Neumünster depot

Neumünster depot - locomotive shed

The Neumünster railway depot (short form: Bw Neumünster) is a depot of the Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg and the later Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg in Neumünster , which was closed in 1988. The depot is east of Rendsburger Strasse and south of today's Max-Johannsen-Brücke.

history

The work began in the 1840s. In 1844 the railway line from Altona to Kiel was built, in 1845 the line of the Rendsburg-Neumünster Railway Company to Rendsburg was added, by the Altona-Kiel Railway Company in 1866 the line to Ascheberg and on to Neustadt in Holstein and in 1875 the line to Bad Oldesloe and in 1877 finally the route to Heide by the Westholsteinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft .

Between 1956 and 1969, 77 depots were closed in the Federal Republic of Germany. The Neumünster depot lost its independence in 1969 and has since been operated as a branch of the Kiel depot. The engine shed was demolished except for six stalls; likewise the water tower, before the depot was finally shut down in 1988.

Technical Equipment

Before the start of the Second World War, the plant had a small turntable with 17 stalls in the southern part of the plant, as well as a large turntable with 22 parking spaces and another locomotive shed in the northern part. There was also a coal ban, a water tower, a sanding plant, a workshop building and a cinder pit.

During the air raid on Neumünster on April 13, 1945, the plant's facilities were badly damaged and after the end of the war only the northern turntable and the 22-permanent locomotive shed were rebuilt as a round shed; however, with almost 80 steam locomotives, as many machines were located in Neumünster as there were between the world wars. The new coal crane built in 1951, which filled four coaling hoppers, had previously been dismantled in the port of Hamburg. In addition, a tank system for diesel fuel was available from 1954.

Museum location

From 1988 to 2005 the area was a location of the DB Museum , which was run by the Rendsburger Eisenbahnfreunde e. V. (REF) was operated on a voluntary basis on the basis of several cooperation agreements with Deutsche Bahn AG.

In the museum, the association showed six historic steam and four diesel locomotives that were owned by Deutsche Bahn. From 1991 to 1998 the REF steam locomotive 042 271 was used from the Neumünster depot in northern Germany. After their boiler and chassis deadlines had expired, the oil-fired express train locomotive 012 100 was used in their place until 2010 . It was used for nostalgic trips such as the Christmas market to Lübeck.

Complicated ownership conditions caused long-term disputes, because REF had long-term usage contracts for the locomotives. The premises of the depot belonged to Aurelis, DB was the tenant, and REF, in turn, had usage rights here as well.

The engine shed was used for concerts and other cultural events at this time. Due to the fact that from 2005 it was no longer a museum site, but a normal operating site of the railway, on which no visitors were allowed to walk around for liability reasons and the duty of traffic safety lay with the DB and not with the REF, DB Museum spoke an entry ban for the site. Today, in addition to the workshop building, the turntable and the engine shed have been preserved. (As of 2019)

Further use

Railway depot Neumünster - Locomotive shed with DE 2700-05 (2018)

In 2017, the city of Neumünster acquired a 30-hectare site between the railway line to Heide and the Holstenhallen from Aurelis , which markets the properties of Deutsche Bahn nationwide. This includes the entire allotment gardens of the railway agriculture (including the Schafstall restaurant), the locomotive shed and the former freight yard.

The Jutta and Dr. In 2018, the Thomas Kittel Foundation and the German Rock Music Foundation founded the Kulturlokschuppen Neumünster (IKN) interest group with ten associations as members, which advocate the use of the site for railway operations, museums, culture and events. As an important prerequisite for this, the IKN plans to acquire the area from the city of Neumünster.

Outdoor area Bw Neumünster November 2019

In the second half of 2019, the entire Bw site was filled with vehicles from the Historical Railway Vehicles Lübeck Association . The club had to give up its premises in Lübeck. Various valuable vehicles are now parked outside at the turntable, including the VT 41 Zittau (686 001) (686 001) and the V 200 007 converted from a battery-powered railcar of the DB class ETA 150 .

The budget committee of the German Bundestag has decided to support the German Rock Music Foundation with 750,000 euros. The money will be used to create music production rooms in the Bw. The German Rock Music Foundation wants to buy the social and workshop building. The city of Neumünster is opposed to the sale of the entire site because of the high maintenance costs. A symbolic price of 1,000 euros was named in the negotiations.

Overview of the local locomotives

On October 31, 1925, the Neumünster depot had the following locomotives:

• for passenger trains
  • the 13 series with 13 1177 and 1198
  • the 36 series with 36 042 and 157
  • the 38 series with 38 1255, 1482, 2333, 2334, 2335, 2336, 2601, 2613, 2614, 3314, 3403 and 3404
• for local freight trains
  • the 54 series with 54 211, 274 and 376
  • the 54 series with 54 841, 844, 883, 884, 932, 969, 1007, 1061 and 1062
  • the 55 series with 55 1016
  • the 55 series with 55 3109, 3111, 3187, 3270, 3272, 3275, 3508, 3707, 3708, 3709, 3715, 3716, 3717, 3718, 3720, 4227, 4526, 4527, 4528, 5058, 5066, 5383, 5384 , 5386, 5469, 5470 and 5471
  • the 57 series with 57 2087, 2089, 2090, 2499, 2500 and 2501
• for passenger trains (tank locomotives)
  • the 74 series with 74 020, 021, 030, 187, 199, 262, 263, 264 and 356
  • the 74 series with 74 615, 616, 937, 938 and 1113
• for shunting tasks and handovers
  • the 89 series with 89 7358
  • the 90 series with 90 164
  • the 91 series with 91 071
  • the 91 series with 91 993, 1026, 1027, 1028, 1029, 1120, 1121 and 1200
  • the 92 series with 92 612, 613, 615, 708 and 709

Literature and Sources

• Neumünster depot: A journey through time from 1960 - 2015 (Youtube video)
• Homepage of the IKN - Interest Group Kulturlokschuppen Neumünster

See also

• Neumünster repair shop

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Emmi Obst, Karl-Manfred Bünger, Egon Tiedgen and Carsten Obst: The Neumünster railway junction in historical views , p. 43ff, Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2018, ISBN 9783954006489
2. ^ The Bw Neumünster on the side of the Rendsburger Eisenbahnfreunde e. V.
3. ↑ 01 1100 of the DB Museum on June 21, 2019 in Koblenz-Lützel
4. ^ "Visiting ban" for engine sheds. In: Kiel News . November 25, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Thorsten Geil: Big hit: Neumünster buys 30 hectares. In: Kiel News . December 12, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
6. ^ Historical engine shed Neumünster
7. ↑ Big plans for the engine shed
8. ↑ 750,000 euros for music production rooms. Landesmusikrat Schleswig-Holstein, November 18, 2019, accessed on December 18, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Kieler Nachrichten of December 17, 2019
10. ^ Ulrich Walluhn: The locomotive inventory on October 31, 1925. Reichsbahndirektion Altona. Retrieved on October 31, 2019 (According to source: The Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft's stock of locomotives and multiple units on October 31, 1925 ). 

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 53.4 ″  E