Transport Museum Remise
 Entrance to the museum, the former Erdberg depot of Wiener Stadtwerke - Verkehrsbetriebe (here still as Vienna Tram Museum on June 16, 2012) |
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| place | Vienna 3. , Ludwig-Koeßler-Platz (near the stadium bridge ) |
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City Public Transport Museum
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| opening | September 13, 2014; previously since July 3, 1901 Erdberg Remise, since 1986 partial, 1992–2012 full operation as the Vienna Tram Museum |
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The transport museum Remise der Wiener Linien (also: Remise - Verkehrsmuseum der Wiener Linien, until 2012 as the Vienna Tram Museum ) is dedicated to public urban transport and the largest tram museum in the world, which deals with the public transport of a single city. The focus of the collection of the Transport Museum lies in the most complete documentation possible of original historical trams and buses that were used in Vienna . The museum is one of the most extensive original collections of its kind in the world.
Location
The location is the tram remise , which was in operation between 1901 and 1990, on Ludwig-Koeßler-Platz in Vienna's 3rd district, Landstrasse . Line J used to run here alongside line 18, which still exists today; Via the stadium bridge, there was a track connection to lines 80 ( Rotunda Bridge - Prater , Lusthaus ) and to the service line 81 (Rotunda Bridge - Freudenau race course ). In Freudenau, at the heyday of tram traffic, dozens of trains were "stacked" on a large loop system to transport spectators to the horse races. The coach house was laid out accordingly spacious.
Up to 2012, around 100 trams and light rail vehicles from all of Vienna's urban transport history were exhibited on an area of 7,700 m² on 1,810 m of track . The oldest exhibit is a horse tram from 1868.
operator
The museum is operated and maintained by Wiener Linien , the city's own transport company. The associations VEF ( Verband der Eisenbahnfreunde ) and WTM ( Wiener Tramwaymuseum ) are involved through many vehicles that are loaned and through the restoration of vehicles. (The two clubs also carry out special trips with historical trains upon request.)
history
Rescue from scrapping and restoration of historically significant vehicles was the concern of the Vienna Tramway Museum. The Vienna Tramway Museum was founded in Vienna in 1966 by Helmut Portele (1940-2018), was a working group for the Association of Railway Friends (VEF) from 1969 to 1972 and has been an independent association since 1973. In the Viennese environment of that time, where there was raving about city motorways and the tram was often seen as a traffic obstacle, the concerns were limited to a few, often ridiculed "outsiders".
In cooperation with the then Wiener Stadtwerke - Verkehrsbetriebe , the enthusiasts set up the Vienna Tramway Museum - forerunner of today's museum - in the small Hall IV of the Ottakring depot, which no longer exists. In 1973, the city tours around Vienna began with historical cars.
In 1978 Manfred Tauch (idea and coordination), Wolfgang Ambros (guitar and vocals) and Joesi Prokopetz (lyrics) produced their album Schaffnerlos with acoustic support from the WTM . The last trip of the conductor Fritz Knottek, who dealt in an overture, five songs and ten scenes with the replacement of the conductors with "a box made of metal".
The Wiener Tramwaymuseum collection was on view in Hall IV of the Ottakring depot until February 16, 1986. Later this hall had to be abandoned and was demolished.
In the mid-eighties, the transport companies (WStW-VB or WVB for short) recognized the importance and sympathy value of the historical collection, took on the project of a tram museum themselves and transferred some of the exhibition vehicles to the Erdberg depot . The two associations that own these vehicles, the Association of Railway Friends (VEF) and the Vienna Tramway Museum Association (WTM), which was founded especially for museum activities , made their cars available on permanent loan to the new, much larger museum. Since May 31, 1986, these have been on view in the Erdberg Remise on weekends (2006 saw the 20th anniversary in Erdberg). When the Remise was no longer needed for tram operation (cessation of operation January 6, 1990), the adaptation to a real museum began, which was put into operation on June 13, 1992.
