Weißensee depot

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Weißensee depot, 2009

The Weißensee depot is located on Bernkasteler Strasse in Berlin-Weißensee . It was put into operation in 1912 as Hof XXII of the Great Berlin Tram (GBS), in 1935 the BVG changed the abbreviation to Wei . The yard was created to replace an older depot of the former New Berlin Horse Railroad Company in Rennbahnstraße and is currently used as an operational site for several lines in the Pankow district .

Location and structure

The farm is located at Bernkasteler Straße 79/80 northwest of the center of Weißensee and is connected to the tram line in Berliner Allee via a double-track service .

It comprises a carriage hall with ten erecting tracks, a two-track workshop hall and an attached open-air parking facility with eleven tracks. The administration was housed in a three-storey building at the entrance and also served for residential purposes. Its functions were later supplemented by a new building.

history

Car hall of the depot, 2009

From 1911 onwards, GBS began building the new Hof XXII on the site acquired on Bernkasteler Strasse. The previous courtyard at the intersection of Rennbahnstraße and Große-See-Straße did not leave room for an extension due to its location. The opening took place on October 11, 1912. The floor space at the opening was 19,634 square meters and offered a total of 200 cars, each eleven meters long.

In 1928, 82 trains from Weißensee, usually consisting of a multiple unit and one or two sidecars , were used. The inventory on July 1, 1949, the time the BVG was separated from the administration, is given as a total of 219 vehicles, including 87 railcars, 90 sidecars, eleven work cars, 22 freight wagons, four salt cars, four snow cars and one auxiliary equipment car.

In the 1970s, a comprehensive reconstruction took place of the depot to him for the stationing of the employed from 1976 Tatra trams of type KT4D prepare. In addition to changing the inspection pits , the work also included setting up an electronics workshop. As of March 1976, the first three KT4D cars were stationed in Weißensee, and with the delivery of further vehicles, the number grew to a total of 160 cars, including all 99 KT4Dt railcars with thyristor control. In 1978 a new administration building was built, which until 1985 also housed the tram driving school.

With the fall of the Wall , the number of vehicles on the Berlin tram fell drastically as a result of falling passenger numbers. The result was a concentration of workshop capacity on the Lichtenberg depot , only minor repairs are still carried out on site. Since 1999, the lines in the former Pankow district have also been served from Weißensee.

The depot is to be expanded by 2022 to also accommodate 40m-long Flexity Berlin vehicles.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Winkler: Weißensee tram depot . In: Weißenseer Heimatfreunde (Ed.): On rails to Weißensee. 125 years of trams in northeast Berlin . GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-075-X .

Web links

Commons : Betriebshof Weißensee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Hans-Georg Winkler: Weißensee tram depot . In: Weißenseer Heimatfreunde (Ed.): On rails to Weißensee. 125 years of trams in northeast Berlin . GVE, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-075-X , p. 60-63 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Bennewitz: On the history of the horse-drawn tram depot in Weissensee . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . No. 1 , 1992, p. 12 .
  3. ^ Reinhard Demps: 100 years of the tram depot at Niederschönhausen . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 5 , 2001, p. 79-82 .
  4. ↑ Bernd Wähner: BVG wants to completely modernize the depot on Bernkasteler Straße . In: Berlin Week . December 13, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 30.7 "  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 11.5"  E