Munich-Freimann repair shop

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The Freimann repair shop of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Bahn AG on Lilienthalallee in the Munich district of Freimann existed from 1925 to 1995. The last time electric locomotives and the S-Bahn trains of the 420 series were maintained there. Today there are various commercial and cultural uses on the site, some in the historical buildings.

history

The factory was built in 1916 by Friedrich Krupp AG as the "Bayerische Geschützwerke". After the end of the First World War, the factory equipment had to be handed over to the victorious powers . The company was liquidated and sold to the Nuremberg industrialist Fritz Ludwig Neumeyer . Halls 3 and 5, the boiler house and the water tower on Heidemannstrasse , which are still preserved today, date from this time, and the Krupp company logo is still located under the current Eternit cladding.

In the 1920s, the capacity of the previous Reichsbahn repair shop at Munich Central Station , the former Centralwerkstätte , was no longer sufficient for the increasing number of vehicles to be repaired. The Deutsche Reichsbahn therefore planned to relocate the plant to the outskirts of Munich.

In 1925, Fritz Neumeyer AG offered its factory premises in Freimann for sale due to the poor economic situation. The Deutsche Reichsbahn acquired the vacant property and converted the halls from 1926 for use as a repair shop. On October 8, 1927, the Deutsche Reichsbahn put the Reichsbahn repair shop in Freimann into operation. Since 1930 it was called the Reichsbahn repair shop in Munich-Freimann . From 1927 to 1931, the repair of freight cars and steam locomotives was relocated from the previous repair shop to Freimann. The Freimann repair shop also took on the maintenance of electric locomotives from the auxiliary workshop at the Munich main station . The previous ancillary workshop was subordinated to RAW Freimann on May 1, 1934 as an operations department. The total area of ​​the Freimanner factory was 363 hectares . The area is bounded by Völckerstrasse, Maria-Probst-Strasse, Heidemannstrasse and the Münchner Nordring railway line .

View of the former "Siedlung Nord", Reuschstrasse Munich-Freimann. The development was originally created in 1922/23 for Fritz Neumeyer AG and, after they were taken over by the Reichsbahn in 1925, used as their company apartments. After the area was demolished in the 1980s, only the transformer house (right) has been preserved.

In addition to the houses built by Fritz Neumeyer AG between July 1922 and April 1923, numerous other apartments were built near the site for employees in 1928–1931, 1936–1939 and 1950–1972.

In the heyday of the AW from 1932 to 1940, steam locomotives (2902 units), electric locomotives (2351 units), electric trolleybuses (672 units), freight cars (74.635 units) and road vehicles (1.607 units) were examined.

As part of the extensive redesign of the Munich railway system planned by the National Socialists , workshop capacities were relocated to the outskirts. The 36,680 m² Hall 24, the largest hall in southern Germany, was built in the Freimanner factory by 1941/1942.

During the Second World War , vehicles from the countries occupied by the German Reich were also repaired. Since numerous male skilled workers had been drafted into the Wehrmacht or sent to other departments due to the war, they were replaced by women, foreign workers and forced laborers from concentration camps . From June 1940, the AW suffered severe bomb damage. This resulted in difficult working conditions in the years up to 1945 and in the post-war period. Sometimes it was necessary to work in roofless halls in the open air. The repair of the war damage lasted until 1955.

At the end of 1953, the maintenance of steam locomotives was given up. In 1961 the last freight wagons were converted. With the establishment of the Munich S-Bahn system for the 1972 Olympic Games, the vehicles of the 420 series were assigned to the AW. In 1975 the Munich-Freimann roller test stand was set up, which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Research . 1979 the first three-phase current locomotive of the class 120 was accepted in Freimann . In 1985, the power cars of the previous ICE train InterCityExperimental were put into operation. In 1995 the AW was closed.

Series that were repaired in Freimann

AW Freimann today

The water tower (building 17) from 1918/19, Hall 5 (today Zenith Hall ) from 1916 and Hall 24 from 1938–41 and 1940–42 are now listed buildings . Hall 3 of the Krupp plant has also been preserved as a BMW distribution warehouse. The building part of the research institute (VersA) has been expanded and now houses the Munich location of DB Systemtechnik .

The public Lilienthalallee was laid out on the site in a north-south direction . Numerous halls and areas were rented out. The MOC Event Center Munich is located in the northeast area .

In August 2014, the city council approved the development plan for changing the use of Lokrichthalle 24 and the rebuilding of the track areas. A Bauhaus hardware store opened in the northern part of the Lokrichthalle on April 7, 2017 . In the southern part, the operator of the “ Motorworld ” classic car and sports car center began work on the facade glazing in mid-2015 . The construction costs amounted to 85 million euros. According to the operator, the opening is scheduled for November 2020. A "Freimann Campus" is to be built on the open-air site to the south.

The hall of the former apprentice workshop was subsequently placed under monument protection. The planning for the area is made more difficult by the fact that the demolition of this building is part of the original development plan and that sand lizards, which are protected species , live in this area .

  • DB system technology

  • Water tower (building 17)

  • Hall 3

  • Hall 5 ( Zenith )

  • Hall 24 (entrance gates)

  • Hall 24 entrance

  • Hall 24 apron

  • Area hall 13 and 14

literature

  • Federal Railroad Repair Shop Munich-Freimann (Ed.): 50 years of the Federal Railroad repair shop Munich-Freimann 1977 . Self-published, Munich 1977.
  • Anton Joachimsthaler : Bundesbahn repair shop Munich-Freimann. History, people, vehicles 1925–1985 . Ed .: Bundesbahn repair shop Munich-Freimann. Munich 1985.
  • Klaus-Dieter Korhammer, Armin Franzke, Ernst Rudolph: The hub of the south. Munich railway junction . Ed .: Peter Lisson . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-7771-0236-9 , p. 105-109 .
  • Ralf Roman Rossberg : 50 years of the Bundesbahn repair shop in Munich-Freimann . In: Lok-Magazin . No. 87 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co. , 1977, ISSN  0458-1822 , p. 437-449 .

Web links

Commons : Improvement factory Munich-Freimann  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of May 17, 1930, No. 25. Announcement No. 346, p. 155.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Korhammer, Armin Franzke, Ernst Rudolph: Turntable of the South. Munich railway junction . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-7771-0236-9 , p. 105 .
  3. ↑ BD Munich on bahnstatistik.de, accessed on June 9 2016th
  4. ↑ Freimann repair shop - Hall 24 at www.freimann-froettmaning.de
  5. ↑ https://www.muenchen-transparent.de/dokumente/3370426
  6. ↑ Opening in 2019: PS, I love you: We are introducing Munich's new car mecca , tz.de, December 27, 2017
  7. ↑ Freimann: Tanz ums tinny calf , sueddeutsche.de, June 12, 2020
  8. ^ "For a good ten years the project operated under the name" Campus for Innovation and Research "; CA Immo imagined a special commercial and research park for mobility technology, with workshops, studios, showrooms, laboratories - with synergy effects with the neighboring "Motorworld" and above all with the nearby BMW locations. Two years ago there was only talk of "possibly synergy effects" with the mobility industry in the area. "Innovation" and "Research" have now been removed from the project name, and the working title is "Campus Freimann", as company spokesman Markus Diekow confirms. " Freimann: Change of course on campus , sueddeutsche.de, March 1, 2020
  9. ^ Freimann repair shop on the homepage of the City of Munich, Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations
  10. ↑ Stefan Mühleisen: Species protection versus monument protection. In: www.sueddeutsche.de. February 12, 2018, accessed February 14, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 25 ″  E