Hanau depot

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The depot Hanau was a depot in the Hessian town of Hanau , which is now the club the museum railway Hanau houses.

history

Labeling of an electrical control cabinet in the Bad Nauheim train station with the Basa telephone number of the Hanau depot

In 1876, the construction of the first Hanau depot was started at Hanau West station , at the so-called “Wiener Spitze”. The capacities were not long enough to handle the rail traffic at the Hanau railway junction . In 1904, the construction of the new depot began south-east of what was then the Ostbahnhof (now the main train station). On April 1, 1906, the Hanau machine office was founded and construction work was completed in 1907. The new depot had two locomotive sheds ( round sheds ), two turntables , a large locomotive workshop and an administration building . It was primarily used for rail freight transport , while the old facilities, known as the “Old House”, were initially used for the locomotives for the passenger and shunting service and were attached to the new Bw. This area was later used as Hanau's local freight station and closed around 1920.

During the Second World War , the depot as part of the Hanau railway system was also the target of Allied air raids , on November 5, 1944 and November 10, 1944 (2,250 multi-purpose bombs - more than 100 tons - were dropped, nine locomotives, 15 freight wagons and a locomotive shed were destroyed) , on December 11, 1944, on December 12, 1944, a diversionary attack on January 7, 1945 that did not cause any damage, and an attack on February 17, 1945 . March 1945 , whereby one of the roundhouse was destroyed here. The air raid of March 19, 1945 also destroyed the facilities of the old depot at Vienna's head. They weren't rebuilt. The railway systems at the new East Railway Depot came under fire for the last time on March 25th with the construction of an American bridgehead in Großauheim .

On April 7, 1945, an American railway company took over management of the plant and withdrew from operations on October 15 of the same year.

In November 1982, the locomotive home was given up and on October 1, 1990, the plant was incorporated into Bahnbetriebswerk II Frankfurt.

The now shut down depot is now part of the Rhein-Main industrial culture route .

Museum railway and foundation

The Hanau museum railway was founded in May 1988 as a registered association “Dampfbahnfreunde Kahlgrund e. V. "and in May 2001 in" Museumseisenbahn Hanau e. V. “renamed. The Hanau Railway Depot Foundation was set up in April 2010 to maintain the facilities of the depot, which the City of Hanau also joined in 2010.

The association organizes regular locomotive shed festivals, at which the locomotives and other vehicles are presented in a suitable historical setting. There are also numerous special trips on routes in the Rhine-Main area . Most of these trips are made with the steam locomotive 50 3552 , which the association has owned since 2005 .

literature

  • Hans-Günter Stahl: The aerial warfare over the Hanau area 1939–1945 = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 48. Hanau 2015. ISBN 978-3-935395-22-1

Web links

Commons : Museumseisenbahn Hanau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Private website about the depot. ( Memento of July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved February 15, 2012
  2. ↑ Ralf Stöckner: Site plan Bw Hanau ( Memento from July 31, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Retrieved on February 15, 2012
  3. ↑ Ulrike Heilmann: Energy and drinking water for quality of life. The development of the Hanau municipal utility = Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 36 (1998), p. 200.
  4. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 201.
  5. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 216.
  6. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 228ff.
  7. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 235f.
  8. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 305.
  9. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 314.
  10. ↑ Stahl: Der Luftkrieg , p. 361.
  11. ↑ Reconstruction of the Hanau BW since the beginning of the occupation. ( Memento of December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved February 15, 2012
  12. ↑ Local route guide Hanau II (PDF; 503 kB) of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
  13. ↑ List of foundations of the German Railway Foundation. Retrieved February 15, 2012
  14. ↑ Locomotives remain under steam. In: op-online.de , January 5, 2011. Accessed February 15, 2012
  15. ^ City of Hanau joins the foundation. In: op-online.de , May 21, 2010. Accessed February 15, 2012
  16. ↑ More than just a “museum” . In: op-online.de , August 8, 2011. Accessed February 15, 2012
  17. ↑ Timetable

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 54.3 "  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 30.2"  E