Gottleuba Valley railway

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.

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 Arnsdorf
 0,000 Pirna 118 m
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

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.

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


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