Waschneck brickworks

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The Waschneck brickworks was a brickworks in the Luga district of the Saxon state capital Dresden .

Brickyard from the south (1990)

history

Former brickyard site (2020)

The brick factory was founded in 1897 by the landowner Wilhelm August Heyde. From 1916 the company was called the Emil Waschneck steam brickworks. In 1940 the brickworks were temporarily shut down due to the war. A camp was set up for the Air Force. On February 13, 1945 , the production facilities were badly damaged by an air mine. From 1947 onwards, with support from the Soviet military administration, the production of wet press blocks was started. In 1950 the Emil Waschneck brickworks was modernized and brick production was restarted. In 1972 the company became a state-owned company (VEB) and belonged to the Saxon brickworks in Langburkersdorf. Between 1973 and 1980, parts of the former clay pits served as a household waste dump, then as a building material dump. In 1991 the company was re-privatized as E. Waschneck GmbH. Also in 1991 the Austrian Eder GmbH took over the company management. In 1994 production was stopped and only bricks were sold on the site. In 1999 the brick buildings were demolished and in 2001 the chimney was blown up.

location

Sketch of the location of the brickworks (status 1991)

The brickworks and the clay pits were located in Luga south of the federal road 172 (now downgraded to the state road 172).

Field railway

Until 1993, the in-house means of transport was an approx. 700 m long conveyor track with a 600 mm track width and an approx. 300 m long ash track with a 500 mm track width. The train operation on the conveyor line was handled by two LKM Ns 1 light rail diesel locomotives . A rail pusher operated on the cinder track. The train traffic on the conveyor track took place continuously during the entire production time. The ash train only ran once or twice a week. After the cessation of operations, parts of the field railroad were taken over by the Dresden Historical Field Railroad Association . The overpass in the course of the old country road over the conveyor line was removed in 2013.

  • Conveyor railway: Maltengraben bridge (1990)

  • Conveyor railway: SÜ Alte Landstrasse (1990)

  • Conveyor Railway: Hairpin (1990)

  • Conveyor track: passing point (1990)

  • Conveyor Railway: Hairpin and passing point (1991)

  • Conveyor track: dismantling site (1990)

  • Ash track: Halde (1991)

  • Ash Railway: Engine Shed (1991)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on www.dresdner-stadtteile.de
  2. ↑ Data on www.sachsenschiene.de
  3. ↑ Holger Neumann and Henry Burde: Narrow gauge diesel locomotives , article from the monthly magazine Der Modelleisenbahner , May 1989 edition, ISSN  0026-7422
  4. ↑ Announcement of the state capital Dresden

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 8.5 "  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 28.8"  E