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54-601: Leipzig-Dresden Railway may refer to: Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company , a former railway company in Saxony, Germany Leipzig–Dresden railway , the first long-distance railway line in Germany, which was built by the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

108-478: A cutting in the run-up to the electrification in 1958/59 because its roof was too low for the installation of overhead wire and because its damaged roof allowed surface water to penetrate. Electrification was completed on the line from Leipzig Hauptbahnhof and Leipzig Bavarian station to Böhlen on 2 October 1961. Several more sections of electrification were opened, finally reaching Reichenbach on 20 December 1963. The only local service between Hof and Feilitzsch

162-535: A new line between Plauen and Hof since 1874. All proposals have assumed that the new line would start at Weischlitz on the Plauen–Cheb railway . The route would then have run via Wiedersberg and reconnected with the existing line at Hof. From 1884 onwards the community of Plauen sent a petition to the Saxon Landtag (parliament) every year, but the request was not implemented. A second serious attempt to promote

216-583: A new track was laid parallel to the two existing ones and opened on the 19 May of the following year. It was nationalised in 1876 and it became part of the Saxon-Bavarian Railway. It was closed in 1999. On 14 January 1867, a 6.8 km-long branch line was opened from Neukieritzsch to Borna . On 8 April 1872 this was extended by 55.7 km to become the direct Leipzig–Chemnitz line . The inconvenient terminal station in Altenburg

270-459: A railway to link Leipzig with Strehla (on the river Elbe), had already been put forward before 1830 by the Leipzig merchant, Carl Gottlieb Tenner. Tenner's idea gained new impetus after the state economist in Leipzig, Friedrich List , publicised his plans for a German railway system in 1833, in which it was envisaged that Leipzig would function as a central hub. That same year, a railway committee

324-476: A shortening of the route was made in 1913 and a third was made at the end of the 1930s. Preliminary work actually began, but it was stopped in favour of other projects with more military significance. The Werdau wye–Plauen section would have been upgraded to four tracks at the same time; the new section would have begun at Weischlitz and tunnelled under the heights of the Vogtland. The new line would have re-entered

378-525: Is dominated by coal mining and mining landscapes composed of lakes in abandoned open cuts and slag heaps. There are four tracks as far as Gaschwitz and then three tracks to Böhlen. In Altenburg , the landscape becomes hilly and the line then follows the valley of the Pleiße . In Gößnitz the line intersects with the Mid-Germany connection and then passes through Crimmitschau and Werdau before reaching

432-530: Is one of the oldest railways in Germany . As a result of the division of Germany after the Second World War, the line lost considerable importance. Even after German reunification in 1989/90, the line has not been able to regain its former importance, especially as government policy gave preference to the extensive upgrade of the parallel Großheringen–Saalfeld railway . The remaining long-distance services ended In 2006. After its founding in 1835,

486-404: Is reached at kilometre 164.7. Leipzig Bayer Bf ( 51°19′38″N 12°22′57″E  /  51.3272°N 12.3824°E  / 51.3272; 12.3824 ) The station was built to the plans of Eduard Pötzsch. Although the section of the line to Altenburg was commissioned in 1842, the station was not completed to 1844. In the following decades the station was expanded several times to cope with

540-722: Is the former border station of Gutenfürst , where only three main tracks remain. At the 151.699 km mark (from the Leipzig Bavarian station) the line leaves Saxony. In Bavaria the line crosses the A72 autobahn and passes through the village of Feilitzsch . The station was closed in June 1973, but re-opened on 15 September 2006; it is only served by the Vogtlandbahn and the Erfurter Bahn on request. Hof Hauptbahnhof

594-573: The City Tunnel . At Leipzig-Connewitz station , it connects with the former Verbindungsbahn ("connecting line") from Leipzig Hbf , over which all traffic ran until November 2012 and the Leipzig freight ring ( Leipziger Güterring ). Since the closure of the connecting line, the Leipzig–Hof line is no longer directly accessible from Leipzig Hbf. The line then runs through southern Leipzig, which

