{"id":12345,"date":"2021-08-02T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahnwelt.de\/about-us\/projects\/reconstruction-of-locomotive-shed\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T18:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T16:56:26","slug":"reconstruction-of-locomotive-shed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bahnwelt.de\/en\/about-us\/projects\/reconstruction-of-locomotive-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstruction of locomotive shed"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Darmstadt Kranichstein depot was built at the same time as the marshalling yard in 1898. When it was commissioned, the depot’s locomotive shed consisted of only eight stands. In 1912, it was extended by a further eight to a total of 16 stands. The depot was used to maintain the steam locomotives for shunting and the local goods trains of the line branches leaving Darmstadt. It was closed in 1960 when the line from Darmstadt main station to Aschaffenburg and Kranichstein station was electrified and steam locomotive maintenance could be abandoned.\u00a0In the following years, the Deutsche Bundesbahn still used the locomotive shed as a storage hall for the diesel locomotives, now used in the marshalling yard.\u00a0Other stands were sublet or even unused due to overcapacities, which is why locomotive shed stands 9-16, built in 1898, were dismantled in 1971 and the inspection pits were filled up.\r\n\r\nSince 1971, the Museumsbahn e. V. has successively rented individual shed stands and finally the entire Bw site, including the workshops, the social and storage buildings, from the DB and established today’s Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum there.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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A long-cherished goal of the Bahnwelt Darmstadt-Kranichstein is the re-erection of these eight shed stands in order to be able to shelter further parts of the historic vehicle collection protected from the weather on a total of 15 stands. This will allow us to present the depot again in its original form.
\nOn the basis of approved construction plans, a project order was defined in 2016 that provides for the reconstruction in two construction phases, initially as an open hall structure in steel construction. In a third construction phase, the hall will be provided with exterior walls, gates and technical infrastructure. As parts of the derelict marshalling yard and the depot were designated as an area monument (“Darmstadt’s longest monument”) in 2017, the reconstruction will be carried out as a “new building in the existing structure” in close coordination with the monument authority.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Since the completion of the planning, donations have been raised for this project, which were supported by Darmstadt’s Lord Mayor Jochen Partsch with a press- and publicity-accompanied ground-breaking ceremony in 2016 and the laying of the foundation stone in 2019.<\/p>\n

Our thanks go to the following institutions and companies who supported the project with generous donations so that work on the first construction phase could begin as early as 2018:<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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