The Schwarzbach railway (, ) was a Saxon narrow-gauge railway in Saxon Switzerland. It began in GoÃÂdorf-Kohlmühle station on the Sebnitz Valley railway and ran along the valley of the Schwarzbach to Hohnstein.
Overview
The line was opened in 1897 and closed and dismantled in 1951 in order to supply material for the Berlin Outer Ring.
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, which should reach Ehrenberg until 2026. The society has its headquarters in the station building at GoÃÂdorf-Kohlmühle.
Permission for the reconstruction of the railway between GoÃÂdorf-Kohlmühle and Lohsdorf has been refused by the authorities, fearing damage to the environment.
Instead of the tracks, there is now a hiking trail, which also passes through the two old tunnels.
Sources
- Wolfram Wagner, Wolfgang König: Die Geschichte der Schmalspurbahn GoÃÂdorf-KohlmühleâÂÂHohnstein 1897âÂÂ1951. 2. überarbeitete Auflage. Deutscher Modelleisenbahnverband der DDR, Dresden 1984.
- Karlheinz Uhlemann: Die ehemalige Schmalspurbahn GoÃÂdorf-KohlmühleâÂÂHohnstein. In: Mitteilungen des Landesvereins Sächsischer Heimatschutz Heft 3/2007, , S. 39âÂÂ44.
- Matthias Hengst: Frühere sächsische Schmalspurbahnen nördlich der Elbe. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1995, .
- Erich PreuÃÂ, Reiner PreuÃÂ: Schmalspurbahnen in Sachsen. transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, .
- Rainer PreuÃÂ, Erich PreuÃÂ: Schmalspurbahnen der Oberlausitz. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin 1980, ohne ISBN.
- Klaus Kieper, Rainer PreuÃÂ: Schmalspurbahnarchiv. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrswesen, Berlin 1980, ohne ISBN.
- Rolf Böhm: Wanderkarte der Sächsischen Schweiz â Brand-Hohnstein 1:10.000. Verlag Rolf Böhm, Bad Schandau, 1993 (2. Auflage 2000, ).
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