Dresden-Klotzsche railway station

Geschichte

Dresden-Klotzsche is a railway station in the town of Klotzsche, Saxony, Germany. The station lies on the Görlitz–Dresden railway, Dresden-Klotzsche–Königsbrück railway and Dresden-Klotzsche–Dresden Flughafen railway.HistoryIn the early decades since the opening of the Görlitz–Dresden railway by the Saxon-Silesian Railway Company in the first part of 1845, trains ran past Klotzsche. In 1873, the Royal Saxon State Railways was directed to build Klotzsche-Königswald station, so that the royal family’s summer trips to the Dresden Heath could start by train to Klotzsche. The station was named after the locality that developed a little later into the villa estate of Königswald.From 1884, the narrow gauge railway to Königsbrück had its terminus on the station forecourt. For freight transport it used a forerunner of the modern container system, known as Umsetzkästen. A gantry crane in Klotzsche station allowed the transshipment of goods between standard and narrow gauge wagons. In particular, pottery from the Königsbrück area could be reloaded very carefully. After 13 years of operation, the line was converted to standard gauge and it connected with the existing Dresden–Görlitz railway to the north of the station. Until 1945, this connection was grade-separated.