Riesa railway station

Geschichte

Riesa station is the only passenger station of the town of Riesa in the German state of Saxony. It is a regular stop for Intercity and Intercity-Express services. The station is located at kilometer 65.8 of the Leipzig–Dresden railway. In addition, it is at the beginning of the Riesa–Chemnitz railway and the disused Riesa–Nossen railway. Since December 2013 the station has been part of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland network.HistoryThe Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company opened Riesa station as part of the Oschatz–Riesa section of the Leipzig–Dresden railway in November 1838. The first station building was added in 1844.The Riesa–Chemnitz railway, which branched off to the south from the existing line, was opened in August 1847. At the same time a second station was built in Riesa with a separate entrance building. A direct connection was built between the two stations in 1867. A new unified station was built in Chemnitz between 1879 and 1881 in response to a demand from the Finance Ministry. The current railway station building was constructed as part of this work.The station was connected to the nearby Riesa–Elsterwerda and the Riesa–Nossen railway lines in 1875 and 1877. The latter was officially closed in 2007, although passenger services had already been discontinued in 1998.From 1889 to 1924, the station forecourt was the starting point of a metre-gauge horse-drawn tram that ran to the Rathausplatz . Due to the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic between 1914 and 1923, it was shut down and replaced by a bus service.