Döbeln tram
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 Döbeln tram 1897
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The tram Döbeln association from 1892 to 1926 the peripherally located Hauptbahnhof the Saxon town of chub with the city center and was always considered meterspurige horse tram operated. Since June 2007, a rebuilt section has been used as a museum tram on special occasions .
history
Döbeln 1847 by the Chemnitz-Riesaer Railway first with Riesa , 1857 with Chemnitz connected. In 1868 a second line was put into operation between Dresden and Leipzig via Döbeln. Since then, Döbeln has been a railway junction. The station was about two kilometers as the crow flies from the center of the old town. The desire for an inner-city connection finally led to the establishment of Döbelner Straßenbahn AG on February 20, 1891 with the participation of the city and private investors. In 1943 the city owned only twelve percent of the shares.
Opening and operation
On July 10, 1892, the first section of the tram between the main train station and the Obermarkt was opened. The railway was later extended to the "White Cross", increasing the length of the route to 2.450 kilometers. In addition to people, the tram also carried mail and general cargo . Starting at the main train station, it ran parallel to the state railway line to Dresden through Bahnhofstrasse, which was also where the car hall was located. Then it reached the old town with the Niedermarkt and Obermarkt, located on an island between two arms of the Freiberger Mulde , and ended at the White Cross on Dresdner Straße. Because only the first 500 meters of track were laid two tracks, she received the following section eight passing places and a short turn-off to Posthof (post office).
Cessation of operations
Although the town of Döbeln had fewer than 20,000 inhabitants at the time, before the First World War more than 200,000 passengers were transported annually by horse-drawn tram. Nevertheless, the introduction of electrical operation did not take place - instead the horse-drawn tram, which had long been out of date at that time, was shut down on December 20, 1926; it was one of the last horse-drawn trams in Germany (only the Zerbst tram (until 1928), the Stadthagen tram (until 1930) and the Spiekerooger Inselbahn (until 1949) were pulled by horses for longer). The railway was finally replaced by a bus service, which had already been set up a few months earlier in parallel with tram operations. These buses were also in the hands of the previous company. It continued to operate unchanged as Döbelner Straßenbahn AG . In 1928 the tracks between the train station and Niedermarkt were removed. Despite the early shutdown , other sections of the horse-drawn tram were preserved for a long time - part of the line only disappeared during road construction work in the 1980s, and a final short section on the Obermarkt was removed in 2006 when the paving was carried out there. Together with the remains of the track on Zerbst's market square , they were among the oldest surviving relics of a German tram.
revival
On January 11, 2002, 25 members founded the traditional association Döbelner Pferdebahn e. V. with the aim of the replacement of original vehicles of the Döbelner tram that were still preserved elsewhere and the establishment of a historical train operation. The club later succeeded in rebuilding an approximately 550-meter-long section of the city center. The remains of the original track, which were still in existence until 2006, could not be reused. They were too worn out and had to be replaced with new rails.
Since June 9, 2007, this section has been in operation again on the first Saturday of each month in summer and on special occasions and is now considered a tourist attraction for Chubby. As a special feature, however, the railway is not operated today as it was after the ordinance on the construction and operation of trams (BOStrab) that came into force in 1938 . The horse tram was only approved by the TÜV when it reopened .
German Horse Railway Museum
The German Horse Railway Museum Döbeln was opened on June 13, 2009. It is located at Niederwerder 6. The building from around 1900 used to be a child care facility or kindergarten and was badly damaged in the flood in August 2002. In 2007 the city gave it to the traditional association Döbelner Pferdebahn e. V. , which is also the sponsor of the museum.
The facility shows on display boards and models the history of horse-drawn railways and horse-drawn trams all over the world (with a focus on Germany) from their beginnings through the peak of development around 1900 to the present day.
At the end of 2009, when the last gap in the track was closed, the connection to the Döbelner tram, which has been in the city center again since 2007, was established. Since then, the horse-drawn tram has been stored in the carriage hall in the museum building. The vehicle is pulled by a horse on certain dates on the museum route.
vehicles
When it opened in 1892, the horse-drawn tram had three passenger cars at its disposal, and by 1912 the number of vehicles was increased to seven. They were about six meters long and 1.80 meters wide, each car had twelve seats and fifteen standing places. In addition, there were three closed mail wagons and two salt spreader wagons to free the rails in winter.
Today's car 1 originated from a motor vehicle of the Meißner tram , which survived the time as a gazebo in the hamlet of Keilbusch (a district of the municipality of Diera-Zehren near Meißen ) after the cessation of passenger traffic . In June 2003 he was taken over by the traditional association Döbelner Pferdebahn e. V. recovered and brought to Döbeln after an extensive restoration in Dresden .
literature
- Helge Scholz: The Döbelner horse tram. In: Wolfram Wagner, Helge Scholz, Peter Wunderwald: The Lommatzsch – Döbeln narrow-gauge railway and the history of the Döbelner horse-drawn tram. Interest group traffic history Wilsdruff eV in the Kulturbund Sachsen, Wilsdruff 2001, pp. 257–279.
Web links
- Homepage of the traditional association Döbelner Pferdebahn e. V.
- History and present of the horse tram on www.doebeln-enthaben.de
- Information about the railway and museum at vms.de
- The Döbelner horse tram on www.bimmelbahn.de
- Extensive image material on the Döbeln horse tram
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horse tram 2007: "... but the carriage that rolls."
- ↑ holzhau.de: Opening "German Horse Railway Museum Döbeln" on June 13, 2009 , accessed on October 3, 2011