Reich Railway Directorate Cologne

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New head office in Cologne after renovation, with three additional staggered floors, 2016
Presidential villa

The Reichsbahndirektion Cologne was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

With the reorganization of the Prussian State Railways as part of the oncoming wave of nationalization , two railway directorates were created for the Cologne area in 1879 , one for the left bank of the Rhine and one for the right bank of the Rhine. When the structure of the state railway had to be reformed again in 1895, these two directorates were merged to form the "Royal Railway Directorate of Cologne". In 1920 the Prussian State Railways went into the Deutsche Reichsbahn . The names of the directorates changed accordingly and the directorate was now called "Reichsbahndirektion Köln". When the Deutsche Bundesbahn was founded , the management changed its name again. The new name was now "Federal Railway Directorate Cologne".

Area of ​​responsibility

The area of ​​this Reichsbahndirektion extended essentially in the Prussian Rhine province west of the Rhine from the Lower Rhine to the northern Eifel. Only in the Cologne area , and with the right stretch of the Rhine , it was also east of the river.

Significant routes within the management were:

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Reichsbahndirektion was moved to the Viktorshöhe in Bad Godesberg after the destruction of its main building in Cologne , which was also exposed to bombing in February 1945. On March 8, 1945, the Reichsbahndirektion Cologne , which had been relocated to Wuppertal , was officially dissolved after the district had been occupied by the Allied forces.

Headquarters

Headquarters before gutting, 2011
The gutted management building in April 2013

The facade of the former management building (built 1906–1913 according to a design by the Royal Agricultural Inspector Karl Biecker , with the assistance of the Royal Government Builders Adolph Kayser and Martin Kießling ) and the former presidential villa still exist today. The buildings are located on the Rhine, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 5–7, and were marketed by the building owner Vivico as the RheinTriadem building ensemble. In December 2011, Hochtief Projektentwicklung (HTP) acquired the former railway management. The renovation began at the beginning of 2013 with the complete gutting of the building. In January 2014 it was announced that HTP had sold the building to Commerz Real . In 2016, the reconstruction as the “Neue Direktion Köln” office building was completed using the old south, east and north facades. This was preceded by a competition from which the “kadawittfeldarchitektur” office emerged victorious.

The main tenant has been the European Aviation Safety Agency since completion in 2016 .

In March 2014 only the facades are still standing. Preparations for the structural work are in progress

literature

  • Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer Edition Eisenbahn, Stuttgart a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-17-007466-0 .

Web links

Commons : Reichsbahndirektion Köln  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ In 1919 the spelling Cöln was given up and "Cologne" was introduced.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klee, p. 179.
  2. ↑ Cologne: HTP buys former railway management . In: Immobilien Zeitung online, December 21, 2011. Accessed December 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ Only the facade remains. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on ksta.de; accessed on March 1, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ksta.de
  4. ↑ HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung sells Neue Direktion Köln to Commerz Real. (No longer available online.) HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung GmbH, January 15, 2014, archived from the original on December 9, 2014 ; Retrieved December 9, 2014 . 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.neuedirektion.de
  5. ↑ HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung celebrates the laying of the foundation stone for the New Headquarters in Cologne. (No longer available online.) HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung GmbH, July 1, 2014, archived from the original on December 9, 2014 ; Retrieved December 9, 2014 . 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.neuedirektion.de
  6. ↑ Modern office building in a historical guise. on rundschau-online.de; Retrieved February 28, 2013.