German Steam Locomotive Museum
The German Steam Locomotive Museum (DDM) is located at the foot of the Inclined Plane (section of the Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn ) in Neuenmarkt in Upper Franconia .
The site
The museum is in the former depot of the station Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg housed.
It includes a 15-person roundhouse , a segment turntable , water cranes , a coaling plant and a Ruge coaling crane in the newly designed old, functional coal yard.
history
The depot at the foot of the Inclined Plane was founded in 1895 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways and expanded in 1923 by the Reichsbahn . Among other things, push locomotives were stationed there , e.g. B. Locomotives of the class 95 (former Prussian T 20 ) and class 96 (former Bavarian Gt 2x4 / 4 ). A copy of the 95 series can be seen in the DDM.
After the end of steam operation in the Franconian region , before the mid-1970s, the railway depot was shut down and was supposed to be demolished. The active building contractor and railroad friend Günter Knauß recognized the opportunity to build a locomotive museum at this special place. He bought the roundhouse and outbuildings as well as the site and began to procure and restore steam locomotives . A nationwide support association, the Association of Friends of the DDM , supported this project intensively from the start.
The official opening of the German Steam Locomotive Museum took place on July 22, 1977. In 1984 a special purpose association, consisting of the Upper Franconian district, the Kulmbach district and the Neuenmarkt municipality, took over the museum in order to secure the existence of the DDM for the future.
In the spring of 1995 a rail bus of the DDM series VT 95 drove on a five-day journey from Neuenmarkt via Küstrin , Danzig and Elbing to Königsberg and back.
Museum locomotives
There are around 60 locomotives, including around 30 steam locomotives , among others
- Bavarian S 3/6 (18 612, tender from 18 610)
- PtL 2/2 (98 307, known as "Glaskasten" , the only completely preserved locomotive of this series)
- Prussian P 8 and T 14 1 - (formerly used on the Höllentalbahn in the Franconian Forest ) and
- Saxon XIV HT
Locomotive types, series of the
- Deutsche Reichsbahn ( BR 01 , BR 01.10 , BR 03 , BR 44 , BR 50 , BR 64 , BR 80 (80 013, Hagans factory no. 1227, 1927), BR 86 ) and the
- Deutsche Bundesbahn ( BR 10 (the only surviving copy of the series) and BR 23 ) as well
- Industrial locomotives.
Only about a dozen of these vehicles can be shown in the permanent exhibition. There is also a museum's own narrow - gauge line on the site , which is driven by steam and diesel locomotives . A Schnellfahr- electric locomotive of the series 103 is seen as a museum locomotive temporarily in the DDM. With a rail bus of the VT 98 series , journeys, e.g. B. over the inclined plane to Marktschorgast or in the Alps .
Other vehicles and exhibits
Also on display are steam locomotive parts, including the smoke chamber , wheelset group and cylinder block of locomotive 18 610 ( S 3/6 ) as well as a cut-open boiler of a Prussian G 8 . Other vehicles and exhibits from the history of the railway complete the exhibition. So is among other things
- a rail steam crane from DEMAG AG, built in 1927,
- a dining car , built in 1935,
- a saloon car , built in 1937, used by Konrad Adenauer on his historic visit to Moscow in 1955 . This car is said to come from a stock of railroad cars that was to be kept for Adolf Hitler .
- a steam snow blower from Henschel , built in 1941,
- a snow plow , type Klima, from Henschel, built in 1960, and
- a historic telegraph station
to see.
A class 796 rail bus is stationed in the museum for trips over the steep section .
Inclined plane model railway system
A 42 m² model railway system designed by Josef Brandl recreates the inclined plane . The starting point is the Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg train station, then the route leads from the stone bridge over the Streitmühle block to the stone walls of the inclined plane, and then shows the route towards Marktschorgast.
Events
In addition to the presentation of its static exhibition, the DDM organizes special trips at irregular intervals, mostly in cooperation with other railway museums and railway and locomotive operators, including over the inclined plane. Especially steam locomotive-driven special trips attract a large audience from all over Europe and also from overseas. Thanks to the fully functional infrastructure for the supply of steam locomotives, the museum is also the central point of contact for trains from other steam special train operators.
Annual events are the Whitsun Steam Days and the Coal Farm Festival. In addition, station tours and trips by small train are offered on the museum grounds.
Outstanding events were the steam festival 2010 over three days on the occasion of the anniversary "175 years of the German railroad", the anniversary events on the occasion of 140 and 150 years of the inclined plane as well as trips with the museum's own rail bus across Germany and on railways abroad.
Images from the DDM
98 307 "Glass box" ( PtL 2/2 ) of the DDM
Engine of the 01 1061 ( BR 01.10 ) of the DDM
Look in the roundhouse of DDM
86 283 ( BR 86 ) of the DDM in historical photo painting
93 526 ( T 14.1 ) in the DDM workshop
steam powered snow blower 979 4100 of the DDM
DB museum locomotive 103 224-2 of the 103 series
Round trip with a narrow-gauge steam locomotive
See also
literature
- Rolf Syrigos: New start in the DDM secondary market. Uphill at full steam . In: railway magazine . No. 7/2013 . Alba publication, July 2013, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 36-38 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ With the rail bus to Königsberg . In: Nordbayerischer Kurier of April 28, 2015, p. 18
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 38 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 57 ″ E