Ceiling construction station

The Distelhausen ceiling construction station (bottom left) during the construction of the A 81 with the nearby Taubertal Bridge and the Tauberbischofsheim junction in 1973

A ceiling construction station or ceiling station was a temporary freight station that was created to supply motorway construction sites.

The "Law on the Establishment of a Reichsautobahn Company" of June 27, 1933 entrusted the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft with the construction and operation of the autobahn. The railway was thus directly involved in the construction of the autobahn from the first year of the Third Reich's existence . Even after the conversion of the Reichsautobahn company into a Reich authority, the railway remained involved in the construction of the motorway before it was discontinued in 1942.

In the Federal Republic of Germany , the Deutsche Bundesbahn again played a key role in the construction of motorways. She took care of the supply of mineral building materials such as gravel, sand and grit as well as bitumen and fuels. Overburden was transported in the opposite direction . The building materials were loaded onto block trains at dispatch points and transported to their destination stations. These were the ceiling construction stations where the delivered goods were transshipped. They were laid out on several tracks and designed for a high tonnage volume. In 1964, 1,048,307 tons of goods were delivered to the Dettelbach ceiling construction station . The dispatch point Staffelstein recorded the dispatch of 796,239 tons of gravel in the same year.

Streitau ceiling station

In the years 1934 to 1936, the section from Schleiz to Bad Berneck of today's Federal Motorway 9 was built. A ceiling station was built on the Falls – Gefrees railway line immediately to the west of its intersection with the motorway route. At km 2.4, the siding branched off north of the main line in the direction of Falls. Two loading tracks were reached via a double crossing switch. The southern track had a wagon tipping system, where open freight wagons could be unloaded into a bunker via the front wall and the delivered material could be distributed to silos via conveyor belts. Cement was delivered via the northern track, presumably in sacks in closed freight cars.

Ceiling construction stations between Nuremberg and Würzburg

Between Nuremberg and Würzburg alone, five ceiling construction stations were laid out for the construction of federal motorway 3 . They only existed during the construction of this stretch of motorway, which began in 1959 and was completed in 1964. Four of them were on branch lines , the trains were pulled by steam or diesel locomotives. The Dettelbach ceiling construction station was on the Nuremberg – Würzburg main line and could be used by electric locomotives . Because of the contact line , increased safety precautions were necessary there.

The Schlüsselfeld ceiling construction station was located directly next to the terminus of the same name on the Strullendorf – Schlüsselfeld railway line . The building materials delivered were prepared on site in large mixing plants and transported over long conveyor belts to the motorway construction site, where Lorenbahnen took over the further distribution. The highest transport volume was recorded in 1963 when 668,065 tons of goods were delivered.

Further ceiling construction stations in this construction phase were Frauenaurach on the Erlangen-Bruck – Herzogenaurach railway , Gremsdorf on the Forchheim – Höchstadt railway and Wiesentheid on the Kitzingen – Schweinfurt railway . For the heavy construction site traffic from Schweinfurt to Wiesentheid, the railway line was renovated in terms of the superstructure and signal box .

Further ceiling construction stations

• Bettingen on the Lohr – Wertheim railway line , federal motorway 3
• Trennfeld on the Lohr – Wertheim railway line , federal motorway 3
• Distelhausen on the Lauda – Wertheim railway line (circa 1970 to 1974), federal motorway 81

Web links

Commons : Ceiling construction station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• A separate station for the material with a photo of the ceiling construction station Distelhausen

literature

• Robert Mrugalla: gravel, overburden, big trains . In: That was the DB 1963 1964 . GeraMond, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86245-024-4 , pp. 32 ff .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Dennis Philipp, Roland Fraas, Martin Müller: Local Railway Falls-Gefrees. The small branch line with great variety . 2nd Edition. Eisenbahn-Fachbuch-Verlag, Neustadt bei Coburg 2009, p. 102 ff .
2. ↑ The Reichsautobahnen at ak190x.de, accessed on May 3, 2016
3. ↑ Robert Mgulla: gravel, overburden, big trains . In: That was the DB 1963 1964 . GeraMond, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-86245-024-4 , pp. 32 .
4. ↑ Faulbacher Kies for Autobahn at main-echo.de, accessed on May 16, 2016
5. ↑ Schalthaus - Lengfurt - Wehrsteg KW Lengfurt (20 kV connection line ceiling construction station Trennfeld) at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on May 16, 2016
6. ^ A separate station for the material - Franconian news. In: fnweb.de. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .