Bolzano tram

Bolzano tram
Route length:	5 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	750 volts  =
Maximum slope :	50  ‰
Minimum radius :	36 m
opening	July 1, 1909
attitude	December 24, 1948
The highest point	Stephaniestraße ( 277  m slm )
Deepest point	Leifers ( 245  m slm )
Legend Rittner Bahn from Klobenstein Brennerstrasse Bahnstrasse 0.00 Bolzano train station Bolzano south station Rittner Bahn branch 0.31 Walther-von-der-Vogelweide-Platz Dominican Square formerly the Bolzano – Meran railway line Eisack Etschtalbahn Haslach Rectory Wurzer Hof Laives 0.50 Erzherzog-Rainer-Strasse 0.61 Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Strasse 0.82 secondary school 0.86 secondary school 1.06 Talfer Bridge Talfer 1.18 Talfer Bridge 1.31 Josef-Eisensteck-Strasse Remise 1.68 Villa Victoria 1.89 Hotel Trafojer 2.22 Mendelstrasse 2.31 Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Platz 2.44 Habsburgerstrasse 2.49 Habsburgerstrasse 2.76 Archduke Heinrich Promenade 2.79 Archduke Heinrich Promenade 2.97 Hüttlhof 3.24 Stephaniestrasse

The Bolzano tram was the tram in Bozen ( South Tyrol ). It was built in 1907 to connect the individual communities in the Bolzano area with the railroad. At that time, Twelve Malgree , Bozen and Gries were still three independent communities.

Route

Car of the former Gries line in Museumstrasse (1911)

Line 1 ran from today's Guntschnastraße (formerly Stephaniestraße) over Grieser Platz to Talferbrücke , but not along today's Freiheitsstraße , as it was only built in 1935/36. She drove on - with small radii in some cases - through the city center to Waltherplatz , to hit the tracks of the Renon Railway , which had already opened in 1907 . With this railway, which was licensed as a local railway, it shared the route to Zwölfmalgreiner Straße. Via the Zollstangenplatz she reached Brennerstrasse, where the terminus was.

Line 2 was built in several construction phases because the operators of the Etschtalbahn feared competition. But the Laives train station was so far away that it was useless for the local population. A tram going right into town was much more pleasant. From Leifers, the train followed the course of Brennerstraße to the underpass just before the Virgltunnel, in order to be able to switch to Trienter Straße. From here the train went via Dominikanerplatz to Waltherplatz and onto the track of Line 1 and the Rittner Bahn. Shortly before the Bozen train station , the line unthreaded again and came to its own terminus south of the main entrance.

Decommissioning and relics

Due to the deficit of the two tram lines, the emergence of new city districts away from the routes and also in line with the zeitgeist of the time, tram operations were stopped on December 24, 1948. On this date, buses of the SASA (at that time still as a private Società Atesina Servizi Automobilistici ) took over the local public transport in Bolzano.

While most of the tram's facilities subsequently disappeared, the old tram depot (corner of Horazstraße / Peter-Mayr-Straße) was used as a bus depot until the 1980s, before a new Banca d'Italia was built there. The building immediately to the north is still the old "Talferpark" transformer station of the Etschwerke, but it has been considerably expanded compared to its original shape. Apart from that, there are still a considerable number of overhead line rosettes , especially in the area of ​​the old town between Mustergasse and Sparkassenstrasse, but also a few beyond the Talfer.

Planned new construction

Tram on the Talfer Bridge (1910)

The reintroduction of a tram network, especially in connection with a new Überetscher train and a transfer point to the Bolzano – Merano railway line , was discussed several times politically. However, the high implementation costs meant that a Metrobus line was initially set up between Bolzano and the Überetsch instead . A new version of the tram project developed by the South Tyrolean transport structures was rejected by the majority of voters in an advisory referendum in Bolzano in 2019.

literature

• Georg Tengler: The Bolzano Tram. For the 75th anniversary of the year it was built . Ed .: Heimatschutzverein Bozen. Bolzano 1984 ( OBV ).
• Werner Duschk, Walter Pramstaller and others: Local and trams in old Tyrol . Self-published by Tiroler Museumsbahnen , Innsbruck 2008.
• Bruno Mahlknecht : The former tram in Bozen . In: Bozen through the centuries . tape 4 . Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-6011-077-0 , p. 186-195 .
• Walter Kreutz: The Bolzano tram . In: Railway . No. 3 , 1957, ISSN  0013-2756 , pp. 48–49 (part of the series of electric local and trams of Austrian origin in South Tyrol ).
• Hans Lehnhart: The Bozen tram . In: Tram magazine . No. August 29 , 1978, ISSN  0340-7071 , p. 230-234 .
  • Hans Lehnhart: Addendum to "The Bolzano Tram" . In: Tram magazine . No. 32 , May 1979, ISSN  0340-7071 , p. 146-147 .

Web links

Commons : Tram Bolzano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Bolzano tram at the Tyrolean Museum Railways
• Preserved rail vehicles

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Bozen – Gries tram (…). In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 147/1909, July 2, 1909, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tengler: The Bolzano Tram . 1984, p. 28.
3. ↑ Hannes Obermair , Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (eds.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 .
4. ^ Tengler: The Bolzano Tram . 1984, p. 35.
5. ↑ Mahlknecht: The former tram in Bozen . 2007, p. 195.
6. ↑ Metrobus: Technical data and costs adapted for Pillhof tunnel . In: provinz.bz.it. March 14, 2017, accessed May 31, 2017.
7. ↑ Clear rejection for the Bolzano tram. Südtirol Online , November 25, 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 54 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 17 ″  E