Nuremberg Transport Museum

The Nuremberg Transport Museum housed in the central building the DB Museum Deutsche Bahn AG and the Museum for Communication and has two branch offices of the DB Museum in Koblenz- Luetzel (DB Museum Koblenz ) and Halle ( Saale) ( DB Museum Halle ( Saale) ). It is among the oldest techno-historical museums in Europe. Since the beginning of February 2007, the official name of the DB Museum is a corporate museum of Deutsche Bahn AG. It is an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH ).

• 2.1 branch of the DB Museum in Koblenz- Luetzel
• 2.2 branch of the DB Museum in Halle ( Saale)
• 2.3 Other Foreign Locations

DB Museum

History

The forerunner of today's DB Museum was opened on 1 October 1899 as Royal Bavarian Railway Museum and is the oldest railway museum in Germany. Today it is a company museum as a museum of the Deutsche Bahn AG, showing among other things, railroad history.

The present building was built in 1925.

In 1953, the museum was reopened. In the first year nearly 18,000 visitors were counted. In 1969, the number of visitors was more than 90,000.

On 1 July 1996, the German Bahn AG took over the museum by the Federal Railways Fund for the symbolic price of one German mark. At the same time, Jürgen Franzke, previously director of the Museum for Industrial Culture in Nuremberg, was appointed director of the museum. The DB AG planned at this time, to invest up to the 100th anniversary of the museum's six million DM in the museum.

In the year 2009 130.000 people visited the museum. In August 2010, a new relative record attendance was set up with around 40,000 visitors. Since its centenary in 1985 not as many people had visited in a month the DB Museum.

For May 2, 2011 Rusalka Nikolov has taken over the management of the Museum of Jürgen Franzke.

On April 1, 2013, the Museum for German Railway Foundation is gGmbH.

Exhibition

The exhibitions have been revised in recent years. The permanent exhibition was arranged in chronological order so that the museum visitor is led from the beginning with the eagle on German reunification. Here, the start is also related to England, because there drove the first train. After working essentially only on the basis of German exhibits. The exhibition on the ground floor deals with the time of the eagle on the provincial railroad period, and the founding of the German Reichsbahn until the end of the period of National Socialism. On the first floor of the reconstruction of the web is shown the history of the DB and DR after the 2nd World War as well as in two parallel exhibitions. In between, the exhibition on station history that could not be moved to another location because of the associated emperor waiting room is located.

Since January 2013 located on the second floor to over 1000 square Kibala ( Children's Railway Land). Here children to explore, discover fun and try as railway works. With a 5 -inch path to be traversed by the Kibala under the direction of a museum employee a circular course. On the second floor there since that time also two rooms for temporary exhibitions.

The exhibition rooms on the first floor will be partially rebuilt in the west wing until the fall of 2013. The exhibition rooms on the north and east wings are not affected by the conversion. The located there large model railway system, which is operated manually by a real plan gauge signal box is still in operation.

Original cars are spread over two hangars. The old vehicles are located in Hall 1 and can be seen from the permanent exhibition. The newer vehicles from the Reichsbahn time and later in the vehicle hall 2 issued for which the museum will have to leave. Through this hall and the outdoor area is achieved.

Vehicles in the museum

Only a small part of the museum cars in stock of Deutsche Bahn will be exhibited in the museum. The majority is in the Loan or in the outdoor locations.

In the exhibition with historical railway vehicles are a number of important exhibits:

• Parts of the Salonzugs of the Bavarian King Ludwig II
• The streamline locomotive 05 001
• An original coal cars from 1829 ( on permanent loan from the National Railway Museum York ) from the coal mine South Hetton at Newcastle in England, it is the oldest surviving railway vehicle on the European continent. The freight car was pulled both horses and locomotives.
• The oldest surviving original steam locomotive Germany Nordgau (built in 1853)
• The express locomotive Bavarian S 2/6
• The express locomotive "Phoenix" design " Crampton " the Baden State Railway (built in 1863)
• The red express locomotive E 19 12
• A fragment of the diesel railcar SVT 877 " Flying Hamburger "
• A mock -up of a portion of an end car of the ICE 3

Part of the original vehicles is not located directly in the museum, but in the vehicle depot, which is adjacent to the Museum grounds on the opposite side of the street. The museum also has a number of historic vehicles that can be used for special runs.

Vehicle exhibition " Adler, Rocket & Co" 2010

On the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the railway in Germany showed the DB Museum from 6 August to 31 October 2010, the car show eagle, Rocket & Co., were to be seen in the pioneering locomotives from all over Europe:

Model collection

Another treasure of the DB Museum is a collection of 160 models in 1:10 scale that have arisen since the end of the 19th century and have high attention to detail. The first ones were made ​​in 1882 by apprentices of the Royal Bavarian State Railways.

An exhibition of models, there are no longer visible in the DB Museum, but some of them are integrated into the permanent exhibition.

Model Railway

A 80 m² large layout demonstrates rail operations in the prototype. During the opening times will every hour, on the half hour, a ten-minute presentation with an explanation of basic concepts of railway operations instead. Built between 1960 and 1970 system is controlled from relay interlockings with a total of about 5000 relays.

Library and Archives

In the building of the DB Museum library with about 40,000 titles is housed around the web. The library can be used free of charge on weekdays by appointment. An interlibrary loan is not possible.

In the magazines of the museum store shelf four kilometers of documents, some 1.2 million photo negatives, approximately 100,000 images and more than 10,000 objects.

The mid-1960s included the library of 23,000 volumes. Affiliated with it was a traffic archive where the files of the Bavarian administrative traffic from the years 1806 to 1920 ( 90,000 operations ) were stored. In addition, the archive included several self-contained collections.