A specialty of the museum, as it was operated until 2012, was the exhibition of "guest vehicles" from other tram museums. Among other things, historical railcars of the former trams of St. Pölten and Baden near Vienna were exhibited in the Vienna Tram Museum. In 2009 the association “Museumstramway Mariazell” restored a train of the “Yellow Electric” tram in Salzburg , which was then shown in the Vienna Tram Museum.
The video for the song "Jai Ho (You are my destiny)" by the Pussycat Dolls from the film " Slumdog Millionaire " was filmed in the museum in 2009 by director Thomas Kloss .
Exhibition and museum operation
Many of the museum's vehicles were kept in working order in their own workshop area, which has four tracks with a length of 232 m and an area of 900 m², so that they can be presented in motion on special occasions. Numerous vehicles have been restored and reconstructed by volunteers over the past four decades.
In addition to the dark green horse tramway from 1868, the steam tramway set (1885/1886) and electrically operated trams and light rail vehicles from 1901 (the first electric line was put into operation in Vienna in 1897) to 1969 are also noteworthy exhibits Buses from the period from 1949 onwards are exhibited, including the "Bus from the River", which was on the Reichsbrücke when it collapsed on August 1, 1976 and was torn with the bridge into the Danube. After recovery and repair, the bus was in regular service until 1989.
In 2013 the Vienna Tram Museum remained closed due to the renovation. It was reopened on September 13, 2014 as the Remise - Transport Museum of Wiener Linien and now documents city traffic in its entirety in an interactive and multimedia way. In spring 2014, in line with Christian Rapp's new museum concept , a subway vehicle was transferred to the museum.
Today the exhibition hall is structured by 15 chronologically arranged stations , each of which shows small objects, historical photos and videos and other interactive elements. So z. For example, on the subject of urban transport in Vienna during the First World War, the extensive use of female drivers on the tram was studied and, on the subject of the subway, a set of the U2 line could be controlled virtually from the driver's seat on their new above-ground line in the 22nd district to the terminus Seestadt . Another part of the exhibition on the future of urban transport has been announced for 2015.
The trams 2, 11 (steam locomotive), 51, 141, 244, 314, 401, 432, 462, 576, 746, 777, 1901, 2051, 2260, 2380, 2606, 2692, 2872, 2992, 4137, 4208, 4301, 6019 (work car), 6112 (work car) and the ( subway ) vehicle 2022. The numbers correspond to the condition on display.
literature
- Peter Wegenstein: Paths made of iron in the streets of Vienna. On the history of Viennese trams , Edition Winkler-Hermaden, Schleinbach 2018, ISBN 978-3-9504475-7-6
- Helmut Portele: Collection “Wiener Tramwaymuseum”. With a foreword by Mayor Dr. Michael Häupl , publisher Wiener Tramwaymuseum, self-published, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01562-3 .
- Ernst Lassbacher, Got the Bim? Transport and transport policy in Vienna since 1744 - viewed critically (Wiener Verkehrsblätter, special volume 3), Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-85161-020-8
- Harald Marincig: Vienna Tram Museum . Edited by Wiener Stadtwerke - Verkehrsbetriebe, self-published, Vienna ²1992.
- Walter Krobot, Josef Otto Slezak, Hans Sternhart: Tram in Vienna - the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow. Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-900134-00-6 .
- Helmut Aigner: 100 years of the Viennese tramway. Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Viennese tramway 1868–1968. Edited by Wiener Stadtwerke Verkehrsbetriebe, self-published, Vienna 1968.
Web links
- Wiener Linien - Transport Museum Remise
- Collection of the Vienna Tramway Museum
- Association of Railway Friends, Tram Working Group
- Pictures of the tram museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ The bus from the river. In: Wiener Linien blog , August 29, 2017, accessed on July 16, 2019.
- ↑ More Public Transport Museum , in: 24 hours for Vienna. The customer magazine of Wiener Stadtwerke , No. 230, February 2013, p. 4.
- ↑ "Silberpfeil" rolled into the museum. In: wien.orf.at. April 1, 2014, accessed November 23, 2017 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 46.8 " N , 16 ° 24 ′ 23.4" E