Feldbahn Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald

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First generation battery locomotive as a memorial on the institution premises
A train with food container wagons leaves the loading hall in the kitchen on the last day of operation.
Junction to one of the pavilions

The light railway Geriatric Center at the Vienna Woods , also known as supply home track Lainz known in 1904 in what was then care home or nursing home Lainz the city of Vienna in the 13th Vienna district , Hietzing , erected and the end of 2011 as the oldest standing in use Feldbahn Austria set.

history

Track plan of the field railway in the geriatric center in the Vienna Woods (Lainz care home)

To supply the Lainz nursing home with laundry, food and fuel, the Viennese city administration decided on a manually operated light railroad. In 1904 she commissioned the Lehmann & Leyer company in Vienna- Breitensee with the execution . The 4000 m stretch with a track width of 500 mm, with a substructure made of steel sleepers and Vignole rails, was completed in three months. At the crossing points of the tracks and the branches to the pavilions there were a total of 61 turntables made of cast iron housings and reversible plates.

In 1918 a similar railway was built at the neighboring hospital, on which locomotives ran from the start and to which there was a connecting track. In 1925 the construction company Langfelder & Sohn received the order to replace all turntables with switches and to lay grooved rails at the intersections with the siding of the tram. In addition, four cordless locomotives were bought from AEG- Union, which were modified several times and after the modernization of the railway in the 1980s, they were parked. The field railway was also supplemented with 42 new food transporters (wagons). These had a hand spindle brake on one side that worked on both axes. A similarly designed, but electrically operated train was located in the Steinhof hospital .

In 1966 the JW 15 diesel locomotive, serial number 1430/1966, was procured from Jenbacher Werke . It was used to clear snow, as a replacement locomotive and for work trips. After the hospital railway was closed, some of their vehicles came to the supply home railway. Attempts in the 1970s to replace the railroad with road vehicles turned out to be inefficient, so that the railroad continued to operate and was modernized in the 1980s, including the procurement of new battery-powered locomotives. However, with the reduction in elderly care services on the premises, the need for internal transport decreased. At the end of its operation, the railway only took on the task of transporting food, which took place two or three times a day.

The operation of the railway was stopped on November 27, 2011. Since some of the tracks are under monument protection, they were preserved, but the switch blades and shafts of the drive rods were filled with concrete. The engine shed was supposed to be demolished, but has been preserved until further notice. A locomotive is exhibited in the Technisches Museum Wien . Several locomotives and wagons have been preserved in a museum.

vehicles

No. Construction year Wheel alignment Manufacturer Factory no. power Weight Remarks
Battery locomotives
1' 1925 Boa AEG 169 8 hp 3.5 t First occupation; from 1994 a memorial at the main entrance to the supply home, from 2014 a memorial to the Geriatric Center Baumgarten
1" 1958 Boa AEG 358 10 hp Understudy; ex. Feldbahn Hospital Lainz
2 1925 Boa AEG 170 8 hp 3.5 t Since 1995 at the field and industrial railway museum Freiland, Lower Austria
3 1925 Boa AEG 171 8 hp 3.5 t Scrapped in 1983
4th 1925 Boa AEG 172 8 hp 3.5 t 1994 to the Mining and Works Railway Museum in Graz
5 1981 Boa Struppe 1181 8 kW 3.2 t 1998 converted to electronic control
6 "Angelica" 1983 Boa Struppe 1913 8 kW 3.2 t 1998 converted to electronic control
7th 1993 Boa Struppe 1992 10 kW 3.2 t 1999 converted to electronic control, Technical Museum Vienna
Diesel locomotives
I. 1966 B-dm JW 1430 15 hp 3.2 t Served as a reserve locomotive and for clearing snow, monument at the Rautenweg landfill
II 1951 B-dm JW 1076 15 hp 3.2 t ex. Feldbahn Krankenhaus Lainz, served as a reserve locomotive and for snow removal
III 1952 B-dm JW 1101 15 hp 3.2 t ex. Feldbahn Krankenhaus Lainz, spare parts donor

gallery

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Herbert Loskott, Johann Kössner: Material webs in Viennese hospitals. In: Railway. ISSN  0013-2756 ZDB -ID 162227-4 . Born 1959, No. 8, pp. 123–128.
  2. ^ Narrow gauge Europe Franz Straka: The field railways from the Lainz hospital and Lainz care home (geriatric center in the Vienna Woods) , February 2008.
  3. Summary of the resolutions passed by the Hietzing district council from the meeting on December 14, 2011 ( memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 66 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at

literature

Manfred Hohn : Railways in Austria's hospitals . Railway-Media-Group, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-902894-60-1 .

Exhibitions

  • 2004: 100 years of field railways in hospitals - 100 years of field railways in the Lainz care home , exhibition in the field and industrial railway museum Freiland near Türnitz
  • 2009: We are waiting for Angelika , exhibition in the municipal district office in Hietzing

Web links

Commons : Feldbahn Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. Feldbahn.at Photo exhibition 2004 on the subject of hospital railways , accessed on March 17, 2009
  2. ^ Volkshochschule Hietzing, Helga Schörg: Residents of the geriatric center take photos of the light railroad , exhibition in the district office of Hietzing, March 4 to April 30, 2009
  3. ^ City of Vienna Waiting for Angelika , report of the correspondence from the town hall dated March 3, 2009