Vering & Waechter
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
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:
- Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn AG (NME)
- Königs Wusterhausen-Mittenwalde-Töpchiner Kleinbahn AG (KMT)
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.
One of the most striking station buildings built by Vering & Waechter is the Wörlitz station in Dessau , which opened in 1894 and which today functions as a listed entrance to the Federal Environment Agency .
Many architectural features of the representative terminus designed by the architect Lemke were taken up again in 1900 at the Teutoburg Forest Station in Gütersloh and the Gera-Pforten station in 1901.
Vering & Waechter's first design in 1896 in Kietrz, Upper Silesia, for the Groß Peterwitz – Katscher train station for a train station in exposed brickwork with a central projection on the street side ...
... is almost identical, but with decorative multi-colored exposed brickwork, was also used at Duingen station and other reception buildings erected for the Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen small train .
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.
The former Bodenwerder -Linse station building of the Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Eisenbahn, which has largely been preserved in its original state ...
Between 1899 and 1903 several largely identical station buildings were also built on the Teutoburg Forest Railway, such as B. in Tecklenburg ...
... or in Bad Iburg , which was supplemented by an extension with a water tower at the apex of the Ibbenbüren – Hövelhof railway line in 1927.
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.
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 Staufen station on the Münstertalbahn , built in 1894, can be seen as a prototype for further reception buildings.
So has z. B. the station building of Kandern at the Kandertalbahn opened in 1895 high matches ...
... with the Mudau station in the Odenwald, built in 1905 on the former narrow-gauge railway to Mosbach .
The Dörzbach terminus on the Jagst Valley Railway was built in 1900 using a mixed construction of quarry stone and half-timbering.
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:
- 1881 or 1885: Mine railway (field railway 690 mm with rack sections system Abt ) Lehesten (Thuringian Forest) - Schiefergrube Schmiedebach
- January 29, 1886: Connection railway (standard gauge with rack sections system Abt) Lehesten (Thuringian Forest) - Oertelsbruch slate mine
- August 7, 1887: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Gernrode - Mägdesprung of the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Railway Company (GHE), part of the Selketalbahn
- July 1, 1888: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Mägdesprung - Alexisbad - Harzgerode of the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Railway Company (GHE), part of the Selketalbahn
- July 1 and December 1, 1888: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Hildburghausen - Lindenau-Friedrichshall of the Hildburghausen-Heidburg narrow-gauge railway company
- July 13, 1888: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Alexisbad - Silberhütte of the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (GHE), part of the Selketalbahn
- February 5, 1889: Steam tram route (standard gauge) Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen - Neu-Isenburg operated by the Frankfurt Forest Railway Company
- May 1, 1890: Narrow gauge track (1000 mm) ice field - Untereubrunn of the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen
- April 1, 1890: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Wermelskirchen - Castle of the Wermelskirchener-Burger railway company Wermelskirchen AG
- June 1, 1890: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Silberhütte - Güntersberge of the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (GHE), part of the Selketalbahn
- November 4, 1890: Steam tram line (1000 mm) Saarbrücken Luisenthal - St. Johann of the Society for Tramways in the Saartal (GSS)
- August 21 and November 16, 1891: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Ronsdorf Stadtbahnhof - Müngsten of the Ronsdorf-Müngstener Eisenbahn- Gesellschaft AG
- December 1, 1891: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Güntersberge - stairs of the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Railway Company (GHE), part of the Selketalbahn
- February 22, 1892 and April 1, 1893: Steam tram line (1000 mm) Tinz - Debschwitz / Untermhaus - Lindenthal / Gera main station - Pöppeln of the Geraer Straßenbahn AG
- May 1, 1892: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) stairs - Hasselfeld of the Gernrode-Harzgeroder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (GHE), part of the Selketalbahn
- December 22nd, 1893: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Rhine bank - Ettenheimmünster of the local railway Rhein-Ettenheimmünster
- September 22, 1894: Standard gauge line Dessau - Wörlitz of the Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (DWE)
