The Gottleuba Valley railway (german: Gottleubatalbahn) was the second railway line to be built in
Saxony as a ''
Sekundärbahn
Bavarian branch lines comprised nearly half the total railway network in Bavaria, a state in the southeastern Germany that was a kingdom in the days of the German Empire. The construction era for branch lines lasted from 1872, when the first rout ...
''. It ran along the
Gottleuba
The Gottleuba (Rybný potok in the Czech Republic) is a small river in the Czech Republic and in Saxony, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Elbe.
The Gottleuba's source is in the eastern part of the Ore Mountains (Central Europe), Ore Mounta ...
valley from
Pirna via
Berggießhübel to
Bad Gottleuba and was closed in 1976.
Sources
* Moritz Fischer: ''Wanderungen durch das Gottleubatal.'' Verlag Friedrich Axt. Dresden 1881.
* Rainer Fischer: ''Pirna – Gottleuba und Pirna – Großcotta.'' in: Wolf-Dieter Machel (Hrsg.): ''Neben- und Schmalspurbahnen in Deutschland.'' GeraNova Zeitschriftenverlag. München 1996.
* Rainer Fischer: ''Sekundärbahnen von Pirna nach Großcotta und Gottleuba.'' Verlag Kenning. Nordhorn 1998, .
* Tobias Nitsche, Jens Herbach: ''100 Jahre Eisenbahn Pirna – Gottleuba.'' Dresden 2005. (Eigenverlag)
* Erich Preuß, Rainer Preuß: ''Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen.'' transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. Berlin 1991.
External links
The former branch line in the Gottleuba valleySociety for the Preservation of Verein Langenhennersdorf Station
References
Railway lines in Saxony
Transport in Saxon Switzerland
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