Saarbrücken-Burbach repair shop

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The repair shop Saarbrücken-Burbach was a railway repair shop (AW) in Saarbrücken , which was put into operation in 1906 and closed in 1997 by Deutsche Bahn . The Saarbrücken-Burbach railway repair shop ensemble with factory housing estate is a listed building.

history

As early as 1854, a workshop for the repair of locomotives, freight and passenger cars was built on the site of the St. Johann train station (today Saarbrücken main station ). In 1857 the railway workshop of the royal management of the Saarbrücken Railway became the main workshop. The workshop had to be enlarged due to the rapidly growing rail traffic, but could no longer grow in the area of ​​the station. In 1904 it was decided to build a new plant on the outskirts in the north of Burbach and the new building opened in 1906. A small housing estate with 25 houses was built in front of the factory gates south of the site. Two villas were planned for the directors, as well as a convenience store and a school. At peak times, more than 650 people work at the Royal Prussian Railway Main Workshop. In the 1920s, the machinery was completely renewed. In 1935 the railways of the Saar area were handed over to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , making the main workshop a Reichsbahn repair shop.

In 1997, Deutsche Bahn decided to close the plant after only wagons had been repaired in recent years. After a short period of vacancy, the area was used in 1999. With a building-within-a-building concept, the old factory halls were retained on the outside, while building modules were erected inside, in which businesses were settled. In 2001, the dismantling of the tracks began. In 2002 the first new buildings were erected in the area of ​​the Gleisharfe. In 2003 the partial development of the large hall and the realization of the first construction phase began. From 2004 the former transfer platform was redesigned to the green axis and the previously unused parts of the large hall and the track harp were opened up and the old spring forge was converted. Large parts of the former track harp are still wasteland and are to be built on.

architecture

The training workshop

Coming from the northeast, the once huge track harp took up around half of the 32-hectare site. In the southwest, the 40,000 square meter car repair halls have been preserved to this day. The structure made of red bricks and a low sandstone base consists of several elongated structures with gable roofs that have a skylight zone. A steel frame construction, which was very modern at the time, is hidden behind the bricks. Blind arches and friezes decorate the building. To the south of it extends the spring forge , whose food and chimneys have been preserved. Further south is a long row of several houses with the former main entrance in the center. The two-storey administration building with a clock tower and central projections and the adjoining warehouse are striking. The unusually ornate four-story brick building with a sandstone base is illuminated by arched and rectangular windows. A porter's house and canteen were built on the other side of the factory gate.

The training workshop built in 1935/36 is slightly elevated to the north of the factory premises and is accessible via a double flight of stairs. It is a symmetrical brick building with large windows. In the center there is a large hall at the end of which there are training rooms on the ground floor and upstairs.

A small housing estate with 23 workers' and salaried employees and two director's villas was built in front of the factory gate. The houses are largely standardized: they have a clinker or sandstone plinth, the entrance is in a central projectile and an extended hipped roof completes the structure. Each house had a kitchen garden and a farm building.

literature

  • Saarbrücken Federal Railway Directorate (publisher): 75 years of the Saarbrücken-Burbach Federal Railway Repair Shop, 1906–1981 . In-house printing of the Saarbrücken Federal Railway Directorate, Saarbrücken 1981
  • Armin Schmidt: Monuments of the Saarland industrial culture . Spee Buchverlag, Trier 1995, pp. 70-73
  • Clemens Glade: Saarland industrial culture . Past Publishing, Berlin 2015, pp. 256–259

Web links

Commons : repair shop Saarbrücken-Burbach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the Saarland: List of monuments in the state capital of Saarbrücken (PDF file; 1.73 MB)

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 7.4 ″  E