Tolkewitz tram station

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Tolkewitz tram station (2011)

The Tolkewitz tram station (also Tolkewitz depot ) was a tram depot in the Dresden district of Tolkewitz , which housed the main workshop of the Dresden transport company . After the building structure, which was not listed as a historical monument, was demolished in 2015/16, its location was expanded into the Tolkewitz school campus from 2016 to 2018 .

history

After Tolkewitz and its neighboring community Laubegast had already received a tram connection in 1893, the "Dresdner Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft" acquired around 10 hectares of arable land in the Tolkewitz district in 1896 from the land of the former farm of the descendants of Johann Georg Palitzsch and had two storage sheds built here by 1899. In 1901 the expansion to five halls with a total of 20 sidings followed, as well as the construction of an own traction power plant on Schlömilchstrasse, which also supplied the electricity for the Loschwitz – Pillnitz suburban railway , as well as a residential and administrative building. A special feature of the storage halls were the portals designed with Art Nouveau elements and glazed on the entrance side.

From 1924 to 1927 a new building was built on Kipsdorfer Strasse as the main tram workshop in the " New Objectivity " style. By 1933 the hall area was enlarged to a total of eight aisles. The storage halls, each 130 meters long, held a total of 112 tram cars and 114 sidecars. This depot was the second largest of the "Dresdner Straßenbahn AG" after the Waltherstrasse depot . The power plant was shut down in 1927.

Administration building

On February 13 and 14, 1945, the bombing of the depot destroyed the depot. Nevertheless, the tram station was brought back into operation in 1946. Parts of the main workshop were still in the open air. In 1949 a new administration building was erected, the distinctive round porch and protruding roof of which were retained during the renovation in 2016-2018 as part of the new school building. In 1953 a large cultural hall with 486 seats was opened on the second floor of the main workshop building at Schlömilchstrasse and the corner of Kipsdorfer Strasse. Instead of the Art Nouveau facades, considerably simpler round arches were built on the exit side during the reconstruction.

In 1969 the main workshop was responsible for the maintenance of the Tatra cars T4D / B4D , which received main inspections over a period of 35 years. On October 29, 1986, Hall C burned down completely due to improper welding work on a Tatra car. Two Tatra railcars and two sidecars burned out completely, others were damaged and the entire inventory of the hall destroyed. The damage caused amounted to about six million GDR marks. The final repair of the damage to Halls B and D could only be carried out more than six years later by the now "Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG" (DVB) from 1992 to 1994.

From 1992 to 1997 the series modernization of a total of 180 T4D and 65 B4D was carried out here - together with the Trachenberge depot - the main workshop was responsible for all technical components with the exception of the refurbishment and repainting of the car body. The main workshop then began to be closed, and from 1996 onwards it was relocated to the Gorbitz depot and Trachenberge; In 2004 this process was completed. From 2004 to 2007 Tolkewitz was purely a parking facility, on September 1, 2007, the Tolkewitz tram station was officially closed.

Nevertheless, it was still used by DVB: The company collected the surplus T4D and B4D vehicles here - up to 58 vehicles were parked here at the same time - and from here they went to Eastern Europe or to the scrapyard. From June 11 to August 6, 2010, the depot was used again as planned, as the Trachenberge depot was temporarily cut off from the network due to road and track construction work. From autumn 2010, during the renovation of the halls for the Dresden Tram Museum in Trachenberge, its vehicles were parked in the Tolkewitz depot. When the last Tatra vehicles were scrapped, their use ended in 2013.

In 2015, the demolition of the old depot, which had been damaged by vandalism, began. Parts of the original structure have been integrated into the school campus.

Volksbad Tolkewitz

Former public bath, status 2011
Volksbad with school campus - as of June 2018

From the mid-1920s, the company was no longer dependent on its own energy supply. In 1927 the power station was shut down and in 1928 a bathroom was initially set up in its rooms for the employees of the “Dresdner Straßenbahn AG”. It later became a “municipal public bath”. After the Second World War, which the building survived relatively unscathed, it served as the main warehouse for the Tolkewitz tram workshop.

From 1980, parts of DVB's purchasing department moved into the remaining office space in the bathroom. In the basement there was a small-bore shooting range, it probably belonged to the operating group of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST). After the purchasing department had moved to the Trachenberge depot and the main warehouse to the newly constructed Gorbitz depot, the building remained unused from 2003 and was becoming increasingly dilapidated.

