Tram Museum Zurich

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The railcar Ce 2/2 of the Limmattal tramway (LSB) from 1900 with a mail trailer

The Tram-Museum Zurich (TMZ) is since 1989 the Zurich Tram Museum and the history of forms tram Zurich from. It is carried by the association of the same name, founded in 1967. Until the opening of the Bern Tram Museum in 2007, it was the only tram museum in Switzerland .

history

The oldest tram in stock (built in 1897, formerly the Zurich – Oerlikon – Seebach tram ) on an extra trip

After various temporary stays, the association was given the opportunity to use the former Wartau depot in today's Zurich district of Höngg permanently. The three-hour small depot, built in 1898 for the then Zurich – Höngg tram , was set up for operation as a voluntarily run tram museum and opened in 1989.

Since then, individual original vehicles - the oldest dating from 1897 - that the association has been collecting and maintaining since the 1960s have been in the museum. The museum also shows the development of the Zurich tram network. The so-called museum line was introduced at the same time as the museum .

Museum line 21
Trams in front of the Wartau depot
New tram museum in the Burgwies depot

Since the depot Wartau the demands of a professional historical exhibition possibility was not enough and some vehicles for reasons of space in the regular deposits of the Zurich Public Transport be parked had a new museum in the former Depot Burgwies was in the district of Hirslanden established, the 1894 from the electric tram Zurich was built and was shut down in 1997. The new museum opened on May 26, 2007. In the same year the TMZ association celebrated its 40th anniversary, while the Zurich tram celebrated its 125th anniversary.

With the new Tram Museum, the opening times have been greatly expanded and the operation of the museum has been outsourced to a foundation that is responsible for the professional museum operation. The historian Esther Germann took over the management. Another innovation is the museum line with line number 21, which runs between the city center at the main station and the museum on Saturdays and Sundays on the last weekend of January to November . Alternatively, Advent trips take place in December.

After moving into the new museum location, the Wartau depot will continue to be used as the workshop of the Tram-Museum Zurich association. This was housed in the VBZ depot Hard until the end of 2006, where the tram vehicles were restored.

literature

  • Out and about in Zurich: stories from the city network. Edited by the Tram Museum Zurich. Zurich 2007. ISBN 978-3-909062-05-8
  • Ina Hirschbiel Schmid. Burgwies tram depot, Zurich-Hirslanden: conversion and restoration, October 2006. Zurich: City of Zurich, Office for Buildings, 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. «I have invested a lot». Züriberg, February 20, 2013.
  2. Trammuseum Zurich: Timetable for museum line 21 (PDF; 637 kB)

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '27.6 "  N , 8 ° 34' 16.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-five thousand five hundred and sixty-eight  /  245819