Wolf freight yard

Wolf freight yard (aerial photo from the 1930s)

Central signal box (Operatives Betriebszentrum Basel) at the Münchensteinerbrücke (2005), a building designed by Herzog & de Meuron

The Wolf freight yard is a marshalling and freight yard in the city of Basel .

The marshalling yard of the Swiss Federal Railways , east of Basel SBB station , was opened on March 10, 1876. A Centralbahn freight yard was put into operation in 1900. The Basel-Muttenz marshalling yard replaced Wolf station as a marshalling yard in 1933, which since then has only been used for cargo handling.

On March 4, 1945, the Wolf freight yard was mistakenly attacked by nine US bombers . A passenger train and neighboring residential areas were hit; however, there were no fatalities.

It is planned to disband the station. A study is to be carried out by 2018 to find out how the 16-hectare area should be used. We are currently talking about a new district with a mixture of offices, apartments, service companies, logistics companies and green spaces. The Basel government is expected to make the first decisions in 2019.

literature

• Otto Wyss-Dierks: 1945: War and Liberation. The bombing raid on Basel. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1995 , pp. 14–15.
• Christof Wamister: Trade and logistics are worried about their space. Wolf, Dreispitz, Lysbüchel and elsewhere: traditional economic sectors in urban areas are under planning pressure. In: Basler Stadtbuch 2013 , pp. 82–84.
• Katharina Marchal: Urban areas in transformation. In: Basler Stadtbuch 2016 , Dossier, 31 pages.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Bauer: Basel, yesterday-today-tomorrow: One hundred years of Basel economic history. Birkhäuser, Basel 1981, p. 59.
2. ^ Markus Wüest: SBB clear the Wolf freight yard. Basler Zeitung, May 14, 2013, accessed on June 28, 2016.
3. ↑ A new quarter for Basel. Basler Zeitung, November 7, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2017.

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 ′ 31 "  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 15"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and twelve thousand four hundred sixty-four  /  two hundred sixty-five thousand seven hundred and four