Schöneberg depot

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Schöneberg depot, 1914

The Schöneberg depot is a former depot of the Berlin tram . It was opened in 1899 by the Great Berlin Tram (GBS) as Station X and closed in 1964 by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). The property currently houses the vehicle fleet of the Berlin Senate and serves as a vehicle collection point for the Berlin police .

Location and structure

Driveway and Hall III, 2011
Remnants of track in front of the former car shed, 2011
North side, 2015

The depot is located at Belziger Strasse  52-58 in the Schöneberg district of Berlin's Tempelhof-Schöneberg district . The property with an area of ​​15,779 square meters borders on Gothaer Straße to the west and Wartburgstraße to the north . The three-part car hall offered space for up to 280 tram cars on 24 hall tracks. Workshops and offices were arranged in the rear part of the hall, the administration was in a separate building in the front part on Belziger Strasse. The facility is a listed building .

history

The depot was built on the occasion of the electrification of the GBS route network together with seven other systems. The GBS construction department headed by Joseph Fischer-Dick was responsible for designing and executing the building . Station X was put into operation on February 6, 1899. It replaced the previous courtyard in Hauptstrasse from 1879. From 1920 it was run as Hof 10, and around 1935 it was given the abbreviation Schön . The lines used from the farm included (as of 1937) 7 (Grunewaldring), 60 ( Weißensee , Rennbahnstraße - Lindenhof ), 88 ( Steglitz , Stadtpark  - Schönholz station ) and 95 ( Köpenick station  - Schöneberg, Belziger Straße) .

The importance of the courtyard declined steadily with the imminent cessation of West Berlin tram operations from the end of the 1950s. Most recently, line 55 ( Nollendorfplatz  - Hakenfelde ) with 41 railcars and twelve sidecars was located in the yard, 170 conductors and drivers did their job here. After it was shortened to the Zoo station , the depot was closed on October 1, 1964. Initially, the vehicle reserve was still stationed on the site, and wagons that were no longer needed were scrapped on site.

The property was then used to house the Senate fleet and as a parking area for the Berlin police for towed and seized vehicles. In the 1990s, it was already planned to convert it for artistic purposes. In November 2012, the re-sale of the property became relevant again. The district assembly of Tempelhof-Schöneberg announced in January 2013 that a recommendation should be made to the district office not to sell the property to the highest bidder. Rather, the contract should be awarded to the one whose project has the greatest social and cultural benefit. The creation of living space on the site should not be ruled out.

literature

Web links

Commons : Tram depot Belziger Straße  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Moved and seized vehicles. (No longer available online.) In: Berlin.de. Archived from the original on March 26, 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.berlin.de
  2. ↑ a b Siegfried Münzinger: The depots “Schön” and “Moa” . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 11, 1964, pp. 141 .
  3. ^ Siegfried Münzinger: The depots of the Berlin trams . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Volume 6, 1969, pp. 89-103 .
  4. ↑ The use of cars on the Berlin tram lines in 1928 and 1937 . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 12, 1972, p. 168-169 .
  5. ^ Nicola Kuhn: Belziger Strasse: Welcome to the anesthetic parlor . In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 22, 2010.
  6. ↑ Protocol. 16th public meeting of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Assembly of Berlin. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Tempelhof-Schöneberg District Assembly of Berlin, January 16, 2013, p. 6 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 9, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berlin.de  

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '11 "  N , 13 ° 20' 54.2"  E