Saxon Railway Museum

**Saxon Railway Museum**
	; Vehicle parade at one of the two ring sheds
Data
place	Chemnitz
Art	Railway Museum
opening	1992
management	Saxon Railway Museum V.
Website	www.sem-chemnitz.de
ISIL	DE-MUS-959719

The Saxon Railway Museum is a museum for historical railway vehicles in Chemnitz . It is located on the site of the former Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf depot .

history

The Saxon Railway Museum is located on the site of the former railway depot for freight locomotives at the Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf station . Until the shutdown of the last steam locomotives in 1988, this was responsible for their maintenance and repair.

After the railway depot was closed in 1992, the Saxon Railway Museum Association took over the existing, listed buildings. The museum has two 26- person ring locomotive sheds with 20 m turntables . In addition, there is a coaling system with high bunkers and sanding systems , water cranes , a functional axle sink and the other facilities of a functional railway depot for steam locomotives.

The exhibition shows the development of the railways in Saxony and especially in the Chemnitz region. In addition to an extensive inventory of steam, diesel and electric locomotives , the museum also has an extensive collection of operational light rail vehicles .

For the TV film Go West - Freedom at Any Price from 2010, the outdoor facilities of the museum served as the backdrop for a Czech freight yard.

In the Railway Museum for the 4th Saxon State Exhibition in 2020, the "Railway Showcase" will be set up as an additional exhibition .

Exhibition exhibits

Many of the locomotives on display are on loan from private individuals, the Dresden Transport Museum or the Nuremberg Transport Museum . In 2009 the stock comprised 18 steam locomotives, 16 diesel locomotives and three electric locomotives as well as 40 passenger and freight cars. The museum shows the steam locomotives 38 205 , 43 001 , 75 515 and 86 001 , the diesel locomotives V 180 141 , 219 003 , V 60 1001 and the electric locomotives 254 059 and E 44 045 . As a special vehicle for the museum's collection also includes a Tatra 141 with Culemeyer - road scooter .

The operating license of the association's own 50 3648 expired in spring 2009, the locomotive was then restored to working order by November 2015 and has since been available for special trips again. At the end of August each year there is a large boiler house festival with a locomotive parade.

Feldbahn in the Saxon Railway Museum

Site plan of the field railway in the Saxon Railway Museum

In 1992 the field railway group was founded in the Saxon Railway Museum to demonstrate the former importance of the field railways in Saxony . On the fallow land east of the railway museum, some of which were used for storage, a field railway network with a 600 mm gauge with a station, locomotive shed and workshop was built.

In 1996, when enough collected track material from stocks of mostly surrounding field railways was available, track construction began. From then on, they continued to build on the route. Construction of the museum station began in January 1997, and the foundation stone for the locomotive shed was laid on January 3, 1998.

For financial reasons, the association was transferred to the Saxon Railway Museum in 1999. By renting a neighboring locksmith's shop, the area was expanded by a few exhibition rooms in 2002.

On November 25, 2005, half of the current route was inaugurated. The field railway continued to grow in length until 2006. The remaining part of the route was inaugurated on April 8, 2006.

Vehicles of the field railway
Type	Manufacturer	Serial number	Construction year	origin	Remarks
LKM Ns 1	LKM Babelsberg	247446	1957	Chemnitz-Rottluff brickworks	operational
LKM Ns 1	LKM Babelsberg	247154	1954	Forberge brickworks	operational
LKM Ns 2f	LKM Babelsberg	248492	1954	Chemnitz-Rottluff brickworks	operational
LKM Ns 2f	LKM Babelsberg	248819	1956	Chemnitz-Rottluff brickworks	currently not operational
LKM Ns 2f	LKM Babelsberg	248505	1955	Chemnitz-Rottluff brickworks	currently not operational
LKM Ns 2f	LKM Babelsberg	248512	1955	Brickworks Oberlungwitz	operational
LKM Ns 3d	LKM Babelsberg	249273	1960	Erfurt-Gispersleben brickworks	operational
BN15R	ČKD Prague	63-004	1963	Forberge brickworks	currently not operational
BN15R	ČKD Prague	9015	1960	Bielatal brickworks	currently not operational
BN30R	ČKD Prague	40096	1961	Pan Steinwerk Liebertwolkwitz	in work-up
BND30	ČKD Prague	2431	1956	Feldbahnmuseum Hildesheim	operational
EL 105	Arnold Jung locomotive factory			Grechwitz brickworks	operational
EL 110	Arnold Jung locomotive factory	12421	1955	Füssel granite quarry, Laußnitz	currently not operational
DG 10 IV	Henschel & Son	D1172	1935	Nordhausen brickworks	planned refurbishment
MD2	Orenstein & Koppel	9774	1939	Großröhrsdorf brickworks	in work-up
15/18 hp	Gmeinder	2201	1938	Private	operational
OME 117 F	Deutz AG	13869	1935	Oekoven field railway museum	in work-up
Rail pen	Self-made			Großröhrsdorf brickworks	operational
LEW EL 9	LEW Hennigsdorf			Klingenthal / Brunndöbra river and heavy spar works	operational
LEW EL 9	LEW Hennigsdorf	11585	1968	Schneckenstein show mine , Tannenbergsthal
Steam locomotive B coupler Spunterei	Hanomag	9332	1923		in work-up
Brigade steam locomotive	Hartmann	4300	1919	Mozambique sugar factory	planned refurbishment

For this purpose, the light railroad has four passenger cars, various tipping lorries , a lime scale , two log transporters, two handcarts and a weed sprinkler .

literature

Egon Kretzschmar: The railway depot in Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt . Bildverlag Böttger, Witzschdorf 2003, ISBN 3-9808250-8-6 .

Web links

Commons : Sächsisches Eisenbahnmuseum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Art Minister Dr. Eva-Maria Stange today handed over the funding notification for the Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf Railway Museum to be used as a "Railway Showplace" as part of the 4th Saxon State Exhibition. In: medienservice.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art , January 18, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2018 .
^ Vehicles of the field railway in the Saxon Railway Museum ( Memento from June 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); the current version is available at feldbahn-chemnitz.de, accessed on August 12, 2018 (link in the left column under "Vehicles").

50.861552777778 12.967816666667Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 4.1 ″ E

[1] Art Minister Dr. Eva-Maria Stange today handed over the funding notification for the Chemnitz-Hilbersdorf Railway Museum to be used as a "Railway Showplace" as part of the 4th Saxon State Exhibition. In: medienservice.sachsen.de. Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art , January 18, 2018, accessed on August 12, 2018 .

[2] Vehicles of the field railway in the Saxon Railway Museum ( Memento from June 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); the current version is available at feldbahn-chemnitz.de, accessed on August 12, 2018 (link in the left column under "Vehicles").