Schleswig king carriage
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 JFJ S 1 in the Danish Railway Museum
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| Number: | 1 |
| Year of construction (s): | 1854 |
| Retirement: | 1904 (1934) |
| Axis formula : | 3 |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Seats: | 3 salon compartments |
The Schleswiger Königwagen ( Danish : slesvigske kongevogn ) dates from 1854 and is the oldest surviving saloon car in Denmark . It is now in the Danish Railway Museum in Odense .
history
Until the German-Danish War in 1864, the Duchy of Schleswig was part of the entire Danish state . Here was on October 25, 1854 King Frederik VII. The railway line Flensburg-Husum-Tönning inaugurated. On this occasion, the British company Peto, Brassey and Betts under Samuel Morton Peto , which had built the line , gave the king a saloon car, which was later referred to as the Schleswig King Car . It was built in Stratford , England , and is said to have cost 20,000 rigsbankdalers .
Due to the geographical conditions in Denmark, three railway networks developed there, separated from one another by inlets: In Jutland / Schleswig / Holstein , on Funen and on Zealand . In each of the networks there were also saloon cars for the king. During the occupation of the southern parts of the country in the German-Danish War, the Schleswig king carriage was confiscated by Prussian troops as spoils of war , but was finally returned as the king's private property after the war. It was stationed in Jutland and served there as a royal saloon car until 1904. At that time it was called: "S 2".
In 1904, the car was so technically outdated that it no longer seemed suitable for the king's journeys. In the following three decades it was used for inspection trips, decommissioned in 1934 and sold to private customers. It now served as a garden shed in Thy . In the course of this conversion, the car body and chassis were separated. The latter has not been preserved. In 1983 the car body was recovered and taken to the Danish Railway Museum in Odense.
vehicle
The car ran on three axles. Its interior was described as follows at the time:
“The carriage consists of three rooms, namely a spacious salon in the middle, a private room and a room for his Majesty's entourage . The outside of the car is very tastefully and richly decorated and the inside is decorated in the most delicate of ways. In the salon the walls are lined with light blue silk and the ceiling with white silk. There are gold decorations everywhere and the rooms are furnished with the most precious armchairs, ottomans , mirrors, etc. "
Each of the three rooms had an exit door.
After it was recovered in 1983, the car body was conserved but not restored . So that visitors to the Danish Railway Museum can get a better idea of the original appearance, the car body was jacked up at about the same height as it would have been if the chassis had not been lost, and a banner was hung in front of one side showing the design drawing of the Shows the car that has been enlarged to the size of the car body.
literature
- Labeling on the object in the Danish Railway Museum in Odense [2019].
- Jens Koefoed: Frederik VIIs kongevogn . In: Jernbanen 5/1985, pp. 130f.
- NN: De gamle Kongevogne . In: Dansk Jernbaneblad 28/6 1933.
- Poul Thestrup: Danske Kongevogne . Bane Boger, Roskilde 1992. ISBN 87 88632 39-3
Web links
- Information about the car on the website of the Danish Railway Museum, Odense; accessed on July 24, 2019
- Conventional salons gennem mere end 160 år. In: kongehuset.dk. October 17, 2018, accessed July 31, 2019 (Danish).
Remarks
- ↑ The original of the drawing is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (lettering on the object).