Düsseldorf depot
The depot Düsseldorf-Abstellbahnhof (short form Bw Düsseldorf-Abstellbahnhof , operational abbreviation KDA ) is a depot of DB Regio AG on the former Werstener Feld on Harffstraße in the Düsseldorf district of Oberbilk . At the time of its opening in the 1930s, it was considered the prototype of the planned standard railway depot of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
history
After the First World War , the volume of traffic in the Düsseldorf area and in the Bergisches Land rose sharply, so that the workshops that were located near Düsseldorf Central Station became too small. The onset of the rapid Ruhr traffic did not allow the project of a new depot to be postponed. So in 1928 began construction of a passenger train - Abstellbahnhofes with attached depot that was to be the prototype of the new unit Bahnbetriebswerke same time who wanted to reduce by uniform standards operating costs.
The central building is the 30-permanent roundhouse made of reinforced concrete , which was built from 1930 to 1931. In 1939, the depot, which is part of the Düsseldorf machinery office of the Reichsbahndirektion Wuppertal, employed around 600 people.
In the Second World War severely damaged the depot Dusseldorf-Abstellbahnhof continued to be used completely. After the end of the steam locomotive era in the mid-1970s, the depot was responsible for maintaining the trains for the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn . The depot has taken on this task to this day.
Classic Remise Düsseldorf
The roundhouse has remained unused since then. In 1991 the state capital Düsseldorf added it to the list of monuments . However, this did not prevent further deterioration. The search for a new use was unsuccessful, although plans had come very far to accommodate historic rail vehicles in the roundhouse.
Finally, the roundhouse was taken over by a private museum institution for historic automobiles , Classic Remise , Berlin, to open a branch there. After conversion and restoration, which cost around 15 million euros, the Classic Remise Düsseldorf opened on September 16, 2006.
vehicles
The following rail vehicles were or will be housed in the depot:
1930s
today
supporting documents
Harffstrasse 110, DB depot in the monument list of the state capital Düsseldorf at the Institute for Monument Protection and Preservation
Web links
- Classic Remise website (locations in Berlin and Düsseldorf)
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 42 ″ N , 6 ° 49 ′ 24 ″ E