Railway depot Lutherstadt Wittenberg
The railway depot Lutherstadt Wittenberg (often abbreviated as Bw Wittenberg ) is a former railway depot in the Labetz district of Lutherstadt Wittenberg .
history
The Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BAE) built a first system in Wittenberg in 1841 in connection with the commissioning of the Anhalter Bahn . This consisted of a two-pronged square lokschuppen and a reversing triangle to turn the locomotives. The system was located at what was then the Wittenberg train station .
With the relocation of the station to its current location , BAE built a new locomotive shed there. This was replaced in 1877 by a five-track roundhouse with a 16-meter turntable . From 1882 this train station belonged to the Royal Railway Directorate in Erfurt . The Prussian State Railways expanded the engine shed to 14 tracks by 1895 and built a social and administrative building. From April 1, 1895, the Wittenberg machine station was under the control of the Royal Railway Directorate in Halle and on April 1, 1903, it was upgraded to a workshop.
At the beginning of the 1920s, the facilities had to be expanded. Due to the lack of space at the previous location, a new part of the company was built in what was then Labetz. First, a small, four-track roundhouse and a 23-meter turntable were built. An extensive expansion took place from 1938. A roundhouse with 22 tracks, a 34 meter high water tower and a large social and administrative building were built. In 1942 the new Wittenberg depot went into operation. In 1961 a coal bunker was built.
In 1994, the depot into a depot has been transformed, from 1998 it was a work site of the DB Regio . The use of the locomotive ended in 2000.
Today the area is managed by the “Förderverein Berlin - Anhaltische Eisenbahn e. V. "used. The association's vehicles are also parked here.
Vehicle inventory
German Reichsbahn
From the 1950s onwards, Wittenberg depot mainly used class 38.10-40 and class 52 steam locomotives . With the advent of diesel traction, the VT 2.09 series railcars followed in 1964 and the V 200 series in 1967 . Steam locomotives were used again from November 1981 to December 15, 1985. From 1983 electric locomotives were also based here.
museum
The association has the following vehicles:
In the holdings of Dampf Plus:
In Axel Zwingenberger's portfolio :
Various historical passenger coaches are also parked on the site , including the saloon coaches of a GDR command train. These belong to the "Collection of historic rail vehicles" recognized as a cultural monument of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.
Investments
The roundhouse with turntable, the water tower, the administration building, maintenance halls and extensive track systems have been preserved to this day. The depot is now a listed building .
A converter station and switchgear for the traction power supply located on the site has been shut down.
Immediately to the south, the Roßlau – Falkenberg railway passes the depot. Its tracks are connected to Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hauptbahnhof .
Events
Every year in late summer, the association organizes a Bw festival with vehicle exhibitions , driver's cab rides, and a model railway exhibition and model railway exchange. The latter also take place several times during the year.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter George: The railway depot Lutherstadt Wittenberg . 1st edition. Verlag Dirk Endisch, 2009, ISBN 978-3-936893-42-7 , p. 101 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depot of the GDR: 1949-1993 . Transpress, 2011, ISBN 978-3-613-71401-4 , pp. 101 .
- ^ Musician saves GDR trains. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . April 25, 2011, accessed September 18, 2013 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 29.5 " N , 12 ° 41 ′ 9.7" E