The Schwarzbach railway (german: Schwarzbachbahn) was a
Saxon narrow-gauge railway in
Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (german: Sächsische Schweiz) is a hilly climbing area and national park around the Elbe valley south-east of Dresden in Saxony, Germany. Together with the Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic it forms the Elbe Sand ...
. It began in
Goßdorf-Kohlmühle station on the
Sebnitz Valley railway and ran along the valley of the
Schwarzbach to
Hohnstein
Hohnstein () is a town located in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district of Saxony, Germany. As of 2020, its population numbered a total of 3,262.
Geography
It is situated in Saxon Switzerland, 12 km east of Pirna, and 28 km so ...
.
Overview
The line was opened in 1897 and closed and dismantled in 1951 in order to supply material for the
Berlin Outer Ring
The Berlin outer ring (german: Berliner Außenring, BAR) is a long double track electrified railway, originally built by the German Democratic Republic to bypass West Berlin in preparation for the building of the Berlin Wall during the division o ...
.
Since 1995 the Schwarzbachbahn Society has endeavoured to rebuild a section of the line and run it as a
museum railway. The former station ins Lohsdorf has been redecorated and new tracks laid there. The society has its headquarters in the station building at Goßdorf-Kohlmühle.
Sources
* Wolfram Wagner, Wolfgang König: ''Die Geschichte der Schmalspurbahn Goßdorf-Kohlmühle–Hohnstein 1897–1951''. 2. überarbeitete Auflage. Deutscher Modelleisenbahnverband der DDR, Dresden 1984.
* Karlheinz Uhlemann: ''Die ehemalige Schmalspurbahn Goßdorf-Kohlmühle–Hohnstein''. In: ''Mitteilungen des Landesvereins Sächsischer Heimatschutz'' Heft 3/2007, , S. 39–44.
* Matthias Hengst: ''Frühere sächsische Schmalspurbahnen nördlich der Elbe''. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1995, .
* Erich Preuß, Reiner Preuß: ''Schmalspurbahnen in Sachsen''. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, .
* Rainer Preuß, Erich Preuß: ''Schmalspurbahnen der Oberlausitz''. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin 1980, ohne ISBN.
* Klaus Kieper, Rainer Preuß: ''Schmalspurbahnarchiv''. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin 1980, ohne ISBN.
* Rolf Böhm: ''Wanderkarte der Sächsischen Schweiz – Brand-Hohnstein 1:10.000''. Verlag Rolf Böhm, Bad Schandau, 1993 (2. Auflage 2000, ).
References
External links
{{Commons category, Schwarzbachbahn
Homepage of the Schwarzbachbahn Society
Railway lines in Saxony
Hohnstein
750 mm gauge railways in Germany
Transport in Saxon Switzerland