Vering & Waechter

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Vering & Waechter

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding October 1, 1885
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Klaus Britze
Martin Britze
(managing director of the liable partner, Vering & Waechter Verwaltungs-GmbH, Berlin )
Branch Management and investment company
Website www.vering-waechter.de

The railway construction and operating company Vering & Waechter KG GmbH & Co. was founded on October 1, 1885 in Berlin by Carl Hubert Vering and Karl Leonhard Waechter .

Until the outbreak of the First World War, the group of companies built around 40 branch lines and small railways with a focus on Central Germany  (10), Baden  (9), Alsace-Lorraine and Saarland  (8) as well as the Prussian provinces of Westphalia and Hanover  (6) and maintained operations for them Temporary branches in Hanover , Heilbronn or Karlsruhe and Strasbourg .

With a total length of 99.8 km, the Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof line of the Teutoburg Forest Railway , built between 1899 and 1903, was by far the largest railway project implemented by Vering & Waechter .

The last remaining entrepreneurial activity in the railroad business is the stake in the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft (NME), with which there is a profit transfer agreement .

Company history

Carl-Hubert-Vering (1834-1897)
Vering & Waechter seal mark

On November 3, 1885, the company commenced operations on, first in the form of a general partnership . In 1892 the Localbahn-Bau und Betriebs-Gesellschaft Wilhelm Hostmann & Co. was taken over , in which Karl Waechter had already been a long-term employee and partner. The name "Vering" had by 1855 established by Carl Vering and since 1871 along with his brother Hermann Vering led civil engineering company C. Vering that in major projects such as the Port of Hamburg , Kiel Canal and Frankfurt Central already high was involved, Reputation. Despite Vering's death in 1897 and the withdrawal of his five heirs the following year, the company was therefore continued under the previous company .

In order to separate the business areas of planning and construction of small and branch lines from their operational management, the company founded the Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft (DEBG) together with the Doertenbach & Co. and Mitteldeutsche Creditbank in 1898 . The Lothringische Eisenbahn-AG in Diedenhofen ( Thionville ), founded in 1910 together with the Eisenbahnbau-Gesellschaft Becker & Co. GmbH (Berlin), was Vering & Waechter's last major railway project .

After Karl Waechter's death in 1913, his son Max Waechter, who had already joined the company in 1904, took over management together with his brother-in-law Werner Nolte. As a result of the difficult economic conditions during and after the First World War and the loss of all railways in Alsace-Lorraine , Vering & Waechter largely withdrew from the railway business and shifted its interests to the civil engineering sector , acquired gravel pits , quarries and brickworks and founded subsidiaries .

In the manual for German trams, small railways and private railways from 1928 , only the operational management for two railways is specified for the years 1926/1927:

After Max Waechter's death, Leonard Waechter was the third generation to join the company. Due to the political conditions in Berlin and Brandenburg after the Second World War ( nationalization of many companies) only the management of the part of the NME in West Berlin remained . With the death of Leonard Waechter in 1952 Werner Britze and Karlheinz Voss (sons-in-law of Max Waechter) took over responsibility for the company and set new trends in the structural engineering sector with industrial buildings, hotels , villas and housing estates .

The NMW, which is still owned by Vering & Waechter, took over the management itself from January 1st, 1980. Vering & Waechter ceased building construction around 1985 . The owner-managed company is still owned by the Britze family and thus the descendants of the company's founder, Karl Leonhard Waechter.

Station building

As the number of railway projects to be carried out increased, Vering & Waechter switched to standardized building types, especially for the high-rise buildings for the reception buildings.

