Historical light railroads in Saxony

Using steam, electricity or engines and mostly running on a 600 mm gauge, light railroads were once found in quarries, brickworks, gravel pits, for building roads and railroads, and in forestries and agriculture. The military also used this flexible means of transport.

The fans of light railroads in Saxony have dedicated themselves to the preservation of these technical monuments. They transport their visitors on the field railroads in Upper Lusatia, Saxon Switzerland, around Leipzig and in Chemnitz.

On open days, industrial culture can be experienced as a fun leisure activity for the whole family.

Sideline attractions

• hiking, cycling and riding tours in the nearby Wermsdorf Forest

• St. Aegidius Church in Oschatz holds such treasures as a stained glass altar piece, a tower residence and an organ made by the traditional Dresden organ-making family Jehmlich

• the Scales Museum in Oschatz exhibits over 100 scales from the first scales manufacturers in Germany, the Pfitzer Brothers

• discovery tours to many different windmills and one of the few existing floating mills in Germany between Oschatz, Torgau and Delitzsch

• dreamlike sliding on 470 yards of slides in the ‘Platsch’ swimming pool