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The plump in blood orange color.

The Pflatsch is the nickname for the logo of the Austrian Federal Railways between 1974 and 2004. It replaced the ÖBB impeller and was replaced by the ÖBB word mark .

history

ÖBB 1041.15 in Jaffa livery and Pflatsch in Hieflau , July 1982
ÖBB 4010 in the original color scheme with Pflatsch in white at the Vienna Westbahnhof , May 1990

introduction

In a competition held in 1971, this logo won from several submissions. After a few attempts with regard to placement and size, it became mandatory for newly delivered and fully inspected vehicles from autumn 1974. The onomatopoeic term arose because, in contrast to the impeller, this large logo appeared like a smacked spot.

Jaffa livery

The introduction of the Pflatsches went hand in hand with that of the so-called Jaffa painting , which began in 1970. This was the change of the color for locomotives and passenger cars to blood orange ( RAL 2002 ). Therefore, the basic color of the logo on a light background (for example white, light gray, ivory or yellow) was initially not red, but orange. The white signet was applied to a dark background (e.g. blue, green, brown, red or orange).

For the first time, not only locomotives, but also all wagons bore the railway logo. The Pflatsch was usually centered on the front of locomotives and railcars, on the side walls of locomotives next to the right door, on passenger cars usually under the first or second window from the right and on freight cars on the car body on the right (or on flat cars partially on one specially attached board). Some locomotives delivered from the 1990s had a particularly large white patch on the side walls on the side walls: on the 1822 on the left, on the 1012 centered and on the 1016/1116 on the right.

The first new delivery with Pflatsch and Jaffa paintwork was the 1044.01 electric locomotive .

Valousek paintwork

With the introduction of the ivory / red Valousek paintwork (named after the designer Wolfgang Valousek) at the beginning of the 1990s, the Pflatsch also turned red on a light background (e.g. ÖBB 4010 ).

With the introduction of the Pflatsch company logo, further changes in the design of the ÖBB went hand in hand: for example, station signs (white to ultramarine blue with rounded corners) and company addresses were changed to the Helvetica font in semi-bold and the class numbers 1 and 2 were written much larger than before. Also were pictograms introduced.

End of the flop, introduction of the word mark

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Logo "150 years of railways in Austria", 1987
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The combination of word mark and Pflatsch, 1998 to 2004. This was used in new or modernized vehicles, as well as in printed matter. Very rarely found today.

Since the logo was well known in Austria , but not abroad, the ÖBB introduced the word mark from 1998, initially in black or gray together with the Pflatsch and only in print products and online . From around 2001 this combination could be seen on some new or modernized vehicles. As early as 2003, the word mark was used alone on new or modernized vehicles, usually in white (or in red on a light background). With the introduction of the ÖBB word mark, the light blue station signs with white frames and rounded corners as well as the pictograms at stations and on trains were replaced by angular, dark blue signs.

Naturally, the changes in the stations and vehicles took a few years, so that the Pflatsch and the old station signs can still be found at smaller stations and signposts as well as on older locomotives and railcars. With the renovation of the door handles and headlights in 2017 and 2018, the logos on many locomotives and push-pull trains decorated with Pflatsch were also swapped. However, the old logo was still attached to some vehicles after the modifications.

Meanwhile obsolete sign 13c (StVZVO 1998).

The old logo is still used on the signs to the train station for new installations, although the road traffic regulations already provide for a neutral symbol (this is mainly used in places where a private railway company also uses the train station). In some communities, the Pflatsch was pasted over with the word mark.

Since there is no other official name for this logo, the name has established itself among railway workers and is also used for classification in model descriptions by model railway manufacturers. The use of the word has increased significantly since the introduction of the word mark, as there are now three possible logos for ÖBB locomotives.

gallery

The splash on objects

The splash on vehicles

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Deiss: Silberling and iron: 1000 nicknames in transport and traffic and what's behind them. Book on Demand 2010, page 141. ISBN 978-3-83-916269-9 .
  2. ↑ Logo of the Austrian Federal Railways until 2004 - Pflatsch , ostarichi.org
  3. ↑ "Export, lettering, slop and spat" "Ask Andrea" column by Andrea Maria Dusl in Falter 29/2010 from 19 July 2010.
  4. ↑ ÖBB website in January 1999 ( Memento from January 25, 1999 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ My railway year 2003 - a look back , in the video you can see, as in 2003, some Taurus locomotives (13:56) and a few Eurofima wagons (13:41) that had the wordmark without the paw, YouTube , accessed 24 May 2019
  6. ^ Kuk Eisenbahn picture album: The last 30 years 1978 - 2008. Volume 13 of Kuk Eisenbahn picture album: The railways in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on old views: in memory of the railways of Austria and Hungary at the time of their commonality in a past important European empire . Bohmann 2009, page 138. ISBN 978-3-90-198393-1 .
  7. ↑ Alfred Horn: “The” new railway, construction (building construction, civil engineering, bridge construction, track construction), locomotives, advertising locomotives, timetable, signal and safety systems, Mariazellerbahn - once different, accidents, private railways, city traffic, volume 11. Bohmann 2007, page 118, 384. ISBN 978-3-90-198376-4 .