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Reitzenhain–Flöha Railway
The Reitzenhain–Flöha railway, one of two lines also called the Flöha Valley Railway (german: Flöhatalbahn), is a branch line in Saxony in East Germany. It links the city of Chemnitz with Flöha, Lengefeld, Pockau Pockau is a village and a former municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, Germany. On 1 January 2014 it was merged with the town Lengefeld to form the town Pockau-Lengefeld. Pockau is on the Silver Road (''Silberstraße''). Geor ..., Olbernhau and Marienberg, Saxony, Marienberg, formerly also Neuhausen/Erzgeb. and Reitzenhain (Marienberg), Reitzenhain and runs through the valleys of the Flöha (river), Flöha and the Black Pockau. The line belongs today to DB Regio-Netz Erzgebirgsbahn. History Origins A railway into the upper Flöha valley and to Marienberg was already under consideration in 1863, when the construction of the Saxon-Franconian trunk line, railway between Chemnitz and Freiberg was discussed. A more southern route than the pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxony
Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of the communist East Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pockau
Pockau is a village and a former municipality in the district of Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony, Germany. On 1 January 2014 it was merged with the town Lengefeld to form the town Pockau-Lengefeld. Pockau is on the Silver Road (''Silberstraße''). Georgaphy Originally a forest village (''Waldhufendorf''), Pockau is located in the valley of the Flöha at its confluence with the Black Pockau. To the north lie the one-time forest villages of Görsdorf und Forchheim, the latter in the valley of the Haselbach. To the east, in the Flöha valley, lie Wernsdorf and the settlement of Nennigmühle. To the west is the settlement of Marterbüschel. The highest point in the former municipality of Pockau is the Brandhübel, at a height of ; the lowest point is the Flöha valley at around . The Saidenbach Dam {{Infobox dam , name = Saidenbach Dam , name_official = , image = Saidenbach-Staumauer.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = The Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppendorf, Saxony
Eppendorf () is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Geography The municipality of Eppendorf lies in the lower Ore Mountains, about 20 kilometres east of the city of Chemnitz and 15 kilometres southwest of Freiberg. Eppendorf runs along the river of the Große Lößnitz, a tributary of the Flöha. The neighbouring, formerly independent villages of Kleinhartmannsdorf and Großwaltersdorf were integrated in 1995 and 1998, respectively. History Eppendorf was founded in the 13th century as a new settlement in the form of a Waldhufendorf The ''Waldhufendorf'' ("forest village"; plural: -''dörfer'') is a form of rural settlement established in areas of forest clearing with the farms arranged in a series along a road or stream, like beads on a chain.Dickinson, Robert E (1964). ''G .... The first official mention occurred in 1336. For most of its early history, it was a farming village and later also the location of a hunting lodge of Elector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schweinitz Valley Railway
Schweinitz is a village and a former municipality in the Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2009, it is part of the town Möckern Möckern is a town in the Jerichower Land district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated east of Magdeburg. The Battle of Möckern took place south of the town in 1813. History Möckern was originally called "Mokrianici" by the Slavs who s .... Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Möckern {{JerichowerLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deutschneudorf
Deutschneudorf is a municipality in the district Erzgebirgskreis, in Saxony, Germany. Geography Deutschneudorf is situated next to the border to the Czech Republic in the valley of the Schweinitz river, downstream from Nová Ves v Horách. It is a dispersed settlement typical for the upper regions of the Ore Mountains. The villages of Deutschkatharinenberg and Oberlochmühle, located downstream on the Schweinitz, Brüderwiese, located upstream on the Schweinitz tributary Mühlgraben, and Deutscheinsiedel, northeast of the latter, have been incorporated administratively. The municipality is traversed by state road S214, which meets in Deutscheinsiedel with Saxon state roads S207 from Sayda and S213 from Seiffen, and with Czech state road 271 from Litvínov. History First mining activities in the area of the later municipality are reported from about 1514. August Rohdt, owner of smelting works in Grünthal was awarded the mines ''Fortuna'' and ''Pallas'' in 1620, and had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Saxon State Railways
The Royal Saxon State Railways (german: Königlich Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen) were the state-owned railways operating in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1869 to 1918. From 1918 until their merger into the Deutsche Reichsbahn the title 'Royal' was dropped and they were just called the Saxon State Railways (''Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen''). History En route to a state railway After the completion of the privately financed Leipzig–Dresden railway in 1839, the Saxon parliament also began to get involved in railway construction. Early on it was recognised that railway lines to Bavaria, Bohemia and Silesia were needed and that there ought to be a route running north-to-south through the kingdom. The funding of this plan lay in the hands of privately financed railway committees. The state, however, saw itself arranging for the corresponding political and legal hurdles to be cleared. On 14 January 1841 a treaty was agreed with the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Duchy of Saxony-Altenbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chomutov
Chomutov (; german: Komotau) is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 46,000 inhabitants. There are almost 80,000 inhabitants in the city's wider metropolitan area. The city centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administrative parts Chomutov is made up of one administrative part and is the only such Czech city. Geography Chomutov is located about northwest of Prague. It lies on the river Chomutovka in the Ore Mountains Foothills. The surface is mostly flat with some hills in the north and southeast of the city. The highest point of the municipal territory is Hůrka , a hill on the northwestern municipal border. There are several bodies of water on the outskirts of the city. Alum Lake and Velký Otvický Pond are used for recreational purposes. History The first written mention of Chomutov is a deed of gift from 1252, when it came into the possession of the Teutonic Order. The Gothic church of St. Cathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxon-Franconian Trunk Line
Saxon-Franconian trunk line (german: Sachsen-Franken-Magistrale) is a modern term for a double-track railway route between the German cities of Dresden and Nuremberg. It is 390 kilometres long and currently electrified from Dresden to Hof. The concept of the Saxon-Franconian trunk route was developed in the transport policy debate in the 1990s during consideration of direct rail services connecting Dresden and Görlitz with Karlsruhe and Oberstdorf. The term is not traditionally used in relation to the railway lines now described by it. Route The route runs from Dresden to the southwest through the Ore Mountain Foreland (''Erzgebirgsvorland''), running from Dresden to Zwickau parallel with the Ore Mountains. Between Plauen and Hof it passes through the Vogtland. The route then cuts through the Fichtelgebirge range, the Franconian Jura and Franconian Switzerland. Dresden–Hof See: *Dresden–Werdau railway *Leipzig–Hof railway Hof–Nuremberg See: * Weiden–Oberkotzau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erzgebirgsbahn
The Erzgebirgsbahn (sometimes abbreviated as EGB) is a German railway company and a DB Regio, RegioNetz subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn. It operates in the Ore Mountains (German: ''Erzgebirge'') region of southern Saxony, near the towns of Chemnitz and Zwickau. The company is responsible for maintaining and operating services over five railway lines: * Chemnitz – Flöha – Erdmannsdorf (Augustusburg), Erdmannsdorf-Augustusburg – Hennersdorf (Augustusburg), Hennersdorf – Wolkenstein – Annaberg-Buchholz – Cranzahl – Bärenstein – Vejprty. :*Annaberg-Buchholz–Flöha railway :*german section of Vejprty–Annaberg-Buchholz railway * Chemnitz – Flöha – Falkenau – Pockau, Pockau-Lengefeld – Olbernhau/Marienberg, Saxony, Marienberg. :*active section of Reitzenhain–Flöha railway :*Pockau-Lengefeld–Neuhausen railway * Chemnitz – Thalheim/Erzgeb., Thalheim – Zwönitz – Aue, Saxony, Aue. :*longest active section of Chemnitz–Adorf railway * Zwickau – Aue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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