Tempelhof depot

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Rear view of the former carriage hall, 2010

The former Tempelhof depot was a tram depot in the Tempelhof district of Berlin used by the Berlin transport company until 1961 . There has been a horse-drawn tram depot on the property since 1875, which was rebuilt for electrical operation in 1899 and rebuilt again in 1924/25. The last, remaining hall was built according to plans by Jean Krämer and is a listed building . It has been integrated into the T-Damm-Center since a renovation in 2014/15 .

history

On June 15, 1875, the Great Berlin Horse Railway (GBPfE; from 1898 as Great Berlin Tram, GBS) opened the horse-drawn railway line from Dönhoffplatz in Berlin to Tempelhof. Depot V was put into operation on October 12, 1875. It was connected to the regularly used route in the course of the Tempelhofer Damm via an operating line in Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse . Two British merchants loaned the property to the GBPfE. In 1888, a total of 42 wagons and 204 horses had storage space on the 6,780 square meter property. In 1898 the hall was destroyed by fire. The GBS rebuilt the farm the following year, where it was used for electrical operation. The capacity was increased to 60 cars. In addition, the company had to buy the property. In addition to the GBS, the yard was also the home station for the lines of the southern Berlin suburban railway .

After the unification of the numerous Berlin tram companies under the roof of the Berlin tram, the tram and its successor, the Berliner Straßenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft, began building new depots and expanding and converting existing systems. In place of the hall that was demolished in 1923, a larger column-free hall for 100 cars on 16 hall tracks was built by 1925. The forecourt was therefore relatively small, so that the maneuvering had to take place on the street. Around 1935 the farm was given the short name Tem . Despite the expansion, Tempelhof was one of the smaller tram depots in Berlin. Mainly the trains of the lines 96 to Lichterfelde or to Machnower Schleuse , 99 to Lichtenrade and 199 (after 1949: line 98) were based here.

When tram lines 98 to Marienfelde and 99 to Lichtenrade were closed on October 1, 1961, the BVG-West depot was closed. The company's driving service was then housed on the site until the mid-1990s. A post office was built on the forecourt in 1972. The monument authority placed the former depot under monument protection in May 1995. In 1997/98 the building was converted into a market hall with a shopping street and a parking deck was added. In 2014/15 the existing building was modernized and converted. At the same time, a new 4-storey office building was erected at Tempelhofer Damm 198–200, which has since been accessed via the shopping mall. The entire complex houses the T-Damm-Center .

construction

The building from 1924/25 was built according to plans by Jean Krämer . Instead of a smaller, supported hall, a column-free construction with solid steel trusses was created. Dormer windows running in the shape of a keel arch were arranged between these in order to ensure sufficient lighting in the hall. The main hall itself describes a Tudor arch similar to the hall of the Friedrichstrasse station . Workshops and other service rooms were located alongside the hall.

The rear side is flush with the rental house development on Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße. The wall is divided horizontally by plaster strips. A row of vertically divided windows bordered by cornices is inserted below the arched area. The front had a total of 16 entry gates, which were removed after the closure in 1961.

literature

Web links

Commons : Tempelhof depot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  2. ^ A b c d Siegfried Münzinger: Tempelhof depot . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 12, 1961, pp. 86 .
  3. ^ Siegfried Münzinger: The depots of the Berlin trams . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Volume 6, 1969, pp. 95 .
  4. ^ Author collective: Tram archive 5. Berlin and surroundings . transpress, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00172-8 , pp. 35 .
  5. ^ Wolfgang Kramer, Siegfried Münzinger: Southern Berlin suburban railway . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 7, 1963, pp. 69-72 .
  6. ↑ The use of cars on the Berlin tram lines in 1928 and 1937 . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 12, 1972, p. 168-169 .
  7. ↑ Sigurd Hilkenbach, Wolfgang Kramer: The trams in Berlin . alba, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-87094-351-3 , p. 127 .
  8. ↑ Depot now a listed building . In: Berliner Zeitung . May 9, 1995.
  9. ^ Horst-Dieter Keitel: Completion of the new shopping center planned for November. In: Berlin Week . May 21, 2015, accessed November 30, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '31.7 "  N , 13 ° 22' 58.8"  E