Frankfurt Feldbahnmuseum

Club house of the Frankfurt Feldbahnmuseum am Rebstock

The Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e. V. is an association for the preservation of operable light railway vehicles of the track width 600 mm, based in Frankfurt am Main - Bockenheim . It is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main and the largest technology museum in Frankfurt.

history

In 1975 the association Frankfurter Schmalspurfreunde was founded . Museum operation began in 1976, initially on the site of a gravel pit in Mainflingen . In 1979 the collection moved to the site of the former Bundesbahn repair shop in Frankfurt-Nied due to the ongoing gravel mining . Another move was necessary as early as 1981 because the factory premises were to be built on. With the support of the City of Frankfurt, the now founded non-profit association Dampfbahn Rhein-Main was able to use the former Bockenheimer depot of the Frankfurt tram , which was not open to the public . Although the vehicles could be accommodated in the new facilities, regular driving was not possible.

From 1985 the association was able to build a vehicle hall and a permanent track system on a site made available by the city on the Rebstock . In 1987 the Frankfurt Feldbahnmuseum was opened. The museum railway on the Rebstock was expanded several times. Since 1991, a line of around 1200 meters in length has been operated several weekends a year. The locomotives will be relocated at the two terminal stations at Kaiserdamm and Alter Flugplatz as well as at the museum. In 2005 a second wagon hall went into operation for the collection that had grown over the years, and a third wagon hall at the end of 2007. On May 31, 2008, the extension of the route by approx. 300 meters from the old airfield to the new terminal at Rebstöcker Wald was put into operation.

The Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum is a member of the Hessian Museum Association and the German Museum Association .

Picture gallery

Locomotives 99 3351 and O&K Mallet
Museum shunting yard
Workshop hall of the museum
Light rail train with locomotive 1
Central buffer couplings of two wagons
Locomotive 99 3351
Lok O&K Mallet taking water
Locomotive O&K Mallet in operation
Passenger car in Rebstockpark
2 locomotives with tipping lorries at the Rebstockbad
Locomotives 3, 5 and 17
Winter operation on January 4th, 2015
Steam locomotive in Rebstockpark
Locomotive on low loader

Vehicle fleet

The Frankfurt Feldbahnmuseum is one of the largest of its kind in Germany. Its extensive collection includes over 70 locomotives and approx. 200 wagons of all kinds, including 20 steam locomotives , 34 diesel locomotives , 4 gasoline locomotives , 4 electric locomotives and 13 special locomotives .

13 steam locomotives are currently operational. Locomotives from the manufacturer Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Heilbronn , Henschel , the French company Decauville , Orenstein & Koppel (O&K), Jung , Borsig , Hanomag and Krauss are represented in the collection.

As a special feature, the museum has the smallest type of mallet articulated locomotive from O&K with 30 hp . The association also houses the currently only operational En2t Heeresfeldbahn locomotive with Luttermöller drive , which gives the locomotive very good cornering ability. A type CV gasoline locomotive from Deutz is the oldest motor locomotive in the world that has been preserved in its original condition. The locomotive is on loan from the German Museum in Munich and has been on the vehicle list of the Frankfurt Feldbahnmuseum since the beginning of 2015.

Steam locomotives

Locomotive no.	Manufacturer	design type	Type	Serial number	Construction year	power	Operating condition
1	Heilbronn	Bn2t	II	393	1900	30 hp	Switched off
2	Henschel	Bn2t	Fabian	20517	1925	50 hp	Operational
3	Decauville	Bn2t	III new	648	1912	20 hp	Operational
4th	OK	Bn2t	40ps	2053	1906	40 hp	In work-up
5	Young	Bn2t	Hilax	9295	1941	65 hp	Operational
6th	Henschel	Bn2t	Monta	22826	1935	60 hp	Switched off
7th	Decauville	Cn2t	Progrès 8 t	1593	1915	60 hp	Operational
8th	Borsig	Dn2t	Brigadelok	8836	1914	75 hp	Operational
9	Henschel	Bn2t	Tigris	16047	1918	90 hp	In work-up
10	Henschel	Cn2t	RIIIc	13070	1917	50 hp	In work-up
11	Young	Cn2	HF 110 C	10137	1952	110 hp	Operational
12	Henschel	Bn2t	Riesa	28024	1948	70 hp	Operational
13	OK	B'Bn4vt	Mallet	3902	1909	30 hp	Operational
14th	Young	C1'n2	-	989	1906	50 hp	Operational
15th	Henschel	Bn2t	Fulda	25180	1942	90 hp	Switched off
16	OK	En2t	-	11073	1925	90 hp	Operational
17th	Krauss	Bn2t	XXVIIcx	7656	1921	55 hp	Switched off
18th	OK	Bn2t	40ps	9244	1925	40 hp	Operational
19th	Hanomag	Dn2t	Plotiani	10194	1923	140 hp	Switched off
20th	Baldwin	B'B'n2t	Pechot-Bourdon	43325	1916		Displayed
	Franco Belge	Dn2t	HF 160 D / KDL 11	2822	1944		Parked, 750 mm track

