Pirna–Gottleuba
Section of the 1902 Saxon rail map
Overview
Line number6603; Saxon PGl
Service
Route number313 (1971)
Technical
Line length17.610 km
(Line class: CM4 (1999)[1])
Track gauge1,435 mm
Minimum radius180 m
Maximum incline2.7  %
Route map
from Děčín
from Arnsdorf
0,000
 Pirna
(Keilbahnhof)
118 m
to Dresden
1,065
 Pirna Solidarität
from 1950
120 m
1,603
1,600
break in kilometrage +3 m
1,704
 Pirna Süd branch
to Großcotta
1,879
 Pirna Süd
from 1894
122 m
≈2,0
 Pirna Hp
to 1894
122 m
2,178
millrace bridge (11 m)
2,266
flood bridge
2,594
Gottleuba bridge (70 m)
3,89
 Pirna Ost
133 m
6,044
millrace bridge
6,45
 Pirna-Rottwerndorf
148 m
7,488
Textilchemie agrotex GmbH industrial siding
7,590
 Pirna-Neundorf
159 m
8,362
Gottleuba bridge (41 m)
8,980
millrace bridge
10,432
Anst VEB Hartpappen- und Fasergußwerk
11,443
Gottleuba bridge (70 m)
11,658
 Langenhennersdorf
234 m
11,985
factory ditch bridge
12,025
Gottleuba bridge (49 m)
13,74
 Berggießhübel-Zwiesel
284 m
14,927
 Berggießhübel
290 m
14,957
millrace culvert
15,036
Gottleuba bridge (22 m)
15,146
Berggießhübel bridge (52 m)
15,344
Field track culvert
15,486
Gottleuba bridge (62 m)
16,586
 Giesenstein
to 1922
314 m
16,848
Gottleuba bridge (12 m)
16,878
millrace bridge
16,947
culvert
17,187
culvert
17,547
culvert
17,607
 Gottleuba
328 m
17,725
end of the line

The Gottleuba Valley railway (German: Gottleubatalbahn) was the second railway line to be built in Saxony as a Sekundärbahn. It ran along the Gottleuba 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, ISBN 3-927587-38-9.
  • Tobias Nitsche, Jens Herbach: 100 Jahre Eisenbahn Pirna – Gottleuba. Dresden 2005. (Eigenverlag)
  • Erich Preuß, Rainer Preuß: Sächsische Staatseisenbahnen. transpress Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. Berlin 1991.
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References

  1. ↑ STREDA – Gesamtstreckenverzeichnis der DBAG; as at 1 February 2003


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