Lichtenberg depot

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Track field with wagon hall in the background, 2010
Old administration building on Siegfriedstrasse, 2007
Motor car 7023 in the car wash, 2006

The depot Lichtenberg (Lich) is a depot of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg . When it opened in 1913, the courtyard was the world's largest tram station. From 1951 to 1973 it also served as a trolleybus depot and, since 1972, for buses .

history

For the construction of the depot, the municipality of Lichtenberg and the owner of the Lichtenberg manor, Hermann Roeder , gave the Great Berlin Tram (GBS) a 41,640 square meter site free of charge. The 195 meter long and 90 meter wide, two-aisled wagon hall with 26 tracks and a floor area of ​​20,816 square meters took up about half of the site. To the south of the hall there was an extension with three tracks for painting and assembly work, as well as additional rooms for the blacksmith's shop , wheelwright , warehouse , driving school and changing and washing rooms. There were two open tracks to the south of it. The track field for shunting was in the western part of the site , while storage rooms for road salt and sand were located on the southern boundary . On the northern border were a cafeteria , lounges for driver and conductor , a converter station of AEG and for Siegfriedstraße towards the four-story administration building.

The opening took place on the afternoon of July 16, 1913 during a ceremony in the presence of the General Director of GBS, Friedrich Wussow . Before that, the acceptance by the Royal Railway Directorate Berlin and the commissioning took place. With the commissioning, three smaller courtyards from horse-drawn tram times could be closed. At the end of the 1920s, a residential area for the employees of the Berlin tram was built south of the depot area . From around 1935 the depot was shortened to Lich , previously it was known as Bahnhof 24.

The farm was put back into operation after the Second World War on June 1, 1945. From 1951 the courtyard served as the home of the trolleybuses for the East Berlin network . The seven northern hall tracks were converted for this purpose. Until January 1953, the trolleybus railcars had to be towed to and from the courtyard, as the overhead contact line in Siegfriedstrasse was only established when the trolleybus line O14 was set up.

During the GDR era, the courtyard was enlarged to the north. New buildings were built for the administration and canteen. The open track south of the hall was extended and a washing facility was built on the rear part of the hall. A seven-track open-air parking facility was built on the northern site, which was expanded to 20 tracks as part of the Tatra program . A new three-track paint shop and a turning loop were built north of the parking facility . Between the parking facility and the car hall, a two-track wagon hall for work cars went into operation in 1977 , which was later converted into a car hall and petrol station for buses. Buses have been stationed since 1972; they were mainly parked in the open space directly north of the depot. When the trolleybus operation was discontinued in the following year, the trolleybus hall became free for bus traffic. In the years that followed, the car shed for tram operation was reduced to eleven tracks. A tram driving simulator has been located in the former administration building since 2003 . On April 23, 2016, the courtyard was the venue for the Tram EM .

In 1997, around 230 buses were stationed in Hof Lichtenberg and used on 36 lines. In 2013, 70 trains per day were used on ten lines for the tram from Lichtenberg.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lichtenberg depot  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Kramer: July 16, 2013 - Hundred years of Hof Lichtenberg . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 7, 2013, pp. 123-127 .
  2. ^ Siegfried Münzinger: The depots of the Berlin trams . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Volume 6, 1969, pp. 89-103 .
  3. ↑ Marcel Gäding: In Lichtenberg you can drive the tram for pleasure - in the simulator at the BVG depot . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 30, 2003 ( online [accessed October 8, 2016]).
  4. ^ Tram EM. Competition of the tram drivers . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 16, 2016 ( online [accessed October 8, 2016]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '16.3 "  N , 13 ° 30' 5.7"  E