Railway depot Güstrow

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Out of scale track diagram of the Güstrow depot (1930)

The Bahnbetriebswerk Güstrow ( Bw Güstrow for short ) existed from 1865 to 1993 and served the maintenance, repair and provision of steam and diesel locomotives that were used in the Güstrow area or were stationed in Güstrow. At the end of 1993 the former depot came to the Rostock depot and was operated from there until 1999 as a deployment site.

The remaining parts of the former depot (such as the two ring locomotive sheds , the turntable and the water tower) are entered in the official list of monuments.

history

With the opening of the railway line between Bützow and Güstrow in 1850, the Mecklenburg Railway Company opened a repair and maintenance workshop for locomotives in the new Güstrow terminus. This locomotive station consisted of a three-track locomotive shed with an attached workshop. In 1864 the railway company added a 4-person roundhouse with a turntable in front. In 1865 it was converted into a depot.

In the 1880s, Güstrow developed into a hub station. At the same time, more train services were handled to Neubrandenburg and the importance of the locomotive station increased considerably. For these reasons, the Bw was expanded several times from 1882 and until 1887 had a semicircular shed with 14 tracks.

With the establishment of the ferry connection between Warnemünde and the Danish Gedser, the importance of the station increased further. After the First World War , the plant recovered quickly and soon reached its capacity limits again. Since there were no more areas to expand, plans were made to build a new depot about 500 meters away on the railway line to Bützow. The construction time for the new depot with a semicircular locomotive shed for 11 tracks, a turntable with a diameter of 23 meters and workshops lasted from 1925 to 1927. Smaller extensions were made up to 1933, such as the construction of a new administration and social building. In 1935 the old depot, with the exception of the roundhouse and the turntable, was removed. Both the roundhouse and the turntable have been preserved to this day (as of 2019).

After reunification, the importance of the depot quickly declined and the competent Reichsbahndirektion Schwerin decided to dissolve the Güstrow depot on November 30, 1993. The service then came to the Rostock depot (from 1994 Rostock depot). On September 26, 1999, the site was completely closed.

Locomotive inventory

In 1932 a total of 24 steam locomotives were stationed in Güstrow. By 1936 the number increased to a total of 39 locomotives. The following list shows the number of locomotives from 1932 (1936 as brackets).

After the Second World War, several foreign locomotives from France and Belgium were in the Güstrow depot . Many locomotive repairs were carried out in the 1950s. At the same time a type adjustment was made. The class 50 then dominated the locomotive fleet. In 1964 the following locomotives were in stock:

In the 1960s, passenger train services declined and the class 38 and 50 steam locomotives (old buildings) gradually disappeared. In 1966, with the takeover of the V 36, the traction change began in Güstrow. In 1968 new steam locomotives of the classes 23 and 50 40 as well as diesel locomotives of the class V 60.12 were added to the inventory. The V 100 series followed a year later . The locomotive fleet in 1969 was as follows:

In 1974 the class 120 and in 1975 the class 118 came to the depot. Scheduled steam locomotives with the classes 50 35 continued until March 1986.

Job sites

  • Out of scale track diagram of the Meyenburg deployment site (1965)

  • Out of scale track diagram of the Teterow locomotive station (1912)

  • Out of scale track diagram of the Plau locomotive station (1890)

Between 1945 and 1993, the Güstrow depot was assigned six deployment sites. From 1945 Gnoien, Plau am See, Röbel and Teterow belonged to the depot. Meyenburg followed in 1953 and Karow in 1966. The Röbel deployment site went to the Parchim depot in 1953 . Gnoien, Karow and Plau am See were later closed. With the conversion of the Güstrow depot into a deployment site, the two deployment sites in Meyenburg and Teterow came to the Rostock depot.

See also

literature

  • Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, pages 24-26.
  • Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depots in the GDR. transpress Verlag, page 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-71549-3 , page 133.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official List of Historic Buildings in the Rostock District (as of February 19, 2018), accessed on September 25, 2019.

Coordinates: 53 ° 48 ′ 23.9 "  N , 12 ° 9 ′ 43.9"  E