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Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda station is in Kötzschenbroda, a district of Radebeul in the German state of Saxony. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a Haltepunkt (“halt”, that is it has no sets of points). It is located on the Pirna–Coswig railway, which was recently created as a separate line as part of the upgrade of the Leipzig–Dresden railway. The station, which was previous called Radebeul West, was rebuilt and renamed Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda in 2013 and it is now served mainly by the Dresden S-Bahn.DescriptionIn order to modernise Kötzschenbroda station, which was opened by the Royal Saxon State Railways in 1840, work began on 11 March 1895 on the building of a new station building in Kötzschenbroda in the district of Lößnitz. The new station, consisting of an entrance and terminal building, a waiting hall, platform roofs and a railway workers' residence, was completed on 15 February 1896 and inaugurated on 16 June 1896. The former station building, which dated back to 1872 and is now located in the yard of 281 Meissner Straße, has been used since 1896 as a residential building.The prestigious entrance building in the style of the so-called Semper-Nicolai school of Dresden architecture is south of the main tracks. It consists of two similar, approximately square, villa-style buildings in the Renaissance Revival style with truncated pyramid roofs that stand some distance apart and are connected by a lower building and are all set parallel to the tracks. From the street, the building has three floors, but only two floors are apparent from the elevated railway tracks. The facade is emphasised by central avant-corps and divided by lesenes and cornices. The windows have flattened arches on the ground floor, round arches on the first floor and are rectangular on the second floor.
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