Railway Museum Bayerischer Bahnhof in Leipzig
The Bayerischer Bahnhof railway museum in Leipzig is located in the former Leipzig-Plagwitz depot . In addition to an exhibition on the history of the railway, the museum also has an extensive vehicle collection consisting of vehicles from the association and various items on loan. The museum is owned by the Association of Railway Museum Bayerischer Bahnhof zu Leipzig eV
history
The non-profit association was founded in 1989 under the umbrella of the Kulturbund der GDR as "IG traditional locomotive Bayerischer Bahnhof zu Leipzig" by some railway workers; mainly engine driver of the Engelsdorf railway depot near Leipzig. The main goal of the interest group at that time was the preservation, refurbishment and acquisition of steam locomotives of interesting museum interest in a railway museum on the premises of the Bavarian train station. Many of these locomotives - formerly at the Engelsdorf depot - led a miserable existence with an uncertain future when they were parked near-scrap. Some of these locomotives - u. a. the 52 5448-7, which the association later bought, were parked at the Bavarian train station at the time. Already in the early to mid-1980s there were serious ideas about converting the Bayerischer Bahnhof into a railway museum with the support of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and municipal institutions. Operational historical vehicles were to be exhibited there and used for special tours of interest to tourists. There was even a paper about this in the magazine "Der Modelleisenbahner".
In addition to an operational locomotive, the founders of the association also wanted to bring their expertise and active cooperation to this railway museum. With the end of the GDR, however, the state's plans for a museum at the Bayerischer Bahnhof came to an end. In order to make the locomotive shed of the Bayerischer Bahnhof depot accessible for rail vehicles again, at least on a private initiative, an enormous financial outlay would have been required even then. The still young club could of course not bear this effort and in the seemingly uncertain times of upheaval no partners or sponsors could be found for such a project.
The association had already received its current name in 1990 and since 1991 has also been active as a leisure group of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (now the Bahn-Sozialwerk Foundation). At the time, the office of the association was located in a wing of the Bavarian train station, but the vehicles were parked in the Engelsdorf depot and were used from there for the first special trips. Nevertheless, the association was able to contribute to the renovation of the historic portico of the Bavarian train station by looking for partners and sponsors.
In June 1995, the association was able to move to the locomotive operation center in Leipzig-Plagwitz, which had been closed two years earlier, on Kurt-Kresse-Strasse, corner of Goldrutenweg in the Kleinzschocher district . Since then, the office of the EMBB eV, the workshops and necessary ancillary rooms, as well as the exhibition of historical railway objects have been located there. The most attractive part of this is certainly the collection of rail vehicles, which for the most part consists of the association's own vehicles. In addition, vehicles and exhibits belonging to private railway enthusiasts, other associations and BSW leisure groups or the Deutsche Bahn AG are shown very often - temporarily or on permanent loan .
Visits are possible as part of the "Leipzig Railway Days", which take place twice a year (spring, autumn), at the summer festival, during the opening times on Saturdays (except on special travel days) from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm and at any time by telephone arrangement. Pre-school groups, school classes and English-speaking visitors / groups can be looked after individually by arrangement.
With the locomotive 52 8154-8, the Railway Museum operates the last operational standard gauge steam locomotive in the greater Leipzig area, a locomotive of the DR class 52.80 .
Since 1997, the steam locomotive 52 5448-7 has been a vehicle owned by the association on museum track 24 of Leipzig Central Station .
This museum track serves as a visual separation between the railway systems and the parking spaces at the main station. You can see there next to the steam engine, a fast railcars of Hamburg Design and one each electric locomotive of the DR series E 04 , the DR series E 44 and the DRG Class E 94 , which does not belong to the Railway Museum Leipzig. The converted main station was officially opened on November 12, 1997.
Bearer name
The bearer name comes from the former Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof , southeast of Leipzig's old town. On December 4, 1943 and February 20, 1944, this station was partially destroyed in the air raids on Leipzig. The long-distance station, which no longer exists today, was put into operation in 1842 and was considered the oldest surviving terminal station in Germany until its closure . On June 10, 2001, rail operations (most recently to Altenburg and Zwickau ) were completely stopped. Today the portico and the buildings on the west side of the old railway building are almost completely preserved. The wooden station hall burned out during the air raids, and most of the destroyed buildings on the east side had to be demolished. The successor railway system is an underground transit stop in the course of the Leipzig City Tunnel in the network of the S-Bahn Central Germany (in operation since December 2013).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement of the modernization of the station . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 1/2, 1998, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 5.
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 46 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 3 ″ E