Zoo Nuremberg

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Zoo Nuremberg
Zoo Nuremberg
Zoo Nuremberg
Line of the Nuremberg Zoo
Route in the Tiergarten on Openstreetmap
Route length: 1.1 km
Gauge : up to 1958: 500 mm
since 1964: 600 mm
Top speed: 15 km / h
Legend
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0.0 Giraffe enclosure
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approx. 0.2 Tunnel at the dolphin lagoon (also vehicle hall)
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1.1 Children's zoo

The Tiergartenbahn is the park railway that opens the Nuremberg Zoo to visitors. Your train is modeled on the Adler , the first German railway.

history

First Tiergarten Railway from 1939

The wagons of the old Nuremberg Zoo with a Diema diesel locomotive in the Feldbahnmuseum 500

In 1928 a small exhibition track with a gauge of 500 mm with a steam locomotive named Liliput was laid out for visitors in the courtyard of the Transport Museum . When the zoo was relocated to its current location at Schmausenbuck in 1939, this train was handed over there. After an interruption due to the war, operations were resumed in 1947 with the existing wagons and a used field railway diesel locomotive and continued until 1958. The wagons from 1928 are still preserved in the Feldbahn-Museum 500 in Nuremberg and, together with one of the diesel locomotives from the museum's holdings, give a good impression of the Tiergarten Railway in the post-war period.

Adler small train from 1964

After the pre-war railway was discontinued, the railway was fundamentally rebuilt and reopened on May 18, 1964 in the form it still has today. The new building was supported by the Nuremberg companies MAN , Siemens-Schuckert and Trix . The route, which is traveled at 15 km / h, now has a gauge of 600 mm and runs on a single track with reversing loops at both ends of the route over about 1100 meters from the giraffe enclosure near the main entrance to the children's zoo.

The vehicles were designed and built as one-offs by the MAN training workshop. The 4.3 ton locomotive is modeled after the eagle on an approximate scale of 1: 2. It originally had a VW Beetle engine with 28 hp, which generated electricity for the electric peg bearing drive motors via a generator, as well as a Knorr air brake and sand spreader. The five cars each weigh 900 kilograms and can hold a total of 40 adults or 60 children. The whole train is 20.67 meters long. During the winter break in 1995/1996, the drive was converted to a MAN diesel engine with 98 hp and a diesel-hydraulic drive .

Renewal from 2008 to 2012

In September 2008 the railway had to be closed until Easter 2012 due to the construction of the dolphin lagoon. During this time the line was overtaken by the trainees from DB Netz . In the area of ​​the dolphin lagoon, the route was re-routed and partly laid in a tunnel, in which the train can be safely parked during breaks in operation.

Plans for a rack railway

Since 2006 there have been concrete plans to build a cogwheel train to the polar bear enclosure and the zoo restaurant in order to make the steep climb easier for the elderly and disabled zoo visitors. A decommissioned Zugspitzbahn train had already been procured for this purpose and taken to the DB track construction warehouse on Katzwanger Strasse. In the end, however, the plans were discarded because the railway's energy costs would be too high. The train is now located outside the Nuremberg Transport Museum in the former Lichtenfels depot .

photos

  • Factory plate on the locomotive

  • Tunnel at the dolphin lagoon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steam miniatures in the museum courtyard , Museum newspaper 02/2014, page 8
  2. ↑ Events - Fahrtage 2010 on www.feldbahn500.de
  3. ↑ see http://www.feldbahn500.de/
  4. ↑ Des Adler's little brother in Miniaturbahnen No. 8/1964 of June 11, 1964, pages 351 to 353.
  5. ↑ Small train on its first big journey , article in Nürnberger Nachrichten of May 18, 1964
  6. ↑ The Adler Kleinbahn in Nuremberg Zoo was and is not endangered , press release of the City of Nuremberg from November 10, 2006
  7. ↑ Nuremberg Zoo : End of the Line for Bimmelbahn , article in Nürnberger Nachrichten of September 9, 2008
  8. ↑ Anniversary present: Bahn sponsors the "little eagle" , article in the Nürnberger Zeitung from December 7, 2010
  9. ↑ Kleinbahn "Kleiner Adler" is picking up speed ( memento of the original dated November 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release of the Nuremberg Zoo from April 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tiergarten.nuernberg.de
  10. ↑ Dreamed up: But no Zugspitzbahn in the Tiergarten , article in the Nürnberger Nachrichten of July 1st, 2008

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '53.1 "  N , 11 ° 8' 18.9"  E