ÖBB main workshop in St. Pölten

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The ÖBB main workshop in St. Pölten is an Austrian plant in St. Pölten , where repairs are carried out on rail vehicles . It is a plant of ÖBB-Technische Services GmbH, which is itself a company of the ÖBB group.

The plant was built from 1905 to 1907 and started operating in 1907. Since then it has been greatly expanded. In the 1920s, over 1500 people worked in the workshop, in 2011 there were 576, with almost 400 jobs to be cut by 2017.

location

The factory area is 255,000 m². To the east of it are the tracks of the Leobersdorfer Bahn , right behind it the Leobersdorfer Bahnstrasse. The Kollerbergweg runs to the south of the plant and to the north there is an allotment garden settlement and Werkstättenstrasse (to the north of Werkstättenstrasse is the Alpenbahnhof). In the east also the allotment garden settlement, as well as forest and agricultural areas.

history

After the kk Staatsbahnen acquired the area, which was then still outside the city of St. Pölten, for a repair shop, the workshop was built from 1905 to 1907. The car repair hall, the blacksmith's workshop, an administration building and smaller buildings were built. Operations began at the end of April 1907. Soon after, the factory was expanded considerably in order to be able to repair passenger cars and locomotives as well. The mechanical workshop was built from 1908 to 1914, the repair shop for locomotives from 1914 to 1917, the boiler shop and a new wagon building from 1916 to 1922 and a new boiler house from 1916 to 1924.

After the First World War , the main workshop in Gmünd was ceded to the Czechoslovak Republic in a peace treaty in 1919 . The Gmündner workforce was then transferred to St. Pölten. Towards the end of the 1920s, around 200 locomotives, 2,000 passenger cars and 5,000 trucks were serviced or replaced every year.

In 1930 the workshop was assigned the repair workshop for narrow-gauge wagons in Ober-Grafendorf .

In 1932, as a result of the electrification of the railways, the steam locomotive assembly was discontinued.

During the Nazi era , the factory became the Reichsbahn repair shop, which was taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . At that time, however, mainly trucks were repaired .

In 1940 the power supply was switched to three-phase current , which is why the mechanical equipment of the plant had to be replaced as a result.

During the Second World War , operations had to be stopped in April 1945, but vehicle repairs could already be resumed in August.

In 1991 a training workshop was opened. It includes a machine and assembly hall, a forge, a welding shop as well as an administration and school wing including a gym.

Today, 15.2 km of track systems are available for internal rail vehicle traffic.

Number of employees

By the end of the 1920s, the plant employed over 1,500 workers and employees.

In November 2011, 576 workers were employed at the St. Pölten plant when it was announced that the ÖBB intends to cut almost 400 jobs by 2017. The company premises are also to be reduced to around 70,000 m².

literature

  • Thomas Karl among other things: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities. Berger, Horn 1999, ISBN 3-85028-310-0 , pp. 445-447
  • Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0 , pp. 620–623
  • Markus Inderst :  Tiroler Verkehrsschriften, Volume 1, Directory of the narrow-gauge wagons of the Austrian Federal Railways, 1953 - 1956 , Publishing House Railway-Media-Group, Vienna, 2016, ISBN 978-3-902894-40-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Thomas Karl et al: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities. Berger, Horn 1999, pp. 377-379, here: p. 446.
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Karl among others: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities. Berger, Horn 1999, pp. 377-379, here: p. 445.
  3. ↑ Thomas Karl among others: The art monuments of the city of St. Pölten and its incorporated localities. Berger, Horn 1999, pp. 377-379, here: p. 447.
  4. ↑ NÖN: Bundesbahn wants to save, up to 400 jobs wobble , November 21, 2011.
  5. ^ ORF Lower Austria: Resolution against ÖBB job cuts , November 29, 2011.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 29.7 "  N , 15 ° 36 ′ 45.5"  E