Ingolstadt tram
The Ingolstadt tram was a standard-gauge horse - drawn tram . It drove the 3.26 kilometer route from the Münster via Theresienstraße and Harderstraße to today's main train station , which was still called Centralbahnhof in the 19th century.
history
Since 1874 a horse-drawn bus had traveled the route between the Central Station and the city center, about three kilometers away. On November 10, 1878, Hermann Reuss began operating trams in Ingolstadt ; he apparently later passed it on to August Reuss . In 1919 the railway came into the possession of the city.
Reuss senior also acted as a coachman for the railway. She drove from Centralbahnhof over the Danube bridge, through Donaustraße and Moritzstraße to Schliffelmarkt and from there through Theresienstraße to Poppenbräu. The normal travel time for this route was just under 25 minutes.
The horse-drawn tram carried around 200,000 passengers a year. The plan to electrify the line, the construction work for this was already underway, was initially postponed after the First World War and abandoned entirely in 1927. In March 1921, the horse tram was stopped. The rail vehicles were replaced by three omnibuses .
A model of a horse-drawn tram can be seen in the Ingolstadt City Museum. Two carriages of the Ingolstadt horse tram are also immortalized on a painting by Gustav Schröpler .
vehicles
Initially, eight closed saloon cars and five open summer cars were available for use by the Ingolstadt tram.
A horse-drawn tram carriage was preserved and was rediscovered and restored around 60 years after the railway was no longer in service. Today it is no longer used on rails, but has rubber wheels. This restored carriage has been in operation again as a horse-drawn vehicle since 1998.
literature
- Leonhard Bergsteiner, Ingolstädter Tramway Hermann Reuß 1878–1921 , in: Railway and Museums 26
- Dieter Höltge, Michael Kochems: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 10: Bavaria . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-391-8 , p. 82-89 .