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648-669: The Engelsdorf–Leipzig-Connewitz railway (which was opened in 1906) between the former Tabakmühle junction and Leipzig-Connewitz was closed in 2012 and dismantled with the opening of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland in 2013. Leipzig-Connewitz was the starting point of the Leipzig–Hof line during the reconstruction of the line to connect with the new City Tunnel. The remaining part of the Leipzig Hbf–Leipzig-Connewitz route from Stötteritz runs past

702-668: The Großheringen–Saalfeld railway , the projection has not been implemented. In the course of the construction of the Leipzig City Tunnel , work was carried out on the Leipzig–Hof to integrate in the network. This work enabled the City-Tunnel to be integrated into the existing network, as part of the creation of the new S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland network. Since the end of 2011, the S-Bahn line has been moved from

756-409: The Leipzig City Tunnel , but still in the cutting leading to its southern ramp. It is part of the southern connection from the city tunnel to the existing network. Its planning name was Semmelweisstraße . Two 140 metre-long side platforms were built, which are located directly south of Semmelweisstraße, a street that was recently built to connect Kurt-Eisner-Strasse with Zwickauer Straße. Access to

810-495: The Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company ( Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie , LDE) received a concession to build a railway on the Leipzig–Hof route, but the company waived its right due to the difficulties that were to be expected. Thereupon a railway committee formed in Leipzig, and other cities such as Plauen, Altenburg and Bamberg also expressed interest in a railway connection. However, the financing as well as

864-661: The Werdau wye , where it connects with the line from Dresden to Werdau . It then enters northern Vogtland . Two kilometres west of Neumark the line to Greiz branched off until it was closed in 1999. Electrification of the line currently ends at Reichenbach , where a section with interesting structures begins, including the Göltzsch Viaduct at Netzschkau and the Elster Viaduct at Jocketa. The route then reaches Plauen , which has seven stations, but trains on

918-540: The Altenburg–Paditz section, which is about four kilometers long, was completed on 25 November 2013 after more than two years of construction; this work included the restoration of operations on two tracks. Since the summer of 2011, around €36 m have been invested and at the same time about 8 kilometres of track have been renewed; 11 kilometres were fully reconstructed and four railway overpasses and one road overpass as well as two culverts were built. In

972-527: The British engineers Sir James Walker and Hawkshaw surveyed the proposed routes and recommended the northern route via Strehla (estimated cost: 1,808,500 thalers) over the route via Meißen (1,956,000 thalers). On 16 November 1835 the purchase of land began for the section between Leipzig and the Mulde bridge north of Wurzen. On 1 March 1836 the first sod was cut. Oversight for the entire project lay in

1026-570: The Easter trade fair in 1835 the shares of the company (nominally valued at 100  thaler ) were fully subscribed within just a few hours, making a capital sum of over one million thalers available. On 6 May 1835 the Saxon state government authorised the construction and operation of the line as well as the issue of non-interest bearing bonds to the value of 500,000 thalers. The total capital generated thus amounted to 1.5 million thalers. In October 1835

1080-921: The Elster Viaduct was partly blown up by the Wehrmacht , and the Saale viaduct (near Unterkotzau) was significantly damaged by air raids. Rail traffic came to a standstill and was resumed only after the end of the war. After the Second World War, no trains initially operated across the line of demarcation between the Russian and the American occupation zones at Gutenfürst. All the trains terminated in Gutenfürst and Feilitzsch. Interzonal freight traffic recommenced in 1946, passenger services only recommenced in 1947. The Altenburg tunnel had to be converted into

1134-626: The German states of Saxony , Thuringia and Bavaria , originally built and operated by the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company. It runs from Leipzig through Altenburg , the Werdau wye junction, Reichenbach and Plauen to Hof . The Werdau–Hof section is part of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line ( Sachsen-Franken-Magistrale ), the line connecting Dresden and Nuremberg . Its first section opened in 1842 and it

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1188-616: The Leipzig-Dresden Railway was transferred to the Royal Saxon State Railways . The 'railway monument' in Leipzig, erected in 1878, commemorates the development of the Dresden railway from its emergence as a private initiative of Leipzig citizens to its nationalisation. The following list is incomplete: Saxon-Bavarian Railway The Leipzig–Hof railway is a two-track main line in

