German Society for Railway History
The German Society for Railway History eV ( DGEG ) is an association that deals with the history of the railway and operates several railway museums. The goals of the association are
- to arouse and cultivate interest in and understanding of the history of the railways in the context of the overall history,
- to promote scientific studies in this field,
- to preserve and maintain important cultural and technical monuments .
history
The association was founded on April 22nd, 1967 in Karlsruhe and is entered in the register of associations there. The founding member Joachim Hotz became the first president of the DGEG and remained so until 1980. After the closure of the depot in Bochum 's Dahlhausen district by the Federal Railroad on August 1, 1969, members of the association were largely able to restore it to the original state of the steam locomotive era, unless legal requirements determine otherwise. Since vehicle additions were imminent in 1972 and Dahlhausen was not yet fully receptive, the locomotive shed and the workshop building of the old Neustadt (Haardt) depot were rented. In 1981 the DGEG Railway Museum Neustadt / Weinstrasse emerged from this. Today the Würzburg Railway Museum is also operated by the DGEG.
Collections
The association owns the largest and most valuable collection of railway vehicles and utensils in Germany. That includes that
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- Bochum Railway Museum . On July 14, 2011, the German Society for Railway History and the City of Bochum founded the Railway Museum Bochum Foundation, which has since owned the vehicle collection stationed in Bochum.
- Eisenbahnmuseum Neustadt (Weinstr) (Pfalzbahnmuseum), which is located in the immediate vicinity of the main train station of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , in the former locomotive shed of the Neustadt depot . From there, the DGEG operates the Kuckucksbähnel with its own vehicles .
- The Würzburg Railway Museum of the DGEG organizes public trips and special trips to order with the freight train steam locomotive 52 7409 built in 1943 in the greater Würzburg area .
The DGEG also has a large library (in cooperation with the Dortmund University Library , the book inventory can be accessed via interlibrary loan at any public library in Germany) and an archive on the subject of railways in Witten . The collection of narrow-gauge vehicles, which was presented in the Viernheim depot of the Upper Rhine Railway Company until 1989 , was dissolved. The museum railway operation on the Jagsttalbahn had to be abandoned due to the line being closed.
organization
The DGEG currently has around 2000 members who also meet in member groups in some regions and cities and exchange their experiences, often reporting on trips in publicly accessible image lectures. The office is in Witten .
The museums in Bochum-Dahlhausen, Neustadt (Weinstr) and Würzburg are legally dependent profit centers within the association, the museum in Bochum is still assigned a GmbH . All of this together forms the ideal area operated by the DGEG.
In addition to this non-material area, there is a commercial area consisting of DGEG Holding AG. The
- DGEG Bahnen und Reisen Bochum AG, at the same time a railway company under the General Railway Act .
- DGEG Bahnen und Reisen Neustadt GmbH
- DGEG Bahnen und Reisen Würzburg GmbH
- DGEG Bahnreisen GmbH, Moers, organizes the DGEG study trips
- DGEG-Medien GmbH, a publishing house based in Hövelhof , which at the same time publishes the specialist journal Eisenbahn Geschichte with supplements to inform club members.
See also
- Austrian Society for Railway History (ÖGEG), counterpart of DGEG in Austria
- Swiss Society for Railway History, counterpart of the DGEG in Switzerland
- List of railway museums
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Swiss Society for Railway History SGEG Swiss Society for Railway History