Landshut tram

Landshut tram
Car No. 9 of the horse tram
Route length:	2.45 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Legend Central Station Pfetttrach Ludmillastrasse Bismarckplatz Little Isar Zweibrückenstrasse Great Isar Old town Trinity Square

The meter-gauge Landshut tram was primarily used to connect the old town of Landshut with the main train station . The responsible transport company was the Stadtische Straßenbahn Landshut , from which the Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Landshut later emerged and which today operate under Stadtwerke Landshut .

history

After Landshut had already been connected to the railway network in the winter of 1858/59, the city received a new through station in 1880 , which in the following time developed into an important rail hub . Because, unlike its predecessor, it was around two kilometers from the city center, the residents wanted better connections to the city by public transport.

On June 30, 1902, a 2.45-kilometer horse-drawn tram was opened between the train station on the other side of the Isar and Dreifaltigkeitsplatz in the Upper Old Town. It crossed the Nikola district on Seligenthaler Strasse and reached the old town through Zweibrückenstrasse. In accordance with technical progress, electrical operation was introduced on this route on January 15, 1913, which from then on was double-tracked for 1.35 kilometers. The train usually ran every ten minutes, and the sequence of cars could be reduced to five minutes if necessary. The depot was located in what was then Schulstrasse, east of the main train station.

Because the main station and the tram depot were destroyed in air raids, tram operations were stopped on March 19, 1945. A city council resolution of 1946 decided not to rebuild the destroyed tracks. In addition to Hanau , Hildesheim and Wilhelmshaven , Landshut was one of only four German cities that stopped operating their trams after the war.

Subsequently, efforts were made to find a means of transport that could be relatively easily extended beyond the previous rail route to the then newly created districts. The tram was ultimately replaced by the Landshut trolleybus , which opened in 1948 and which in turn was replaced by omnibuses in 1966 . To this day, four overhead line rosettes are reminiscent of the tram, including two at the Nikolastraße / Seligenthalerstraße intersection and one each on Bismarckplatz and Dreifaltigkeitsplatz.

vehicles

The electric tram had six railcars with the numbers 1 to 6 built by MAN in 1912 . The two-axle vehicles weighed 4.8 tons and were 7,820 millimeters long, they had 18 seats and 28 standing places. They were supplemented by five sidecars with the numbers 11 to 14 (built in 1902) and 15 (built in 1929). The former were former horse-drawn carriages.

The six railcars were later sold to the Augsburg tram , where they were given the new numbers 130 to 134 and 136. Car 136 was used there as a sidecar from the beginning, before the other five Landshut railcars were converted into sidecars in 1950. All six vehicles were scrapped by 1964.

Landshut light rail system

Since 2006 the land use plan of the city of Landshut has kept the option of reintroducing rail-bound public transport . The Karlsruhe model was used as a model . The aim is to make traffic on the existing rails more attractive through additional stops in the city and the neighboring communities of Altdorf and Ergolding . In addition to the existing stops in Landshut (Bay) Hbf and Landshut Süd , the stops in Münchnerau , Lassenbrand, Hans-Leinberger-Gymnasium , clinic center and industrial area Bayerwaldsiedlung (all in the city of Landshut) as well as one stop each in Altdorf, Pfettrach and two in Ergolding are planned.

literature

• Dieter Höltge: German trams and light rail vehicles . Gifhorn 1977.
• 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. 90-99 .

Web links

• Brochure 150 years of gas with tram pictures
• Long history: Trolleybuses in Landshut on the Isar - Documentation by Ludger Kenning on http://www.drehscheibe-foren.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Landshut Tram on www.standseilbahnen.de ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 5, 2012 
2. ↑ Sidecars 130 to 136 at www.fdas.de , accessed on September 5, 2012
3. ^ City of Landshut: Land Use Plan City of Landshut Explanatory Report. In: (page 109). Retrieved December 8, 2018 .