 and 1972.

With the redesign of the Freitaler railway facilities after the turn of the century, a connecting track to the Weißeritztalbahn was put into operation in 1913. Since this three- rail track supplied various standard-gauge sidings in the Freital city area, it was not approved for public transport. The track was dismantled in 2003 in connection with the reconstruction of the Dresden – Werdau railway line after the Weißeritz flood in 2002 .

From 1921 to 1923, the last newly built narrow-gauge railway in Saxony was the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Oberdittmannsdorf line. The line had only insignificant traffic during its entire operating time and was closed in 1971.

Accidents

Accident near Kesselsdorf in 1901

On January 28, 1901, a freight train was blown off the bridge on the Kesselsdorf bridge by strong crosswinds. As a result of the accident, in which no one was injured, a windbreak fence was built on the bridge and the adjoining railway embankment.

The greatest accident on the narrow-gauge railway was the collapse of the Wurgwitzer Bridge on November 4, 1935. The lower chord of the bridge broke under the load of a heavy freight train driven by a leader locomotive. The vehicles did not crash, and no people were injured. Within two months, the bridge was rebuilt with used superstructures, so that train traffic could be resumed on January 6, 1936.

Shutdown

Former route in Reinsberg

Former route in Reinsberg, in the background: dump, hothouse and wheelhouse from the IV. Light hole of the Rothschönberger Stolln

Viaduct over the Saubachtal in Wilsdruff , status 2015

Preserved steel girder viaduct over the Freiberg Mulde near the former Obergruna-Bieberstein train station, as it was in 2015

In particular, the expensive operation of the narrow-gauge railway became more and more of a problem after the Second World War, and the structural condition was initially sufficient. Various measures were taken to reduce costs, but most of them did not have the desired effect. In the early 1950s, neither the VT 137 600 multiple unit nor the narrow-gauge V 36 K diesel locomotives used in the early 1960s . Only with the introduction of the simplified branch line operation in the 1950s with the establishment of two train control stations (Wilsdruff and Mohorn) could personnel be saved at the intermediate stations.

Therefore, from the beginning of the 1960s, a change of mode of transport was sought. Larger route repairs were banned, so in the second half of the 1960s the travel time between Freital-Potschappel and Wilsdruff doubled. Short-term replacement rail services became increasingly common . On a trial basis, rail replacement traffic was introduced for all journeys on the Mohorn − Nossen section in May 1971, but was abandoned after a few days because the road traffic did not prove itself.

Goods traffic on the Freital-Potschappel-Mohorn section ceased on February 1, 1972. The last passenger train on the entire route ran on May 27, 1972, and passenger traffic officially ceased on October 1 of the same year. Freight traffic between Nossen and Oberdittmannsdorf continued for the time being after May 27, 1972. Since the vehicles used here were cut off from the locomotive treatment systems in Wilsdruff, the Nossen locomotive shed was restored at short notice. At the end of September 1972, the last freight train ran on the Oberdittmannsdorf-Obergruna-Bieberstein section, the Obergruna-Bieberstein-Siebenlehn section was last served on March 31, 1973. Since the leather fiber factory at Siebenlehn received a new road access, freight traffic to Siebenlehn had to be maintained until December 3, 1973.

The dismantling of the line officially began on January 1, 1974. Large parts of the tracks were removed by 1976. The three-rail track in the Freital city area was only dismantled in 1982. To this day (2019), however, some of the track systems in Freital-Potschappel have been preserved, as these were still needed as operating tracks for the wagon repair center there until 2002. There was also a connecting track parallel to the main line between Freital-Hainsberg and Freital-Potschappel. After the shutdown, most of the narrow-gauge railroad vehicles were dismantled and scrapped, only a small number made it to other narrow-gauge railways. Of the locomotives, only the two replica VI-K 99 713 and 99 715 remained as museum locomotives.

Todays use

Photo at the beginning of the redesign of the Wilsdruff depot in 1993

In 1984, the construction of the Wilsdruffer museum complex on the site of the former Wilsdruff Hp station began. In 2000 the city of Wilsdruff acquired the area of the Wilsdruff train station .

In 2007, the redesign of the depot as a railway museum began. Today a collection of railway vehicles and objects from the railway operations in the Wilsdruffer network can be seen on the area of ​​three tracks. In addition, the history of the Saxon narrow-gauge railways and the Wilsdruffer network is presented.

