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Dresden-Klotzsche Railway Station
Dresden-Klotzsche station (german: Bahnhof Dresden-Klotzsche) is a railway station in the town of Klotzsche, Saxony, Germany. The station lies on the Görlitz–Dresden railway, Dresden-Klotzsche–Königsbrück railway and Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Flughafen railway. History In the early decades since the opening of the Görlitz–Dresden railway by the ''Saxon-Silesian Railway Company'' (german: Sächsisch-Schlesische Eisenbahngesellschaft) in the first part of 1845, trains ran past Klotzsche. In 1873, the Royal Saxon State Railways (which had taken over the company in 1851) was directed to build ''Klotzsche-Königswald'' station, so that the royal family's summer trips to the Dresden Heath (''Dresdner Heide'') could start by train to Klotzsche. The station was named after the locality that developed a little later into the villa estate of Königswald. From 1884, the narrow gauge railway to Königsbrück had its terminus on the station forecourt. For freight transport it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klotzsche
Klotzsche is a borough ('' Stadtbezirk'') of Dresden, Germany. It consists of four quarters (''Stadtteile''): *Klotzsche proper *Hellerau *Rähnitz *Wilschdorf The borough is located north of the Elbe Valley and the Dresden city centre, on the western rim of the Lusatian Plateau. It borders the extended Dresden Heath woodlands on the Prießnitz river in the south and east, and the area of Moritzburg in the northwest. Klotzsche hosts the major Dresden weather station and the international airport of the city. While Klotzsche has a historic villa quarter, that quarter does not have many residents. The northern part comprises the major industrial locations of Silicon Saxony, such as GlobalFoundries, Fab 1, and Infineon Technologies Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semicond . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
