Siemens Braunschweig plant
The factory of Siemens AG in Braunschweig goes back to the railway signal construction institute Max Jüdel & Co founded in 1873 . It is the world's largest location for rail automation and belongs to the Siemens Mobility division of Siemens AG . The company is located on Ackerstraße at the back of the main station in the Viewegs Garten-Bebelhof district .
Max Jüdel & Co.
The railway has a long tradition in Braunschweig, since the Duke of Braunschweigische Staatseisenbahn , the first state railway in Germany, opened the route between Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel on December 1st, 1838 .
In 1873, the Brunswick Merchant founded Max Jüdel (1845 to 1910) with the mechanical engineer Heinrich Bussing (1843 to 1929), the railway signal Bauanstalt Max Jüdel & Co . The factory moved from Wolfenbütteler Strasse to Ackerstrasse in 1874, where 37,000 square meters of land was available.
The company operated internationally and was able to deliver the 100th signal box in 1880 , the 1000th in 1892. From 1893 electrical blockworks were manufactured, from 1894 electromechanical switches , and in 1894 or 1899 the first electromechanical signal box was delivered.
During this time (1893 or 1898) the company was also converted into a stock corporation and the Berlin rival Siemens & Halske AG took a third share. Its founder Werner von Siemens produced the first electromechanical bell in 1847 and is therefore considered a pioneer of railway signaling technology.
In 1903, the 60-year-old Büssing withdrew his capital from the company after acquiring 92 patents in the railway signaling sector in the past 30 years, and founded the Heinrich Büssing special factory for motor vehicles and motor buses , from which the traditional Büssing AG emerged .
With 1,300 employees in 1908, Max Jüdel & Co. was one of the largest employers in Braunschweig. Jüdel died in 1910 and left his fortune to the city of Braunschweig as the basis for the Max Jüdel Foundation , whose interest income was used for social purposes.
Siemens
In 1928 Siemens & Halske AG , which from 1926 developed the "inductive train control" ( Indusi ), took over the majority of the shares and in 1942 the entire plant. In 1948 the first push-button relay interlocking ("Dr I") was used at Düsseldorf-Derendorf station and in 1956 the first track plan interlocking ("Sp Dr S 57") was delivered to Kreiensen station .
Since 1960 the company has been located at the rear of the Braunschweig main station, which was then built at a new location . At the beginning of September 1961 a new production hall was completed. At that time, the product line comprised the essential techniques of railway safety technology such as signals, controls, actuating technology, inductive train protection, communication technology as well as the incipient motorway call column communication.
The Maschen marshalling yard went into operation fully automatically and computer-controlled in 1977 as the largest marshalling yard of the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In 1981 Siemens set up the control center for the Cologne transport company and in 1982 the plant delivered the first fully electronic interlocking equipped with microcomputers and fiber optic cables .
On August 27, 1987, the foundation stone was laid for the new building of the high-security data center , which became superfluous after less than ten years due to the development of PCs instead of the previously common terminal computers and improved data transmission and moved to Erlangen .
In 1989, after extensive restructuring , the previous railway signaling technology division was incorporated into the transport technology division, which was called Siemens Transportation Systems until 2011 .
In 1996 the electronic interlocking in Hanover with 1024 control units was delivered and from 2001 the operations control system for the Transrapid Shanghai was developed, which started operations in 2004. In 2003 one of the largest liquid crystal screens in the world at that time was installed in the operations control center of the Norges Statsbaner .
Today, almost 3,000 employees produce level crossing technology, electronic signal boxes, train control systems, operations control systems and signaling systems for more than 200 railway companies in 45 countries, from computer-aided timetable creation to automatic diagnosis of point machines.
The Rail Automation Academy is also located here with ten training rooms for six to 100 people with modern technical equipment. In the Test Center Mass Transit , maintenance personnel, system administrators and dispatchers from local transport companies are trained, and in the system test centers , the interlockings and control centers are simulated on 1600 m² in parallel with assembly or conversions.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '5.6 " N , 10 ° 32" 36.8 " E