Railway depot Erfurt
The Erfurt depot (abbreviated: Bw Erfurt ) is a former depot in Erfurt. It was in operation from 1847 to 1968 and had two locations after 1888: the BwP at Thomasstrasse 83 and the BwG at Weimarische Strasse. The relevant authority in April 2019 determined that part of the preserved systems is worth a monument .
history
Shortly after the Thuringian Railway Company was founded in 1844, before the Erfurt railway connection was completed, the first steam locomotives were ordered that needed space for storage and maintenance. In connection with the construction of the reception building of the Erfurt main train station within the Erfurt city fortifications, areas to the west of the train station were acquired along Thomasstrasse. The first locomotives were delivered in 1846. In 1847 the first locomotive shed, coke shed, devices for taking water and a workshop building were built. In 1853 a new locomotive shed with 22 stalls was built on Rosengasse, the turntable of which was already renewed in 1856. 1873 was built west of Löbertors another new big roundhouse . The main workshop was also renewed and expanded several times, for example in 1856, 1862 and 1873. The symmetrical, multi-wing system, which is still shown in the city map from 1881, was replaced from 1876 by the large workshops that still exist today with their typical brick facades.
From 1888 to 1894 a new depot was finally built in the area of the new freight yard on Weimarische Strasse. It was named according to the BwG . Its centerpiece was a large rectangular shed with 59 locomotive and repair stands, six hall aisles, a sliding platform , two turntables, a 320 m long coal bunker and a water tower that was later fed by the Lütschetalsperre built for this purpose in 1935 . At the time, the BwG was the largest and most modern depot of the Reichsbahndirektion Erfurt.
The old workshop at the passenger station was now called BwP . The repair of locomotives was given up in 1925. The plant also housed the locomotives for the express and passenger trains and the shunting locomotives for the passenger station.
In 1968, both depots were finally closed in the course of rationalization. Part of the factory halls and service buildings were rented to the postal administration and motor vehicle companies until the 1990s.
On February 29, 2012, the Erfurt city council decided to initiate preparatory investigations for the development measure " Bahnhofsquartier (ICE-City) ". On December 22nd, 2014, the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thuringia acquired areas of both depots together with the former freight yard.
In November 2015, architects Machleidt + Partner from Berlin, in cooperation with Mola + Winkelmüller and Sinai, developed an urban planning framework plan for the areas of the freight yard east of the main train station under the title " ICE City Sub-Area East New Schmidtstedter Tor ". Provides offices, meeting and seminar rooms as well as shops, restaurants and apartments. To accentuate the area of the street underpass at Schmidtstedter Tor, two high-rise buildings are to be built.
The future use of the old depot P west of the station remained open. On June 13, 2017, the industrial halls of the BwP were the subject of a symposium on industrial culture in Thuringia, at which representatives of several universities and institutes, such as the Technical University of Freiberg , the University of Kassel , the Bauhaus University Weimar , the University of Cologne , the Berlin Center for industrial culture, the Institute for New Industrial Culture Cottbus, Ferropolis GmbH Dessau , the Ruhr Regional Association and the Erfurt monument protection authority . Among other things, the demand was made to place the halls under monument protection, to maintain them and to use them again. On December 20, 2017, at the request of the SPD parliamentary group, the Erfurt City Council decided to start talks with the Free State of Thuringia with the aim of having the former “Royal Railway Depot” entered in the state's list of monuments as a monument to Erfurt's industry and transport history . In April 2019, sufficient historical, technical and urban planning reasons were found that justify the inclusion of parts of the current building stock of the railway depot in the monument book. Bahnbetriebswerk G on Weimarische Strasse , between the railway line south and the street Am Wasserturm , is still in operation today as the "DB Werk Erfurt".
Literature and Sources
- Detlef Hommel, Georg Thielmann: Erfurt traffic junction. EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2000, ISBN 3-88255-273-5 .
- Map of the city of Erfurt. Verlag Gerhardt & Schreiber, Erfurt 1881.
- Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology "Former main workshop Erfurt" of the royal Prussian railway administration with workshops, auxiliary buildings and tracks, property Thomasstrasse 29 in 99084 Erfurt , attachment to the letter to the city administration Erfurt from April 15, 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Letter from the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology of April 15, 2019 to the lower monument protection authority of the city of Erfurt
- ^ Graffiti on the south facade of the eastern "Richthalle für Lokomotiven" from 2016.
- ↑ Free State of Thuringia: ICE City ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ City of Erfurt: ICE-City Erfurt - the fast center of Germany
- ^ Jan Kobel: Industrial culture in Thuringia. Arnstadt 2017.
- ↑ Holger Wetzel: SPD wants to protect old train halls. In: Erfurt General . December 14, 2017. (online)
- ^ City of Erfurt: Resolution on printed matter no. 2516/17 of the further meeting of the city council on December 21, 2017. (online at: buergerinfo.erfurt.de )
- ^ Deutsche Bahn - Erfurt plant
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '18.2 " N , 11 ° 2' 1.6" E