Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg

The Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg (RBD Hmb) was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

The Reichsbahndirektion (RBD) had its origins in the Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Altona, which was founded in 1879 and was based in the then independent city of Altona on the Elbe . After the state treaty for the establishment of the Deutsche Reichseisenbahnen (RGBl. P. 773) came into force on April 1, 1920 and the former regional railways were placed under the sovereignty of the German Reich , the name changed to Reichsbahndirektion Altona in 1922 . With the enactment of the Greater Hamburg Act on April 1, 1937, the city of Altona became part of the State of Hamburg and the name was changed to Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg .

Until after the end of the war on May 8, 1945 , the area of ​​the RBD Hamburg extended over the area of ​​the Prussian province Schleswig-Holstein with the exception of Lübeck , the Elbe-Weser triangle without Bremen and Wesermünde (since 1947 Bremerhaven ) to the Bremen - Uelzen - Salzwedel , and protruded to the east in the province of Brandenburg up to the vicinity of Berlin.

The lines of the RBD Hamburg located in the Soviet occupation zone were briefly assigned to the RBD Wittenberge, which was specially founded on September 1, 1945 , and when it was dissolved on October 1, 1945, it was divided between the RBD Schwerin and the re-established RBD Magdeburg .

The RBD Hamburg was renamed the Hamburg Railway Directorate in 1949 and the Hamburg Federal Railway Directorate (BD) in 1953 .

In the course of the railway reform , the BD Hamburg was dissolved on January 1, 1994 and the district was divided into the newly created regional divisions of Deutsche Bahn AG .

Headquarters

Front office building on Museumstrasse

Directorate building architecture details northeast corner

The brick building of the former Royal Prussian Railway Directorate Altona, which was completed on October 16, 1895 and the basic substance has been preserved, with the main front on today's Museumsstrasse - the former Kaiserplatz and opposite the former Hotel Kaiserhof - is a multi-wing, representative building .; it is located entirely in the Hamburg-Ottensen district on the border with the Altona-Altstadt district .

The building complex between Museumsstrasse, Lobuschstrasse, Strasse Am Felde and what was then Bismarckstrasse - today Paul-Nevermann-Platz - occupies a floor area of ​​60 m × 125 m. The northern side front is parallel and 55 meters away opposite the southern front of the Altona train station ; parallel to Museumsstrasse are four wings arranged one behind the other, which are connected by long side wings and enclose three inner courtyards measuring 550 to 950 square meters. The middle inner courtyard is provided with a glass roof in its current state, the other two courtyards are open at the top, the western courtyard has a public passage that connects the streets Am Felde / Erzbergerstrasse with the Altona train station and the bus station in between.

The ensemble also includes a later (1934 to 1936) transverse wing with a floor area of ​​15 m × 75 m on the street Am Felde . This is related to the address specification "Am Felde south of Nos. 132 Museum Road 39" under monument protection . At the free corner there is a sculpture on the first floor; On this one person wearing a smock holds a model of a steam locomotive in his arm, another person next to him holds two-arm pliers with which rails can be lifted on or off the sleepers.

The main buildings have a basement and three floors of different heights above; in their original state they had hipped roofs all around with loft extensions and pointed gable fronts. After the Second World War, some of the fronts had to be rebuilt, with the originally arched windows being replaced by simple square openings. From the northern side wing and the eastern and central transverse wing, the original hipped roof has been replaced by a low attic with a flat roof.

In the current state (2015), the designation bahn_hoefe with raised letters is attached above the entrances to the outer fronts and the inner courtyard facades . In addition to DB Fernverkehr, the premises are used by various commercial companies and public institutions.

