Railway Museum Kötzschau

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Railway Museum

The Railway Museum Kötzschau is since spring 2014 in the station building Kötzschau existing railway museum on the history of Leipzig-Großkorbetha railway . The museum is run by the Verein Eisenbahnfreunde Kötzschau e. V. run on a voluntary basis.

history

The association Eisenbahnfreunde Kötzschau e. V.

The non-profit association Eisenbahnfreunde Kötzschau e. V. was founded in 2007, immediately after the activities for the 150th anniversary of the Leipzig – Großkorbetha line, which was celebrated in March 2006. As of July 2014, the association has 30 members. It maintains the Kötzschau Railway Museum and its outdoor facilities, organizes special trips and presents itself at numerous events.

Relocation to the Kötzschau station building

Until December 2012 the museum was in Schladebach . There it has been housed in a former schoolhouse since it was founded. Then the dismantling and preparation for the move to the Kötzschau station building began. The house, built in 1855/56, was acquired by the city of Leuna in 2009 . The association had created a usage concept for this. The project was included in the Revita funding program of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , which promotes the reactivation and revitalization of old station buildings. The house was renovated in several construction phases from the beginning of 2011 to April 2014. From August 2013, the Railway Museum first moved into the already completed ground floor rooms. The construction work was financed by funds from the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the city of Leuna. The opening ceremony of the building took place on April 26, 2014, in the presence of the Saxony-Anhalt Minister for Regional Development and Transport Thomas Webel and members of the federal and state parliaments.

exhibition

In the showrooms

Inside the station building from the founding time of the railway line, the museum shows the history of the railway connection between Leipzig and Großkorbetha, which opened in 1856. The history of the so-called "Leipzig-Weßenfels Railway" is documented and presented to the public in image and text documents and other exhibits. All train stations on the line are covered, as well as the subject areas of bridge structures, the electrification of the line in 1942 and 1964, the railway post, and the express traffic of the 1930s. It is possible to enter a fully furnished service room with ticket issuance as it was in 1935. Uniforms and effects from all time periods show the development of the railway workers' uniforms. Historical documents, tickets, waybills, signals, signs or lanterns depict an image of the railway. Track construction tools and materials are evidence of what was once very difficult physical work. Scale models of various structures on the railway line are also shown. Furthermore, wooden benches of the former 3rd carriage class as well as functional bathroom scales with card output, as they once stood at many train stations, are integrated into the exhibition. The museum has an extensive outdoor area, some of which is or is being designed as a museum. Various signals and a track system can already be seen. There is also the possibility to ride on a historical hand lever trolley or on a rail bike. A type V 22 B diesel locomotive can also be viewed outside .

Operating field / training signal box "Leipzig-Leutzsch"

The largest exhibit is the "Leipzig-Leutzsch" operating field / training signal box of the former operating school of the Leipzig Reichsbahnamt. This system was created with the intention of being able to train railway workers in interlocking service as practically as possible. Since no actions in the event of malfunctions or the like could be practiced in operational interlockings, a training interlocking had to be set up with which the requirements in the operational process could be simulated as often as desired. Since the late 1970s, it has been gradually built up by teachers and apprentices. The system was installed in a barrack previously used as a cultural space on the grounds of the Leipzig-Leutzsch train station and put into operation on September 29, 1983 in its final expansion stage for training.

It consisted of a partially double-track model railway layout of nominal size H0 . The operating points of the model railway, two train stations , two block points , a branch point and a barrier post were controlled by original (real) signal box technology on a 1: 1 scale. The operating field thus served as the most practice-oriented training possible in signal box service. From the mechanical to the electromechanical to the relay-controlled interlocking, different designs were available. The trainer was able to intervene in ongoing operations with a desk and cause a total of 30 different faults. Then the trainees had to put what they had theoretically learned into practice. Until 1999, the Leipzig-Leutzsch training signal box was occasionally used by Deutsche Bahn for training purposes. In the same year expanded and the association Eisenbahntraditionsmuseum Leipzig e. V. handed over, the system was to be rebuilt in the Leipzig Hbf Süd depot. It didn't come to that.

The association Eisenbahnfreunde Kötzschau took over the operating field in summer 2008 and brought it to Kötzschau. Due to a lack of space, the entire system could not be presented at the old museum location, so it was initially largely stored. With the renovation and conversion work on the reception building at Kötzschau station, the operational area was planned for installation right from the start of planning. Extensive modifications had to be made to the building in order to restore the training signal box to its old size. At the opening of the museum in the reception building on April 26, 2014, the entire system was presented again for the first time since its dismantling in 1999. The system is currently being refurbished to be functional.

literature

  • David Falk: Leipzig – Großkorbetha - 150 years of railway connection history. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-936508-14-3 .
  • David Falk: 160 years of the Leipzig - Großkorbetha railway line 1856 - 2016. Eisenbahnfreunde Kötzschau eV, Kötzschau 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-052430-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New use for old train stations in Saxony-Anhalt. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH, March 2009, archived from the original on February 16, 2015 ; accessed on August 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Kötzschau. In: bahnhofsprogramm.de. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Eisenbahnfreunde Kötzschau eV - vehicles. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Railway Museum Kötzschau with teaching interlocking Leipzig-Leutzsch , tag-des-offenen-denkmals.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 16.6 ″  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 26.4 ″  E