Roßlau (Elbe) station

Geschichte

Roßlau station is a passenger station and freight yard in the district of Roßlau of the city of Dessau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.InfrastructureThe station building is located on the east side of the tracks. Platform 1 is the main platform next to the reception building and platforms 2 and 3 form an island platform. Both platforms are covered and connected by a tunnel.The station is a railway junction. North of the passenger station the Roßlau-Falkenberg/Elster line branches off to the north east at a triangular junction from the Trebnitz–Leipzig railway. On it is the formerly significant Roßlau freight yard. It is connected by means of connecting curves to the other line, but it is now largely abandoned. The Wiesenburg–Roßlau railway also ends here.A siding runs to the west from the passenger station to the Roßlau shipyard (Roßlauer Schiffswerft).Immediately south of Roßlau station is the railway bridge over the Elbe.HistoryIn 1841, the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company (Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) had built its first station building in Roßlau for the construction of its main line from Berlin via Wittenberg and Dessau to Köthen. The Dessau–Coswig section was inaugurated on 17 August 1841. Services were running regularly to the Anhalt station by 10 September 1841. The cost of the first small building was stated to be 2,169 thalers. In the following year an extension was added for a post-Expeditions-Lokale ("post journey bar").