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  North side building with bus station

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  West wing on the field

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  Sculpture on the western side wing

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  South front on the winter road

Significant routes

Significant routes within the management are or were:

• the line ( Bremen ) - Hamburg (northern part of the former Paris-Hamburg railway ), today Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Wanne-Eickel
• the Berlin-Hamburg railway : Hamburg - Büchen - Hagenow Land - Wittenberge - ( Nauen ) (from Büchen / Schwanheide to Nauen only until September 1, 1945)
• the Uelzen - Hamburg route
• the Lüneburg - Wittenberge route
• the Hamburg-Harburg - Cuxhaven route
• the Hamburg-Altona - Elmshorn - Itzehoe - (Denmark) or Westerland route
• the Hamburg-Altona - Kiel route
• the line Neumünster - Flensburg - (Denmark)

Private and small railways

The following private and small railways were in the RBD Hamburg (or Altona) district

Lübeck-Büchener Railway (LBE) Railway company Altona - Kaltenkirchen - Neumünster (AKN) Eutin-Lübeck Railway Company (ELE) Bergedorf-Geesthachter Railway (BGE) District of Oldenburger Eisenbahn AG (KOE) Kleinbahn AG Kiel-Schöneberg Boizenburg city and port railway Rendsburger Kreisbahn (until 1960) Südstormarnsche Kreisbahn (VKSt) Buxtehude-Harsefelder-Eisenbahn GmbH (BHE) East Hanover Railways (OHE) Eckernförde-Kappeln circular path Prignitzer Eisenbahn AG Ruppiner Eisenbahn AG Wittenberge-Perleberger Railway Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Eisenbahn AG Flensburg circular railway Schleswig circular path Eckernförde-Owschlag circular path Kleinbahn Kiel – Segeberg Kleinbahn Suchsdorf-Kiel / Wik Kleinbahn AG Kirchbarkau-Preetz-Lütjenburg Lübeck-Segeberger Eisenbahn AG Ratzeburg small train

with a branching off Dermin-Schaalsee Canal Sylter Inselbahn AG Kleinbahn Niebüll-Dagebüll AG Amrum Island Railway Circular path of the Norderdithmarschen district West Holstein Railway Company Uetersener Eisenbahn AG Kleinbahn Neuhaus-Brahlstorf GmbH Kleinbahn Wilstedt-Zeven-Tostedt GmbH Kehdinger circular path Small railways in the districts of West and Ostprignitz Kleinbahn Goldbeck-Werben-Elbe Altona Harbor Railway Hamburg port railway Wesselburener Spurbahnen AG Alsen circular path Apenrader Kreisbahn Hadersleben circular path Nordseebad Lakolk AG Bleckeder's circular path Altrahlstedt Gbf-Volksdorf Lüchow-Schmarsauer Railway Wandsbeker industrial railway Gettorf – Stohl railway line

Railway depot

The following depot were in the area of ​​the RBD Hamburg (or Altona)

Bw Buchholz (Harburg district) ; from 1931 from RBD Münster Bw Cuxhaven Bw Flensburg Bw Hagenow Land ; from September 1 to October 1, 1945 to the RBD Wittenberge then to the RBD Schwerin Hamburg-Altona depot Bw Hamburg-Berlin train station Hamburg-Eidelstedt depot Hamburg-Harburg depot Hamburg-Ohlsdorf depot Hamburg-Rothenburgsort depot Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg depot BW heather

Heiligenhafen depot ; from 1941 from Kreis Oldenburger Eisenbahn Gesellschaft to RBD Schwerin and from 1945 to RBD Hamburg Bw Husum Bw Itzehoe Bw Kiel Bw Lübeck ; from 1938 from Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn to RBD Schwerin and from 1945 to RBD Hamburg Bw Lüneburg ; from 1931 from RBD Hannover Bw Neumünster Bw Puttgarden Bw Rendsburg Bw Wittenberge ; From 1920 to the RBD Altona , from September 1 to October 1, 1945 to the RBD Wittenberge then to the RBD Schwerin

Repair shops

In 1939 there were five repair shops in the area of ​​Rbd Altona:

• RAW Glückstadt
• RAW Neumünster
• RAW Lübeck (from 1938 after nationalization of the Lübeck-Büchener Railway )
• RAW Harburg
• RAW Wittenberge

In addition, Altona, as the managing directorate for workshops, was also responsible for the repair shops of the Reichsbahn directorates in Oldenburg (until the directorate was dissolved in 1935), Schwerin , Hanover and Münster .

