Its purpose was to connect the settlements and the industries in the valley of Zwickauer Mulde, which at that time had no railway yet, to the mainline on the plateau above the river.

Passenger traffic between Narsdorf and Penig ceased already on 26 May 1989[5] due to a staff shortage and the subsequent demotion of Langenleuba-Oberhain station to an unstaffed halt.

The section between Abzw Narsdorf Bogendreieck and Langenleuba-Oberhain was officially decommissioned on 15 August 1998, freight traffic stopped on the same day.

[6] Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn (DRE) leased the decommissioned line in 2005[7] with the intention of resuming railway traffic between Rochlitz and Narsdorf.

On 10 April 2008, the government of Saxony sanctioned the operation of public railway infrastructure for 20 years.