Köpenick depot

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Assembly hall and administration building on Wendenschloßstraße

The Köpenick depot is a tram station on Wendenschloßstraße in Berlin-Köpenick . It is operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe under the abbreviation Köp and serves as a deployment point for the 60 lines of the Berlin tram .

Location and structure

Detail of the Köpenick city arms above the assembly hall

The depot is located at Wendenschloßstraße 138 at the corner of Charlottenstraße and was built in two sections. The older part was built between 1903 and 1906 according to plans by Hugo Kinzer and is located at the intersection. It includes a car hall used for assembly purposes, workshops along Charlottenstrasse and the administration building on Wendenschloßstrasse. The hall comprises four tracks with space for a total of 20 cars of the length at that time, and is closed off by a gable roof with a skylight caterpillar in the longitudinal direction. The hall front contains a round arched gate for each track with a curved gable above. The attached decorations are made in Art Nouveau style. Koepenick's coat of arms is emblazoned in the middle , it is said to have been on the old town hall . Moved further back, a further two-track workshop hall was built in 1906, which was later used as a grinding hall.

In 1910, a twelve-track wagon hall with space for a total of 80 wagons was built north of the grinding hall. Towers on the sides and two six-part gables decorate the front of the hall. A washing facility was built in the track compartment in front of the hall, which was replaced in 1996 by a new building north of the wagon hall. To the north of the wash hall there is an open-air parking facility with four tracks. The relatively narrow location means that there is no turning loop at the depot , so the trains have to push back from Wendenschloßstraße into the halls . The depot is listed as a complete system in the Berlin State Monument List .

history

View of the car shed, car wash and outdoor parking area (from left to right)

The site of the depot had been owned by the city of Cöpenick since 1877 (from 1931: Köpenick ). With the electrification of the Cöpenick tram and the extension towards Wendenschloß and Spindlersfeld , the city needed a larger area as a depot. The new building was designed in the style of north German gable buildings and executed as clinker masonry with partially plastered compartments. With the start of electrical operations on August 11, 1903, the farm was handed over to its destination. In the following year, the administration building was completed, and in 1906 the workshop hall with tracks 1 and 2. Following the takeover of the Friedrichshagen tram (1906) and the expansion of the network to Mahlsdorf (1907), Grünau (1909) and Adlershof (1912), the second was in 1910 Car hall built.

In 1920 the Berlin tram took over the depot and continued to operate it as Hof 26 . The temporary closure took place in 1924, while the vehicles located there were stored in the Nalepastraße depot of the former Berlin Eastern Railways . The farm has been under the abbreviation Köp since 1935 .

Around 1970 plans came up to close the depots in Köpenick and Nalepastraße and to build a new building in their place on the street An der Wuhlheide; the project became obsolete with the decision to build the new development areas in Marzahn , Hohenschönhausen and Hellersdorf and the associated shift in the network's focus. After 1970, the hall extensions along Charlottenstrasse were demolished and a single-storey extension to the assembly hall and a heating transfer station for district heating were built in their place .

Between 1993 and 1999, the depot was renovated and rebuilt in accordance with the listed building standards. A new heating system was installed, the grinding hall was converted into a body shop and the additions along Charlottenstrasse were partly built on two floors. Following these extensions, further offices were built between 1994 and 1996 along Charlottenstrasse. The old car shed used as an assembly hall was reconstructed and a new car wash was built as an extension of the large car shed. The final step was the renovation of the large wagon hall and the renovation of the roof of the administration building.

After the work was completed in 1999, a total of 123 vehicles of the types T6A2D and B6A2D were stationed on the 12,072 square meter site ; 184 drivers, 52 craftsmen and a further 26 employees worked on the site. This year the court provided around a quarter of the total operating performance of the Berlin tram.

The historical collection of the BVG is currently housed, which is looked after by the heritage preservation association Nahverkehr Berlin (DVN). The BVG's historical archive has also been located in the premises of the depot since 2017.

literature

Web links

Commons : Depot Köpenick  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Demps et al .: Tram history (s). 100 years of »Electric« in Köpenick . 2003, p. 66 .
  2. ↑ Sigurd Hilkenbach, Wolfgang Kramer: The tram in the Berlin Transport Authority (BVG East / BVB) 1949-1991 . 2nd Edition. transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71063-3 , pp. 80 .
  3. ↑ Demps et al .: Tram history (s). 100 years of »Electric« in Köpenick . 2003, p. 67 .
  4. ↑ a b Demps et al .: Tram history (s). 100 years of »Electric« in Köpenick . 2003, p. 69 .
  5. ^ Ralf Drescher: Historic trams are back in Köpenick . In: Berlin Week . July 31, 2015 ( berliner-woche.de ).
  6. ↑ News in brief - miscellaneous . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 8 , 2017, p. 162 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 21.6 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 50.5"  E