Black Forest Railway Museum

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The Black Forest Railway Museum is a museum for model railways in Schramberg and an extension of the “Schramberg World of Cars and Watches”. The Black Forest Railway Museum houses an extensive model railroad collection of the 2 gauge. On October 27, 2012 the museum was opened to the general public. The collection consists of 900 handcrafted railway models. Each model consists of around 10,000 individual steel parts. Visitors can also control trains on a 400 square meter facility. With 500 handcrafted fine-scale models in size 2, the museum shows the world's largest collection.

Location and history

The railway museum is located in a building of the historic Hamburg-American watch factory (HAU) in Schramberg, which was initially founded in 1875 by Paul Landenberger and Phillip Lang as the watch factory "Landenberger und Lang". In 1883, which has since become a stock corporation, it was renamed Hamburg-American Clock Factory, because the headquarters were initially in Hamburg and clocks were manufactured according to the "American system". In 1930, the HAU was taken over by the Junghans company and deleted from the register a little later. The factory buildings were used until 1988 by the Junghans company, which has been part of the Diehl Group since 1956. Since 1989, the HAU industrial park has been built on the premises of the former factory. In 2012 the city of Schramberg acquired the remaining buildings.

architecture

The former factory building was built in 1904 for the Hamburg-American watch factory according to the plans of the industrial architect Philipp Jakob Manz . The carpentry shop was set up according to the most modern aspects: with drying room, spray painting, paint shop and drilling machines. The listed building was restored in 2009. The armored glass windows used at that time were a special construction within the framework of the basic window constructions and forerunners for the insulating glass window developed as a direct result. The museum is located on the ground floor and extends over 742 square meters.

Lender of the exhibits

The lender of the exhibits is the Spur II interest group, Regional Group South, which deals with model railways on a scale of 1: 22.5 of size II. The interest group is manufacturer-independent.

Exhibits

  • Mountain system:
The mountain system has a size of 20 × 7.5 meters on a scale of 1: 22.5. 220 meters of track were laid in standard and meter gauge. Each visitor can control part of the trains using push buttons.
  • Railway depot:
This show piece with a size of 8 × 1.4 meters shows the workflow of a steam locomotive away from the platform, which was necessary at the time. In the depot, the locomotives supplemented their operating materials such as coal, water and sand. With a locomotive shed , turntable , water cranes , slag pit, weighing bunker and sanding system , the show system shows a typical and long-forgotten scene of the steam locomotive.
  • Tin-plate: Märklin 1-gauge tin-plate exhibition with models from 1895 to 1935 and a 0-gauge layout from 1935.
  • LGB layout: "Pastelania", scale 1: 22.5, 45 mm narrow gauge -
  • America diorama, nominal size II, scale 1: 22.5, 45 mm narrow gauge,
  • Steam depot: 7.5 × 2 m, 1: 22.5, 64 mm standard gauge and 45 mm narrow gauge
  • In addition to the 400 m² facility, 900 hand-made railway models are presented in around 170 meters of glass showcases.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 43.7 ″  E