Trier repair shop

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Trier repair shop

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legal form State railway operation
founding July 1, 1911
resolution 1986
Seat trier
Number of employees Max. 1478 (1948)

A Mosquito B.IV the Royal Air Force in the attack on the railway workshop Trier, April 1st 1943rd
The AW Trier 1994
Interior view of the locomotive repair hall

The Trier repair shop was a plant of the German state railways ( Reichsbahn or Bundesbahn ) for the maintenance of rail vehicles in Trier , which was opened in 1911 and existed until 1986. Until 1974 mainly steam locomotives were repaired, then freight wagons until they were closed . The former locomotive repair hall has been preserved to this day.

history

The repair shop (AW) Trier was opened on July 1, 1911 as the main workshop of the Prussian State Railways and took over the locomotive department of the main Karthaus workshop . The main Karthaus workshop was founded in 1880, but became a factory department of AW Trier in 1924 and closed in 1956. In 1911 the AW Trier had 400 employees, in 1948 1478.

Ernst Spiro , who was director until 1920, was commissioned with the planning and construction of the plant . In 1912 Spiro was co-founder of the company's own housing cooperative and its chairman. Up until the twenties, it built 124 houses with 234 apartments. The Trier Spirostraße not far from the plant is a reminder of Dr. Spiro.

During the Second World War , the AW Trier was attacked on April 1, 1943 by six Mosquito bombers of the 105th Squadron of the Royal Air Force . 17 people were killed, but the bombs dropped from very low heights mostly ricocheted off the steel roof of the AW and detonated in the open air. At the end of 1944 the plant was badly damaged by bombing during the Ardennes offensive .

Series

In the 1920s, AW Trier was assigned the 38.10 and 57.10 locomotive series as part of a nationwide rationalization of locomotive maintenance . The 23 and 86 series were added later . In 1928, for example, AW Trier maintained 120 locomotives of the 38.10 series and 336 of the 57.10 series, while Karthaus had 1279 freight and passenger cars. In 1943 the AW Trier reached the maximum number of 885 repaired locomotives, in 1954 it was at least 622.

In 1974, however, the last steam locomotive was repaired with 051 044 . Until 1986 only freight cars were repaired. The AW Trier-West was also known in the 1970s for the scrapping of steam locomotives and old-style electric locomotives that were pulled together in the former Karthaus freight yard ("Karthaus Lokfriedhof") before being scrapped.

From 1974 to 1984 the freight locomotive 86 457 was a monument locomotive in the AW Trier. In 1984 the locomotive was overhauled there and on January 15, 1985 the first test drive in the Eifel took place. After the expiry of the 2000 and 2001 deadlines, the locomotive was deployed in the depot in Nuremberg-Gostenhof. The locomotive was badly damaged in the fire in the round locomotive shed there on October 17, 2005. In 2006 the locomotive was transferred to Heilbronn, where it was externally refurbished from November 2010 to August 2011.

Perspectives

The factory has been vacant since 1986 and has been privately owned for several years. So far, only parts of the development have been given a new use - with corresponding structural changes. Only the director's villa and two other buildings were renovated as residential buildings in 2008. With the exception of the locomotive repair hall, many factory buildings were demolished or the building fabric is now very poor; the roof of the front building of the Lokrichthalle largely collapsed in 2011. In 2010 the city of Trier developed a district framework plan for Trier-West, which also takes the AW site into account.

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  • Martin Kreckler: "The Trier railway repair shop and the development of workshops in the Trier area". Eisenbahnfreunde Jünkerath e. V., 11/2017, ISBN 978-3-9815435-1-3
  • Udo Kandler: Railways in the Moselle Valley I. Railway Journal Special Edition 2/1990, ISSN  0720-051X .
  • Udo Kandler: Railways in the Moselle Valley II. Railway Journal Special Edition 8/1991, ISBN 3-922404-26-X .
  • Martin Kreckler, Wolfgang Kreckler: Railway in Ehrang. Interface between the Saar, Eifel and Moselle railways. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-709-1 .
  • Sebastian Schnitzius: Development of the railway in the Trier area. Deutsche Bundesbahn, Trier 1984, OCLC 312195856 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Builder of the railway repair shop. In: Trierischer Volksfreund . No. 152, November 28, 1949.
  2. ^ Heinz Monz: Trier biographical lexicon. Trier 2000, ISBN 3-88476-400-4 .
  3. ^ Klaus Reuter: History of the Genossenschaft. In: 75 years of the non-profit building cooperative of the railway employees Trier eG 1912–1987. Trier 1987, p. 13 ff.
  4. ^ Emil Zenz: The street names of the city of Trier. 3rd expanded edition. Trier 1984, p. 86.
  5. ^ Adolf Welter: The air raids on Trier 1939–1945. Trier 1996, ISBN 3-923575-13-0 , p. 16.
  6. ↑ Drehscheibe-foren.de
  7. ↑ The heart of Trier-West should beat again. on: volksfreund.de , August 19, 2011.

Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 44 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 10 ″  E