Schweinfurt tram
The tram Schweinfurt was the first municipal streetcar in Bavaria and joined 1895 to 1921 the main station from Schweinfurt to the city center. The responsible transport company was the Schweinfurt municipal tram .
history
The Ludwigs-West-Bahn from Bamberg reached Schweinfurt as early as 1852 and was continued to Würzburg in 1854 . In 1852 the first Schweinfurt train station was built, later known as the city train station . The opening of the state railway branching off in the north to Bad Kissingen in 1871 and to Meiningen in 1874 led to the construction of the Centralbahnhof in 1874 , which was renamed the Hauptbahnhof in 1906 . It is located about two kilometers west of the market square, the former town center, which has expanded further and further west since the 1960s, to only about 1 km from the main train station. In order to better bridge the distance of 2 km, the city built a 2.2 km long meter-gauge , single-track horse - drawn tram .
The railway was opened on May 5, 1895, but - even later - not electrified . In the time of crisis after the First World War , operations were finally stopped on January 31, 1921. On February 11, 1925, the tram was replaced by a private bus company , which was transferred to municipal management on July 1, 1927 (today the public transport company of Stadtwerke Schweinfurt).
Route
From the main train station the route led through Hauptbahnhofstraße, Schultesstraße (today: Gunnar-Wester-Straße ), Steinweg (today: Schultesstraße ), Spitalstraße, across the market square to Rückertstraße. The terminus was there near the tram restaurant that still exists today .
The track in Rückertstraße could still be seen until 1960. At that time a new asphalt surface was laid over the road and the track.
depot
The track ended opposite today's Rückert-Center, south of Rückertstrasse. The tram depot was located here , outside the city fortifications, just behind the no longer existing mill gate . With two tracks and a horse stable, with six boxes. Today there is a ring park here, in front of the still preserved city wall of the old town district of Zurich .
literature
- Dieter Höltge: German trams and light rail vehicles. Volume 1 Bavaria. Zeunert, Gifhorn
- 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. 341-342 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bayer. State railways , expansion status until 1912.