Koblenz-Lützel depot
The Koblenz-Lützel depot was a depot on the left Rhine line in Koblenz . The plant in the Neuendorf district was in operation from 1905 to 1968. The former freight wagon repair shop, which was in operation until 1995, has been home to the DB Museum Koblenz since 2001 . The Koblenz-Lützel depot is the only partially preserved of the three Koblenz depot. It is thus a testimony to the technical and economic history of the city of Koblenz and the state of Rhineland-Palatinate as well as to the equipment of the depots that is customary at the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
history
After the construction of the Bonn – Koblenz section of the left Rhine route in 1858, a freight station was built in Lützel at the foot of the Kaiser Franz fortress . The following year the Koblenz-Lützel train station was opened. The freight yard was moved further north in 1905 at the level of the Rhine barracks . To the north of it, the Koblenz-Lützel depot was built according to plans by the Royal Railway Directorate in Cologne . Mahler was named as the executive architect . With the abandonment of the depot at Koblenz main station in 1935, the services were taken over by the depot Koblenz-Lützel and Koblenz-Mosel . During the Second World War , the railway systems in Lützel were often the target of Allied air raids .
In 1968 the Koblenz-Lützel depot was given up and dismantled in several sections. Booths 1–5 remained until the beginning of the 1980s, but only booth 5 was connected to the turntable that still exists today. Since the beginning of the 1980s, this remainder of the roundhouse and other parts of the depot was demolished. The repair shop for freight wagons was in operation until 1995. On April 21, 2001, the DB Museum Koblenz was opened here as the first external location of the Transport Museum in Nuremberg .
Operating facilities
The Koblenz-Lützel depot consisted of a large, two-part, 30-hour roundhouse , each with a 20-m turntable, in which the locomotives for freight trains and shunting operations in the freight yard were located, as well as the 60-m-long wagon hall with three tracks including workshops, in which freight wagons were repaired until 1995. Booths 1–19 were housed in the northern part of the shed and booths 20–30 in the south, with the locomotive control and the office of department head B in between. The turntables with pits had maintenance corridors and turntable bridges, the southern one has been preserved to this day. In addition, there were administration buildings, an overnight building, a water tower , storage rooms, toilet buildings , a boiler house and a wood storage shed, the latter three buildings are also still preserved.
The existing car hall with the workshops and storage rooms was built from brick . The long side of the carriage hall was designed as a steel frame construction with stream stone infill. To the south, the two-storey car hall with the attached workshop wing shows two facades with broken gable ends . It is structured by three-quarter high pilaster strips and tall rectangular windows, which are grouped into two or three-part groups. The central rail gate on the carriage hall has been preserved with wooden wings. On the north side it has three renewed gates for the three tracks inside. The uniform space of the hall is covered by an iron roof supporting structure, the binder on the longitudinal walls of reinforced lisenenartigen supports within the framework rests.
Monument protection
The former railway depot Koblenz-Lützel has been a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2013 . It is located in Koblenz-Neuendorf at Schönbornluster Straße 3 .
literature
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 37 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 33" E