Sachsenhausen depot

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The depot 2019 on Karl-Gerold-Platz
The Sachsenhausen depot around 1900

The Sachsenhausen depot (also: depot Sachsenhausen ) was a tram depot in Frankfurt am Main from 1899 to 2003 .

N-car in the Sachsenhausen depot, May 2002
The Sachsenhausen depot, south front in March 2006
Gutted Sachsenhausen depot, April 2007
Interior view of the easternmost hall, now a supermarket, December 2008
Headquarters of the Frankfurter Rundschau editorial office (2009-2013)

From construction to World War II

The depot was built in 1899 as the first own depot for the railcars and sidecars of the then still young municipal tram. The location in Hedderichstrasse, right next to the Südbahnhof, was convenient: Then as now, the Südbahnhof was an important junction in the tram network south of the Main . Today the four tram lines 14, 15, 16, 19 and the Ebbelwei-Express are evidence of this .

The depot in Sachsenhausen was opened on April 10, 1899 as the first tram depot of the municipal tram. It replaced a horse-drawn tram depot with a station building , workshop , stable and ancillary buildings in Mühlbruchstrasse owned by the Frankfurt Tramway Company , as this could not be converted for electric trams after the city had bought FTG due to the fact that the site was too small and the track radii were too narrow.

When it opened, the depot consisted of a hall with six tracks with a track length of 610 meters for 42 railcars. In 1900 and 1907 further halls were added and the number of hall tracks increased to 20. The depot survived the Second World War with almost no damage. With two air raids on October 4, 1943 and on March 18, 1944, only a burnt instinctual , two examples and three service vehicles .

Remodeling and closure

In 1969, the depot was rebuilt and modernized, with the brick facade of the southern front for because of the articulated railcar of the type P was completely removed to narrow driveways. All of the 19 tracks were used until the end . A few days before the official opening of the new depot East and the associated closure of the Sachsenhausen depot, all vehicles were removed. When the last man left the depot, a funeral service organized by the CDU took place. The workshop was closed on the day the depot east opened.

After the closure

Shortly after the shutdown, the overhead line in and in front of the depot was removed. The points leading to the depot were welded shut and the site was cordoned off with a site fence. At the beginning of 2006 the tracks in and in front of the depot were removed.

The former access route to the depot remains - although it has been shortened by a few meters - as tram lines 15 and 19 turn here. However, driving is only possible from the Südbahnhof stop , as the switch connection to Brückenstraße was expanded when the track was renewed in 2010, after it had already been welded since the depot was closed.

The depot was converted into a so-called district center for Sachsenhausen by 2009 . A REWE - supermarket and the district library in the two eastern listed housed halls.

In addition, the editors of the Frankfurter Rundschau used the western hall with an additional office building built above it from spring 2009 to September 2013 as the new headquarters in Frankfurt.

The development was based on an architectural competition. The architecture office Michael A. Landes together with the project developer Wentz & Co. GmbH in the planning community Landes & Wentz GmbH were responsible for the architecture and as the owner of the ensemble. After the sale had been decided and the VGF and the City of Frankfurt had also approved the sale, the tracks were removed in early 2006. Two halls were demolished except for parts of the facade, only the structure of the oldest hall to the east has been partially preserved. The demolished halls were rebuilt based on the previous condition, and the south facade, which was demolished in 1969, was partially reconstructed.

literature

  • Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 , p. 119 .
  • Horst Michelke, Claude Jeanmaire: One hundred years of Frankfurt trams: 1872 - 1899 - 1972 = Tramways of Frankfurt am Main (Western Germany) . 1st edition. Villigen AG: Verlag Eisenbahn, book publisher for railway and tramway literature, Brugg / Switzerland 1972, ISBN 3-85649-018-3 , p. 223 .

Web links

Commons : Sachsenhäuser Depot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Michelke / Claus Jeanmaire: Hundred Years of Frankfurter Trassenbahnen , page 223
  2. ↑ Tram of the city of Frankfurt a. M. (Ed.): 60 years of the electric tram in Frankfurt am Main , page 47
  3. ↑ a b c Horst me Elke / Claus Jeanmaire: One Hundred Years of Frankfurt trams , page 229

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 4 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 15 ″  E