What makes the train station a hiking highlight? At first glance, only functional, modern platform systems and the decaying former station building are parallel to Hirschbergstrasse. to see.
The train station is above all an ideal starting point for hiking tours in the Triebischtal and the side valleys. The Goldgrund and the Ochsendrehe Gorge are only a few meters away. Further out of town are the Hohe Eifer, the Götterfelsen, the Garsebach Switzerland and the Sugar Loaf and many other interesting views and valleys to hike.
The station itself also has a lot to offer in terms of railway history. When the Second Leipzig-Dresden Railway opened in 1868, Meissen Triebischtal was the only station in the city that was also located in the city. At that time, Meissen train station on the right bank of the Elbe was still on the outskirts of the rural community of Cölln, which was not incorporated into Meissen until 1901. Today Meissen Triebischtal is only the end point of the Dresden S-Bahn line 1 from Schöna. Regional passenger traffic in the direction of Leipzig has been canceled in the section to Döbeln since December 2015, so that there is only goods traffic in this direction. The reactivation for passenger transport is debated again and again. Until 1966, the two narrow-gauge lines to Wilsdruff and Lommatzsch began here, so that one of the interfaces between the extensive Wilsdruffer and Mügelner narrow-gauge networks and the standard-gauge line to Dresden was located here.
On May 15, 1879, the Meißen Triebischtal passenger stop was opened. At that time, the stop consisted of a station house, a long platform and a heated waiting room. A stop for freight traffic, which was used by some industrial companies, had also already been set up. By moving the Triebisch, the area of the Meißen Triebischtal stop was significantly expanded in 1897.
In addition, from August 16, 1897, there was a "freight bridge" that led from Talstrasse over the Triebisch to the freight station. On May 1, 1898, the freight station was opened for general freight traffic after its expansion. In May 1900, the connecting bridge to the Meißen freight tram depot on Jaspisstrasse was opened. Facilities at Meißen Triebischtal station
The station had ticket sales at two counters. Later, tickets were also sold via vending machines. On the upper floor there was originally a small service apartment for the station master. Until the 1960s there was a Mitropa kiosk in the waiting room with food and drinks. There were several wooden benches in the waiting room. There was also a public telephone, luggage storage and public toilets. At the beginning of the 1970s a second platform was put into operation, which was mostly used for passenger and express trains to Leipzig.[1] Narrow gauge railway
At the southeast end of the main platform there was a narrow gauge railway dead-end track until 1966. Although the original end point was Meißen Jaspisstraße station, the narrow gauge railway passenger trains were still pushed from there to Meißen Triebischtal station. This made it possible to change between standard gauge and narrow gauge traffic. The narrow gauge railway service to Wilsdruff and Lommatzsch was discontinued in 1966. The Meißen Triebischtal train station is now an empty building and has been fenced off from the railway site. After years of use as a clothing store by a Christian free church with a strong social activity, the building complex is falling into disrepair. The former reception building is on the list of cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony under the number "09306618". It is therefore the last structural and construction-period evidence of the once important Meißen Triebischtal train station. It is also of architectural and transport history significance.