Neustadt depot

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Neustadt depot
Former engine shed of the depot, today the railway museum

Former engine shed of the depot, today the railway museum

Data
place Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
Builder Palatine Ludwig Railway Company
Architectural style 23-axis two-aisled hall
Construction year 1846-1847

The Neustadt depot (official name from 1909 to 1935 and from 1945 to 1950 Neustadt (Haardt) depot , from 1935 to 1945 and from 1950 until its closure Neustadt (Weinstr) depot , short form Bw Neustadt or Nh ) was a depot in Neustadt the Weinstrasse , which was an independent plant from 1860 to 1958. It then functioned as a Ludwigshafen branch for a few years . Some of its facilities are now used by the Neustadt / Weinstrasse Railway Museum .

location

The depot itself was spread over several locations in the Neustadt main station area due to the limited space available. The engine shed south of the station is a listed building. It was built in 1846 and 1847 and houses today's Railway Museum. Around half a century later, systems were added in the Gleisdreieck between Ludwigs- and Maximiliansbahn as well as in its vicinity those of the Speyer – Neustadt local railway in the local train station southeast of the Gleisdreieck.

history

Beginnings

With the commissioning of the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn between Ludwigshafen and what was then Neustadt an der Haardt on June 11, 1847, a locomotive shed with a total length of 80 meters, a turntable and two-story building that served as a workshop and office were built on site. After Neustadter Bahnhof became the starting point for the Maximiliansbahn to Wissembourg in 1855 and thus became a railway junction, the facilities were officially turned into an independent operating location in 1860, at that time officially called workshops . In the beginning, mainly Crampton steam locomotives were housed on site. During the time of the Palatinate Railways , the Neustadt a. Haardt, along with his peers in Kaiserslautern and Ludwigshafen, was one of three independent plants in what was then the Palatinate, and the smallest of them. At first it was mainly used for the mechanical train transport service and the maintenance of wagons and locomotives.

The importance and traffic of the station increased after the line to Dürkheim went into operation in 1865 and its connection to Monsheim eight years later, so that a new workshop was opened in the Gleisdreieck between Ludwigs- and Maximiliansbahn, which had existed since 1887. The previous area south of the station, which was henceforth called the “western engine shed”, continued to serve as a workshop. During this time, the portfolio comprised the Palatinate series P 1.I , P 2.II , G 2 , G 3 and G4 .

Further development

After the narrow-gauge railway from Speyer to Geinsheim to Neustadt, which opened in 1905, had been tied through, the depot was expanded to include the corresponding facilities at the local station east of the Gleisdreieck. While the factory had 39 employees in 1898, their number rose to 52 by 1907. During this time, it was also subject to the machine inspection department - MI for short - in Ludwigshafen.

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were seven P 2.II locomotives, five of the G 2, six of the G 3 and G 4, three of the T 2, two of the T 2.I and one of the P 1.III in Neustadt home. When the Palatinate Railways became the property of the Bavarian State Railways on January 1, 1909, it was officially called Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw) Neustadt (Haardt) .

After Landau had meanwhile also developed into a railway junction, a branch of the Neustadt plant was built there in 1921, which finally operated as an independent depot from 1926 . In 1922, the plant was also incorporated into the newly established Ludwigshafen Reich Railway Directorate .

Renaming and change of direction (1935–1955)

With the renaming of the city to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , the name of the plant changed accordingly, which was henceforth Neustadt ( Weinstrasse ) . Nevertheless it kept its official abbreviation Nh . In the course of the dissolution of the Ludwigshafen directorate, it changed to the Mainz directorate on April 1 of the following year. Dependencies - called locomotive stations at that time - were located in the Elmstein , Grünstadt and Schifferstadt stations . In Grünstadt there were, among other things, its own shunting locomotives of the 56.20 and 91.3 series . In the 1930s, the factory had the standard-gauge series 55.25 , 64 , 77.1 , 89.1 , 91.3 , 92.20 and 98.6 , as well as the narrow-gauge 99.00 and 99.08 .

In April 1939 it was assigned to category D (200 to 599 employees) according to the number of its employees. In 1941 the number of employees fell to 160 due to the war. In addition, it had a car repair service during this period

In 1945 it was renamed Neustadt (Haardt) and from December 18, 1950 it was again called Neustadt (Weinstr) . In contrast to the neighboring Landau plant, the site in Neustadt survived the Second World War without major disruptions, so that most of the locomotives remained operational. On May 19, 1952, the Grünstadt locomotive station was redesignated as a branch; those in Elmstein and Schifferstadt no longer existed at this point in time.

In the post-war years it was the home of the 56.20 (seven locomotives), 57.10 (six locomotives), 64 (five locomotives), 74.4 , 78 (four locomotives), 91.3 (six locomotives), 94 (one locomotive), 98 (two Locomotives) and seven narrow-gauge locomotives of the 99.04 and 99.08 series.