- December 22, 1894: Standard gauge line Bad Krozingen - Staufen - Sulzburg ( Münstertalbahn )
- May 1, 1895: standard gauge line Haltingen - Kandern ( Kandertal Railway )
- February 15, 1896: Steam tram line (1000 mm) Müllheim - Badenweiler of the Müllheim-Badenweiler Eisenbahn AG (MBE)
- April 28, 1896: Small railway line (standard gauge) Groß Peterwitz (since 1945 Polish Pietrowice Wielkie ) - Katscher (since 1945 Polish Kietrz ) of Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (ADEG)
- June 16, 1896: Standard-gauge small railway line Voldagsen - Salzhemmendorf of the small railway Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen (VDD)
- 2 January 1897: siding Doberschütz - Röcknitz the rural community Röcknitz , county Grimma
- July 1, 1897: Normal-gauge small railway line Salzhemmendorf - Duingen of the small railway Voldagsen – Duingen – Delligsen (VDD)
- July 30, 1897: Standard gauge small railway line Ensdorf - Saarlouis - Wallerfangen of the city of Saarlouis
- December 8, 1897: Narrow-gauge line (750 mm) Dessau - Radegast of the Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH (ADKG)
- December 24, 1897 and January 1, 1898: Spremberger Stadtbahn (standard gauge and meter gauge)
- September 2, 1898: Standard gauge line Achern - Ottenhöfen ( Achertalbahn )
- June 30, 1898: Small railway line (standard gauge) Wächtersbach - Birstein of the Wächtersbach-Birsteiner Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft
- January 30, 1899: Standard gauge small railway line Saarlouis - Fraulautern of the city of Saarlouis
- September 27, 1900: Rixdorf standard-gauge line (since 1912 Neukölln ) - Mittenwalde of the Rixdorf-Mittenwalder Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft
- October 9, 1900: Standard gauge line Vorwohle - Emmerthal of the Vorwohle-Emmerthaler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG (VEE)
- November 1, 1900: Standard gauge line Gütersloh - Versmold - Laer (since 1975 Bad Laer) of the Teutoburg Forest Railway AG (TWE)
- December 18, 1900: Narrow-gauge line (750 mm) Möckmühl - Dörzbach ( Jagsttalbahn )
- July 1, 1901 and August 11, 1901: Standard gauge small railway line Duingen - Delligsen of the small railway Voldagsen-Duingen-Delligsen (VDD)
- July 19, 1901: Standard gauge line Ibbenbüren - Lengerich - Laer (since 1975 Bad Laer ) / Brochterbeck - Saerbeck port of the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-AG (TWE)
- November 12, 1901: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Gera-Pforten - Wuitz-Mumsdorf of the Gera-Meuselwitz-Wuitzer Eisenbahn -AG
- July 20, 1902: Standard gauge line Rosheim - Ottrott - St. Nabor (since 1919 Saint-Nabor in French ) of the Rosheim-St. Nabor Railway Company
- April 3, 1903: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Diedenhofen (since 1919 French Thionville ) - Mondorf (since 1919 French Mondorff ) of the Diedenhofen-Mondorfer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
- April 19, 1903: Standard gauge line Gütersloh - Verl - Hövelhof of the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn-AG (TWE)
- December 15, 1904: Standard gauge line Biberach - Oberharmersbach of the Biberach-Oberharmersbacher Eisenbahn ( Harmersbachtalbahn )
- June 3, 1905: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Mosbach - Mudau of the Grand Duchy of Baden
- December 22, 1906: Narrow-gauge line (1000 mm) Diedenhofen ( Thionville in French since 1919 ) - Niederjeutz ( Basse-Yutz in French since 1919 ) of the Diedenhofen-Mondorfer Railway Company
- November 21, 1907: Narrow gauge line (1000 mm) Erstein - Oberehnheim (since 1919 Obernai in French ) - Ottrott of the Erstein-Oberehnheim-Ottrotter Railway Company
- June 12, 1908: Standard gauge line Oberschefflenz - Billigheim ( Schefflenz Valley Railway )
- May 8, 1912: Electrified tram (1000 mm) Diedenhofen (since 1919 French Thionville ) and Fentschtalbahn Flörschingen (since 1919 French Florange ) - Nilvingen (since 1919 French Nivlange ) of the Lothringische Eisenbahn-AG
- December 28, 1912: Electrified standard gauge line Neuburg in Lorraine (since 1919 French Novéant-sur-Moselle ) - Gorz (since 1919 French Gorze ) of the Lothringische Eisenbahn-AG
- June 20, 1913: Standard gauge small railway line Saarlouis - Felsberg of the city of Saarlouis
- 1936: Works railway line Berlin-Grünau - Schönefeld Dorf of the Henschel Flugzeugwerke with connection to the Neukölln-Mittenwald Railway and the outer freight ring
- 1945/1949: Standard gauge route Schöneicher Plan - Zossen as an extension of the Neukölln-Mittenwald railway
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
- ↑ Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court, HRA 2350, change from April 23, 2010, published on April 27, 2010
- ↑ Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court, HRB 26874 B, change from October 4, 2013, announced on October 8, 2013
- ↑ Annual financial statements 2012 of Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG in the Federal Gazette, published on 23 August 2013
- ↑ RM: Karl Waechter †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 33rd year 1913, No. 43 (from May 31, 1913), p. 288.
- ↑ www.werkbahn.de