President

The presidents of the Prussian railway administration were Altona

• 1884-1894 Carl Krahn
• 1894–1907 Friedrich Jungnickel
• 1907–1909 Alfred Goepel
• 1909–1913 Gustav Franke
• 1913–1918 Joseph Pape
• 1918–1922 Ernst Schneider

The presidents of the Reichsbahndirektion Altona (later Hamburg) were

• 1922–1932 Ernst Schneider
• 1932–1935 David Lochte (previously: President of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz )
• 1935–1945 Erich Goudefroy (previously: President of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz )
• 1945–1945 Friedrich Stratthaus (executive)

The presidents of the Hamburg Railway Directorate (1945–1953) were

• 1945–1949 Kurt Nitschmann
• 1950–1952 Fritz Schelp

The presidents of the Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg were

• 1952–1964 Walther Helberg
• 1964–1972 Artur Petzoldt
• 1972–1976 Kuno Mohr
• 1976-1993 Herbert Heise

literature

• Historical development of the network of the Reichsbahndirektion Altona 1842–1933 . Drawn in the technical office of the Reichsbahndirektion Altona by tROS Jürgens. Altona 1933 (15-page chronological overview in tabular form with information on route designation, ownership length (differentiated according to main line / branch line, single-track / multi-track), opening date (for passenger traffic / for freight traffic), owner, operator, date of nationalization; schematic maps).
• Reichsbahndirektion Altona (Ed.): 50 Years of the Altona Railway Directorate 1884–1934 . Altona 1934 (114 pages).
• German Reichsbahn. Railway outline map 1938 . Reprint in A1 format. GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89218-938-1 .
• Press service of the Hamburg Federal Railway Directorate (ed.): 100 Years of the Hamburg Railway Directorate 1884–1984 . Hamburg 1984.
• Official pocket timetable for the Reichsbahndirektion Hamburg. Annual timetable 1943/1944 . Valid from November 1, 1943. Deutsche Reichsbahn, reprint, 1st edition, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 978-3-938997-14-7 .
• Udo Kandler, Joachimügel: Walter Hollnagel, Railway Rarities, Volume 1: From the Twenties to 1945 . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-88255-306-2 .
• Udo Kandler, Joachimügel: Walter Hollnagel, railway rarities. From zero hour to the economic miracle (Volume 2). EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-307-9 .
• Gert E. Thalau: Railway Directorate Hamburg 1884–1993 . In: German Railway Directorates . Verlag B. Neddermeyer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-941712-01-0 .

Web links

Commons : Building of the Altona Railway Directorate  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Royal Prussian Railway Directorate at Altona
• German National Library: Overview map of the Reichsbahndirektionsbezirks Altona, restored reprint of the 1931 edition
• Map of the RBD Hamburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of May 8, 1937, No. 25. Announcement No. 286, p. 147.
2. ^ Wolfgang Klee: Prussian Railway History . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007466-0 , p. 179.
3. ^ Law on Greater Hamburg
4. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of March 20, 1937, No. 16. Announcement No. 165, p. 94.
5. ↑ Historical picture ( Memento from March 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ bahn_hoefe ( Memento from July 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ List of monuments of the Hamburg cultural authority
8. ↑ Altona-Info September 2013 ( Memento from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Eckard Czeplak, Manfred Schulz: Non-federally owned routes / Retail and private railways . In: Press service of the Federal Railway Directorate Hamburg (Ed.): 100 Years Railway Directorate Hamburg 1884–1984 . Hamburg 1984, p. 252-260 .