The fire of 17 October 2005 and the damage

In the night from 17 to 18 October 2005, the roundhouse museum burned down in the depot Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof DB Regio to its foundations. The engine shed was not - as the vehicle hall - in the accessible for visitors outdoor area in the immediate vicinity of the museum, but in some four kilometers from Bahnbetriebswerk Nuernberg West in Gostenhof district. There, the Railway Museum had parked and Others also serviceable locomotives, which found no place in the museum. At 19:45 clock the fire was noticed by the drivers of the 232 403. At 20.00 clock were fire engines from all five guards of the Nuremberg fire brigade, the fire brigade at that time mail order company source and several volunteer fire on site. The parked in front of the roundhouse diesel locomotives could still be moved forward to the edge of the turntable and therefore suffered only slight damage caused by the fire. However, the hub could not be started because the current had failed. Other vehicles could no longer be brought to safety. Within minutes, burned the entire roundhouse. After 30 minutes, the entire shed roof had collapsed. The fire was favored by the diesel fuel in the tanks of the historic diesel locomotives. The V 80 V 200 002 002 and the burned until long after midnight. By filled with acetylene gas bottles there were constant explosions. By the next morning flames are deleted had. The coal in coal boxes of the 23 105 and 86 457 flared up again and again.

A fire in a total of 19 historical locomotives and railcars of the DB Museum were destroyed or damaged. This was in particular the following vehicles:

Mid-April 2006 began the demolition of the remains of the roundhouse and the adjacent residence and workshop building. The parked vehicles were previously withdrawn. Late June and early July, the vehicles V 60 115 V 100 1023 V 100 2023, 212 330 V 80 002 V 200 002 and 627 001, two construction train car B3y, a measurement trolley and a flat cars were scrapped.

The operable replica of the Adler, the locomotive of the first German railway between Nuremberg and Fürth, dating back to 1935 was heavily damaged in the fire. The bodies of three of four parked in the roundhouse passenger cars, which were made of wood, are almost completely burned. The locomotive and the tender could be recovered. Trainees and experienced professionals presented in the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works locomotive restored. After two years of reconstruction of the eagle in October 2007, was ready for use again and met on 23 November 2007 in the Nuremberg Transport Museum. At the first run of the restored eagle on April 26, 2008 was attended by Member of Parliament, a Member of the Board of DB AG and the then Bavarian Minister President Günther Beck stone. Another, but not functional, replica from 1953 is available as a spectacle in the museum.

Similarly, the freight train steam locomotive class 45 and the electric locomotive class e 75 in the fire were badly damaged. The 45 010 is now reprocessed exhibition capable and is in custody Lichtenfels of the DB Museum. The E 75 09 is already in the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works for reprocessing. Next, the heavy freight steam locomotive 50 622 is returning from work up after Nuremberg.

The steam locomotives are to be long-term set repaired, as well as the E 75 The basis of their lightweight construction irreparably damaged diesel locomotives and railcars were scrapped by July 2006. The spent and partly dilapidated roundhouse was demolished. Some of the locomotives were borrowed for working at railway museums. So, for example, were 23 105 in 1959 procured by the DB as last steam engine and the 86 457 to the optical workup on loan at the South German Railway Museum Heilbronn.

The 01 150 was in the Meiningen Steam Locomotive Works funded by donations from many railway enthusiasts 2010-2012 set operative repair. You will also be based in the South German Railway Museum Heilbronn.

Field offices of the DB Museum

In addition to the points described below are vehicles owned by the museum, which are found in other plants of the DB AG for lack of positioning options and there entertained by local groups of the train social work and are occasionally used for special trips.

Branch of the DB Museum in Koblenz- Luetzel

In Lützel district of Koblenz is one of the two branches of the DB Museum in which, among other things, several electric locomotives of the series 103, 110/113, E 50, E 44, E 18 and E 16 and several saloon cars of the special train of Joseph Goebbels, a pulpit Cart the counter-move of the Henschel -Wegmann train and compartment car of the East German government train are issued. The museum is under the Foundation web - social work (BSW ) led by volunteers and has its origin in the BSW leisure group for the preservation of historic train.

Overall, the exhibition focuses on the electric traction and saloon cars. However, several steam and diesel locomotives are exhibited in the museum, including a restored under strict preservation orders steam engine the genus Prussian T 3 can be seen standing on the playground of the Cologne Zoo for decades as a gaming device.

Two damaged during the great fire in Nuremberg steam locomotive exhibits were worked up. It is a Bavarian R 3/ 3 and a sliced ​​copy of the " glass box ".

Branch of the DB Museum in Halle ( Saale)

The former railway depot in Halle ( Saale) is the second branch of the DB Museum. Shown are there particular vehicles of the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR, including the steam locomotive 03 1010 as well as the electric locomotives E 11 001 and E 18 31 Also located in the museum has a permanent exhibition on the VES -M Halle and her manager Max Baumberg.

Other Foreign Locations

The property holdings of the Deutsche Bahn a variety of other vehicles is obtained, which must all be constantly maintained and serviced. These are usually placed close to their carers. Under the umbrella of the Foundation web Sozialwerk many such associations are to be found, especially because many of its members are employees of the railway.

Other exhibits are staying with other museums, is cooperating with the DB Museum intensive.

Charter and tourism trains

The Nuremberg Transport Museum owns several car sets, which are used in the tourism and charter:

• TEE Rheingold with locomotives DB Class E 03, Cologne
• Traditions Express Train Zwickau, Berlin location
• F- train Blauer Enzian, Berlin location
• Express the German Federal Railways, location Dusseldorf
• Adler ( locomotive ) with three open cars, in Nuremberg

Museum of Communication

The Museum of Communication in the Nuremberg Transport Museum emerged from the Royal Bavarian Postal Museum in 1902 and integrated into the Transport Museum.