Trolleybus Marburg
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The trolleybus Marburg is a former trolleybus operation in the Hessian university town of Marburg , it existed from May 19, 1951 to October 5, 1968. Only the 4.10 kilometer long line 1 was electrically operated, it connected the Marburg main station with the Marburg Südbahnhof - both located on the Main-Weser Railway . The operating company was Stadtwerke Marburg .
history
Most of the trolleybuses ran on the same route as the Marburg tram , which ran for the last time two days before the trolleybus started operating. Deviating from this, instead of the Pilgrimstein street at the foot of the Schlossberg, a new, 460-meter-longer, line route across Deutschhausstrasse and Biegenstrasse was chosen. In this way, the local clinics and residential areas as well as two schools could be better developed. Nevertheless, the trolleybuses were faster than the trams, they only needed 14 instead of 17 minutes for the entire route. This was primarily made possible by the two-lane trolleybus overhead line, which meant that there was no need to wait for opposing courses as with the tram. The tram depot on Gisselberger Straße, on the other hand, was still used - with minor modifications for trolleybus operations.
After 17 years the trolleybus operation in Marburg ended, line 1 was completely converted to diesel buses. The beginning of the construction of the city motorway ( Bundesstrasse 3 ), which, due to the topography of Marburg, runs through the middle of the city, would have required significant modifications to the trolleybus systems. Initially, line 1 continued on the old trolleybus route from the main station to the south station. In the 1970s, the former trolleybus line was then extended beyond the Südbahnhof to the new Richtsberg district . Line 1 still operates on this route today.
Vehicle fleet
A first series of five one-piece vehicles (type ÜHIIs ) were procured as initial equipment from the Uerdingen wagon factory (numbers 1 to 5), in 1956 three vehicles of the successor series ÜHIIIs (numbers 6 to 8) followed. To cope with the increasing number of passengers, the Henschel works in Kassel purchased the first articulated wagons of the type HS 160 OSL-G in 1961 (numbers 9 and 10). Shortly thereafter, two more cars of this type were to be ordered, but Henschel stopped producing trolleybuses at short notice in 1963. Instead of necessity, the municipal utilities procured two conventional articulated diesel buses as an alternative. From then on, these ran in mixed traffic with the trolleybuses on Line 1.
After the cessation of operations, the solo trolleybuses were scrapped with one exception, the two articulated vehicles were handed over to the Kapfenberg trolleybus in Austria . There they were in regular service until 1980 and 1989 respectively. Car 6 was sold to the campsite in Kernbach in February 1968 , later it came to the Omnibusfreunde Marburg ( OFM ), but could not be repaired there due to its poor condition. In 2001 they gave it to the Obus-Museum Solingen e. V. , where it was cannibalized and dismantled in March 2008 (as a spare part donor for the same type Solingen car 59).
See also
literature
- Dirk Dannenfeld, Franz Josef Hanke: With oats, electricity and diesel. 100 years of local transport in Marburg. From the horse-drawn bus to the low-floor articulated bus . Ed .: Omnibusfreunde Marburg. Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-925301-99-2 .
Web links
- Ludger Kenning: Long history - trams and trolleybuses in Marburg ad Lahn
- The last trolleybus ran in Marburg 40 years ago - Documentation in the passenger newspaper of PRO BAHN Hessen ( Memento from September 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 531 KiB)
- Changed: 50 years ago the trolleybus replaced the tram on www.marburgnews.de