Bamberg depot

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The Bamberg depot (short form Bw Bamberg ) was a depot in the city of Bamberg . It was initially operated by the Royal Bavarian State Railways , later by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and finally by the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

location

The Bamberg depot was located north of the station at Gundelsheimer Strasse 14a – 22 in the Gärtnerstadt district of Bamberg between the Bamberg – Hof and Bamberg – Scheßlitz lines .

history

When the state railway line from Nuremberg to Bamberg opened on September 1, 1844, facilities for locomotive handling were set up in Bamberg station ; Parts of it were still there in 2000 and are therefore among the oldest railway systems in Bavaria. These facilities were constantly being expanded, so that a workshop was created on today's Brennerstrasse. The development of the Bamberg train station into a railway junction required a further expansion of the depot. Therefore, the Royal Bavarian State Railways decided to build a new building north of the Bamberg train station. The coach repair workshops, which were built in 1895/96, were included and in 1906 another building was added. The later Rundlokschuppen I was built in 1901, and later Rundlokschuppen II in 1904, each with turntables with a diameter of 11.85 m and 11.15 m, which were renewed in 1929. In 1906 the office and reservoir building, the foreman and overnight building as well as the gate and bath house were also built. This gave the depot its greatest expansion. In 1919 the old locomotive shed opposite the station building was demolished.

In 1940 a bunker was built during the Second World War . At the end of 1941, the expansion of the depot was planned to be ready for implementation by building a new rectangular hall for electric locomotives , modernizing the coaling system and connecting the turntables on both sides. In 1942 these plans were supplemented by the idea of ​​a Bamberg marshalling yard with its own Bamberg Gbf railway depot to relieve the Nuremberg marshalling yard, although this never went beyond the first planning stage. The war ultimately prevented the implementation of all plans.

The depot survived the Second World War with manageable damage. The execution of the Nero order could be prevented by the then locomotive manager H. Diem . Both during air raids and when Bamberg was captured by US troops on 13/14. April 1945, the depot remained almost undamaged. Looting committed in the first few days after capture weighed heavier .

In 1967 the steam locomotive entertainment ended. The previous Pressig-Rothenkirchen depot was incorporated on September 1, 1968. With the cessation of maintenance of electric traction vehicles on March 1, 1969, the reduction of the depot began. There were plans to concentrate all diesel locomotives in northern Franconia in Bamberg. However, this was not implemented. With the commissioning of the new building of the yard depot , the inventory was drastically reduced. The last vehicles were withdrawn on August 1, 1978. The tasks were now limited to the deployment of personnel and the maintenance of mechanical systems such as heating and tank systems throughout western Upper Franconia . On March 1, 1984, the Bamberg depot was dissolved and converted into a base for the Lichtenfels depot . The tasks were gradually shifted to facilities within the Bamberg train station, so that the depot was abandoned by the mid-1990s at the latest. The overhead line was dismantled in the autumn of 1994, and the soil was renovated and the track system was dismantled at the end of May 1996.

Re-use of the building

Individual buildings were re-used. The Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg used the previous overnight building in the 1980s, and some buildings could be rented to private interested parties. Plans to give Rundlokschuppen II a cultural purpose could not be implemented. Today (2013) the site lies fallow, the facilities are increasingly decaying. A part of these facilities is to give way for the construction of the traffic project German Unity No. 8 , the high-speed line Nuremberg – Erfurt .

Home vehicles

In the course of its almost 140-year history, the Bamberg depot has housed vehicles of all types of traction:

Steam locomotives

Series 18 , Series 38 , Series 42 , Series 44 , Series 50 , Series 52 , Series 54 , Series 56 , Series 71.0 , Series 78 , Series 86 , Series 89 , Series 98.4 , Series 98.8 , Series 98.11 , Series 98.73

Electric locomotives

Series E 04 , Series E 40 , Series E 44 , Series E 50 , Series E 94

Diesel locomotives

Series V 20 , V Series 36 , Series V 60 , Series V 80 , V Series 100 , Series 188 V

Small locomotives

Kö series, Ks series

Railcar

Class VT 70, Class VT 86 , Class VT 95 , Class VT 98 , series ETA

literature

  • Norbert Kempf: Bamberg depot . Locomotives, structures and personalities. H & L publications Wolfgang Bleiweis, Schweinfurt 2000, ISBN 3-928786-52-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Kempf: Bahnbetriebswerk Bamberg, Schweinfurt 2000, p. 10
  2. ↑ cf. Kempf: Bamberg depot, Schweinfurt 2000, p. 14
  3. ↑ cf. Kempf: Bahnbetriebswerk Bamberg, Schweinfurt 2000, p. 28
  4. ↑ cf. Kempf: Bahnbetriebswerk Bamberg, Schweinfurt 2000, p. 45
  5. ↑ cf. Kempf: Bahnbetriebswerk Bamberg, Schweinfurt 2000, p. 69
  6. ↑ cf. Kempf: Bahnbetriebswerk Bamberg, Schweinfurt 2000, p. 60
  7. ↑ after Kempf: Bahnbetriebswerk Bamberg, Schweinfurt 2000, pp. 70–73

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '28.5 "  N , 10 ° 53' 34.9"  E