Hildesheim tram
The Hildesheim tram was a standard gauge tram in Hildesheim . The Hildesheim municipal tram ran between August 7, 1905 and March 22, 1945.
history
On January 30, 1867, a horse-drawn bus began operating as the first inner-city transport in Hildesheim; The line ran every 60 minutes from the train station to Moritzberg , and already took a very similar route as the later tram line 1. On May 15, 1886, the horse-drawn bus service was expanded to include another line to the forest spring.
From March 22, 1899, the Hanover tram (renamed Überlandwerke und Straßenbahnen Hannover AG - ÜSTRA in 1921) connected Hildesheim via Sarstedt with Hanover with a standard-gauge overland line . The end point in Hildesheim was the station forecourt, and there was also a freight station nearby and a depot for the Hanoverian tram.
On September 12, 1903, the city council of Hildesheim decided with twelve to five votes to build a separate tram network for the further development of the city. Began in August 1904, the construction of a power station by the AEG , which had received the power of the city in December of this year.
On August 7, 1905, the three kilometer long line 1 from the main train station to Moritzberg began its service. The terminus was directly in front of the bridge over the Kupferstrang, i.e. directly on the then city limits to the mountain spot Moritzberg. A toilet block was built on the copper line for the tram staff. Line 1 followed the course of the horse-drawn tram. At first it drove every five minutes, later every seven minutes. When it opened, the line was 2.57 kilometers long and single-track, and there were a few passing points for oncoming traffic. The speed was 10-15 km / h. Until 1918 the fare was ten pfennigs .
Line 2 was opened on September 8, 1907. In 1913, line 1 got a different route and the new line 3 was introduced. Due to the hyperinflation in 1923, the company was discontinued.
In 1929, lines 2 and 3 were extended in the north to the central cemetery (today Nordfriedhof) in the north of the city and in the south to Struckmannstrasse. In addition, a new line 4 was set up to Orleansstraße, with which the stone pit barracks in the eastern part of the city were better connected.
On August 3, 1942, the route network was completely changed. Ring traffic was introduced on lines 1 and 2, lines 3 and 4 were shortened.
Due to the two air raids on Hildesheim on March 3 and 22, 1945, the city tram was so permanently damaged that operations were stopped and not resumed after the war. Between July and October 1945, two railcars carried out an emergency operation on Hanover's line 11 between the main train station and the destroyed bridge over the Hildesheim branch canal . The two railcars were then sold to the Osnabrück tram after repairs, along with five more units .
A lavatory built for the employees on the Kupferstrang still reminds of the Hildesheim tram, even if it no longer serves its original purpose. In addition, there are wall rosettes on Bergsteinweg 53 and one house on Peiner Straße , to which the overhead line was attached.
In 1958, the Üstra line 11 between Hildesheim and Sarstedt was shut down. Since then, public transport in Hildesheim has been carried out exclusively by buses. From 1943 to 1969 two lines were operated as trolleybuses . In 1998, the Hildesheim public transport company was transferred to the wholly owned subsidiary Stadtverkehr Hildesheim .
Line network
In addition to the four lines of the city tram, line 11 operated by Üstra also ran in the city :
Line 11 Bahnhof - Steuerwalder Straße - (continue on what will later become Reichsstraße 6 ) - Hanover, Goseriede
1907
| line 1 | Train station - Bernwardstraße - Almsstraße - Hoher Weg - Altpetristraße - Pelizäusplatz - Kreuzstraße - Domhof - Dammstraße - Bergsteinweg - Moritzberg |
| Line 2 | Train station - (like line 1) - Pelizaeusplatz - Friesenstraße - Paradeplatz (today Hindenburgplatz ) - Goslarsche Straße |
1913
| line 1 | Bahnhof - Bahnhofsallee - Zingel - Paradeplatz - Friesenstraße - Pelizäusplatz - (as before) - Moritzberg |
| Line 2 | Train station - (as before) - Goslarsche Strasse |
| Line 3 | Train station - (like line 2) - Paradeplatz - Küsthardtstraße - Neustädter Markt - Goschenstraße - Annenstraße - Marienburger Straße |
1929
| line 1 | Bahnhof - Bahnhofsallee - Zingel - Paradeplatz - Friesenstraße - Pelizäusplatz - (as before) - Moritzberg |
| Line 2 | Zentralfriedhof - Peiner Strasse - train station - (as before) - Goslarsche Strasse - Ostbahnhof - Marienburger Strasse - Struckmannstrasse |
| Line 3 | Central cemetery - Peiner Strasse - train station - (as before) - Marienburger Strasse - Struckmannstrasse |
| Line 4 | Bahnhof - Bahnhofsallee - Ostertor - Einumer Strasse - Orleansstrasse |
1942
| line 1 | > Bahnhof → Bahnhofsallee → Zingel → Hindenburgplatz → Friesenstraße → Pelizäusplatz - (as before) - Moritzberg < Moritzberg - (as before) - Pelizaeusplatz → Altpetristraße → Hoher Weg → Almsstraße → Bernwardstraße → train station |
| Line 2 | > Bahnhof → Bahnhofsallee → Zingel → Hindenburgplatz → Goslarsche Strasse → Ostbahnhof → Marienburger Strasse - Struckmannstrasse < Struckmannstrasse - Marienburger Strasse → Annenstrasse → Goschenstrasse → Neustädter Markt → Küsthardtstrasse → Pelizaeusplatz → Hoher Weg → Almsstrasse → Bernwardstrasse → train station |
| Line 3 | Central cemetery - Peiner Straße - train station |
| Line 4 | Ostertor - Einumer Strasse - Orleansstrasse |
literature
- Stefan Bölke: The electric in Hildesheim , Gerstenberg Verlag Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-8067-8722-1