Since 2015 it has been renovated and provided with apartments by a private investor from Böblingen ; This project should be completed in 2018, due to delays it has been completely in new use since 2019.

Gleisdreieck Schlömilchstraße

In the Schlömilchstraße, east of the actual depot, a track triangle with a single-track line was built in 1926, which served both as the end point of tram lines (from June 18, 1926) and as an access to two freight connections.

The southern of the two siding was put into operation in 1948 as a siding for the main workshop and ended at a ramp with a loading and unloading crane and was in operation until the mid-1970s. In 2015, the points and a remnant of track up to the side of the road were still available. The northern siding led to the yard between the main workshop and the transformer building and was used to transport coal to the boiler house. The track was still there until the 1970s; in 2015 the course in the pavement and in the courtyard entrance could still be seen.

The track triangle was to be replaced several times by a track loop, for example in 1957 via a block bypass Schlömilchstraße - Kipsdorfer Straße - Ankerstraße (planned until the end of the 1980s). In the 1990s, a track loop south of Kipsdorfer Straße was planned, the disabled-friendly stop should be located along the connecting path between Kipsdorfer and Löwenhainer Straße. Further investigations brought this even closer to the residential area, the direct track connection via Marienberger Strasse to Bodenbacher Strasse was also under investigation. In 2013, a track from Schlömilchstrasse to Altenberger Strasse and a track loop on Hepkestrasse emerged in the planning again ("Urban development competition Tolkewitz / Seidnitz - area between Wehlener, Altenberger and Marienberger Strasse"). The new track loop uses the northeast corner of the former depot area more.

In the Schlömilchstraße triangle (designated as the end point of Tolkewitz ):

  • 1926–1928: Line 20,
  • 1928–1931: line 119,
  • 1937–1941: line 122,
  • 1945: Line 22,
  • 1948/49: Line 19,
  • 1949–1969: Line 3,
  • 1957/58: Line 50,
  • 1958–1961: Line 53,
  • 1965–1978: Line 10,
  • 1985–1990: line 18 and
  • 1990-2000: line 1.

Line 1 turned here for the last time on May 27, 2000, after which the track triangle was used as a temporary end point for track construction work.

Todays situation

Dresden-Tolkewitz - School Campus, 2018

The Tolkewitz school campus was completed on the former depot area in 2018 and inaugurated on August 17th by the Lord Mayor of the state capital Dresden. For this purpose, after an investor competition in 2014, a large part of the old building fabric was demolished and the site leveled from winter 2015/2016. On April 21, 2016, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new double school location for around 1,800 students was carried out. The construction costs of the Tolkewitz school campus amounted to 68 million euros.

The former Volksbad was acquired in 2015 by a private investor who is planning apartments in it. Completion was scheduled for June 2018.

Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG expanded the new track loop from Schlömilchstraße in 2018. These, Kipsdorfer and Wehlener Strasse (in the area of ​​the former street station) were renovated beforehand. Remnants of the track from the former hall entrances were preserved in memory of the depot, and the (historical) end point “Tolkewitz” (or earlier “Tolkewitz street station”) remains operational in this way.

literature

  • DVB AG (Ed.): From coachmen and conductors. The 125-year history of the Dresden tram , Junius Verlag, Dresden 1997, ISBN 978-3885060093 .
  • MSP (as in the original, i.e. Michael Sperl ): Schoolchildren instead of trams. In: Straßenbahn Magazin , issue 3/2016, pp. 60–63. ISSN  0340-7071 .
  • Wolfgang Dörr: Left and right of Borsbergstraße, Schandauer and Wehlener Straße (part 6) . In: Der Hecht , DVB employee magazine, issue 1/2016, pp. 18-19. Without ISSN.

Web links

Commons : Tolkewitz depot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Großmann: The municipal significance of the tram system illuminated in the career of the Dresden trams . Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1903. p. 156. Digitized version , accessed on September 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Peter Weckbrodt: The bathtubs are gone - Lost Places: The old Volksbad and the tram workshop in Dresden-Tolkewitz have been weathering for years. On: oiger.de , February 16, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Sophie Arlet: Living in the bathhouse and machine hall. In: Sächsische.de . December 27, 2017, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Tolkewitz school campus officially inaugurated. (PDF; 2.5 MB) In: Dresden Official Journal 34/2018. State capital Dresden, 23 August 2018, p. 6 , accessed on 17 December 2018 .
  5. ↑ Private website for the Volksbad . Retrieved June 13, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 57.5 ″  E