Reich Railway Directorate Elberfeld

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The building of the Federal Railway Directorate during the Döppersberg conversion

The Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld (from 1930 Reichsbahndirektion Wuppertal ) was an administrative district of the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In 1974 he went to the Federal Railway Directorate in Cologne and Essen.

history

The history of the Reichsbahndirektion goes back to the "Royal Direction of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn" which was established in 1850 by the Kingdom of Prussia . She was responsible for the state supervision of the nominally private, but state-run Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME). With the beginning of the nationalization wave of the railways in Prussia in 1879, it was renamed the Royal Railway Directorate Elberfeld . In 1882 the BME was also formally nationalized as the last of the three large private railway companies.

In 1920 the Prussian State Railways were integrated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn , and the name was changed to "Reichsbahndirektion Elberfeld". In connection with the formation of the city and renaming to " Wuppertal ", the Reichsbahndirektion was also renamed to "Reichsbahndirektion Wuppertal" on September 1, 1930. The last renaming took place after the founding of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1949. The management was now called Bundesbahndirektion Wuppertal .

In 1974 the Wuppertal Federal Railway Directorate was dissolved, and the routes assigned to it were subordinated to other directorates, including the Essen Federal Railway Directorate and the Cologne Federal Railway Directorate .

Jurisdiction

The area of ​​the Reichsbahndirektion extended in the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and Rhine Province over the Bergisches Land and the Sauerland , between the southern edge of the Ruhr area and the Ruhr in the north, the Rhine in the west and Sieg in the south to the Upper Lahn valley near Marburg in the east. Its core area was the heavily industrialized valley of the Wupper and its peripheral areas.

Significant routes within the management were:

The building

Open staircase with column portal
Lion statue on the outside staircase

The building, which is also known as the Federal Railway Directorate, faces west from the Wuppertal main station on the Döppersberg and was moved into in 1875. The imposing classicist building with an outside staircase and column portal was then expanded from 1914.

There was serious damage in 1943 during World War II , which was repaired by 1948. In 1967 two Bergische lions were placed in front of the portal on the side of the outside staircase . At this point in time, the intention to dissolve the Federal Railway Directorate was already known. This was then decided by the cabinet in July 1970 and the authority was wound up until 1974.

The facade of the building, which has been on the city's list of monuments since May 11, 1988 , was renovated between 1999 and 2000 for ten million marks. Aurelis , a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn, has owned the almost 19,000 square meter (gross floor area) property since 2003 and has been trying to find new tenants ever since.

A non-public pedestrian tunnel below the adjacent railway line connects the building with the post office on the Kleeblatt.

The regional health care branch of the Federal Railway Officials (KVB) with around 160 employees used part of the property until 2008. It will move into a new office building on the site of the former central railway workshop in the Kluse , which was built between 2006 and 2008. In the meantime it has been speculated that the collection of the now closed Fuhlrott Museum could move here. The Federal Railway Directorate would have had to be renovated beforehand.

In June 2008 it became known that Aurelis had sold the property to the Wülfrath investor Uwe Clees . For 2018 the opening of the first section of the City Outlet Wuppertal with around 50 shops on 10,000 m² was planned. The outlet center was to be expanded to around 30,000 m² and around 150 shops in two further stages. For this purpose, according to the plans, the former railway management should be connected to the former post office building on the clover leaf via a bridge that should lead over the tracks of the Wuppertal main station.

Chairman and President

Period Surname
1850-1852 August Wilhelm von Hübener
1852 Ludwig Albert Dihm
1852-1856 Wilhelm Ostermann
1856-1875 Carl Danco
1873-1881 Paul Jonas
1882-1887 Karl Hermann Peter von Thielen
1887-1903 Hugo Dieck
October 1, 1903– June 30, 1919 Christian Hoeft
July 1, 1919– March 31, 1924 August Denicke
April 1, 1924– July 26, 1925 Clemens Marx
October 1, 1925– January 31, 1937 Rudolf Loewel
February 1, 1937-1945 Ludwig Roebe
May 28, 1945–1952 Max Jacobshagen
October 22, 1952–1962 Ernst Wintgen
June 1, 1962– September 30, 1966 Friedrich Lämmerholt
February 1, 1967– December 31, 1969 Karl-Heinz Eckhardt
01.01.1970–23.05.1972 Walter Gerlach
January 1, 1973 to November 30, 1974 Hermann Lamp

literature

  • Railway Directorate Wuppertal (Ed.): Hundred years of Railway Directorate Wuppertal. Beginning and development of the state railway administration in Northwest Germany . Presented on the occasion of the anniversary by the Deutsche Bundesbahn Railway Directorate in Wuppertal. Wuppertal October 1950 (172 p., 4 colored folding maps).
  • Wolfgang Klee: Prussian railway history . Kohlhammer Edition Eisenbahn, Stuttgart a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-17-007466-0 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Klee, p. 179.
  2. Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz from September 6, 1930, No. 44. Announcement No. 586, p. 281.
  3. Old Railway Directorate: Filetstück am Döppersberg almost orphaned Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) July 27, 2006
  4. ^ Magnificent building: Outer splendor and inner desolation Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) March 23, 2006
  5. Kleeblatt: A tunnel makes Swiss Post attractive to investor Clees Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from January 12, 2011
  6. ↑ Office building planned on the "Schandfleck" Westdeutsche Zeitung (Online) September 6, 2005
  7. More than just an office building on the "Schandfleck" Westdeutsche Zeitung (Online) September 14, 2005
  8. Cless buys the former management of the Bundesbahn Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) June 5, 2008
  9. International investor as partner for Clees? Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) June 6, 2008
  10. ^ Corps Neoborussia Halle , Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 100/78

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 55 ″  E