1242-497: The S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland since 15 December 2013. Line S3 services also run from Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof to Neukieritzsch and line S2 services also run to Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz. The services on lines S1 and S4 running towards Leipzig-Stötteritz use the short section between Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof and Leipzig MDR. The route starts at the Bayerischen Bahnhof (Bavarian station) in Leipzig, where it connects to

1296-569: The Saxon-Bavarian Railway only stop at Plauen upper station and Jößnitz. After Plauen station, the line turns back to the north, while the line to Bad Bramstedt and Cheb turns off to the south. After Syrau the line turns back to the west and in Mehltheuer it connects with the line from Gera . At Schönberg after connecting with the line to Schleiz and the closed line to Hirschberg , it turns south and runs over three very short sections that cross Thuringian territory. The last station in Saxony

1350-408: The area of the former Altenburg tunnel, about 1000 metres of support wall and 500 metres of trough construction were built. In the future trains in this section will be able to operate at up to 150 km/h. The line between Plauen and Hof is almost twice as long as the straight line distance, which is around 26 kilometres, considerably increasing travel time. There have been plans for

1404-595: The city in a large curve and finally entered the Dresden railway north of Dresden station. On 1 December 1860 the Leipzig-Dresden Railway opened a side line that branched off the main line in Coswig and ran to Meißen . On 14 May 1866 it opened services on another side line, which branched off the main route in Borsdorf and initially ran as far as Grimma ; then on 28 October 1867 to Leisnig , on 2 June 1868 to Döbeln , on 25 October 1868 to Nossen and on 22 December 1868 it

1458-500: The company. Two large viaducts were needed to cross the Göltzsch or Elster valleys. Since no experience had been acquired in building such large bridges, the two viaducts were ultimately twice as expensive as originally planned. The double-line construction as well as the complicated route surveyed between Plauen and Hof cost more than had been planned. On 21 September 1846, the Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company had to cease financing

1512-557: The completion of the Elbe bridge at Riesa, the entire route from Leipzig to Dresden was finally opened. A second track was built immediately afterwards and the route was then operated with traffic running on the left, in line with English practice until 1884. From 1851 to 1878 a single-tracked, 5 km long, connecting railway was operated in Leipzig, that branched off from the Saxon-Bavarian Railway , ran eastwards around

1566-607: The construction work and asked the Kingdom of Saxony for help. On 1 April 1847, the Kingdom of Saxony purchased the company and operated it as the Saxon-Bavarian State Railways ( Sächsisch-Bayerische Staatseisenbahn ). The private railway company had begun construction work on the Plauen–Hof section to obtain further revenue to finance the expensive bridge structures as quickly as possible. This section

1620-403: The east side (route 6362) to the west side (route 6377) of Leipzig as a result of this work. Markkleeberg Nord station was rebuilt and Leipzig-Connewitz , Markkleeberg and Markkleeberg-Großstädteln stations were adapted. Several bridges were replaced and the track infrastructure were rebuilt with new overhead, turnouts and noise barriers. One track of line 6362 between Connewitz and Gaschwitz

1674-583: The electrification started on 21 July 2010. The Reichenbach–Herlasgrün section was completed in December 2011. In addition to this, extensive work had to be carried out on the Göltzsch Viaduct and several road bridges with too little clearance for electrification were replaced. The electrification of the Herlasgrün–Plauen section took place between February and December 2012. This included

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1728-521: The existing railway network in Feilitzsch. At the beginning of the 1990s, there were again discussions on the construction of a new route between Weischlitz on the Plauen–Cheb railway and Feilitzsch, which would have shortened the Plauen–Hof section from 49 to no more than 32 kilometres. Because of the high costs and the routing of interregional long-distance traffic between Berlin and Munich via

1782-528: The hands of the Saxon Senior Waterways Construction Engineer ( Oberwasserbaudirektors ), Karl Theodor Kunz. Then however the town council of Strehla rejected the building of the railway. So the line was re-routed over the river Elbe 7 km further south at Riesa . On 7 April 1839 the first train ran over the Elbe railway bridge at Riesa. The route was taken into operation in several stages: On 7 April 1839, on

