Railway town

Railway settlements (also railway colonies) originated after the German Empire at railway junctions. The German Reichsbahn (1920-1945) built it yet in the 1930s. Stations, marshalling yards and repair shops brought many jobs. The railway settlements offered good housing for workers and employees of the German railways.

Formation and development

Railway operations required in his early days a lot of staff that had to be available around the clock. The government of railroads acquired for this reason inexpensive land and constructed residential buildings for their employees and workers and their families. The beginning of the 20th century exodus from the city meant that originated near large cities and agglomerations of the this exiting railway station near settlements on cheap land. During this time, cars were still no mass transportation, so that the staff had the opportunity to commute by rail between workplace and place of residence. Some railway settlements could reach municipal autonomy.

Often railway settlements have arisen not only due to the railway terminal, but they have grown together with historically earlier incurred village and small town centers and dominated this but soon in terms of population, as industrial and commercial settled because of its location on the transport network. Other railway settlements have been located on the edge of existing medium and large cities. The pictured here entrance to the railway settlement in Frankfurt -Nied was there only a stone's throw away from the workplace. Opposite were the locomotive repair shop and a Signalmeisterei. The settlement had a vast courtyard and railway-owned stores. Each apartment was assigned to a small garden.

Examples

Railway towns in Germany are Hohenbudberg and Cologne Gremberghoven. After Taught Berlin was named Lehrter station. Taught is again the intersection of major east-west and north-south connections. The marshalling yard settlement (Nuremberg) and the railwaymen settlement Wedau are also known examples. The development of Greater Berlin and its environment can also be understood on the development of railway settlements. With the Reichsbahndirektion East in 1923 was the settlement Paulinenhof for 600 families in Frankfurt ( Oder). At the same time the royal Regierungsbaurat Paul Schwanebeck (1854-1908) founded Regierungsbaurat Albert von Maybach and web masters spolert in the Kiel railway settlement Friedrich Berg. It lies on the eastern slope of Hornsheimer bolt in Gaarden -South and Kronsburg.

Well-known examples outside Germany are Chiasso in Switzerland and the garden city Tergnier in northern France.

Other Railway Places

In addition, there are historically grown or newly established, with the industrialization smaller or medium-sized cities, which were significantly greater following the setting up of major railway operating systems. There, the railroad became a paramount importance in the population, in the city and in the economy.

Examples are Station Hamm ( Westfalen), pan - Eickelmann Main Railway Bebra, Treuchtlingen, Offenburg Bahnhof, Olten station or miramas. Also locations of railway depots for thrust locomotives at the foot of slope distances as Altenhundem and Erstfeld were known. Some villages grew by new railways to the city and received city rights, such as Betz village, Entroncamento and Simeria. Other places such as Altenbeken and Montzen remained a village. The decommissioning of rail facilities brought many localities high unemployment.

The meaning of the web can also be seen at railway symbols such as the impeller inside the municipal coat of arms.