Halensee depot
The Halensee depot (short name since around 1935: Hal ) was a tram station of the Great Berlin Tram and its successor companies. It was located on Westfälische Strasse in the Berlin district of Wilmersdorf . Station XIII, which opened in 1900, was closed at the beginning of the Second World War and the halls were destroyed during the war. In 1958 the Berliner Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVG) opened the Cicerostraße depot for bus traffic on the site .
Location and structure
The farm was located on a 9578 square meter plot of land that made up the north-western part of the Westfälische Strasse / Eisenzahnstrasse / Mansfelder Strasse / Cicerostrasse district . It comprised a two-aisled carriage hall with nine tracks each and a floor area of 6200 square meters. It consisted of masonry and was covered by a gently sloping gable roof over iron trusses . The lighting was accomplished by means of short transverse skylights . The front had a round arched gate on each track, that of the eastern hall aisle was set back by a few meters. The hall offered space for a total of 150 trams . The access was from Westfälische Strasse. There were also storage buildings for sand and salt , workshops and a three-story residential and administrative building on the site . The latter stood in the northeast corner of the property at the intersection of Westfälische Strasse and Brieger Strasse. Brieger Strasse ran south from Westfälische Strasse, from 1911 it was incorporated into Albrecht-Achilles-Strasse and the stretch of road later abandoned.
history
The Great Berlin Horse Railway (from January 1898 as Great Berlin Tram , GBS) acquired the property at Westfälische Strasse 73-75 on November 18, 1897 for the purchase price of 350,000 marks to build a new depot. The building was built according to plans by the head of the GBS technical department, Joseph Fischer-Dick , and went into operation in 1900.
The Berlin tram operating company, the successor to GBS, developed plans to modernize and enlarge the courtyard in the 1920s. According to plans by the architect Jean Krämer , the existing buildings were to be completely demolished and a new depot built on the property that had expanded to Eisenzahnstrasse and Mansfelder Strasse. As in the case of the Müllerstraße and Charlottenburg depots , which were built at the same time, the courtyard was to be surrounded by residential buildings for the employees. For the new building, the Berlin tram had to purchase the surrounding land, which at that time was partly owned by Elster-Industrie -bedarf-Gesellschaft. Since the owner decided not to sell the space, the Berliner Straßenbahn acquired the relevant shares in the company on June 24, 1924 with the approval of the Supervisory Board and continued to run it as a subsidiary . The Heimstättenbau-Gesellschaft, also a subsidiary, responsible for housing construction, again acquired the property of the Elster-Industrie -bedarf-Gesellschaft in 1927. With the existing depot and the areas acquired, the entire street area up to Eisenzahnstrasse and Mansfelder Strasse with around 52,800 square meters of space was available for construction.
Between 1928 and 1930, the administration building of the Elster-Gesellschaft was demolished and the premises along Eisenzahnstrasse were surrounded by three to four-storey residential buildings in the Expressionist style . Brieger Straße was closed in the course of the expansion of the site during the same period. The first excavation work began around the same time on the rest of the site . The Berliner Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (BVG), founded in 1929 as a successor, stopped work after the Great Depression in 1930 in order to put the remaining capacities into the completion of the Charlottenburg depot.
From around 1935 the farm was known as Hal . It was in May 1937 as home station for lines 57 ( Pankow , Bürgerpark - Grunewald , Roseneck ), 76, 176 (both Lichtenberg , Gudrunstraße - Grunewald, Hundekehle ), 191 ( Görlitzer Bahnhof - Grunewald, Roseneck), 92 ( Treptow , Elsenstraße ) intended.
With the beginning of the Second World War on September 1, 1939, the Wehrmacht seized the depot, which inevitably closed it. The services were carried out by the Charlottenburg depot. The high-rise buildings were destroyed in the course of the war from November 1943, of the halls only the surrounding walls partially remained. The residential buildings on Eisenzahnstrasse were rebuilt in a simplified form after they were damaged, houses 19-27 are still largely preserved in their original state and are listed . The rails on the yard were removed in 1946 for repairs elsewhere. The BVG made the area originally intended for expansion available for allotment gardening after the end of the war . Barracks were built on the site of the old tram station , which various small businesses used from 1946. The remaining workshop and common rooms were used by a company to recondition iron girders . The location of the right-hand car hall served as a storage area for coal , while garages were to be found on the left-hand hall . The former working pits were used to accommodate the fuel tanks of a non-public filling station . Shelters for trucks were built along the left outer wall of the courtyard at the end of the 1940s . In November 1956, BVG began clearing the site for the construction of the new bus depot in Cicerostraße . The laying of the foundation stone in May 1957 was followed by the ceremonial commissioning on May 30, 1958.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Christian Winck: The tram in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-933254-30-6 , pp. 175-176 .
- ↑ a b Brieger Strasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ^ Reinhard Schulz: Tram in turbulent times. Berlin and its trams between 1920 and 1945 . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 5, 2005, pp. 133-143 .
- ↑ The use of cars on the Berlin tram lines in 1928 and 1937 . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 12, 1972, p. 168-169 .
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 37 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 8 ″ E