Waggon construction Bautzen
| Maschinenfabrik Melzer & Co. KG Wagenbauanstalt and wagon factory for electric railways vorm. WCF Busch Waggon- und Maschinenfabrik Aktien-Gesellschaft vorm. Busch Waggonbau Bautzen GmbH |
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| founding | 1846 (as iron foundry and machine shop of Petzold & Center ) |
| Seat | Bautzen , Germany |
| Branch | Rail vehicle manufacturer |
The railroad cars Bautzen is a work of rolling stock manufacturer Bombardier Transportation in the city of Bautzen in Upper Lusatia . Today the plant is responsible within the group for the design and construction of light rail and tram vehicles.
history
Beginnings
In 1846, the iron foundry and machine shop of Petzold & Center was founded in Bautzen . In the workshop at that time there were 20 machines that were driven by a water wheel on the Spree . At that time, complete machines, tools, machine parts made of iron and other metals as well as wood products were built. In 1872 the company operated under the name Maschinenfabrik Melzer & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft . In 1878 the product range was expanded from steam engines, steam boilers, transmissions and water wheels to include horse-drawn tram cars. This laid the foundation for today's wagon building site.
Imperial Era and Weimar Republic
Finally, in 1897 , the machine works Melzer & Co. merged with the wagon construction company founded by WCF Busch in Hamburg in 1867 . Until 1901, the company initially operated under the name Wagenbauanstalt und Waggonfabrik for electric railways. WCF Busch and put the main focus on the construction of electric tram vehicles. From 1903 it operated under the name Waggon- und Maschinenfabrik Aktien-Gesellschaft vorm. Bush . In the first time after the merger, car manufacturing was concentrated almost exclusively in Hamburg, as the Bautzen plant was being expanded and modernized. At the turn of the century, steam powered fire engines were also built in the Bautzen plant.
Until 1901, both plants then mainly produced electric trams. After a setback in this branch of production, the company also added the construction of narrow and standard-gauge wagons for freight and passenger transport to its portfolio. In Saxony at that time there was only one other private wagon construction company in addition to the wagon construction workshops of the State Railways in Chemnitz and Leipzig, which alone could not meet the growing demand of the Saxon State Railways (K.Sächs.Sts.EB) for railway wagons. In 1902 the first four-axle compartment passenger car for the K.Sächs.Sts.EB was built in Bautzen. In 1904, the first through passenger car (express train car) followed. During the First World War, the Bautzen plant built the first four-axle express train car with an iron box frame (so-called self-supporting structure) in Germany for the Royal General Directorate of the Saxon State Railways. The company also manufactured single-axle bogies and various types of hoists for railway companies. After the factory was expanded, around 1911 it was able to manufacture and deliver 150 to 200 railway vehicles per month.
In 1928 the company merged with the wagon factory Werdau in Saxony Werdau and the Linke-Hofmann works in Breslau . The new company was called Linke-Hofmann-Busch-Werke Aktiengesellschaft . In 1934 the corporation was split up into sub-companies. The Bautzen plant was now one of two operating companies of the Aktiengesellschaft für Waggonbau-Werke , based in Berlin, and was renamed Waggon- und Maschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Bush . In 1941 the plant was incorporated into the Flick Group .
After the Second World War
After the Second World War, Bautzen was in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR . Most of the machines were dismantled as reparations and transported to the Soviet Union . On May 22, 1945, the remaining former wagon builders began the first clean-up work in the company. Two days later, Paul Symmank was appointed operations manager by the Soviet city commandant. In the woodworking industry, coffins were built for those who died in the Battle of Bautzen .
The Bautzen plant was initially placed under administration by the State of Saxony. On August 1, 1946, the Soviet public transport company took over the plant. On March 1, 1947, the Soviet company transferred the company to public ownership. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall he was a member of the Association of Nationally Owned Locomotives and Wagons ( VVB LOWA for short , later: VEB Kombinat Eisenbahnfahrzeugbau der GDR ).
The government of the GDR obliged large companies to produce consumer goods . In the 1960s, the Bautzen wagon construction began producing television antennas and camping trailers. The production of camping trailers under the name Bastei continued until the 1980s. The German-Soviet design office for the development of an automatic central buffer coupling was also located in Waggonbau Bautzen .
After the turn
After the political change in the GDR , Waggonbau Bautzen GmbH was founded on June 14, 1990 . In October of the same year Waggonbau Bautzen, Waggonbau Dessau , Waggonbau Görlitz , Waggonbau Ammendorf , Waggonbau Niesky and Wagon Equipment Vetschau merged under the roof of Deutsche Waggonbau AG (DWA). In 1995 the previously independent factories merged with Deutsche Waggonbau AG . The railroad cars Bautzen GmbH became the Bautzen DWA work . After several attempts by the trust company to privatize DWA, it succeeded in March 1996 with the sale of DWA to the private equity investor Advent International . On February 2, 1998, DWA was taken over by the Canadian group Bombardier. Within the group, the DWA was integrated into the group division Bombardier Transportation. In January 2012, the plant employed around 1,000 people. The production area extends over approximately 30.1 hectares. It is the competence center for the manufacture of light rail vehicles and trams within the group and has test facilities for dynamic and stress tests. On June 15, 2018, a new final assembly hall was put into operation.
Web links
- Bombardier Transportation site in Bautzen ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The railway reaches Bautzen - a driving force behind industrial development. (No longer available online.) In: ba-bautzen.de. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The first horse-drawn tram cars are the starting products for rail vehicle construction. (No longer available online.) In: ba-bautzen.de. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The German Railway System of the Present . Volume II. Verlag Reimar Hobbing , Berlin 1911, p. 201 .
- ↑ The steam syringe construction. (No longer available online.) In: amkkupplung.de.vu. Archived from the original on November 20, 2011 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c d From iron foundry to large international company - a (hopefully) never-ending story. (No longer available online.) In: ba-bautzen.de. Archived from the original on September 16, 2009 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The German Railway System of the Present . Volume II. Verlag Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1911, p. 201 f .
- ↑ The mass consumer goods production in Waggonbau Bautzen. (No longer available online.) In: ba-bautzen.de. Archived from the original on October 30, 2007 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The (previous) history of the automatic clutch. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 25, 2011 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BAUTZEN, GERMANY. (No longer available online.) In: de.bombardier.com. Archived from the original on April 14, 2012 ; Retrieved May 29, 2012 .
- ^ Bombardier: New final assembly hall in Bautzen. (No longer available online.) In: eurailpress.de. DVV Media Group, June 18, 2018, archived from the original on November 27, 2018 ; accessed on November 27, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 7 ″ N , 14 ° 24 ′ 45 ″ E