1836-460: The line from Nossen to Moldau - was completed on 15 July 1873, and extended as far as Mulda/Sa. by 2 November 1875. On 15 August 1876 the route reached the Bohemian border at Moldau . After the collapse of the Elbe bridge at Riesa, the general assembly of the shareholders decided on 29 March 1876 to sell the Dresden railway to the state of Saxony. On 1 July 1876 the operation and management of

1890-422: The line within two years, and the rest within another four years. Railway construction began on 1 July 1841 under the leadership of Karl Theodor Kunz, and initially work was carried out on the easily built section of the line from Leipzig to Reichenbach. The Leipzig–Altenburg section was already completed in 1842. Test runs took place on the section on 6 September 1842 and it was opened on 19 September of

1944-455: The platforms is by stairs and ramps. Leipzig-Connewitz ( 51°18′01″N 12°23′09″E  /  51.300251°N 12.385743°E  / 51.300251; 12.385743 ) Leipzig-Connewitz station opened on 10 July 1889 as Connewitz loading point ( Ladestelle ). The connection from Connewitz to Leipzig was opened in 1891. The station was opened on 1 November 1893 as a halt ( Haltestelle ) and renamed Leipzig-Connewitz in 1897. The halt

1998-722: The renewal of three road overbridges. A frequency changer was set up in Hof for the production of railway power . The power between Plauen (Vogtland) and Hof was connected on 9 November 2013 and regular electric train services commenced to Hof on 15 December 2013. Restoration and other residual work were expected to continue until 2014. The cost of the whole works was expected to be around €120 million. RE 3 Regional-Express services have been operated between Dresden and Hof since then using double-deck carriages and electric haulage. The Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof–Werdau wye section has been served by services on lines S5 and S5X of

2052-529: The route of the line and the Hof border station was signed between the three states of Saxony , Saxe-Altenburg and Bavaria on 14 January 1841. However, the final route also touched the territory of Reuss Elder Line and Reuss Junior Line . On 12 June 1841, the Sächsisch-Baierische Eisenbahn-Compagnie (Saxon-Bavarian Railway Company) was founded in Leipzig, which, according to the concession, had to finish one-third of

2106-572: The same year. The Altenburg–Crimmitschau section was put into operation on 15 March 1844. A branch was also opened to the remote town of Zwickau . The Crimmitschau–Werdau and Werdau–Zwickau sections were inaugurated on 6 September 1845. With the opening of the Werdau–Reichenbach section on 31 May 1846, a connection was also opened to the Vogtland . The building of the viaducts at Werdau had already caused financial difficulties for

2160-415: The station. The S-Bahn trains run between Connewitz and Gaschwitz over the suburban tracks, line number 6377. There are platforms on the suburban tracks only, which were built on the location of the former long-distance tracks and opened in 2013. Markkleeberg-Nord ( 51°17′17″N 12°22′20″E  /  51.288136°N 12.372136°E  / 51.288136; 12.372136 ) Markkleeberg-Nord halt

2214-406: The strongly growing traffic. With the opening of Leipzig Hauptbahnhof , the station lost considerable importance since all long-distance traffic was now handled at the main station. Leipzig MDR ( 51°19′12″N 12°23′11″E  /  51.319935°N 12.386346°E  / 51.319935; 12.386346 ) The above-ground Leipzig MDR station, which opened on 15 December 2013, is outside

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2268-477: The technical feasibility were not yet assured. Investors wanted to wait to see if the LDE and its Leipzig–Dresden railway would succeed and the Saxon state gave the project little support; only surveys of route for the line were carried out 1837. Railway construction was finally approved on 20 June 1840, but railway construction was to be undertaken by a private company with interest-free state loans. A treaty covering

2322-524: The title Leipzig-Dresden Railway . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Leipzig-Dresden_Railway&oldid=634512936 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leipzig%E2%80%93Dresden Railway Company The idea of building

2376-634: Was converted into a through station between 1876 and 1878. This required a new alignment with a tunnel through a ridge south of the town. On 1 September 1879, a 9.9 km-long branch line was opened from Gaschwitz (now in Markkleeberg ) on the main line, running via Gautzsch (now Markkleeberg West) to the Plagwitz-Lindenau station of the Saxon State Railways on the southern outskirts of Leipzig. The terminal station in Hof

