Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart

Building of the former railway management in January 2016

The Reichsbahndirektion Stuttgart (RBD Stuttgart) was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and successor to the directorate of the Royal Württemberg State Railways .

Main portal of the former Federal Railway Directorate (2011)

The successor to the RBD Stuttgart at the time of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was the Bundesbahndirektion Stuttgart (BD Stuttgart). In the course of the rail reform on January 1, 1994, the Deutsche Bahn AG became the Deutsche Bahn AG. The tasks of BD Stuttgart were incorporated into the organizational structures of the individual newly formed business areas of Deutsche Bahn, for example in the local transport business area in the regional area local traffic Württemberg or in the network business area in the regional area southwest based in Karlsruhe.

Area of ​​responsibility

The area of ​​this Reichsbahndirektion extended over all of Württemberg and the extreme northeast of Baden to the Main . Significant routes within the management were:

• the earliest Württemberg routes:
  • Heilbronn - Stuttgart ( Württemberg Northern Railway )
  • Stuttgart– Ulm ( Württembergische Ostbahn , with the crossing of the Swabian Alb using the Geislinger Steige )
  • Ulm – Biberach – Friedrichshafen ( Württemberg Southern Railway )
• such as
  • the Gäubahn Stuttgart - Horb - Tuttlingen - ( Singen (Hohentwiel) ) - Schaffhausen ( Switzerland )
  • the route Wertheim - Lauda - Crailsheim - Aalen - Ulm
  • the route (Würzburg–) Lauda – Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld – Heilbronn
  • the Stuttgart – Crailsheim (–Nuremberg) route
  • the Ulm – Tuttlingen route along the upper Danube

On April 2, 1929, the management was reorganized. Up until then there were 8 works offices (for construction and operation) and five traffic offices. Now there were 14 Reichsbahn operations offices and five Reichsbahn traffic offices:

Reichsbahn works offices

1. Bask
2. Boeblingen
3. Calw
4. Crailsheim
5. Esslingen
6. Friedrichshafen
7. Heilbronn
8. Leutkirch
9. Reutlingen
10. Rottweil
11. Sigmaringen
12. Stuttgart 1
13. Stuttgart 2nd
14. Ulm

Reichsbahn traffic offices

1. Heilbronn
2. Stuttgart 1
3. Stuttgart 2nd
4. Tübingen
5. Ulm

building

The management was based in the management building at Heilbronner Strasse 7, which was completed in 1914 and was designed by the architect Martin Mayer (1878–1925). The new building was built in connection with the relocation of Stuttgart Central Station to its current location. In 2003 and 2004 the building served as an alternative quarter for parts of the Stuttgart city administration while the town hall was being renovated. Subsequently, clubs and offices were accommodated in the building in the form of temporary use . This ended at the end of 2011.

Tunneling in the course of Stuttgart21

The former railway management, set on pillars (December 2017)

In the course of the construction of the new Stuttgart main station (as part of Stuttgart 21 ), the management building was undermined from 2017 and placed on a 1.3 m thick concrete slab. This in turn rests on some supports between which the construction machinery and vehicles can maneuver. In 2020 the railroad management should be back on solid ground and be handed over to a new owner. Originally, the railway had aimed to demolish and rebuild the building built between 1911 and 1912. However, the city of Stuttgart insisted on preservation. As part of the project, the rear wing of the building was demolished in 2012.

future

After the work on Stuttgart21 has been completed, the area around the management building is to be fundamentally reorganized. To this end, the city of Stuttgart held an urban planning ideas competition in 2018, in which a design by KSP Jürgen Engel Architects prevailed. The development plan required for this will not come into force before 2022.

literature

• Rudolf Röder (ed.): Old Masters of Railway Photography. Alfred Ulmer. Recordings from the RBD Stuttgart 1925-1945. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2009, ISBN 978-3-88255-310-9 .

Web links

• Map of the RBD Stuttgart
• Railway Directorate in Stuttgart Timeline: Establishments - Designations - Dissolutions
• Website of the new building project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahngesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of March 30, 1929, No. 16, Announcement No. 182, p. 84.
2. ↑ "Rocker33 must get out of H7" in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 14, 2011
3. ↑ Railway management from 2020 on again on solid ground in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of June 20, 2018
4. ↑ Christian Milankovic: Former railway management is now down without. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. July 27, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ '' The area around the Alte Bahndirektion should become an attractive quarter '' Communication from the City of Stuttgart of December 21, 2018
6. ↑ `` There is a risk of fallow around the railway management for a long time '' in: Stuttgarter Zeitung of February 3, 2020