Rodaborn
Rodaborn was the first motorway service station in Germany. The building, which is now used as an excursion restaurant, is located on the Federal Motorway 9 near Triptis in Thuringia .
history
Beginning as an excursion restaurant
In Rodaborn (literally: source of the Roda ) in 1928 two kilometers north of Triptis on the Wittchensteiner Höhe at a healing spring ( Roda ), which was given the name Rodaborn , a forest recreation home with an excursion restaurant was built. The client was the "Rodaborngenossenschaft", an association of Triptis craftsmen, tradespeople, industrialists and the city of Triptis. The first tenant was Walther Sorger, who ran the restaurant until 1934.
Germany's first motorway service station
After the construction of the Reichsautobahn Leipzig - Nuremberg (at that time only as far as Bayreuth-Lanzendorf), the excursion restaurant was opened on December 20, 1936 as Germany's first motorway service station. However, it was not one of the Reichsautobahn rest stops operated by the “Reichsautobahn” company. When the tenant changed in 1938, the rest house was significantly rebuilt. The new tenant was Xaver Kirmaier. The extension was carried out by adding a centrally located kitchen wing, a large guest room (hall) and the extension of the guest room by adding a circumferential veranda with large, then modern glazing in the window area and glazing of the roof area (removal of the roof glazing in the 1950s). The newly created seating capacity was 250 in the entire property. From 1939 the Rodaborn rest area was the official rest area of the long-distance bus line of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and its express buses Berlin-Munich.
As a rest house in the GDR era
The rest house survived the turmoil of the Second World War unscathed despite the bombing of the motorway in the immediate vicinity. The possibility of overnight stays was also used. In the rest house there were twelve rooms available for travelers to stay overnight. This possibility existed until the late 1950s. The service station was operated by the Rodaborn Cooperative until 1959 and then became the property of the City of Triptis, where it was leased to the trade organization (HO). Closed for renovation in 1981, the restaurant was reopened by Mitropa in 1986 - this time as a rest stop for transit travelers from West Germany and West Berlin, as well as all citizens traveling in transit from the GDR. The specialty was that it was only possible to pay with freely convertible currency. The products for sale were exclusively goods from the GDR. As part of the restaurant renovation, a transit shop was set up, which was operated by Forum GmbH until the political change. In this shop goods from the range of the Federal Republic were sold, here transit travelers could buy tax-free. GDR citizens were not allowed to use the rest area or the parking lot. The police and state security closely monitored compliance with this ban.
In 1990 a self-service travel shop was set up in its place, which was operated until 1998; after 1998, the self-service facility was converted into a guest room in order to create space for coaches.
Closing as a rest stop after the turn
After the political change in 1989, Mitropa AG, SAS (Service on the Road), continued the service area with around 30 employees. From July 1, 1990 (monetary union) to December 1997, the service area was run in four shifts, then all year round in Two-shift operation (opening times 5:00 am to 11:30 pm) until it was closed on June 30, 2004 in the course of the six-lane expansion of the A 9, against the resistance of thousands of satisfied guests (signature collection for receipt, 4500 votes in six months).
Efforts by the works council at that time, the city of Triptis and the visiting family minister to continue operating the rest area after the motorway was built failed. Negotiations with the Federal Ministry of Transport were unsuccessful, and a request from the works council to the petitions committee of the German Bundestag to deal with the matter could not prevent the closure.
Continued operation as an excursion restaurant, strange legal dispute
The maximum number of concessions for rest stops on the A 9 has meanwhile been granted, so that the former Rodaborn rest stop is now separated from the adjacent motorway parking lot by a metal fence. At the end of April 2009, the Federal Real Estate Agency found a buyer for Rodaborn. Since May 2010, the owner has set up a restaurant in the former service area.
Motorway travelers regularly stop in Rodaborn. Since they often asked if they could buy something, the owner hung a bell on the parking lot side. Because of the fence and because it is not accessible from the autobahn, the former service area kept making headlines. In July 2012, a man wanted to climb over the fence to get to the bratwurst stand. He got caught with his ring on the fence and tore off his finger.
The sale over the fence led to a legal dispute between the owner and the Thuringian State Office for Construction and Transport. Both the Gera Administrative Court and the Thuringian Higher Administrative Court prohibited a sale over the fence as there was no license.
location
The building can be reached on foot via Lerchenweg, which leads north out of the Oberpöllnitz district of the city of Triptis. The new owner runs a snack bar on the site of the former rest area. The actual inn is still closed today.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sandra Hoffmann: Rodaborn: Hikers' snack instead of motorway service station. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from May 6, 2010
- ↑ Rodaborn: Iconic resting place that is not allowed to be. T-Online Reisen from July 10, 2012
- ↑ Niels Bula: Man seriously injured while climbing the fence on A9 near Triptis. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from July 3, 2012
- ↑ Rodaborn innkeeper continues to sell sausages over the fence. In: MDR. June 1, 2017, archived from the original on July 14, 2018 ; accessed on July 4, 2018 .
Web links
- Private website about the Rodaborn motorway service station
- Johannes Büchs: The rest stop that isn't , in: NDR extra 3, April 10, 2011.
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 30 ″ N , 11 ° 52 ′ 22 ″ E