Jerzmanki railway station
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| Location | Jerzmanki, Lower Silesian Voivodeship Poland | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Polish State Railways | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 October 1879 | ||||||||||
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Jerzmanki (German: Hermsdorf) is a railway station on the Wrocław Świebodzki–Zgorzelec railway in the village of Jerzmanki, Zgorzelec County, within the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland.
History
Pre World War II
Construction of the station began in autumn 1877.[1] The station opened as Hermsdorf part of the Silesian Mountain Railway on 15 October 1879. It was renamed to Hermsdorf (bei Görlitz) for designation in 1895.[2] The current station building was built between 1910 and 1912, during which the Silesian Mountain Railway was being prepared for electrification.[3]
The section of the line between Zgorzelec and Jerzmanki was electrified with a 15 kV single-phase AC power supply system at a frequency of 16⅔ Hz during hyperinflation. To cut costs, concrete masts with a core of cast iron gas pipes were used as opposed to the previous cast iron poles. The masts were constructed by Deyckerhoff & Widmann AG of Dresden, while the overhead wires were installed by Siemens. The first test run of an electric locomotive from Lubań to Zgorzelec took place on 15 August 1923.[4] The electrified section between Zgorzelec and Jerzmanki opened on 1 September 1924, after nearly 16 years of preparations and tests.[5]
Post World War II
The Silesian Mountain Railway did not suffer significant damages as a result of World War II.[6] After World War II, the area came under Polish administration. As a result, the station was taken over by Polish State Railways, and was renamed to Jerzmanice koło Nikorska.[7] Under new PKP classification, the station became part of the Wrocław Świebodzki–Zgorzelec railway.
In the summer of 1945, the overhead wires were shot in several locations along the Zgorzelec–Lubań section. Remaining German railway works in the area began repairing the overhead wires under the supervision of Polish State Railways officials.[8] In 1946, the one of the lines of track was dismantled by the Red Army under 'war reparations'. This made the line a single track. Overhead wires were also dismantled,[9] and any remaining German rolling stock was stolen and driven to the Soviet Union.[8] Passenger services resumed using steam locomotives.[6]
The station was renamed to its modern name, Jerzmanki, in 1947.[7] In the 1960s, passenger services began using diesel locomotives, which were based in Węgliniec. At one point in the 1980s, up to eight pairs of passenger trains called at the station.[10] In 1985, there were plans to re-electrify the line between Zgorzelec and Lubań, part of electrifying the line between Zgorzelec and Lubań via Węgliniec, to a form a circular electrified railway. These plans never occurred, the only part that was electrified was between Węgliniec and Lubań.[11]
Train services
The station is served by the following services:
- Regional services (KD) Görlitz/Zgorzelec - Świeradów-Zdrój - Jelenia Góra - Karpacz[12]
References
- ^ "Historia Jerzmanek" [History of Jerzmanki]. Jerzmanki.info (in Polish). Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ^ "Jerzmanki". Atlas Kolejowy (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ^ Dominas 2014, pp. 143–144.
- ^ "Siemens Corporate Archives". polska-org.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ^ Dominas 2014, p. 36.
- ^ a b Dominas 2014, p. 38.
- ^ a b "Jerzmanki". Ogólnopolska Baza Kolejowa (in Polish). Retrieved 3 February 2026.
- ^ a b Etmanowicz 1990.
- ^ "Koleje elektryczne Dolnego Śląska po przejęciu przez PKP w 1945 roku" [Electric railways of Lower Silesia after 1945]. kolej.one.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 30 September 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Dominas 2014, p. 39.
- ^ Konieczny, Antoni (1985). "Perspektywy rozwoju transportu kolejowego w okręgu dolnośląskim" [Prospects for the development of railway transport in the Lower Silesia region]. Pionierzy i ich następcy. Z dziejów Dolnośląskiej Dyrekcji Okręgowej Kolei Państwowych 1945-1985 [Pioneers and their successors. From the history of the Lower Silesian District Directorate of State Railways 1945-1985] (in Polish). Wrocław: Dolnośląska Dyrekcja Okręgowa Kolei Państwowych. pp. 125–129. ISBN 1-57231-718-3.
- ^ "D62 Karpacz - Jelenia Góra - Görlitz / Świeradów-Zdrój" (PDF). Rozkład jazdy (in Polish). Koleje Dolnośląskie. 14 December 2025.
Bibliography
- Dominas, Przemysław (2014). Architektura Śląskiej Kolei Górskiej [Architecture of the Silesian Mountain Railway] (in Polish). Łódź: Księży Młyn. ISBN 978-8377291481.
- Etmanowicz, Andrzej (1990). Koleje elektryczne Dolnego Śląska po przejęciu przez PKP w 1945 roku [Electric Railways of Lower Silesia Prior to PKP in 1945] (in Polish). Poznań: Poznański Klub Modelarzy Kolejowych. Retrieved 3 February 2026.
External links
- Media related to Jerzmanki train station at Wikimedia Commons