Tübingen fire brigade

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Tübingen fire brigade
Coat of arms of TübingenOffice of the City of Tübingen
Fire station of the Tübingen fire department city center as seen from Kelternplatz in 2019.jpg
Full-time employees
Locations: 1
Employee: 28
Volunteer firefighter
Departments: 11
Active members: 364
www.feuerwehr-tuebingen.de

The Tübingen fire brigade was founded on May 12, 1847 and consists of 11 operational departments. In 2018 there were 364 volunteer departments and 28 members of the full-time department; the total strength was 596 members.

history

The Tübingen volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1847 as the Pompier Corps, was built around 1850 in front of the lower castle portal

The first experiments with fire engines were carried out in Tübingen as early as 1723. The oldest surviving hand-operated fire engine in the Tübingen district is the Lustnau syringe from around 1750.

founding

The history of the Tübingen fire brigade goes back to May 12, 1847, when Julius Haller became the first commandant of the so-called Pompier Corps with 50 men. At that time there were 3 wooden fire engines, 4 hook ladders and other equipment. Each member had to buy their own equipment such as a helmet, hatchet and belt.

In the oldest picture of the Pompier Corps from around 1850, all firefighters can be seen in the light drill of gymnasts taught by the university gymnastics teacher Carl Wüst . Together with the chairman of the Swabian Gymnastics Federation, Theodor Georgii, he was one of the founding members of the Tübingen Pompier Corps, which was originally organized as a gymnastics fire brigade . The picture shows the then newly acquired, dismantled Metz city ​​fire sprayer on the left and the equipment trolley on the right; in the background a team with brass helmets and partly with hook ladders, on the left the bugle player, on the right behind the fat bailiff with a saber. The following firefighters are highlighted by colored brass helmets (from left): Lenz (with white bush), W. Dannwolf (with black bush), Julius Haller, der Kommandant (with red bush), Carl Wüst (with white bush), Hayes ( with black bush).

Mission development 1990–1997

According to the Tübingen administrative report 1991–1998, the operations of the Tübingen fire brigade developed as follows:

year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
Calls 420 484 612 599 569 453 505 502

Mission development 1999–2008

Used in a roof fire in Kronenstrasse , 2019

The operations of the Tübingen fire brigade developed as follows according to the annual reports:

year 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Fires 102 66 86 86 95 89 92 99 117 96
Technical assistance 485 329 216 669 388 217 213 199 211 256
Other uses 41 38 71 50 22nd 18th 19th 13 28 18th
False positives 76 69 73 87 102 77 94 120 137 134
total 704 502 446 892 607 401 418 431 493 504

Structural equipment

Fire station of the city center department

Five of the eleven fire stations in Tübingen are structurally well or very well equipped. These are the fire stations in Bühl , Derendingen , Hagelloch , Hirschau and Weilheim . The structural function of the three fire stations Kilchberg , Stadtmitte and Unterjesingen is satisfactory to sufficient. The structural equipment in Bebenhausen , Lustnau and Pfrondorf in 2010 no longer corresponded to the state of the art at the time and was therefore insufficient. For example, the space in Pfrondorf was cramped and there was no alarm parking space, so in 2015 it was decided to build a new building, which was inaugurated on April 27, 2019. The Bebenhausen location was closed in 2014.

Departments

Fire station locations
Fire station of the Derendingen department
  • City center: Kelternstrasse 21, base fire brigade, technical assistance, water rescue
  • Derendingen: Raichbergstrasse 80, dangerous goods
  • Lustnau: Harpprechtstraße 6, radiation protection
  • Bühl: Sengentalstraße 26, decontamination people
  • Hagelloch: Hagenloher Str. 1
  • Hirschau: Wehrstrasse 8
  • Kilchberg: Tessinstrasse 17
  • Pfrondorf: Blaihofstrasse 150
    The new fire station in Pfrondorf
  • Unterjesingen: Jesinger Hauptstraße 67
  • Weilheim: Alte Landstrasse 4

Disaster of December 17, 2005

On December 17, 2005 there was a fire in a studio house at Reutlinger Strasse 34/1 at night. During the fire brigade operation, in which over 80 firefighters were involved, the 34-year-old chief fire officer Kurt Schwägerle and the 24-year-old squad leader Andreas Mang were killed. Exactly ten years to the day after the accident, the municipal council decided to name two streets in the new Alter Güterbahnhof district after the firefighters who died.

Trivia

Pi Chacán sculpture in front of the University's Institute of Microbiology and Virology

An unusual deployment of 22 firefighters took place on June 20, 2014 after an exchange student from the United States climbed into the cavity of the sculpture Pi Chacán by the Peruvian artist Fernando de la Jara made of red Verona marble . His legs got stuck in the stone vulva . Passers-by couldn't help him and called the fire department. The rescue was quickly successful, "by hand without the use of equipment," reported the rescue workers. The climber was uninjured and the sculpture was not damaged either. The event attracted national and even international attention.

Web links

Commons : Tübingen Fire Brigade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.feuerwehr-tuebingen.de
  2. ^ A b Gerhard Kittelberger: Festschrift, 150 years of the Ofterdingen volunteer fire brigade, 1864-2014.
  3. ^ History of the team of the Tübingen volunteer fire brigade
  4. ↑ Sports Science.
  5. ↑ The gymnast fire brigades - an (almost) forgotten chapter in gymnastics history
  6. ↑ Carl Wüst
  7. ^ The history of the fire brigade association FV Tübingen eV
  8. ↑ Tübingen administrative report 1991–1998
  9. ↑ Rinke Unternehmensberatung: Analysis of the current situation / deployment analysis - trend analysis In: Fire department requirement plan of the university town of Tübingen. January 21, 2010. p. 28.
  10. ↑ Rinke Unternehmensberatung: Analysis of the current state / condition of the fire stations. In: Fire department requirements plan of the university town of Tübingen. January 21, 2010. pp. 74-81.
  11. ↑ Construction of a new fire station in Pfrondorf, building decision. November 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ A new house for the Pfrondorf fire department. Tagblatt, April 25, 2018.
  13. ↑ Tagblatt article on the decision of the municipal council
  14. ↑ accident report
  15. ↑ 22 firefighters took him out - man was trapped in a stone vulva Schwäbisches Tagblatt tagblatt.de of June 20, 11:10 pm; Modified on June 21, 2014 at 8:24 am
  16. ↑ Exchange student gets stuck in stone vagina. World, June 22, 2014.
  17. ↑ Ouch! Student stuck in stone vagina - The fire brigade in Tübingen has probably never had such a strange rescue mission: They had to free a student from a stone vagina. From Augsburger Allgemeine dated June 22, 2014
  18. ↑ Chacán - the vulva is now world famous. How a small fire brigade got it out in the media. Tagblatt dated June 24, 2014.
  19. ↑ Sarah Cascone: 32-Tone Marble Vagina Traps US Exchange Student. Twenty-two firefighters called to the rescue at German university. ArtNet (unpixeled), June 23, 2014.
  20. ^ Pi Chacán (sculpture).

Coordinates: 48 ° 31 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 2 ″  E