Wismar depot

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Wismar depot in October 1994
Listed locomotive shed of the Wismar depot in 2009

The Wismar depot ( Bw Wismar for short ) was opened in 1935, making it the youngest depot in Mecklenburg. It was also the smallest depot of the Reich Railway Directorate Schwerin . Until its closure in the 1990s, steam and later diesel locomotives that were based in the Hanseatic city of Wismar or provided train services there were serviced, repaired and kept ready . The main areas of application for the locomotives of the Wismar depot were the lines in the direction of Rostock , Schwerin and the now closed line to Karow .

The roundhouse with water station is entered in the official list of monuments of Wismar and is today mainly used by the Wismar Railway Friends together with the other remaining facilities . In addition to the locomotives from Eisenbahnfreunde Wismar , locomotives from the Pressnitztalbahn railway construction and operating company are also parked there.

history

With the commissioning of the railway line from Schwerin to Wismar in 1848, a station locksmith's shop, consisting of a rectangular locomotive shed with treatment facilities, was built in Wismar. Later a locomotive station developed from it, which was subordinate to the railway depot Schwerin .

At the beginning of the 1880s, a new locomotive station with a four-track roundhouse with a 13-meter turntable was built north of the tracks of the Wismar train station . The roundhouse was then expanded to 7 stalls by 1883. A half-timbered workshop, a water tower, an office building and a warehouse were added later.

An expansion that became necessary after 1910 could no longer be carried out due to the First World War. Even in the 1920s, there were not enough financial resources available for a new building, so the existing roundhouse was only expanded to twelve stands and a 20-meter turntable was installed (from 1940 to 23 m in diameter). Ten stands were 16.5 meters long and two stands 19.8 meters long.

Out of scale track diagram of the Bw Wismar (1939)

On April 1, 1926, the Wismar locomotive station was assigned to the Rostock depot and raised to an independent depot on January 1, 1935. After the fall of the Wall, the freight transport services decreased significantly and the importance of the Bw decreased significantly. As a result of the loss of importance, the plant was initially assigned to the Schwerin depot as a deployment site on December 1, 1993, and was completely shut down on January 1, 1999 when it was converted into a personnel deployment location. The city bought the area on May 1, 2007 and then renovated the existing buildings. In the course of this, the tracks to the locomotive shed, which had been removed in the meantime, were reinstalled and the turntable was put back into operation. After the renovation, the city handed over the former Bw to the Eisenbahnfreunde Wismar .

Locomotive inventory

The locomotive stock of the locomotive station in 1925 initially included steam locomotives of the series 89 80 (4 pieces), 91 19 (9 pieces) and 55 16-22 (2 pieces). After conversion into a Bw, 4 locomotives of the 55 16-22 series , 5 locomotives of the 75 4, 10-11 and 5 91 19 series locomotives were stationed in Wismar. By 1940 the class 75 4, 10-11 was completely replaced by the class 64 .

After the Second World War, foreign and damaged locomotives were added to the inventory. After reconditioning and type adjustment, the number of locomotives on December 14, 1947 (August 1, 1957 as brackets) is as follows:

With the change in traction , diesel locomotives also came to Wismar. In 1955 the class 103 (V 36) initially took over the shunting tasks in the oil port. The series 100 (Kö) , 101 (V 15) , 102 (V 23) , 106 (V 60) , 110/112 (V 100) , 118 (V 180) and 120 (V 200 ) stationed in Wismar. After the traction change was completed in early 1981, the Deutsche Reichsbahn decided in 1982 to re-use steam locomotives in order to save diesel fuel. With the retirement of the class 50 35 in the summer of 1985, the steam traction finally came to an end in Wismar.

The locomotive 244 103 (originally E 44 103) was a special feature. It was the only electric locomotive in the Wismar depot and was used to preheat the passenger trains.

Job sites

The Bw only had one place of action . On November 15, 1945, the Klütz deployment site was subordinated to the Wismar depot.

See also

literature

  • Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, pages 37-39.
  • Klaus-Jürgen Kühne: Railway depots in the GDR . transpress Verlag, page 2017, ISBN 978-3-613-71549-3 , pages 138-139.

Web links

Commons : Bahnbetriebswerk Wismar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roundhouse will soon be "fully" accessible again. In: The Museum Railway . No. 3 , 2017, ISSN  0936-4609 , p. 10-11 .
  2. ↑ Lothar Schultz: The time of the steam locomotives in Mecklenburg . Ostseedruck Rostock, 1988, page 69.

Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 51.7 ″  N , 11 ° 28 ′ 7 ″  E