Dortmund depot

Water tower from 1943

The Dortmund depot has been located in Dortmund's city ​​center north not far from the Hoeschpark since 1943 .

After the railway operations workshops were originally attached to Dortmund Central Station , plans were made in the 1930s to build a new workshop in the Körne district due to a lack of expansion options . During the Second World War, locomotive treatment systems, a locomotive shed with an administration wing and a boiler house were built here. The landmark of the depot is the 37 m high-rise made of reinforced concrete , which is still visible from afar and used as a water tower . In this neoclassical building , clad with clinker bricks, there were service and overnight rooms on the first seven floors and a 1000 m³ water tank in the upper part. It is basically similar to the water tower of the Dortmund Südbahnhof . The locomotive shed, a ten-track rectangular hall, had two transfer platforms and two turntables .

Affiliated to the depot is the Dortmund rail vehicle depot. The diesel multiple units for the Ruhr express traffic were probably serviced here from 1940 .

After the end of the war, class 03.10 steam locomotives were at home in the depot ; which were often used in front of F trains . There was also a department for express railcars , which, among other things, provided the vehicles for the Rheinblitz . Between 1957 and 1969 up to six class 601 railcars were stationed, which were used for the Trans-Europ-Express .

Maintenance hangars for the ICE 3

Class 62 steam locomotives were available between 1949 and 1951 for express traffic in the Ruhr . With the start of electrical operation between Hamm and Düsseldorf, electric multiple units of the 430 series were deployed from the Dortmund depot.

Today the Dortmund depot is the location of DB Regio NRW and DB Fernverkehr AG . In addition to the electric locomotives and diesel railcars for regional transport and the wagons for long-distance transport, the ICE 3 has also been serviced in a newly built 250-meter-long hall since December 15, 2002 (see maintenance of the Intercity-Express # Dortmund )

The Dortmund depot is part of the route of industrial culture . The water tower is registered as an architectural monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund .

literature

• Manfred von Kampen: Railway depot in Dortmund. In: Rolf Swoboda: The Railway in Dortmund. DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2003, ISBN 3-937189-00-9 , pp. 64-75.

Web links

Commons : Betriebswerk Dortmund Betriebsbahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
• Dortmund depot. In: Structurae

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; Retrieved June 10, 2014 (size: 180 KB). 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.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 31.1 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 45.3 ″  E