Reich Railway Directorate Trier

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Building of the Reichsbahndirektion in Trier, today a multi-generation house

The Reichsbahndirektion Trier was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

Emergence

The directorate emerged from the railway directorate St. Johann / Saarbrücken of the Prussian State Railways . After the Saar area had become a League of Nations mandate in 1920, the parts of the operation that remained on Reich territory had to be reorganized. This was initially done by splitting the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate on March 10, 1920 into a Saarbrücken Railway Directorate 1 (responsible for the lines that had come to rest within the Saar area) and a Saarbrücken Railway Directorate 2 (responsible for the lines that were outside the Saar area ).

Both directorates were initially based in Saarbrücken . On April 1, 1920, the headquarters of the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate 2 was relocated to Trier and its name was changed to the Saarbrücken Railway Directorate in Trier (also: Saarbruecken Stammeisenbahndirektion Saarbrücken in Trier ). In February 1921 it was given the name of Railway Directorate in Trier .

The area of ​​this Reichsbahndirektion extended in the southern part of the Rhine province over the Eifel and Hunsrück . Significant routes within the management were:

When the Deutsche Reichsbahn was founded, the railway directorate was renamed as Reichsbahndirektion Trier on July 6, 1922 .

Since the management was the “remainder” of the old Saarbrücken Railway Directorate located on the edge, it had considerable problems due to the poor infrastructure. The only remaining main workshop was in Konz and was too small to guarantee vehicle maintenance, which immediately caused a backlog.

Headquarters

From 1922 to 1925 a representative building was built in Trier according to plans by the Reichsbahn architect Karl Albermann on the corner of Christophstrasse and Balduinstrasse to accommodate the management. It was occupied in the summer of 1925. The expressionist building (which served as the headquarters of the Trier Gestapo during the Third Reich ) has been preserved to this day. A multi-generation house has been located in the building since 2011 .

Further development

On October 1, 1925, the management was given responsibility for the Hunsrück Railway (Boppard – Simmern) between km 15.57 and 45.6 from the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz .

Since 1935 , after a referendum, the Saar area belonged again to the German Reich . With effect from March 1, 1935, the Trier Reichsbahndirektion was relocated to Saarbrücken and the lines in Saarland were added. In 1937 the route network was changed. In December 1944 the management was relocated to Neustadt an der Weinstrasse due to the war. The management existed until April 1945.

Directorate Trier / Saarbrücken

After the spin-off of the Saar protectorate as a result of World War II was in the French zone of the Southwest German railways operation Association (SWDE) the railway management built Trier, in 1949 after the founding of the German Federal Railroad in Bundesbahndirektion Trier has been renamed.

In Saarland, the Saarland Railways (EdS) ran from Saarbrücken after the war . When the Saarland was reconnected to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Saarbrücken Federal Railway Directorate was established on January 1, 1957 and was initially managed from Trier. After the economic reorganization of the Saarland on July 6, 1959, the joint headquarters moved to Saarbrücken; On January 1, 1960, both directorates in Saarbrücken were merged. When the railway reform came into force on January 1, 1994, the Saarbrücken Federal Railway Directorate was dissolved.

The last president in Trier (and first in Saarbrücken) was Fritz Grimm. The last presidents in Saarbrücken were Karl Röver, Lamp and Wolfgang Haas.

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Kurt Harrer: Railways on the Saar. Alba, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-87094-210-X
  • Reichsbahndirektion Saarbrücken (Ed.): Official pocket timetable of the Reichsbahndirektion Saarbrücken. Annual timetable 1944/1945. Saarbrücken 1944. Reprint : Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2007, ISBN 978-3-938997-64-2 .
  • Helmut Schmidt: German railway directorates. Basics I = Development of the directorates 1835–1945 . Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-933254-85-6
  • Hansjürgen Wenzel, Gerhard Groß: Railways in Saarland = Eisenbahnkurier Special 86. EK Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2007.

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Remarks

  1. It was essentially about Prussian lines, as well as some sections of the previously Palatinate-Bavarian lines that had previously belonged to the Ludwigshafen Railway Directorate ( Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 20, 1920, No. 16. Nachrichten, p. 120 ).

Individual evidence

  1. Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 20, 1920, No. 16. Nachrichten, p. 120.
  2. Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of January 8, 1921, No. 2. Announcement No. 41, p. 20.
  3. Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Prussian and Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from April 6, 1920, No. 22. Announcement No. 289, p. 145.
  4. Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of February 26, 1921, No. 10. Announcement No. 225, p. 125.
  5. ^ Schmidt: German Railway Directorates , p. 68.
  6. Railway Directorate in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Railway Directorate in Mainz of August 20, 1921, No. 50. Announcement No. 938, p. 545.
  7. ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of August 15, 1925, No. 42. Announcement No. 786, p. 458.
  8. Jens Fachbach; Stefan Heinz; Andreas Tacke (Ed.): Architekturführer Trier, Petersberg 2015, p. 70.
  9. Roland Morgen: Multi-generation house without existential worries. In: volksfreund.de. April 13, 2010, accessed September 1, 2018 .
  10. ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of September 19, 1925, No. 48. Announcement No. 900, p. 510.
  11. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of March 9, 1935, No. 11. Announcement No. 114, p. 45.