Schöna station
railway station in Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna, Germany
Schöna (German: Bahnhof Schöna) is a station located on the grounds of Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna municipality, Saxony, Germany. It is the German station which is closest to, but not on, the border between Germany and the Czech Republic on the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway. Bad Schandau and Děčín hlavní nádraží were border stations. There are a couple of sidings south of the station where the S1 can prepare to return towards Dresden.
There is hardly any access from the station to village of Schöna, which is outside the Elbe valley in southern direction. The station is more important to reach the village of Hřensko in the Czech Republic, which is just across the river and can be reached by ferry.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Reinhardtsdorf-Schöna, Germany. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7433322. Authority coordinates are 50.875, 14.234. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “Schöna station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.