Josef Rathgeber wagon factory

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Rathgeber built the world's largest series of steering three-axle vehicles with 286 Munich M multiple units

The Josef Rathgeber wagon construction factory was founded in Munich in 1852 . It produced rail vehicles , buses , escalators and elevator doors until 1972 , before being merged into the FX Meiller company , which manufactures tipping bodies for construction vehicles in the former Rathgeber factory in Munich-Moosach .

Beginnings

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The company's founder, Joseph Rathgeber senior, was born on February 26, 1810 in Ering am Inn , had learned the trade of a farrier and on June 21, 1839 acquired the real farrier's qualification from Ernst Bräuer at Marstallstrasse 7 in Munich for 5500 gulden . On November 19, 1839, the magistrate of the city of Munich granted him citizenship . On February 16, 1841, Joseph Rathgeber senior married the Munich baker's daughter Maria Kellerer. This marriage produced 10 children, including Josef Rathgeber junior on February 15, 1846. and on April 11, 1857 Rudolf Eduard Rathgeber, who later took over the father's business. The “court blacksmith” Joseph Rathgeber sen. his professional framework became too narrow, whereupon on April 17, 1855 he received the concession for a car factory on the Marsstrasse 10a property in Munich's Maxvorstadt, which he had bought from Alois Fest on December 9, 1852 for 10,996 fl.

Wagon factory from 1852

In addition to manufacturing carriages Rathgeber took for the 1840 opened Munich-Augsburg railway construction of railway vehicles and changed its name in 1852 as a wagon factory Joseph Rathgeber . From 1860 the wagons were also exported to Austria-Hungary and Switzerland. After the company's founder died in 1863, the company expanded through rail and army contracts and became a leader in the technical equipment of the wagons, such as central heating and Pintsch gas lighting. From 1879 freight wagons were increasingly produced.

From 1908 to 1911 the factory that still exists today was built at Moosach train station and has been continuously expanded since then. From 1900, the main focus was on producing cars for the Munich tram . Between 1909 and 1914 also were Bussing - trucks under license built.

Post-war period 1945 to 1968

After 1945, the company delivered Omnibus - superstructures for Krauss-Maffei - and MAN - chassis , and later bodies for the trolleybus Munich . In 1951 Rathgeber presented the first self-built omnibus model at the IAA . In the same year, the company's own bus production was given up again. Rathgeber specialized again in his old core business, rail vehicle construction.

War-damaged cars were first rebuilt for the Munich and Augsburg trams. From 1950 to 1965 followed with the M series, the world's largest series of steering three-axle vehicles, and from 1964 to 1968 the P series . For the Federal Railroad, Rathgeber was involved in the construction of the central-entry express train car , the 26.4-meter express train and couchette car , the ET 56 and the central and control car for the VT 08 . Also escalators were part of the product range.

In 1956 the Meiller company took over the majority of shares in Rathgeber. Due to a sharp drop in orders, Meiller let the tram and bus business run out. The 21 series trains of the Munich subway series A from 1967 and 14 S-Bahn Olympic multiple units, which were delivered on time for the Olympic Games up to 1972, were the last rail vehicles produced in Moosach. Since then, the Meiller tipping troughs for construction vehicles and, as the only earlier Rathgeber product, elevator doors have been produced in the Rathgeber factory in Moosach . In 1987 Rathgeber was dissolved as a company.

The Rathgeber factory today

The former Rathgeber factory in Untermenzinger Straße 1 directly at the Moosach train station still exists today as the headquarters of the Meiller company. According to the development plan, parts of the site that are no longer required for production are planned to be residential in the future. From the listed building parts of the Rathgeber-Werk from 1911, the administration building and the gatehouse are to be preserved, while the existing factory halls are being demolished. At the beginning of 2018, the factory halls were demolished, the building shell was partly completed and the construction site partly cleared.

  • June 2014: Administration building from 1911, directly at the western exit of Moosach train station

  • June 2014: Administration building and gate construction

  • June 2014: Gate construction and Hall 6 from 1911

  • June 2014: Medallion with the year of construction 1911

  • June 2014: Gate signs from Meiller and Rathgeber at the Moosach plant

  • March 2018: Administration building and gate construction are preserved, the halls demolished

Rathgeber vehicles

The picture gallery shows examples of some rail vehicles manufactured by Rathgeber.

literature

Web links

Commons : Waggonfabrik Josef Rathgeber  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß :  Rathgeber. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 178 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ A b Dieter Höltge and Michael Kochems: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 10: Bavaria. EK-Verlag Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-391-8 , page 196ff
  3. ^ History of the Josef Rathgeber wagon factory at www.omnibusarchiv.de
  4. ↑ Dieter Höltge and Michael Kochems: trams and light rail in Germany. Volume 10: Bavaria. EK-Verlag Freiburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-391-8 , page 64
  5. ↑ a b Michael Schattenhofer (Ed.): 100 years of Munich trams. City Archives Munich 1976, page 368
  6. ^ Horst J. Obermayer: Paperback German Passenger Cars. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-440-04589-7
  7. ↑ a b Waggonfabrik Jos. Rathgeber Aktiengesellschaft at www.albert-gieseler.de
  8. ↑ a b Incorrect value in the Spiegel from August 30, 1971
  9. ↑ The history of the Meiller company , website of the Meiller company
  10. ↑ Development plan 2081 on the website of the City of Munich

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 17.6 ″  E