In his Berlin and Hanover from planned railways in northern and central Germany, the company built 1896-1903 dozens of architectural largely identical executed traufständige , two-storey station building with about 40 ° inclined gabled roof and exposed brickwork red brick. Toothed friezes (Deutsches Band) made up of bricks standing across or over a corner divided the facade, which is usually divided by four (more rarely three) window axes, horizontally at the level of the first mezzanine ceiling. Tooth cuts emphasized the knee and pilaster strips the building edges. In accordance with the different local requirements, freight sheds of different sizes in half-timbered construction were usually attached to these main buildings. At stations with a large number of tourist traffic, a brick-built, single-storey side wing with two window axes (in some cases also a two-storey variant with up to three window axes) was arranged on the other side of the building to accommodate a waiting room or a train station restaurant.

While the windows of the service apartment on the first floor were designed to be segmental arches, the round arched openings on all doors and windows in the service and lounge areas on the ground floor are a typical distinguishing feature of almost all reception buildings built by Vering & Waechter in northern and central Germany. This uniform design language is particularly evident in the station buildings on the former Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen and former Gera-Pforten-Wuitz-Mumsdorf narrow-gauge railway , as well as the Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Railway and the Teutoburg Forest Railway, which are still largely preserved today .

  • While the gable side of the station building in the East Westphalian town of Harsewinkel, originally erected in 1900 without the waiting hall, was largely still windowless ...

  • ... the former Gera - Leumnitz station from 1901, like all other intermediate stations of the former Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer railway, has window openings on all floors on its exposed gable side.

  • The Schöneicher Plan station, opened in 1903, is the last remaining NME station building and at the same time the only remaining reception building of Vering & Waechter with three window axes of the new federal states.

  • The former Saarlouis - Lisdorf train station from 1897 with French-inspired style elements such as window frames made of natural stone, which still reveal the segment and arched windows typical of Vering & Waechter.

In contrast to this, the Heilbronn branch (later in Karlsruhe) developed a different standardized type of building for the end stations or operating centers of the railway projects planned in the south-west of Germany. While fair -faced brickwork and gable roofs dominated in the north and east of Germany, plastered facades, sloping roofs with sloping hips and pilaster strips , window and door openings set in natural stone , shaped a homogeneous appearance on the Baden branch lines built by Vering & Waechter between 1894 and 1905 in the Münstertal, Kandertal , Achertal, Jagsttal and in the Odenwald .

The platform side consists of a side elevation with a reserve. Windows and doors on the ground floor are again designed in the arched shape typical of Vering & Waechter . The windows on the upper floor, on the other hand, have a rectangular shape and are arranged in pairs. On the street side, the facade is accentuated by a narrow, gable-facing central projection and a side projection with an attached rectangular tower storey in half-timbered construction . For example, in the reception buildings of Staufen, Sulzburg, Kandern, Ottenhöfen, Dörzbach, Oberharmersbach and Mudau that have survived to this day, this same architectural signature is evident despite their variations.

Realized railway projects

Railway lines planned and built by Vering & Waechter (including Wilhelm Hostmann & Co., which was consolidated in 1892 ) , sorted by date of opening:

Web links

literature

  • Meinhard Döpner: The Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Gesellschaft AG. Lokrundschau-Verlag, 2002.
  • Klaus-Peter Quill: Vering & Waechter. In: secondary and narrow-gauge railways in Germany ( loose-leaf collection ), GeraNova-Verlag, 1994–2011.
  • Helmut Kintscher: Dessau Wörlitzer Bf. In: The large archive of German railway stations (loose-leaf collection), GeraNova-Verlag, 1997-2004.
  • Josef Högemann: Harsewinkel station. In: The large archive of German train stations (loose-leaf collection), GeraNova-Verlag, 1997–2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court, HRA 2350, change from April 23, 2010, published on April 27, 2010
  2. ↑ Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court, HRB 26874 B, change from October 4, 2013, announced on October 8, 2013
  3. ↑ Annual financial statements 2012 of Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG in the Federal Gazette, published on 23 August 2013
  4. ↑ RM: Karl Waechter †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 43 (from May 31, 1913), p. 288.
  5. ↑ www.werkbahn.de