Theater car

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Theater cars were special police car of the tram , the well into the period after the Second World War late in the evening before or near a theater house waiting for the end of the evening performance. They brought visitors home on important routes around midnight, and thus shortly before or sometimes even after the regular closing time. In order for the theater wagon helped overfilling the last regular coaches to avoid or offered visitors a chance at all to come home yet. With the increase in mass motorization in the post-war period, they finally became dispensable; in particular, the mostly relatively well-off theatergoers were able to afford their own motor vehicle relatively early on. This makes the theater wagons an early forerunner of today's night traffic .

Because the end of a stage work often cannot be precisely timed, the theater car was usually provided with a so-called theater track . This was a siding , partly designed as a stump track or a short branch line, so that the waiting special wagons did not hinder regular service . Theater wagons existed in:

Baden-Baden 140 meter long branch line from Leopoldsplatz to the spa garden, the track led through the lower Sophienstrasse and ended in front of the Fieser bridge over the Oos . After the performances in the small theater and the stage hall in the Kurhaus , five railcars with destinations Weststadt, Bahnhof , Lichtental , Tiergarten and Friedrichshöhe were ready to leave.
Bremen for the guests of the theater on Goetheplatz
Brno The curved track from Krapfengasse and Pilgramgasse was used as a siding for the theater trains
Bremerhaven At the Theaterplatz there was a siding mainly for the theater cars after the performance
Danzig Theater car from the Kohlenmarkt, for the guests of the theater of the same name on the Kohlenmarkt
Darmstadt Theater track on today's Karolinenplatz to serve the former court and state theater there, now the House of History
Freiburg in Breisgau third track in Bertoldstraße in front of the city ​​theater , use of solo motor coaches without sidecar, in use until 1959, including in the Wiehre , to Zähringen and to Günterstal
Graz In use until 1961, use of the sidecar number 60B, this was parked on the stump track in Girardigasse in the evening and after the end of the performance in the opera house was taken by a set of ring line 2
Karlsruhe branch line branching off to the east from Beiertheimer Allee at the Karlsruhe concert hall
Lucerne Until the 1950s, theater trips on a track that was used for regular trips on line 2 until 1927
Mainz third track on Gutenbergplatz in front of the Mainz State Theater , in use until October 1963, usually one car each to Gonsenheim and Bretzenheim
Meran Both the tram similarly operated local railway Merano Oberlana and the Meran Tramway even offered Theater car for guests of the Merano City Theater at, on Theater Square in any case were the regular departure points of the local railway and the line 1 tram
Munich
Nuremberg
Osnabrück Theater track in front of the Osnabrück Theater
regensburg Extra car in Drei-Mohren-Strasse at the Regensburg Theater
Ulm
Vienna at the Volksoper , one theater track each in Fuchsthalergasse and Lustkandlgasse
Wiesbaden
Worms
Zurich After the opening of the city ​​theater, theater wagons were already in use at the horse-drawn tramway from 1891, from 1907 siding in front of the Tonhalle , from where theater wagons left in all main directions after a performance, from 1908 an additional siding at the opera house

In addition, the tram in Göttingen at the Deutsches Theater , which was planned in 1913 but no longer built due to the war, was to have its own siding for theater cars.

railroad

In the late evening hours, too, on many railway lines, the last train of the day was a special theater train for foreign theater guests. Most of the time this was a relatively long time lag to the penultimate train. Late connections are still sometimes referred to as a theater train.

Individual evidence

  1. Please get in: 100 years of Baden-Baden public transport 1910–2010 , Festschrift der Stadtwerke Baden-Baden, page 29
  2. Bremer Straßenbahnen 1892–1992, 100 years of electrical service
  3. ^ The Brno electric trams from 1900-1918 on www.znaim.eu
  4. Route networks of the BVV and VGB and the tram in Bremerhaven ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file)
  5. ^ Paul Homann: VGB-Gleislage 1952. In: VGB-Gleislage 1952. Retrieved on May 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Guide to the Free City of Danzig , Danzig, 1920
  7. ^ The tram in Darmstadt at www.walter-kuhl.de
  8. Wiehre-Journal number 19, November / December 2009 ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / alt.buergerverein-wiehre.de
  9. www.public-transport.at
  10. City map from 1965
  11. A tram in Pfistergasse! at www.kleinstadt-luzern.ch
  12. www.strassenbahnfreunde-mainz.de
  13. The local railway Lana - Meran on tecneum.eu
  14. Magnetic disturbances from the electric tram in the physical institute of the Technical University of Munich. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 315, 1900, pp. 656-660.
  15. Manfred Vasold: In the workers' car for service , Nürnberger Zeitung of January 10, 2011
  16. Joachim Dierks: With the demolition, the city ignored a court order , Osnabrücker Zeitung from March 26, 2014
  17. rswe.de
  18. Directory of the Ulm City Archives, page 293 ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ulm.de
  19. ^ The tram line 8 in Vienna at www.tramway.at
  20. ^ The royal seat as a tram company ( Memento from February 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (from www.eswe-verkehr.de)
  21. Night and theater cars of the tram, Stadtarchiv Worms, 005/07505  in the German Digital Library
  22. Heiner Hug: A horse named Toad, article from October 1, 2018 on journal21.ch, accessed on January 19, 2020
  23. Route map from 1907 on the pages of the Tram Museum Zurich ( Memento from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  24. Göttingen traffic history on www.omnibusfreunde-goe.de (PDF file)
  25. Timetable of the TheaterZug of the Süd-Thüringen-Bahn ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sued-thueringen-bahn.de
  26. Ex-BOB boss Seeger can imagine returning , article on Merkur.de