Roßwein–Niederwiesa railway

The railway line Roßwein - Niederwiesa is a branch line in Saxony. It runs from Roßwein by the Striegistal about Hainichen and Frankenberg Niederwiesa where the track ends with the confluence in the route of the main line Dresden- Werdau. Since 2004 is still only the 16.8 km long section between Niederwiesa and Hainichen in operation.

History

In the spring of 1867 construction began on the railway line between Niederwiesa and Hainichen. On March 1, 1869, the railway line as a branch of the main track between Chemnitz and Dresden by the Royal was. Saxon State Railways opened. Initially only wrong about two to three trains daily.

The 1872 Heinichen- Rossweiner Railway Company opened on August 15, 1874, 17 km long new line of Hainichen after Roßwein on the railway line Borsdorf - Coswig the Leipzig Dresden Railway Company. She went on 10 August 1876 in the ownership of the Royal. Saxon State Railways over which had led from the start to operate.

Located in the Harras Harras rock tunnel between Brown and Frankenberg village was known by a serious railway accident on 14 December 1913. About 100 cubic meters of rock broke away and blocked the south portal. Shortly after 22.15 clock went a wandering of Frankenberg Niederwiesa passenger train in the scree. The accident claimed 10 dead and 53 injured and is still one of the most serious railway accidents in Saxony.

May 24, 1998, the passenger traffic between Roßwein and Hainichen was canceled by the Free State of Saxony. On January 1, 2000, the freight was set to this section. On 11 July 2001, the Federal Railway Authority approved the closure of the section Heinichen- Rosswein, which was completed on 30 September 2001. In August 2002, it came to the most severe flood in Saxony, completely destroyed in consequence of bridges along this section of the flowing there Striegis and route parts were washed away, a reconstruction and a possible reopening of the route was thus finally no longer in question.

In October 2002, the Regio Infra Service Saxony (RIS ) leased the total distance. The section Niederwiesa - Hainichen was reopened after several years of renovation on December 11, 2004 by Chemnitz City Railway; as part of the redevelopment of the old breakpoint Frankenberg (Sachs ) South was abandoned and about 800 meters towards the city center, in the residential area "On the Wind " is replaced by a newly constructed breakpoint same name. As vehicles a diesel railcar type Regio-Shuttle will weekdays every hour two, used on Saturdays and Sundays every two hours.

2003/ 04, the portion Niederwiesa - Hainichen of the RIS was redeveloped, besides, also built in 1913 Harras tunnel concrete shells have been replaced by a shotcrete lining. The lower section between Hainichen and Roßwein however, remained unused. In 2005, he was abandoned by the Regio Infra Service Saxony and the city Hainichen gave the breakdown of the tracks in order to build on the route of a bike path.

Route

The now operated only from Hainichen route leads to Frankenberg by mainly agricultural area and happened shortly before the city's existing of four small and three large arches Lützeltalviadukt. After swinging into the narrow valley of Zschopau Harras rock is traversed with the 86 -meter-long tunnel Harras. Behind the breakpoint Brown village - light wood crossed the line first, a cluster of 24 arches stone viaduct the pastures of the Zschopau and immediately on a steel bridge over the river itself with a gradient of 1:100 she now leads back out of the valley and changed over a semicircle the course from east to west to meet after crossing the Niederwiesaer viaduct on the railway line Dresden- Werdau towards Chemnitz.