Niederau is a municipality in the
district of Meißen, in
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
,
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
.
Niederau station
Niederau station is a regional station on the Leipzig–Dresden railway in Niederau in the German state of Saxony. The railway station, which was opened on 15 May 1842, for a long time had the oldest operating station building in Germany, bu ...
is located on the
Leipzig–Dresden railway
The Leipzig–Dresden line is a German railway line. It was built by the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company between 1837 and 1839. It was the first long-distance railway and the List of the first German railways to 1870, first railway using only st ...
, which also used to have
Oberau Tunnel
The Oberau Tunnel (''Oberauer Tunnel'') was the second railway tunnel in Germany after a railway tunnel on the Tollwitz–Dürrenberg Railway (''Tollwitz-Dürrenberger Eisenbahn'', a Narrow-gauge railway, 585 mm gauge mining railway), but it ...
until 1933, which was located within today's municipality Niederau.
References
Meissen (district)
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