Railway depot Munich East

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Old hall of the railway depot

The Munich East depot , also known as Munich 4 depot , is the former depot of Munich's Ostbahnhof . After the Deutsche Bundesbahn shut down the depot in 1992, the plant's facilities have been demolished since 2011 so that a new residential and commercial area can be built on this area.

The depot was located in the Berg am Laim district of Munich , near today's S-Bahn station , about one kilometer from the Ostbahnhof. The depot was in the south of the railroad tracks from Munich to Rosenheim and Mühldorf .

history

Railway depot from the front
inside view
Turntable of the Bw
old track and operating systems

In 1880, a locomotive shed was built at the Ostbahnhof near Rosenheimer Strasse , which was later renamed the Bahnbetriebswerk. In 1924, with the completion of the Munich East marshalling yard , the depot was relocated to Berg-am-Laim-Straße. With the relocation of the railway depot, a new hall was also created. The area of ​​the hall was approximately 14,200 square meters, in the hall a total of 18 tracks were laid. During the Second World War, the Munich V Works Office maintained a labor camp on Baumkirchner Strasse. The Gestapo had set up a “labor education camp” (AEL) for women at Truderinger Strasse 44. French, Belgian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Croatian and German women who were forced to work in the depot were housed in the AEL Berg am Laim.

After the Second World War , the hall was divided into two areas. The western part was used to repair freight wagons and electric locomotives , the eastern part was intended for the maintenance of diesel and steam locomotives as well as for accumulator railcars. From 1952 the Thalkirchen depot was a branch of the Munich East depot, but the branch was closed in 1956. On December 31, 1982, the formerly independent Bahnbetriebswagenwerk (Bww) Laim, in which mainly freight wagons were repaired, was affiliated to the Bw München Ost as a branch. In 1984 part of the hall was destroyed by a hailstorm, the remains were demolished shortly afterwards and the remaining tracks were used to park electric locomotives. The remaining part of the hall, 10,500 square meters, was mainly used to repair freight wagons. In 1992 the Munich East depot was relocated to the Munich North marshalling yard , and clubs continued to use the halls in the following years. From 2011 to July 2012 the halls were demolished. The western part of the former track system with turntable and the former signal box 1 is still there. It was decided to preserve this area as an ecological priority area; A landscape park was created on an area of ​​around 62,000 square meters while retaining the gravel areas, which was opened in May 2019. In the area of ​​the demolished halls, the Baumkirchner Strasse residential and commercial area has been built since 2012.

Domestic locomotives

The Munich East depot was very important for traction vehicles until it was relocated. The Munich East depot had three tasks to perform. All locomotives were at home in the depot, so some maintenance work was required. The design of the driver's rosters was also carried out, among other things. The following locomotive series were at home in the Munich East depot after 1945:

In 1949, 122 vehicles were at home in the Munich East railway depot, in 1959 only 98 vehicles were still in the Munich East railway depot. In 1969 there were only 65 vehicles left. On June 1, 1969, the depot lost the last steam locomotives, with the construction of the Steinhausen depot, the depot continued to lose importance. The last mainline locomotives were based in Munich East until June 1, 1974. On June 1, 1975, the electric railcars were also given to other depots. On February 15, 1977, the last shunting locomotives were withdrawn.

literature

Web links

Commons : Bahnbetriebswerk München Ost  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State capital Munich, culture department (ed.): KulturGeschichtsPfad 14: Berg am Laim . 2nd Edition. 2019, p. 31–32 ( muenchen.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Korhammer, Armin Franzke, Ernst Rudolph: Turntable of the South. Munich railway junction . Hestra-Verlag, Darmstadt 1991, ISBN 3-7771-0236-9 , p. 120 .
  3. ↑ Gaby Mühlthaler: Biotope in Berg am Laim: Munich has a new park. In: www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de. May 23, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Presentation of the session of the Department for Urban Planning and Building Regulations of July 3, 2013, accessed on May 23, 2015

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 '59.7 "  N , 11 ° 37' 44.8"  E