page_title: Hosena station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hosena station / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Empfangsgebäude des Bahnhofs Hosena, Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz in Brandenburg
context_page_description: Hosena station is a station at the junction of the Węgliniec–Roßlau railway and the Lübbenau–Kamenz railway. The station is located in the southeast of the German state of Brandenburg in the village of Hosena, north of the village of Hohenbocka.
  The station was built in 1873 as a “tower station” on the Lübbenau-Kamenz and Węgliniec –Roßlau railways. Remains of the railway bridge of the Lübbenau-Kamenz line still exist.
context_section_description: At the beginning of April 1871, King William I and the Kingdom of Saxony signed a concession for the establishment of the Berlin-Görlitz Railway Company (Berlin-Görlitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), with the concession giving permission for the construction of a railway connecting Senftenberg to the Kamenz–Pirna railway. The first construction work began on 1 September 1871. A treaty was contracted between Saxony and Prussia on 7 December 1871, which regulated the carrying out of construction on the Lübbenau–Calau–Senftenberg–Kamenz route. The flat country north of Kamenz, which had few rivers, was favourable for rapid progress and the works proceeded without difficulty. The Prussian border was reached north of Hosena in 1872.
  A connecting line of the Cottbus-Großenhain Railway Company running east-west, the later Lower Silesian mainline, was put into operation on 1 June 1874 between Kohlfurt and nearby Ruhland.
  The Hosena railway junction became increasingly important at the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1940s. The resurgent lignite and basalt mining in the area led to an ever increasing volume of traffic. With the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the population in the area doubled on average. It is about 15 kilometres away from Hoyerswerda, which had about 70,000 inhabitants. Population growth, more intense mining operations and the establishment of industry in the Hosena area increased the importance of the station.
  A 7.5 km section of the Lübbenau-Kamenz railway line was built between Senftenberg and Hohenbocka (or Hosena) between 1955 and 1957 to avoid an expansion of the  Niemtsch (now called Senftenberger See—"Lake Senftenberg") open cast mine, which had been developed in the late 1930s. The new line was built from Hosena to the northwest through the village of Peickwitz and Biehlen and northeast to Brieske, where it connects with the Großenhain–Cottbus railway at the former halt of Brieske. The old line was dismantled north of Hosena and its remains at Hosenaer station is now used as a marshalling yard for the nearby basalt quarry in Koschenberg.
caption: Remains of the old
  Hosena station building
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