Repair shop in Kaiserslautern

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BR 052 steam locomotive in front of the Kaiserslautern railway repair shop

The repair shop in Kaiserslautern , along with its counterpart in Ludwigshafen , was one of two of its kind in the Palatinate during the time of the State Railways . Part of the plant still exists today and is operated by RailMaint .

location

The repair shop is located on the outskirts of the Vogelweh district of Kaiserslautern, south of the main tracks of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line . To the south, the area is bounded by Bundesstraße 37 ( Pariser Straße ). The Bahnheim settlement is also to the south-east of the plant .

history

After Kaiserslautern had already become the location of a railway depot - including a main workshop - in the course of the construction of the Palatinate Ludwig Railway , a repair shop for major repairs was built in 1914 a few kilometers west of the main station . Two years later the wagon hall was completed and in 1920 the one for steam locomotives .

The Ludwigshafen repair shop lost its independence on March 31, 1930 and became a department of the Kaiserslautern repair shop. In 1937 it was added to the Darmstadt repair shop .

In 1933, the Reichsbahn repair shop for the 100th anniversary of the German railroad, which took place two years later, began to produce a replica of the Adler steam locomotive .

With the establishment of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1949, the plant was given the name Improvement Works Kaiserslautern and kept it until the end of the Bundesbahn in 1993. In the course of the first stage of the rail reform , AW Kaiserslautern was transferred to Deutsche Bahn AG in 1994. In the summer of 1999 the plant was assigned to DB Cargo AG (second stage of the rail reform) and immediately afterwards it was spun off into a newly founded Eisenbahnechnik Kaiserslautern GmbH . In 2005 this company was liquidated. The Süddeutsche Rail Service GmbH then continued the work.

From 2009 the plant belonged to the Swedish EuroMaint group. On December 28, 2015, the sale of the German EuroMaint locations including the Delitzsch plant to the investment company Iberia Industry Capital Group was announced. The operating company has been trading as RailMaint since May 2, 2016 .

In the future, an industrial area is to be created on parts of the factory premises.

Breakpoint

The Kaiserslautern repair shop stop was built especially for employees of the plant on the line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken at km 40.2, which was the result of the Ludwig Railway , and accordingly had no public access. Hundreds of employees often boarded passenger trains at him. Since the importance of the repair shop steadily declined after the Second World War , the stop was abandoned and the platform was dismantled in 2015.

literature

  • Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2008 ( online [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on December 8, 2013]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kbs-670.de: Photo gallery - train stations and stops - repair shop . Retrieved December 8, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  3. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of February 22, 1930, No. 11. Announcement No. 123, p. 56.
  4. ^ Judgment of the Federal Labor Court of September 18, 2018
  5. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 35 .
  6. ↑ EuroMaint sells factory in Delitzsch - Leipzig [and Kaiserslautern] also affected. Leipziger Volkszeitung , January 12, 2016, accessed on September 29, 2018 .
  7. ↑ EuroMaint agrees to sell German operations. Railway Gazette International , January 4, 2016, accessed September 29, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Delitzscher Bahnwerk gets a new name. Leipziger Volkszeitung, May 31, 2016, accessed on September 29, 2018 .
  9. ^ BPL 'Gewerbegebiet Pariser Straße - Kaiserstraße (north of Haderwald)'. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 20, 2017 ; accessed on September 30, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Development plan "Pariser Straße 300, eastern section" (former railway repair shop in Kaiserslautern), Städtebaulic. In: ris.kaiserslautern.de. July 26, 1997. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 34 f .