Velten railcar hangar

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Velten railcar hall, 2011

The Velten railcar hall is a listed building in Velten , a town in the Oberhavel district in Brandenburg . The current owner is Stadler-Pankow GmbH.

history

The reason for the construction of the Velten railcar hall was the double-track expansion of the Kremmener Bahn and the simultaneous electrification of the line . Since the Velten station was the end point of the S-Bahn line from the Stettiner Bahnhof in Berlin , a parking space for the S-Bahn trains was created near the station .

The Reichsbahndirektion Berlin then had the railcar hall designed by its architect Richard Brademann in 1926 and built the following year. On November 15, 1927, the hall was opened. The Twh Velten was formally subordinate to the S-Bw Berlin Stettiner Bahnhof (from 1950 S-Bw Berlin Nordbahnhof). With the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, the Kremmener Bahn south of Hennigsdorf was interrupted. The presence of a substation in Hennigsdorf and the railcar hangar made it possible to maintain the isolated electrical operation between Hennigsdorf and Velten. Since the S-Bw Nordbahnhof served the trains in West Berlin , the railcar hall came to the S-Bw Friedrichsfelde . The Oranienburg railcar hall , which is also subordinate to this Bw, took over the occupation of the services .

S-Bahn trains of the series ET 168 , ET 169 and later ET 165 (from 1970 series 275) were parked in the railcar hall and serviced in the workshop. Furthermore, from 1966 to 1969 two quarter trains of the ET 166 series with control cars (from 1970 series 276.0) were housed in the hall. They were intended for the amplifier trips between Hennigsdorf and Hennigsdorf Nord offered during this period .

After the S-Bahn connection was discontinued on September 21, 1983 due to the existing long-distance electrification, the Deutsche Reichsbahn placed the hall under the Wustermark depot on October 1 . She used this to park locomotives and track construction vehicles. The traditional Velten train was also stored in the hall. The bus bars were removed soon after. In 1987, the Reichsbahn re-equipped the section of the route, including the entrance to the hall, with conductor rails in order to be able to test the class 270 trains manufactured by LEW "Hans Beimler" in Hennigsdorf . In December of the same year, the access to hall track 15 was also provided with an overhead line . In 1989, a separate test track, equipped with both a conductor rail and an overhead line, was built parallel to the line, this ends south of Velten and therefore does not reach the hall.

After the closure of the Wustermark depot, the hall was used for repairs until February 1997. In the same year, Deutsche Bahn rented it out to the rail vehicle manufacturer Adtranz . In 2002, Deutsche Bahn sold it to Stadler-Pankow GmbH, a subsidiary of Stadler Rail .

The entire ensemble (consisting of the railcar hall, workshop, water tower, signal box and civil servants' residence) has been a listed building since 2001.

Structure of the plant

Official residence, 2011

Brademann divided the system into several cubic structures according to their functions. In addition to the flat wagon hall with three 155-meter-long tracks for three full trains of 140 meters each, a higher workshop hall with two almost 52-meter-long tracks and a 10-ton crane on the ceiling to the southeast was built. The hall is dominated by a 25 meter high water tower . There were storage rooms on eight floors below the water tank. The chimney of the heating system formed a second vertical element. The brick building is faced with red clinker bricks. The building is architecturally restrained, it is only structured using the regularly lined up window openings. The color-contrasting hall gates and the lettering Vor Einfahrt Halt above them stand out clearly from the hall. The individual buildings have saddle and pent roofs with low slope. At the workshop and carriage hall, transverse skylights provide additional lighting. At the ends of the hall they are covered by a brick parapet . In order to keep the height of the hall as low as possible, the roof trusses were integrated into the skylights.

Outside the hall there were three further sidings to the north and two to the south for a total of seven full trains. It was planned to add a hall to the existing hall instead of the northern storage group. For this, the came mechanical interlocking Vt ( V el t s A bstellbahnhof) and close to one official residential building with four apartments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Lars Molzberger: Velten railcar hall. In: kremmener-bahn.net. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Mike Straschewski: Velten railcar hall. In: stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de. January 30, 2011, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  3. ^ Roland Ebert, Hans-Joachim Hütter: The route Velten - Hennigsdorf. Portrait of an (almost) forgotten S-Bahn connection . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter e. V. (Ed.): Electricity instead of steam! 75 years of the Berlin S-Bahn. The great time of electrification . Verlag GVE, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89218-275-2 , p. 70-79 .
  4. ↑ Entry in the monument database (Wagenhalle). Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum, January 18, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Entry in the monument database (residential building). Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum, January 18, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Susanne Dost: Richard Brademann (1884-1965). Architect of the Berlin S-Bahn . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-36-1 , p. 194 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 41 '24.1 "  N , 13 ° 9' 48.3"  E