Repair shop Frankfurt (Main) Nied

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Proud team of 56 2363 in front of the RAW 1938 administration building
Employees pose in front of the 77 008 locomotive

The repair shop in Frankfurt (Main) Nied was under changing names ( Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Nied ; Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Frankfurt (Main) Nied ; Bundesbahnausbesserungswerk Nied ; repair shop Frankfurt (Main) Nied ) the most important railway repair shop at the Frankfurt am Main railway junction . Steam locomotives in particular were looked after here.

Emergence

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian State Railways were faced with the task of designing a new repair shop due to the growing traffic and the constrained location of the existing repair shop in the track area of Frankfurt Central Station . The planning had been going on since 1909. But with the outbreak of the First World War , construction and commissioning were delayed until 1918. The Nied district of the then still independent town of Höchst was found as a building site that met all conditions in terms of area and connection to the existing railway infrastructure .

business

Initially 512 employees worked in the factory. The highest number of employees was reached in 1944 with 2470 workers. 546 of them were foreigners, some of them forced laborers . In 1956 the number of employees was 2244. This was the highest level under the direction of the Deutsche Bundesbahn . After that, the number kept falling. In 1965, 850 people were still employed here. The number of locomotives to be looked after , still 875 in 1961, fell steadily. In 1966 there were 146.

The End

1967 came the end for the remaining 244 employees. After the repair shop closed, the railway no longer needed the site. It became a wasteland . A planned residential development did not materialize at first. In 1981 it was occupied by 250 squatters , but cleared by the police after 14 weeks. In 1984 the city of Frankfurt drew up a development plan for the site: the factory halls were demolished and the site was gradually occupied with residential buildings.

Railway workers' settlement in Nied

Main portal to the railway settlement

In addition to the operational facilities, employee apartments for 400 families were built in the immediate vicinity. It was for ideas of the garden city movement 1918-1933 in home style by the architect office & Schelling doubt planned. Allotment gardens and small cattle sheds were an integral part of the concept. The settlement was so large that it even received two small churches and its own eight-grade elementary school .

This railway settlement is one of the few in Germany that is still largely closed and is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

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Web links

Commons : Anstesserungswerk Frankfurt (Main) Nied  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Von Rüden, 85.
  2. ↑ Von Rüden, 88.
  3. ↑ Von Rüden, 85.
  4. ↑ Von Rüden, 88.
  5. ↑ Von Rüden, 87.
  6. ↑ Grossart: The development of the railway buildings in the Rhine-Main area . In: Die Reichsbahn 16 (1940), pp. 200–215 (214).
  7. ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway history and building types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and lines 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape  2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 33 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 5.6"  E