In the immediate vicinity of the train station is the Saubach Valley Viaduct , which has been preserved at least over its largest extension. Only the area across Parkstrasse was partially removed.

Today, most of the former route is used as a cycle or hiking trail. The entire sections from Nossen to Wilsdruff and from Kesselsdorf to Freital-Potschappel are accessible by bike. Some sections, like a large part of the former waiting halls, were completely removed and returned to agricultural use.

Vehicle use

See also : "Vehicles" in the article Saxon Narrow Gauge Railways

The vehicles used corresponded to the general Saxon building and procurement regulations for the narrow-gauge railways and could therefore be freely exchanged with vehicles on other Saxon narrow-gauge lines.

In the early years, the triple-coupled IK locomotives were initially used on the line. Later, the train service was handled by the Saxon class IV K (class 99.51-60). From the 1920s, the high-performance, five-fold coupled type VI K (99.65-71 series) was used, which handled all traffic until the final shutdown in 1973. As an alternative, when these locomotives were not available (problems after the reconstruction ) in the 1960s, locomotives of the 99.73-76 and 99.77-79 series were also used , preferably on the Freital-Potschappel - Wilsdruff section.

Freight traffic was initially handled with narrow-gauge freight wagons. From 1910, rolling vehicle traffic was also introduced so that standard-gauge wagons could switch to the narrow-gauge.

Route description

course

Starting from the Freital-Potschappel train station on the Dresden-Werdau railway line , the narrow-gauge line ran on a three- rail track with the normal-gauge Niederhermsdorf coal branch line for almost 1.8 kilometers to the Freital-Zauckerode stop , where the two lines separated. Now the route ran to Kesselsdorf in the valley of the Wiederitz . This section of the route is now an asphalted bike and footpath. The local situation Kesselsdorf was crossed in the southern area, then the route ran straight to the west next to the "Grumbacher Straße". In Grumbach the route turned to the northwest. It now ran straight from the south to Wilsdruff station , which was the center of the Wilsdruff network.

North of the Wilsdruff station, the tracks turned to the northwest. Shortly afterwards the Wilde Sau was crossed over a bridge , behind which after a few meters the route to Gärtitz branched off towards the north. The route to Nossen initially continued west and turned south-west after the next station Birkenhain-Limbach . The Kleine Triebisch was crossed and behind Herzogswalde the valley of the Triebisch was reached, which the railway followed to Mohorn . Then the route climbed up from the valley to the watershed.

In Oberdittmannsdorf the valley of the Dittmannsdorfer Bach was reached. Here the narrow-gauge railway branched off to Klingenberg-Colmnitz in the south. The railway line to Nossen continued to the west in the valley of the Dittmannsdorfer Bach. After its confluence with the Bobritzsch , the route followed this body of water in a north-westerly direction up to its confluence with the Freiberg Mulde at the level of the Obergruna-Bieberstein station . The last kilometers ran continuously north to the terminus in Nossen in the valley of the Freiberg Mulde.

Operating points

Freital-Potschappel ⊙

Narrow-gauge layout of Freital-Potschappel train station in 2015

→ Main article : Freital-Potschappel train station

Of the six Freital train stations, Freital-Potschappel train station was the most important. Since 1856 the Niederhermsdorfer coal branch line branched off here to two hard coal shafts. When the Potschappel – Wilsdruff narrow-gauge railway was opened in 1886, its route was also used. Extensive freight and reloading facilities were built in Potschappel, which were expanded again with the elevation and the four-track expansion after 1900.

In 1913 a narrow-gauge connecting track was built, which was used for freight traffic and vehicle exchange with the Weißeritztalbahn . The narrow-gauge railway in the direction of Wilsdruff was shut down in 1972, since then only the coach repairs of the Weißeritztalbahn in Freital-Potschappel have been carried out.

Freital-Zauckerode ⊙

Reception building of the Freital-Zauckerode train station (2015)

The Freital-Zauckerode stop was opened on October 1, 1886 under the name Zauckerode . With the incorporation of the place into Freital, the station received its later name on June 1, 1923. After being appointed a station on March 27, 1933, the station's reception building received an extension with a goods floor. In 1939 the station building was bought by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. On July 1, 1964, the station was downgraded to a halt before it went completely out of service on May 28, 1972. As far as the Freital-Zauckerode station, the narrow-gauge line ran on a three-rail track with the standard-gauge Niederhermsdorfer coal branch line .

