Tegel depot

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Former administration building, 2013

The depot Tegel ( listen ? / I ) is a former tram depot in the north of Berlin . It was opened in 1900 by the Great Berlin Tram as Station VI and closed in 1958 by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). The former administration and farm buildings, which are listed as architectural monuments in the Berlin State Monument List , have been preserved from the facilities . Audio file / audio sample

Location and structure

The farm is located on the Castle Road 7-10 in the district Tegel the district Reinickendorf . The property with an area of ​​9,179 square meters extended to the Königsweg. Service and ancillary buildings were housed in separate buildings in the front part of the property, in the rear part there was the car hall with eleven hall tracks and space for 70 cars. The workshop, paint shop and locksmith's shop were integrated into this. The hall was dismantled after the end of the tram service in Tegel, in its place there are parking spaces today.

history

Excursion traffic in Tegel, 1932

The yard was opened at the same time as the electrification of the tram route to Tegel on July 13, 1900. It was one of a total of eight depots that GBS had built on the occasion of the grid electrification. The basic structure of the courtyards was designed largely uniformly according to plans by Joseph Fischer-Dick . Due to the peripheral location of the route, however, the courtyard was smaller than the others, and maneuvering had to be carried out mostly on Schloßstraße. The need for a depot resulted from the fact that three lines ended in Tegel, which had to transport up to 60,000 day trippers on the weekends.

The main lines of the court also included those to Tegel, including line 25 to the intersection of Charlottenstrasse and Friedrichstrasse . After the Heiligenseer tram was taken over , both lines 28 and 128 were also located in Tegel, and line 27 was added from Tegel to Britz and Buckow . The 25 wagons, however, were housed in the newly opened Müllerstrasse depot after 1927 .

During the Second World War , the north of Berlin was relatively spared, so that traffic could soon start moving again after the end of the war. On May 20, 1945, lines 28 and 128 from the Tegel depot to Tegelort and Heiligensee respectively went back into operation. A week later they drove on to Seestrasse . By 1947, most of the routes were back in service. In the 1950s, tram traffic to Tegel and beyond was very intense. The lines operating here, after 1945 these were 25, 28, 128 (from 1949: 29) and 41 were reinforced with several deployers during the day. The standard vehicles used were the T 24 , TM 31 U and T 33 U series railcars as well as the B 24 trailer cars. Lines 28 and 29, which were particularly popular for excursions, were partly driven with T 24/49, which had more powerful engines than the T 24, and two four-axle type BDM 26 sidecars . The large sidecars were therefore located in the 1950s at the Tegel and Müllerstraße farms, from where the lines were mainly used.

With the extension of the underground line C (today: U6 ) from Kurt-Schumacher-Platz to Tegel on May 31, 1958, the Tegel lines including the courtyards Tegel and Müllerstraße were shut down. While the carriage hall was later demolished, the former administration building has served as a residential building ever since.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reinhard Demps: 100 years of the tram depot at Niederschönhausen . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 5, 2001, pp. 79-82 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Reinhard Arf: On tracks to Tegel and Heiligensee. 700 years of Heiligensee - 127 years of traffic history - 50 years of the subway to Tegel . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 4, 2008, pp. 90-105 .
  3. ↑ The use of cars on the Berlin tram lines in 1928 and 1937 . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 12, 1972, p. 168-169 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 ′ 31.2 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 1.3 ″  E