Tannenbergstrasse signal box
The Tannenbergstrasse signal box is a mechanical signal box in the city center residential area of Bergisch Gladbach . It regulates the traffic at the transition of the S 11 from Bergisch Gladbach train station in the direction of Cologne on Tannenbergstraße.
history
After the opening of the railway section from Mülheim a. Rh. To Bergisch Gladbach in 1868 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , various metalworking and ceramic companies as well as companies in the building materials and paper industry settled in the vicinity of the station. This required a direct road connection to the later main road in 1894. This is how today's Tannenbergstrasse was created with the railway crossing, which was called Gasstrasse until 1930 . By 1910, haulage had increased to such an extent that securing the level crossing became indispensable. As a result, the signal box on Tannenbergstrasse, which is still preserved today, was built in 1911 as one of three in the so-called Gleisdreieck to serve the station area and part of the associated track sections. It is a solid building plastered on the ground floor, the upper floor of which was built in half-timbered construction. The west, south and east sides are slated like the hipped roof and the stairwell with a pent roof running parallel to each other .
description
The Tannenbergstrasse signal box with the designation "Stellwerk Gf" (G for Gladbach, f for dispatcher) is a narrow, longitudinally rectangular building. The double barrier system at the Tannenbergstrasse level crossing as well as the switches and signals for the station area to the northeast with S-Bahn traffic and factory traffic for the Zanders paper mill are still controlled from the signal box . The most extensive part of the operating technology comes from the construction period of 1911. The lever bench from Scheidt & Bachmann , which is arranged in the interlocking room, dominates . The switch and signal levers are still operated by hand. The switches have blue levers and the signals have red levers. Individual functions were later converted electrically. The essential function of the turnout and signal control is still done by hand with the technology that has been in operation since 1911, almost unchanged.
monument
Due to the on 11 November 2013 by the Ministry of the country Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia outspoken transfer the planning committee of the city Bergisch Gladbach has decided on 1 April 2014 the interlocking Tannenbergstraße under no. 172 in the list of Include architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach .
Individual evidence
- ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5 , p. 120
- ↑ a b Monument of the Month June 2006, accessed on April 5, 2014
- ^ Minister saves the signal box , accessed on April 5, 2014.
Web links
- Tannenbergstrasse signal box accessed on April 5, 2014
- Photo from 2005 accessed April 5, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 16 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 6.2 ″ E