Finkenstrasse depot
The Finkenstrasse depot was a depot with a depot and repair shop for the Lübeck tram .
history
With the opening of the line to Moisling and the planned connection to Schwartau , which was to receive its town charter in 1912 , the traffic in front of the Holsten Gate grew , so that the construction of another spacious car hall and repair shop was urgently needed. The municipal building construction office then carried out the construction of a hall on Finkenstrasse which, due to its size and practical furnishings, would meet the need for a long time.
description
The exterior of the new hall was characterized as a purely functional building . Inside, too, the open iron rafters of the roof structure spoke the new language of technology. Shameful concealment and pointless attempts at ornamentation of a concept of beauty that had mostly been believed to have been overcome at the time , according to which the signs of statics were to be disguised by pseudo-architectural elements, were no longer used.
The back street front of the building consisted of eight corrugated iron gates . The gable field above , which closed off an obtuse-angled gable roof , was completely glazed. A track led into each of the gates .
The length of the hall was 83.93 meters, the width 32.28 meters and its height from the floor to the main cornice 5.60 meters. The interior received light during the day through large skylights , through the gable windows in the front and a row of windows on the long side to the left of the entrance. There are two more gates at the back of the hall. A track led through one of the gates into the workshop . Like all the adjoining rooms, this was built to the right of the entrance to the carriage hall.
Behind the workshop was the supervisory room with the switch through which the crew room behind could be viewed. There were large ticket cabinets in the supervisory room , the double doors of which also contained ticket shelves from top to bottom .
A storage room for coal , sand and salt was attached to the crew room . Under this was the boiler for the steam heating of the workshop pits and which at the same time kept the supplies above dry. Toilets and an available room were connected to the warehouse floor.
The main hall was for a capacity of 80 cars on eight tracks. In the hall there were pits the width of the wagon between the rails . They were connected to one another under the reinforced concrete floors in such a way that the whole floor was, as it were, built under a cellar at a height of about one meter from the bottom of the pit. From the pits, which were not quite a man's height, the undercarriage of the wagons could be easily examined. In winter, the pits were also heated from the boiler house so that frozen snow on the wheels and axles was quickly thawed again.
A fence separated the facility from Finkenstrasse. In the last few years the trams shared the depot with buses, after the rail traffic was discontinued in 1959 it was a pure bus depot. Today Finkenstraße is a dead end and the former depot area is part of the Drägerwerk area on Moislinger Allee. The former buildings of the depot have been demolished.
literature
- The expansion of the tram network. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1910, No. 16, edition of April 19, 1910, pp. 61–63.
- The new tram hall in Finkenstrasse. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born in 1911, No. 49, edition of December 3, 1911, pp. 193–194.
- Wolf-Rüdiger Saager: 100 years of local transport in Lübeck . Stadtwerke Lübeck (publisher) in cooperation with the Lübecker Verkehrsfreunde eV (VLV), Lübeck 1981
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The new tram hall in Finkenstrasse. ; In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1911, No. 49, edition of December 3, 1911, p. 193.
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 ′ 31.7 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 25.7" E