The reception building is still there at the location on “Bahnhofsweg” in Zauckerode. The former rotten accommodation, which served as accommodation for the people working on the route, has been preserved between two garages to this day.

Wurgwitz ⊙

Wurgwitz stop, today a fire station

The Wurgwitz stop was consecrated on October 1, 1886 under the name Niederhermsdorf and dedicated to the station in 1905. The station had the following names:

• until 1904: Niederhermsdorf
• until 1921: Wurgwitz-Niederhermsdorf
• since 1921: Wurgwitz (incorporation from Niederhermsdorf to Wurgwitz )

On February 1, 1968, the station was downgraded to a breakpoint before it went completely out of service on May 28, 1972. The station had a reception building, a residential building, a car body, a goods shed, and a loading ramp, of which the first three high-rise buildings are still there. The Wurgwitz fire fighting train of the Freital volunteer fire brigade is based in the station building on “Kesselsdorfer Straße”, which was built in 1913.

Kesselsdorf ⊙

Kesselsdorf station, reception building (2017)

The Kesselsdorf station was opened as a stop on October 1, 1886 and dedicated to the station in 1905. On May 28, 1972, the station in the west of the town on “Grumbacher Straße” went out of service. The reception building, built in 1915, is still present at the site. A bus stop has been created in front of the area, behind the building is the day care center “Stop Kinderherzen”.

Grumbach (b Wilsdruff) ⊙

Reception building, Grumbach stop (2015)

The Grumbach stop (b Wilsdruff) opened as the Grumbach stop on October 1, 1886 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In 1933 it was downgraded to a stop and in 1935 it was renamed Grumbach (b Wilsdruff) . On May 28, 1972, the station went out of service. At the location on "Bahnhofsweg" in the east of Grumbach, the reception building from 1920, the residential building, the farm building and the loading ramp are still there.

Wilsdruff ⊙

Wilsdruff station

→ Main article : Wilsdruff railway station

The Wilsdruff station was built on October 1, 1886 as the provisional terminus of the railway line from Freital-Potschappel. With the opening of the lines to Nossen on February 1, 1899 and to Gärtitz (via Meißen and Lommatzsch) , Wilsdruff station became a hub for the narrow-gauge railway.

After the line in the direction of Meißen / Gärtitz was discontinued on May 22, 1966, the Wilsdruff station went out of service with the discontinuation of the Freital-Potschappel – Nossen line on May 28, 1972. On the area in the south of the city of Wilsdruff on "Freiberger Straße" is now the "Narrow-gauge Railway Museum Historischer Lokschuppen Wilsdruff". In addition to the locomotive shed, the reception building, business and residential buildings and the goods shed have been preserved.

Saubachtal ⊙

Saubachtal fork point (2017)

The Saubachtal fork point was created with the opening of the narrow-gauge railway Wilsdruff – Gärtitz in 1909 west of the bridge over the Wilde Sau , which gave the branch its name. In 1954 there was a makeshift station at this point for the construction of the new Saubachtal bridge. On May 22, 1966, the route to Gärtitz via Meißen was discontinued. When the Freital-Potschappel – Nossen line was closed, the Saubachtal fork point went out of service on May 28, 1972. Today there is an intersection of the cycle paths that were created on both routes at the site.

Birkenhain-Limbach ⊙

Loading ramp at the Birkenhain-Limbach stop

The Birkenhain-Limbach stop was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In 1933 it was downgraded to a stop, and later to a stop. The station had a wooden waiting room with a toilet, a railway house and a loading ramp, all of which are still there. On May 28, 1972, the Birkenhain-Limbach stop went out of service. The station was located outside in the east and southeast of the places Limbach and Birkenhain on the street "An der Struth". Today there is a rest area for hikers in front of the loading ramp.

Helbigsdorf (b Wilsdruff) ⊙

Helbigsdorf (b Wilsdruff)

The Helbigsdorf stop (b Wilsdruff) was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. On October 1, 1969, the downgrade to the breakpoint took place. The station had the following names:

• until 1911: Helbigsdorf near Wilsdruff
• until 1933: Helbigsdorf b Wilsdruff
• since 1933: Helbigsdorf (b Wilsdruff)

The station had a wooden waiting room with a toilet, a house and a car body, all of which are still there, except for the latter. On May 28, 1972, the Helbigsdorf stop (b Wilsdruff) went out of service. The station was located in the western part of Helbigsdorf on the "Talstrasse". There is now a bus stop there, which is called "Helbigsdorf Alter Bahnhof".

