Reinickendorf depot

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Former car shed with remains of track

The depot Reinickendorf ( listen ? / I ) is a former depot of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), which was opened in June 1900 by the Great Berlin Tram (GBS). It was closed in October 1960 when the West Berlin tram network was shut down and has been used in various ways since then. Audio file / audio sample

Location and structure

The farm is located in the Pankow Allee 47-51 in the district of Reinickendorf of Berlin Reinickendorf district . The property has a floor area of ​​11,517 square meters, on which there was still an originally three-aisled, now a single-aisled carriage hall and a three-storey administration building. The hall has seven arched gates. The construction consists of iron framework and is faced with a red brick facade in Romanesque style. The administrative building is stylistically based on the hall.

The entire hall originally offered space for a total of 240 trams of the length at that time. Track connections existed over Pankower Allee to Residenzstrasse and Markstrasse and to Provinzstrasse.

The site is registered as a monument in the Berlin State Monument List.

history

GBS signed a contract with the Reinickendorf community in June 1898 on the occasion of the impending electrification. The subject of the negotiations was the electrification of the existing route from Nettelbeckplatz to Residenzstrasse, the construction of additional routes in the municipal area and the construction of a depot on Pankower Allee. At the same time, GBS built another seven depots based on the same characteristics. The GBS construction department under the direction of Joseph Fischer-Dick was responsible for the design and implementation of these systems . Hof I in Reinickendorf was opened on June 1, 1900. It replaced the previous Hof I in Uferstrasse, which from then on served as the main workshop for the tram. Initially, only the western hall I with tracks 1 to 7 was available, the two eastern halls II and III followed shortly thereafter.

At the end of the 1920s, a new construction of the depot at the same location with surrounding residential buildings was planned; the designs for this were provided by the house architect of the Berlin tram, Jean Krämer . Only the peripheral development on the adjacent Reginhardstrasse was implemented according to plans by Franz Fedler and Hans Kraffert .

Around 1934 the farm was given the abbreviation Rei . The farm suffered severe damage in the Second World War. During the first air raid in March 1943 , the assembly hall in the back of Hall II was destroyed. On the night of June 24th to 25th, 1944, Halls II and III were then destroyed. The BVG then ceased operations and deployed the staff to the neighboring depots at Niederschönhausen and Müllerstrasse . On December 4, 1944, operations could be resumed on the makeshift farm. No further damage was caused by air raids until the end of the war.

On May 5, 1945, the clean-up work began in the yard, three months later, driving operations could be resumed. The reconstruction of Halls II and III did not take place and the cars were used outdoors as far as possible. With the suspension of the tram in the Tegel area and the closure of the Tegel and Müllerstrasse depots on June 1, 1958, the yard's services temporarily increased. Just two years later, he suffered the same fate. With the discontinuation of the West Berlin tram lines 23, 24 and 36 on May 2, 1960, only the remaining hall of the courtyard was used, the final closure took place on October 1, 1960 with the shutdown of the last Reinickendorfer line 35. The still on the Wagons stationed in the yard were moved to other depots. One month later, BEHALA took over the site for storing various materials as part of the Senate Reserve . Most recently, the type T 24 , T 24/49 and T 33 U railcars as well as the type B 24 and BDM 26 trailer cars were located in the yard.

In the summer of 2006, the area previously used as a warehouse was largely cleared. The recessed halls in the rear area were demolished, as were the tracks that were still there. Hall I including its apron and the administration building remained. The work was completed in 2007. Since then, several retail stores have been housed in the former depot. The administration building also serves as a children's center.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Münzinger: The depots of the Berlin trams . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Volume 6, 1969, pp. 89-103 .
  2. ↑ a b c Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  3. ^ A b Siegfried Münzinger: Reinickendorf tram station . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 12, 1960, pp. 61 .
  4. ^ Reinhard Demps: 100 years of the tram depot at Niederschönhausen . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 5, 2001, pp. 79-82 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Reinhard Arf: Direction Reinickendorf, Residenzstrasse. On the history of the Reinickendorf tram depot . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 2, 2007, pp. 30-38 .
  6. ↑ Shopping center in the former Pankower Allee tram depot. (No longer available online.) Planner in the Pankemühle, archived from the original on October 28, 2013 ; Retrieved March 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pip-architekten.de
  7. ↑ Children's Center Pankower Allee. In: Berlin.de. The official capital city portal. Reinickendorf district office of Berlin, accessed on February 20, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '53.6 "  N , 13 ° 22' 15.8"  E