Abandonment and partial conversion into a railway museum

In the course of the gradual electrification of the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line that emerged from the Ludwigsbahn in the period from 1960 to 1964 and the conversion of the neighboring lines to diesel operation, the Neustadt depot lost its importance. On October 1, 1963, his time as an independent agency ended; at the same time the branch in Grünstadt was closed. In the following years it was officially still a branch of its Ludwigshafen counterpart , which gradually took over its tasks. After the remaining locomotives were moved to Ludwigshafen, it was completely abandoned.

In the early 1970s, the German Society for Railway History planned to build a railway museum in the Bochum-Dahlhausen depot , which was also abandoned in 1969 . Since the planned buildings could not initially accommodate all of the association's vehicle stocks, it was planned to accommodate some elsewhere. The choice fell on the western engine shed of the disused Neustadt depot, which was about to be demolished by the Deutsche Bundesbahn . The first vehicles were already housed there at the beginning of 1972. In 1976 the warehouse behind the western engine shed was torn down. The latter received an extension with additional tracks. As the vehicles could no longer be moved to Bochum-Dahlhausen, contrary to the original plan, the Neustadt branch was officially converted into the DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt / Weinstrasse in 1981 .

commitment

The vehicles of the depot were used on the Ludwigsbahn and Maximiliansbahn until it was closed. Other routes that belonged to its catchment area were the Palatinate Northern Railway Neustadt – Monsheim, which opened between 1865 and 1873, and the Eistalbahn, which opened in 1876 . At the beginning of the 20th century, the range of activities included the Donnersbergbahn , the Klingbachtalbahn , the Germersheim – Landau , Kaiserslautern – Enkenbach , Landau – Herxheim and, well beyond the Palatinate, the Bruhrainbahn from Germersheim to Bruchsal. In 1909, the nearby Lambrecht- Elmstein cuckoo lift was added. In 1958 - already as a Ludwigshafen branch - the vehicles could be found on the Schifferstadt – Wörth , Winden – Karlsruhe and parts of the Maximiliansbahn, the Mannheim – Saarbrücken , Wörth – Strasbourg and Mainz – Ludwigshafen lines .

literature

  • Gerhard Hitschler, Marcus Klein, Thomas Gierth: The vehicles and systems of the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Railway Museum - the museum guide . 5th edition. DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt / Weinstrasse, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2010, ISBN 3-921700-73-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ denkmallisten.gdke-rlp.de: Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . (PDF; 1.4 MB) Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Gerhard Hitschler, Marcus Klein, Thomas Gierth: The vehicles and systems of the Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Railway Museum - The Museum Guide . 2010, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 10 .
  4. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 23 .
  5. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 26 .
  6. ↑ a b bahnstatistik.de: Royal Bavarian Railway Directorate Ludwigshafen a. Rhine - Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  7. ↑ a b Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (=  publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 , p. 266 f .
  8. ^ Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 28 .
  9. ^ A b Albert Mühl: The Pfalzbahn . 1982, p. 141 .
  10. ↑ Herbert Dähling: What once rolled over the Maxbahn. Attempt to get an overview of traction vehicles and dare on the anniversary route . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 141 .
  11. ↑ a b hs-merseburg.de: Deutsche Reichsbahn - Bahnbetriebswerke and other offices . Retrieved December 17, 2013 .
  12. ^ Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 95 .
  13. ↑ a b c bahnstatistik.de: Eisenbahndirektion Mainz - Timeline: erections - numbers - resolutions . Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  14. ↑ Michael Heilmann, Werner Schreiner : 150 years Maximiliansbahn Neustadt-Strasbourg . 2005, p. 69 .
  15. ↑ Herbert Dähling: What once rolled over the Maxbahn. Attempt to get an overview of locomotives and cars on the anniversary route . In: Model and Railway Club Landau in der Pfalz e. V. (Ed.): 125 years of Maximiliansbahn Neustadt / Weinstrasse-Landau / Pfalz . 1980, p. 131 .
  16. ↑ kbs-670.de: The course book route 670 - Operation - Deploying railway depot: Works along the route . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 5, 2013 .
  17. ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 32 f .
  18. ↑ Reiner Frank: Railway in the Elmsteiner Valley then and now . 2001, p. 55 .
  19. ^ Eisenbahnmuseum-neustadt.de: The DGEG-Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt ad Weinstr. (PDF) Retrieved December 17, 2013 .
  20. ^ Gerhard Hitschler, Marcus Klein, Thomas Gierth: The vehicles and systems of the Neustadt Railway Museum on the Weinstrasse - the museum guide . 2010, p. 10 .
  21. ↑ Reiner Frank: Railway in the Elmsteiner Valley then and now . 2001, p. 52 ff .
  22. ↑ db58.de: Class 78 on the Weinstrasse . Retrieved December 2, 2013 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 57.2 "  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 23.7"  E