Rumpelstiltskin children's tram

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Children's tram Rumpelstilzchen - SSB type 23.1 / 73.2 (after Gottfried Bauer)
Rumpelstiltskin children's tram
Rumpelstiltskin children's tram
Numbering: 1931/1932
Number: 1 two-axle powered rail car and 1 side car
Manufacturer: Stuttgart trams
Year of construction (s): 1931/1932
Gauge : 600 mm
Length over coupling: 2 × 3,180 mm
Height: 1,890 mm
Width: 1,000 mm
Hourly output : 4.05 kW
Power system : 45 V (3-phase alternating voltage)
Power transmission: Overhead line
Seats: 12/16
The "Rumpelstiltskin" train on the Stuttgart-Degerloch circuit

The children's tram Rumpelstilzchen is a small park railway system on the grounds of the Waldheim of the Stuttgart trams (SSB) in Stuttgart-Degerloch .

The “Rumpelstiltskin” travels on a short, 200 meter long circuit through the Degerloch forest and, unlike the Kleinbahn Killesberg, does not make trips for visitors, but only for the children of the SSB employees. The children's tram is electric like the real tram, but it is powered by 45 volts three-phase current , which is fed via a two-pole overhead line.

The railcar was built in 1931, the sidecar in 1932, the vehicles run on a light rail gauge of 600 mm and are intended to represent a 1: 2 scale Stuttgart tramway typical of the 1930s. The railway is operated by the SSB works council , which also provides the drivers. Partly taken over by trainees from the SSB main workshop.

The children's tram originally ran on the former site of the Waldheim Association (today the social welfare organization) of the SSB, which was located in the acacia grove of today's Killesberg Park . She had a much longer driving distance there than today, which even led over a small bridge. Since the city of Stuttgart needed the former quarry area on Killesberg for the 1939 Reichsgartenschau , the site had to be cleared by December 31, 1937 and the railway system dismantled; the association dissolved in 1938. The Waldheim found a new place to stay in the area of ​​the Degerloch playgrounds, but due to the Second World War , the reopening of the railway was out of the question. After the end of the war and the clearance of the forest home that had been confiscated by the Allies, the “Sozialwerk der Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen e. V. ”and in 1950 the children's tram was reopened on the current route. Shortly afterwards it was given the name "Rumpelstiltskin".

The route consists of a simple circuit. During the journey, the car hall , which is on the route, is crossed each time . The route length is 212.76 meters.

Similar plants

Similar systems exist on the Frankfurt am Main children's tram with a gauge of 410 mm and in the Mannheim youth traffic school with a gauge of 600 mm.

literature

  • Gottfried Bauer, Ulrich Theurer, Claude Jeanmaire: The vehicles of the Stuttgart trams (archive 33). Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen (CH), 1979.
  • Michael Walke: The miniature tram in the youth traffic garden of the city of Frankfurt am Main . In: Tram magazine - Electric local transport in reports and pictures from the past and present. 16 (1985) issue 56, pp. 144f.

Web links

Commons : Rumpelstiltskin children's tram  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Surveying by the SSB's track construction department, as of 2017 .
  2. https://www.kvw-mhm.de/

Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 15 ″  E