Offenbach am Main trolleybus

Offenbach am Main trolleybus
The former trolleybus 55 in the Transport Museum in Frankfurt am Main
Route length:	14.7 km
Legend Rumpenheim 3 Bürgel 1 Schlossstrasse Bieber , Ostendplatz 2 Bieberer Berg Stadium Depot Marketplace Central Station Kaiserstrasse Goethering 2 City Hospital 1 Buchrainweiher 3 Note: only selected intermediate stops are listed

The Offenbach am Main trolleybus was the trolleybus system of the Hessian city ​​of Offenbach am Main . It was part of Offenbach's local traffic from 1951 to 1972 and replaced some of the routes on the Offenbach am Main tram, which existed from 1884 to 1963 . The responsible transport company was Stadtwerke Offenbach , which emerged from the Offenbach municipal tram ( SSO ) and now operates as Offenbacher Verkehrs-Betriebe (OVB). The Offenbach trolleybus was replaced by omnibuses after its closure .

history

A few years after the Second World War , the city of Offenbach decided to replace its trams with trolleybuses. The first trolleybus route was 5.6 kilometers long and ran as a diameter line from Goethering in the north end via Kaiserstraße , the main station , Bismarckstraße, Marktplatz, Schloßstraße and Mainstraße to the Bürgel district . It opened on July 14, 1951. Scheduled traffic on Line 1 began one day later . The tram or bus depot at the old cemetery was used as the depot. This was connected via an approximately 500 meter long operating line.

On October 4, 1953, a new line was opened from the market square via Bieberer Strasse and the stadium on Bieberer Berg to Ostendplatz in the Bieber district . On the same day, a second extension led from the main train station to the city ​​hospital on Starkenburgring , today's Sana Klinikum Offenbach . From then on, line 1 ran from the city hospital to Bürgel, the new line 2 from Goethering to Bieber. The trolleybus network was now eleven kilometers long.

The last expansion took place on October 30, 1955, when the section from Bürgel to Rumpenheim in the north and the section from the city hospital to the Buchrainweiher in the Lauterborn district went into operation in the south . Both new building sections were served by a new line 3 Buchrainweiher – Rumpenheim. The trolleybus network thus reached its maximum extension of 14.7 kilometers. Ultimately, the trolleybus network was significantly more extensive than the previous rail network, so there were never any trams to Bieber, to Buchrainweiher or between Bürgel and Rumpenheim.

From 1963 the trolleybus was finally the only electric means of transport operated by the city of Offenbach itself. At that time, the last tram line 27 to Tempelsee , which ran exclusively in Offenbach, was shut down and the remaining tram line 16 was operated exclusively with Frankfurt vehicles. Originally it was planned to convert the route to Tempelsee to trolleybus operation, but this project was no longer realized.

Lines 1 and 3 were switched to diesel bus operation on August 25, 1967, line 2 followed on September 26, 1972. Originally, the final abandonment of the trolleybus service was not planned until mid-October 1972. However, it had to be brought forward when a crane boom tore down the overhead line in Kaiserstrasse . Nevertheless, there was an official farewell trip to Bieber on October 15, 1972.

vehicles

The museum car from above

Line 3 driver with car 51 (II), formerly Neuwied 10

number	Numbers	Manufacturer	Electrics	Years of construction	Art	Remarks
1	51	Uerdingen / Henschel	SSW	1951	Solo car	Conversion to articulated tram 85, +1967
1	51 (II)	Uerdingen / Büssing	Box	?	Solo car	ÜBIVs, access 1963, ex Neuwied 10, +1970
1	52	Uerdingen / Henschel	SSW	1951	Solo car	Conversion to articulated tram 86, +1967
1	52 (II)	Uerdingen / Büssing	Box	?	Solo car	ÜBIVs, access 1963, ex Neuwied 11, +1971
1	53	Uerdingen / Henschel	SSW	1951	Solo car	Conversion to articulated tram 83, +1967
1	54	Uerdingen / Henschel	SSW	1951	Solo car	+1966
1	55	Uerdingen / Henschel	SSW	1951	Solo car	Conversion to articulated tram 81, delivered to Baden-Baden in 1967
1	55 (II)	Henschel / Kässbohrer	SSW	?	Solo car	Access 1959, ex Cologne 295, +1963
1	55 (III)	Büssing / Ludewig	Box	1963	Solo car	Delivered in 1972 in Kaiserslautern, now a museum car in Ffm
1	56	Uerdingen / Henschel		1951	Solo car	Conversion to articulated tram 84, +1967
1	56 (II)	Büssing / Ludewig	Box	1963	Solo car	Delivery 1972 Kaiserslautern Büssing President 14R
1	57	Uerdingen / Henschel	SSW	1952	Solo car	Conversion to articulated tram 82, delivered to Baden-Baden in 1967
	57 (II)	Henschel / Kässbohrer	SSW	?	Solo car	Access 1959, ex Cologne 296, +1963
1	57 (III)	Büssing / Ludewig	Box	1963-1964	Solo car	Type Büssing President 14 R
8th	58-65	Mercedes Benz	Box	1953-1955	Solo car	Type O 6600 T
1	66	Mercedes Benz	SW	1955	Solo car	Type O 6600 T, demonstration car, +1970
3	67-69	Uerdingen / Büssing	Box	1958	Solo car	Type ÜBIVs
2	81-82	Uerdingen / Henschel / Kässbohrer	SSW	1959	Articulated trolley	Conversion at Kässbohrer from Uerdingen / Henschel-Solowagen
4th	83-86	Uerdingen / Henschel / Vetter	SSW	1960	Articulated trolley	Conversion at Vetter from Uerdingen / Henschel solo car
4th	87-90	Büssing / cousin	Box	1963	Articulated trolley	Type Büssing President

Some of the solo cars also had trailers .

After operations ceased, three solo cars (55 (III), 56 (II) and 68) and three articulated cars (88, 89, 90) were sold to the Kaiserslautern trolleybus .

Among them was car 55 (III), which is now on display in the Frankfurt am Main Transport Museum.

Two more solo cars went to the Rheydt trolleybus (59, 60) in 1967 , and another articulated car (87) to the Kapfenberg trolleybus in Austria.

literature

• North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse . In: Ludger Kenning, Mattis Schindler (Ed.): Trolleybuses in Germany . tape 2 . Kenning, Nordhorn 2011, ISBN 978-3-933613-31-8 .

Web links

• Trolleybuses in Offenbach am Main - for almost 35 years of history - Documentation by Ludger Kenning on www.drehscheibe-foren.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludger Kenning, Mattis Schindler: Trolleybuses in Germany , Volume 2: North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse; Nordhorn, 2011; P. 277
2. ^ The 20th Century - A Journey through the Development of Local Transport . Offenbach.de, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Maximilian Krafft: The chronicle of the urban streetcar in Offenbach. In: Straßenbahn Magazin, Issue 19, Stuttgart 1976
4. ↑ New articulated buses for Offenbach . City traffic, 1963, archived from the original on December 27, 2013 ; Retrieved April 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ The Offenbach am Main trolleybus at www.sufk-koeln.de
6. ↑ Offenbach . bahnen.de, archived from the original on July 18, 2006 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 .