Schöma

SCHÖMA Christoph Schöttler Maschinenfabrik GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1930
Seat	Diepholz
management	Christoph Schöttler
Number of employees	140
Branch	Traffic engineering
Website	www.schoema.de

The Christoph Schottler Maschinenfabrik GmbH , shortly SCHÖMA , is a German manufacturer of rail vehicles, based in Diepholz .

history

Schöma and Asper factory plate on the shunting locomotive Tm 237 906-3 of the company Pesa (2010)

SCHÖMA light rail locomotive on the way to its museum stand in Lohne (Oldenburg)

After Christoph Schöttler left his father's company, Diepholzer Maschinenfabrik Fritz Schöttler (DIEMA), due to differences of opinion about the product range, he founded his own machine factory, Christoph Schöttler Maschinenfabrik GmbH, on a former DIEMA site in 1930 . The abbreviation was initially SCHÖMAG , which was changed to Schöma a few years later . In the early years he continued the production of milling machines and tractors , but soon began to push ahead with the construction of rail vehicles.

The Schöma soon became one of the most important manufacturers of light railways , mine railways , narrow-gauge diesel locomotives and railway service vehicles . Own engines and transmissions were also developed, and a cardan drive for diesel locomotives was also used elsewhere. At the beginning of the 1960s, Schöma developed the Klv 53 heavy-duty compact car in collaboration with the German Federal Railroad and manufactured the Klv 54 series vehicles in the 1970s .

The construction of tunnel locomotives began in 1970; today they represent the majority of the locomotives produced. They are used for the construction of subways, traffic tunnels or supply tunnels. In addition to the tunnel locomotives, Schöma also produces shunting locomotives and locomotives for island railways in normal and narrow gauge. On the day of the company's 75th anniversary, the 6,000th locomotive was delivered. Many locomotives are custom-made. The conversion of used locomotives is also part of the program.

Since May 19, 2011, a Schöma Feldbahn locomotive (built in 1943) with an attached peat car in the middle of a roundabout on the state road between Vechta and Damme in Lohne (Oldenburg) - about seven kilometers from Diepholz - has been pointing to the decades nearby transport of peat from the Südlohner Moor to the foothills of the Dammer Mountains .

In 2012 the company will be continued in the fourth generation.

Calls

A SCHÖMA tunnel locomotive in front of the Gotthard base tunnel

Shunting locomotive for a cement plant in South Korea

MGB Tm 2/2 No. 4971 in Andermatt

Shunting locomotive of the Rhaetian Railway

Tunnels for which Schöma locomotives are / were used:

• Gotthard Base Tunnel
• Eurotunnel
• Tunnel construction in Shanghai
• London Underground
• Tunnel construction in Madrid

Places where Schöma shunting locomotives are used:

• Sungshin cement plant South Korea
• Gravel Weiacher gravel
• Matterhorn Gotthard Railway
• Rhaetian Railway
• Regional traffic Bern – Solothurn
• Freiburg transport company
• Delmenhorst-Harpstedter Railway

Museum and island railways with Schöma locomotives

• Langeoog
• Borkum
• Spiekeroog
• Wangerooge
• Baltrum
• Berlin Park Railway
• Chemnitz Park Railway
• Bad Schwalbacher Kurbahn
• Pelion Railway , Greece

literature

• Andreas Christopher, Ulrich Völz: Die Feldbahn, Volume 7: 75 Years of SCHÖMA , Ingrid Zeunert, Gifhorn 2005, ISBN 3-924335-42-7 (Christoph Schöttler Maschinenfabrik 1930-2005)
• Dieter Holtbrügger: Quality made in Diepholz. In: eisenbahn-magazin 12/2012, p. 38f.
• Georg Thomas: Locomotives in demand . In: Lower Saxony Economy 02/2014 p. 28

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Holtbrügger: Quality made in Diepholz. In: eisenbahn-magazin 12/2012, p. 38.

Web links

Commons : Schöma  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• SCHÖMA locomotives

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 32.5 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 50.8"  E