Hosena railway station

Hosena S
Junction station
Hosena station, platforms
Location	Hosena, Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	51°27′18″N 14°01′30″E / 51.455°N 14.025°E / 51.455; 14.025Coordinates: 51°27′18″N 14°01′30″E / 51.455°N 14.025°E / 51.455; 14.025
Line(s)	Lübbenau–Kamenz (Sachs) (135.13 km) Węgliniec–Roßlau (87.91 km)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	2834
DS100 code	BHC
Category	5
History
Opened	1874
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station Lauta toward Hoyerswerda RE 15 Ruhland toward Dresden Hbf Preceding station   S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland   Following station Lauta toward Hoyerswerda S 4 Ruhland toward Wurzen

Hosena station (Hohenbocka station until 2000) 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” (German: Turmbahnhof, a two level interchange station) on the Lübbenau-Kamenz and Węgliniec (then called Kohlfurt)–Roßlau railways. Remains of the railway bridge of the Lübbenau-Kamenz line still exist.

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.