Herzogswalde ⊙

The Herzogswalde stop was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In 1933 it was downgraded to a stop, later the station was only a stop. The station had a wooden waiting room with a toilet and a car body, all of which are no longer there. On May 28, 1972, the Herzogswalde stop went out of service. After that, the area served as a coal storage area for some time. The station was located a little way out west of Herzogswalde in the Triebisch valley on today's federal highway 173 .

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  Former Herzogswalde stop (2017)

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  Display board of the Herzogswalde stop

Mohorn ⊙

Engine shed at Mohorn station

Mohorn station was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In addition to the station building, he owned a goods shed, engine shed and a residential building that have been preserved to this day. In the 1950s, Mohorn station became one of two train control stations next to Wilsdruff.

On February 1, 1972, freight traffic in the direction of Freital-Potschappel was stopped. On May 28, 1972, the Mohorn station went out of service. The station was in the center of the village. Two row houses were built next to the station building. The locomotive shed is used by a model railway association and a company.

Oberdittmannsdorf ⊙

Oberdittmannsdorf station

The upper Dittmannsdorf station was opened on 1 February 1899 as stop on the narrow gauge railway Freital-Potschappel-Nossen dedicated in 1905 to the station. When it opened, the station had two crossing tracks. After the completion of the Klingenberg-Colmnitz-Oberdittmannsdorf narrow-gauge railway in 1923, the station was enlarged by three additional tracks and became a crossing and branching station. It also had access to the local grain mill and a building material supply. The station had a wooden waiting room with a toilet, which was demolished in 1995. On September 26, 1971, rail traffic to Klingenberg-Colmnitz was discontinued. On October 1, 1972, the Oberdittmannsdorf station went out of service.

Niederdittmannsdorf ⊙

Gasthaus Niederdittmannsdorf at the stop of the same name

The Niederdittmannsdorf stop was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In 1933 it was downgraded to a stop and later a stop. The station had a waiting room with a toilet, a car body and a goods shed. On May 28, 1972, the Niederdittmannsdorf stop went out of service. In addition to the car body and the goods shed, the building of the former station restaurant and the loading street are also located at the former level crossing "Freiberger Straße" in Niederdittmannsdorf. The site of the station has been used as a storage area since it was closed.

Oberreinsberg ⊙

Remaining track at Oberreinsberg stop

The Oberreinsberg stop was opened on February 1, 1899. The station had a waiting room that no longer exists. The station was closed between February 1, 1924 and May 5, 1925. On May 28, 1972, the Oberreinsberg stop finally went out of service. Today there is a bus stop at the location in the eastern part of Reinsberg on the "Talstrasse". There is an automobile service and a petrol station nearby, which still had track remains.

Niederreinsberg ⊙

Loading ramp of the Niederreinsberg stop

The Niederreinsberg stop was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In 1933 it was downgraded to a stop and later a stop. The station had a waiting room with a toilet, a car body, a residential building and a loading ramp. On May 28, 1972, the Niederreinsberg stop went out of service. After the demolition of all the high-rise buildings, only the loading ramp on “Talstraße” at the western exit of the town reminds of the station. It was located near the mouth of the Dittmannsdorfer Bach in the Bobritzsch .

Obergruna – Bieberstein ⊙

Former Obergruna – Bieberstein station with BHG building on the right (2017)

The Obergruna – Bieberstein station was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and dedicated to the station in 1905. In addition to a waiting hall with a toilet, the station had a car body, a residential building, a loading ramp and a goods shed. With the cessation of passenger traffic on the entire route, the station became a freight yard on May 28, 1972. At that time, the freight trains only ran between Nossen and Oberdittmannsdorf, and from the end of September 1972 only to Obergruna – Bieberstein.

On April 1, 1973, what was now the Obergruna – Bieberstein freight yard went out of service. The station was located directly at the western end of the bridge over the Freiberg Mulde, which still exists today . The Bobritzsch flows into the Freiberg Mulde south of the station. The namesake places are about 2 kilometers southwest or south of the train station. The waiting hall of the station was demolished in 1984, later the car body followed. Today the goods shed and the residential building still exist on the site.

