Railway depot Giessen

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 10.4 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 14.2"  E

Turntable I is heavily overgrown.

The railway depot Gießen was an important railway depot (Bw) of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt am Main . It was located approx. 1400 m south of the Gießen train station . Since the depot is surrounded by tracks , it can only be reached via a pedestrian bridge or by track. In 1986 a total of 950 employees worked here. The engine sheds and servants' houses are a protected cultural monument . The locomotive shed was shut down in 2003.

construction

The depot consisted of two roundhouse , two turntables each with standardized diameters of 23 meters, an overnight stay for train drivers and several administrative buildings (year of construction: 1900, Frankfurter Straße 134-144). The southern roundhouse I was oriented towards the east, the northern roundhouse II (built around 1894) towards the west. Both locomotive sheds were connected by a hall and had two connecting tracks, each of which ended at the turntables. Locomotive shed II was only partially rebuilt after the Second World War . The vacated space, as well as the turntable, had been provided with overhead lines in order to be able to park electric locomotives . In the extension of the first two shed tracks of engine shed II there is a hall that was equipped with an indoor crane and spindle jacks. There, large components such as engines, gearboxes or bogies for the diesel locomotives based in Gießen were exchanged. Between this hall and the locomotive management with classrooms and overnight rooms for the locomotive personnel there was a training workshop for around 40 trainees who were trained as machine fitters in three and a half years. In 1978, the training workshop of the Wetzlar catenary maintenance department was integrated, so that there were now around 40 trainees for the training course in energy systems electronics. A forge was attached to the training workshop, and this part of the building also housed the fitter's workshop (M group) and the group leaders' offices.

Locomotive shed I is increasingly falling into disrepair.

history

The depot was built in 1850, the two locomotive sheds date from 1896 and 1900. The depot was expanded again and again until the Second World War . It was badly damaged in an air raid in 1944. The depot was not rebuilt until 1952.

Due to the decline in steam locomotives , the structure of the railway depot was changed to various diesel locomotives in 1965 . In 1981 the Giessen depot took over the depots in Dillenburg and Marburg , and Limburg was added in 1991 .

On September 1, 2003, all vehicles were relocated to the Mainz-Bischofsheim depot and the depot was closed. Since then, the windows and doors of some buildings have been screwed together. The southern engine shed I is falling into disrepair, while the northern engine shed II is still in very good condition. The southern hub is heavily overgrown with birch trees, while the northern one is still in a much better condition.

Locomotive shed II is still in pretty good condition.
Part of the roundhouse II was not rebuilt and provided space for electric locomotives.

vehicles

A special feature of the steam locomotive era was the stationing of the only two locomotives of the 66 series in Gießen from 1960 to 1967.

795 463 rail bus with sidecar in the Gießen depot, 1978

Diesel locomotives and rail buses were recently maintained in Giessen . About 200 m southwest of the Gießen depot, there are still three rail buses and six sidecars / control cars belonging to the Upper Hessian Railway Friends (OEF), some of which are operational.

Locomotive fleet as of December 31, 1983 :
model series Numbers
211 121, 125-132, 169-181, 184, 185, 186, 254-260, 267
212 368-374
213 332-341
216 022, 023, 104-118, 125-129, 189-198
260 179, 180, 403, 422, 531, 533
261 213, 214
290 087, 141-143, 236
323 091, 143, 336, 597, 694, 821, 855
332 030, 045, 214, 227, 316
333 111, 157
701 014, 099, 104
798 517, 518, 520, 538, 562, 565, 566, 572–575, 589, 590, 592, 601, 602, 604, 621, 655, 663, 694, 695, 696, 722–730, 744, 745, 761, 807-810, 829
998 (VB) 017, 118, 129, 139, 142, 156, 157, 159, 161, 163, 164, 167, 168, 170–172, 174, 183, 235, 238, 243–248, 273, 274, 279–285, 293, 315, 320
998 (VS) 695, 724-731, 764, 765, 767, 775-780, 838-, 842, 844-846, 850, 852, 853, 855-857, 859, 860, 899, 900, 903-905, 913, 918 , 920

future

After the Bw was closed, there were various considerations about what should happen to the depot. A plan was to demolish the building and relocate the tracks in the direction of Wetzlar through the site. So far, the tracks to Wetzlar have run quite far outside and cross the tracks with various bridges behind the depot.

Soil samples on the site, however, showed a fairly high level of environmental pollution, so that the soil would have to be removed by several meters if it was to be converted. The site is unsuitable as an industrial site as it cannot be reached by car. Nevertheless, the association "Historisches Bahnbetriebswerk Gießen eV" intends to turn the depot into a living railway museum.

literature

Hugo Menk: The railway in Gießen and the railway depot Gießen , EK-Verlag 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Frankfurter Straße 158 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen

Web links

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