Diesel locomotives

Locomotive no.	Manufacturer	design type	Type	Serial number	Construction year	power	Operating condition
D1	Gmeinder	B-dm	20/24	2176	1938	20/24 hp	Operational
D2	Gmeinder	B-dm	15/18	1987	1938	15/18 hp	Operational
D3	Deutz	B-dm	A2L514	56349	1956	28 hp	Operational
D4	The MA	B-dm	DS 20	692	1934	20 hp	Switched off
D5	Gmeinder	C-ie	HK 130 C	4313	1947	130 hp	Operational
D6	The MA	B-dm	DL6	2516	1962	8 hp	Operational
D7	Ruhrtaler	B-dm	G9Z	3347	1955	9/10 hp	Operational
D8	Deutz	B-dm	MLH 220	?	circa 1940	20 hp	in work-up
D10	OK	B-dm	RL1c	9193	1939	10/11 bhp	Switched off
D11	LKM	B-dm	Ns2f	248837	1957	36 hp	Operational
D12	Young	B-dm	EL 105	6474	1935	11/12 PS	Operational
D13	Gmdr / MECO	B-dm	-	423	1928	10 hp	Operational
D14	Henschel	B-dm	DG 10 III	D1083	1935	12 hp	Operational
D15	Deutz	B-dm	OME 117	36333	1941	12 hp	Switched off
D16	Demag	B-dm	ML 15	2960	1941	15 hp	Operational
D17	The MA	B-dm	DS 14	2293	1959	16 hp	Operational
D18	Young	B-dm	EL 110	10237	1941	11/12 PS	in work-up
D19	Young	B-dm	EL 105	6507	1936	11/12 PS	Parked / memorial
D20	Windhoff	C-ie	HF 110 C	753	1943	130 hp	Operational
D21	Deutz	B-dm	GZ 30 B	56950	1958	30 hp	Switched off
D22	Deutz	B-dm	OMZ 122	16373	1936	36 hp	in work-up
D23	Gmeinder	B-dm	HF 50 B	4262	1945	50 hp	in work-up
D24	Deutz	B-dm	A4L514	56986	1959	55 hp	Switched off
D25	Windhoff	B-dm	LS 20 III	261	1934	20 hp	in work-up
D26	OK	B-dm	RL1 a	?	1936	11 hp	Operational
D27	Gmeinder	B-dm	15/18	2316	1938	15/18 hp	Operational
D28	Young	B-dm	EL 110	8583	1939	12 hp	Operational
D29	Young	B-dm	ZL 114	6920	1937	24 hp	Operational
D30	The MA	B-dm	DL 6	2051	1957	34 hp	Operational
D31	The MA	B-dm	DL 6	2129	1958	8 hp	Operational
D32	The MA	B-dm	DS 12	1787	1955	14 hp	Operational
D33	The MA	B-dm	DS 20	1793	1955	28 hp	Operational
D34	Hatlapa	B-dm	Junior I.	4008	1949	5 hp	Operational

Gasoline / gasoline locomotives

Locomotive no.	Manufacturer	design type	Type	Serial number	Construction year	power	Operating condition
B1	Baldwin	B-bm	50 HP	49581	1918	50 hp	Operational
B2	Oberursel	B-bm	4a / 22	6095	1913	16 hp	Operational
B3	Deutz-Oberursel	B-bm	ML 128	6454	1923	14 hp	Operational
B4	Deutz	B-bm	CV	320	1905	6 hp	Original condition / (operational) preserved

Electric locomotives

Locomotive no.	Manufacturer	design type	Type	Serial number	Construction year	power	Operating condition
E1	Siemens / Schalke	Al-a	1A2	5904	1957	8 hp	Operational
E2	Siemens / Schuckert	Bo	-	2212	1925	50 hp	Switched off
E3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
E4	BBA Aue	Ba	B360	5350003	1980	6 hp	Operational

Special traction vehicles

Locomotive no.	Manufacturer	design type	Type	Serial number	Construction year	power	Operating condition
# 20	Hatlapa	B-dm	Small locomotive	3683	1947	5 hp	Operational
No.21	Self-made	1A	Rail bike	-	1982	-	Operational
# 22	Sharp	1A	Rail bike	-	circa 1960	-	Operational
No 23	The MA	1AA1-ie	GT 10/2	3311	1973	47 hp	Operational
# 24	ZNTK Pila	1A	Hand lever trolley	D-006	1995	-	Operational
No.25	ZPCHS Prague	Bp2v	Compressed air locomotive	122	1958	35 hp	Operational
No 26	Sharp	AA	Rail bike	-	circa 1960	-	Switched off
# 27	Strüver	B-dm	Rail pen	60150	1948	5 hp	In work-up
# 28	Kröhnke	B-dm	Lorenknecht	313	1959	6 hp	Operational
# 29	Strüver	B-dm	Rail pen	60578	1967	6 hp	Operational
No. 30	Strüver	B-dm	Rail pen	-	1967	6 hp	Operational
No 31	Strüver / Hatlapa	B-dm	Rail pen	2494	1939	6 hp	Operational
# 32	Strüver / Hatlapa	B-dm	Rail pen	-	circa 1940	6 hp	Operational
No 33	Strüver / Hatlapa	B-dm	Rail pen	2991	1942	6 hp	Operational

literature

25 years of field railway collection , information brochure of the Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e. V. Frankfurt am Main, 2000
The locomotives of the Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum, information brochure of the Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e. V. Frankfurt am Main, 2010
The Frankfurter Feldabahnmuseum, museum guide of the Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e. V. Frankfurt am Main, 2016
Udo Przygoda and Felix Grassel: From the agricultural field railway to the small railway - the field railways in agriculture. December 2011.