Siebenlehn ⊙

Siebenlehn stop

The Siebenlehn stop was opened as a stop on February 1, 1899 and consecrated as a train station in 1905. It was later downgraded to the breakpoint. The station had a house, a car body, a loading ramp and a toilet.

With the cessation of passenger traffic on the entire route on May 28, 1972, the station was only served in freight traffic. Since March 31, 1973 Siebenlehn was the end point of the line from the direction of Nossen, the freight traffic to the station had to be maintained until the road access to the nearby fiberboard plant was completed. On December 4, 1973, the Siebenlehn stop went out of service. Today there is a sewage treatment plant on the site east of the village in the valley of the Freiberg Mulde. The buildings were all demolished. The A4 motorway bridge is located directly north of the station .

Nossen Hp ⊙

Former Nossen stop (2017)

The Nossen stop was opened on February 1, 1899. He owned a waiting room with a toilet, which is no longer preserved today. With the cessation of passenger traffic on the entire route on May 28, 1972, the station was closed. The breakpoint was in the east of the city of Nossen between the Freiberger Mulde in the east and south and the "Dresdner Strasse" ( Bundesstrasse 101 ) in the north. Today only the bus stop “Nossen Bahnübergang” on “Dresdner Straße” reminds of the station.

Nossen ⊙

Nossen train station

→ Main article : Nossen train station

The Nossen station was opened by the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie on October 25, 1868 as part of the Borsdorf – Coswig railway. With the construction of the lines to Freiberg (1873) and Riesa (1877/1880) it became an important regional railway junction with a large depot that existed until the 1990s. With the opening of the Wilsdruff – Nossen section of the Freital-Potschappel – Nossen narrow-gauge railway, the station became a gauge changing station on February 1, 1899 . The last section of the narrow-gauge railway went out of service on December 4, 1973.

Since regular local rail transport on the Döbeln – Meißen route was discontinued in December 2015, the station has only been used for freight transport.

literature

• Dirk Lenhard, Marko Rost, Dietmar Schlegel: The 99.64-71 and 99.19 series . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 3-88255-197-6
• Ludger Kenning: Narrow-gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff . Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 .
• Erich Preuss , Reiner Preuss : Narrow gauge railways in Saxony . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71079-X .
• Gustav W. Ledig, Johann Ferdinand Ulbricht: The narrow-gauge state railways in the kingdom of Saxony. 2nd increased and improved edition. Engelmann, Leipzig 1895 (Reprint: Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-7463-0070-3 ).

Web links

Commons : Freital-Potschappel – Nossen narrow-gauge railway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the route on www.sachsenschiene.de
• Pictures of the route on www.stilllege.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 97 f.
2. ↑ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 98 f.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 99
4. ↑ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 102
5. ↑ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 119
6. ↑ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 119 ff.
7. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 97
8. ↑ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff , p. 121 ff.
9. ↑ Website about the museum complex Wilsdruff Haltpunkt on the website of the IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV
10. ↑ Internet site about the museum of historic locomotive sheds in Wilsdruff on the Internet site of IG Verkehrsgeschichte Wilsdruff eV
11. ^ Ludger Kenning: Narrow gauge railways around Mügeln and Wilsdruff ; Verlag Kenning 2000, ISBN 3-933613-29-9 , page 246
12. ↑ Kurt Qays, Matthias stallion: Dresden Railway - 1894-1994 , Alba, Dusseldorf, 1994, ISBN 3-87094-350-5 , page 147
13. ^ Manfred Weisbrod, Ingo Neidhardt: Sachsen-Report 5 - Track plans and route history , Hermann Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1997, ISBN 3-89610-014-9 , p. 68
14. ↑ Website with the definition of a Rottenunterkunft
15. ↑ The Freital-Zauckerode stop on www.stilllege.de
16. ^ Website of the Wurgwitz fire fighting train
17. ^ The Kesselsdorf train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
18. ↑ The Grumbach stop (b Wilsdruff) on www.sachsenschiene.net
19. ^ Website of the Wilsdruff Narrow Gauge Museum
20. ^ The Wilsdruff station on www.sachsenschiene.net
21. ↑ The Saubachtal fork at www.stilllege.de
22. ↑ Saubachtal train station on www.sachsenschiene.net
23. ↑ The Birkenhain-Limbach stop on www.sachsenschiene.net
24. ↑ The Herzogswalde stop on www.sachsenschiene.net
25. ^ The Oberdittmannsdorf train station on www.sachsenschiene.net