Augsburg trolleybus

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Augsburg trolleybus
MAN trolleybus of the type MPE 4500 with the road number 1, built in 1943
MAN trolleybus of the type MPE 4500 with the road number 1, built in 1943
Route length: 3.30 km
Legend
   
 0.0 Bärenkeller North
   
 Augsburg – Ulm railway line
   
 Bärenkeller East
   
 Auerstrasse
   
 Railway lines Augsburg – Ulm and Augsburg – Nördlingen
   
 North Cemetery
   
 2.7 Oberhausen (transition to the tram)
   
 Zollernstrasse
   
 3.3 Eschenhof

The trolleybus Augsburg was the trolleybus system of the Bavarian city ​​of Augsburg . It existed from 1943 to 1959 and supplemented the Augsburg tram that opened in 1881 and the urban bus service that began in 1926 . Like the other two modes of transport, the trolleybus was also operated by Stadtwerke Augsburg (SWA). Even if there were temporary plans to convert the tram completely to trolleybus operation, the means of transport never comprised more than one line .

history

The Augsburg trolleybus went into operation on October 28, 1943 between the districts of Oberhausen and Bärenkeller and replaced the bus line that was set up in 1935 as line 13 and renamed line 14 in 1942 on the same route. It was the first trolleybus line in Bavaria. The reason for the electrification of the 2.7 kilometer long route was its good utilization and the war-related fuel shortage, which led to the planning of the trolleybus line in 1940. Unlike the bus route, the trolleybus route did not initially have a route number . In Oberhausen, there was a connection to line 4 to and from the city center at the tram terminus of the same name, which was in operation until 2001. From there, the trolleybus route led through Hirblinger Strasse and Täfertinger Weg to a block bypass around Richard-Hohenner-Platz in the northern Bärenkeller, that is, the trolleybuses also passed Mohnblumenweg and Am Gerstenacker street .

Towards the end of the war, the only trolleybus line following the then seven tram lines was assigned line number 8. The Augsburg city council decided in 1946 to convert the entire tram network to trolleybus operation. On July 5, 1947, the Stadtwerke extended what was still the only trolleybus line beyond the previous Oberhausen terminus to Eschenhof and gave it the new number 21.At its new terminus, the trolleybus line had a block loop through Augustastrasse , Eschenhofstrasse and Bleicherbreite .

The steadily increasing number of passengers finally led to a compression of the cycle times and the start of sidecar operations from December 1, 1949 . This meant that the amplifier omnibus line established in 1946 , which ran largely parallel to the trolleybus, was no longer necessary. But as early as 1955, due to the continued brisk housing construction in the Bärenkelleriedlung, the municipal utilities had to set up an amplifier bus route 21S from Oberhausen. At that time the trolleybus received line number 21N analogously. Like the parallel bus line, it ran every seven and a half minutes during rush hour , every 15 minutes in between and only every 24 minutes in the evening.

The extension of the bus line 21S to the central Königsplatz in the city center in 1956 ultimately led to a drop in trolleybus passengers on the branch to the Bärenkeller, while the branch to Eschenhof was overloaded and could no longer be handled by the then outdated trolleybus trains. Therefore, the Augsburg trolleybus operation ended on March 17, 1959 when line 21N was switched to diesel buses. The Fuggerstadt was the first of the six Bavarian trolleybus cities, these were also Munich , Nuremberg , Regensburg , Landshut and Neu-Ulm , to give up their trolleybus operation again.

Regardless of the route described, further trolleybus overhead lines were built in Augsburg, for example from Königsplatz to Göggingen or in Haunstetten . However, these never went into operation and were dismantled again without being used.

The trolleybuses were housed in the off-line tram and bus depot 1 Senkelbach on Wertachstrasse, where they had to be towed with a diesel bus.

vehicles

Motor vehicle

Four two-axle solo cars were available for the Augsburg trolleybus . Three companies were involved in the production of the trolleybuses. The chassis (type MPE 4500) were manufactured by MAN in the Nuremberg plant, the electrical equipment came from Siemens-Schuckertwerke in Berlin and the body was supplied by Kässbohrer from Ulm. The two cars delivered in 1943 had the road numbers 1 and 2, had an engine output of 90 kilowatts and had 25 seats and 24 standing places. They were equipped with both an electric brake and an air brake and were approved for a top speed of 40 km / h. The two vehicles subsequently delivered in 1949 were given the numbers 3 and 4 and were slightly larger. All four trolleybus motor cars were in operation until 1959, their whereabouts are not known.

pendant

Former trolleybus or omnibus trailer

For the sidecar operation introduced in 1949, up to 24 matching trailers from various manufacturers with the numbers 1–25 were available, with one trailer being renumbered over the years. These were used alternately behind both trolleybuses and omnibuses and were only removed from the stock between 1960 and 1964 following the general ban on passenger transport.

literature

  • Albrecht Sappel: To Königsplatz and back! 100 years of urban traffic in Augsburg . Alba, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-87094-325-4 .
  • Herbert Waßner: 100 years of Augsburg local transport vehicles in the picture . FdAS, Augsburg 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the horse-drawn tram to a mobility hub. (PDF) (No longer available online.) P. 18 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sw-augsburg.de
  2. ↑ a b Augsburger National-Zeitung, edition of October 30, 1943
  3. ↑ Omnibus-Spiegel , May 2013 edition, page 32
  4. ↑ Trolleybus vehicle data on www.fdas.de