2430-612: Was discontinued in 1972. On 30 October 1972 there was a serious railway accident in Schweinsburg-Culten when two express trains collided and 28 people died. In the 1990s, the Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit ("planning corporation for German unity railway construction") developed plans for an upgrade of the railway lines between Leipzig and Zwickau, which had not been implemented by 2011. The renovation of

2484-530: Was dismantled to make space for the Markkleeberg Nord platform. Gaschwitz station was renamed Markkleeberg-Gaschwitz with the start-up of the new S-Bahn network. The electrification of the roughly 73 km-long section between Reichenbach and Hof made it possible to run electric trains between Leipzig and Dresden and Hof. This made the integration of Plauen and Hof into the electrically operated S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland possible. Construction of

2538-514: Was finally extended as far as Meißen, so that a parallel southern route was established between Borsdorf and Coswig. The Großenhain branch, opened on 14 October 1862, went into the ownership of the LDE on 1 July 1869. On 15 October 1875 the LDE opened a connecting route from Riesa to Elsterwerda (since 1815 part of the Kingdom of Prussia ), that from 17 July 1875 was linked to Berlin and Dresden. The route from Nossen to Freiberg – as part of

2592-593: Was founded which, on 20 November 1833, submitted a petition to the lower house of the Saxon Parliament ( Sächsischer Landtag ) in Dresden for the construction of a railway from Leipzig to Dresden . In 1835, the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company was founded as a private company by twelve citizens of Leipzig, including: Albert Dufour-Féronce (1798–1861), Gustav Harkort (1795–1865), Carl Lampe (1804–1889) and Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth (1807–1881). At

2646-487: Was opened on 1 July 1889 under the name of Oetzsch . It has had the following names: After Oetzsch and Markkleeberg had united to form Oetzsch-Markkleeberg in 1915, the station retained the name of Oetzsch . It was only with the incorporation of the new town of Markkleeberg that it was renamed to Markkleeberg . In 1969, the station was integrated in the Leipzig S-Bahn network , which since 2013 has formed part of

2700-569: Was opened on 20 November 1848 and the state railways started operations on the last section from Reichenbach to Plauen on 15 July 1851. The Neumark–Greiz line was opened in 1865; it was later extended to Neumark and connected to the Saxon-Bavarian railway. Trains on this line used the Neumark–Brunn section of the Leipzig–Hof line between 1865 and 1886. With increasing traffic, this section became congested, so from 1885 onwards

2754-488: Was opened with the commissioning of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland on 15 December 2013. It is served by lines S2, S3, S5 and S5X. It is located on the suburban tracks, line number 6377, and because of the space needed for the platform, the main line between Leipzig-Connewitz and Gaschwitz has been reduced to one track since 2013. Markkleeberg ( 51°16′45″N 12°22′21″E  /  51.279117°N 12.372490°E  / 51.279117; 12.372490 ) Markkleeberg halt

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2808-680: Was reclassified as a station in 1905. The station is a railway junction in southern Leipzig. Between 1888 and 1925, the Leipzig-Connewitz–Plagwitz railway connected the industrial area of Plagwitz to the Saxon State Railways network. Between 1876 and 2012, the Leipzig Hbf–Leipzig-Connewitz railway (known as the Zweite Verbindungsbahn —"second connecting railway") ran from Leipzig Hauptbahnhof (called Leipzig-Dresdener Bahnhof until 1915). The section of

2862-555: Was replaced by a through station in 1880. From 1888 to 1925, the Leipzig-Connewitz–Plagwitz railway branched off the Leipzig–Hof railway to the south of Connewitz station to connect the Leipzig Bavarian station with the Plagwitz-Lindenau station of the Saxon State Railways. On 1 April 1920, the Royal Saxon State Railways was absorbed into the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR). The Leipzig–Hof line

2916-469: Was then administered by the Dresden railway division ( Reichsbahndirektion Dresden ). Although the line was one of the most important railways in Germany, it was long spared from Allied air raids. Thus, although some stations in the southern section of the line became the target of air raids in 1944, in contrast to other routes, largely scheduled operations continued until 1945. It was only in April 1945 that

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