Steam Train
The opening of the steam train operation in Naumburg. Steam trains operated between 1892 – 1906.
( 15.09.1892 , Archiv Naumburger Strassenbahn )
Steam Trains
Steam trains meet at the passing point in the last year of operation.
( 1906 , Archiv Naumburger Strassenbahn )
Werdau
Electric tram operation was opened 02.01.1907 with 6 motor cars (pictured) and 4 trailers built by Werdau and delivered to Naumburg in 1906.
( 1907 , Archiv Naumburger Strassenbahn )
Werdau
A severely modified tram from the very first batch of trams to operate in Naumburg. This very car was numbered 1 (re-numbered 6 in 1951) and was the first tram delivered to the town in 1906, as well as the last tram of this type to be withdrawn in 1957. The tram is pictured at the former passing point that was located in the middle of the square in-front of the Main Railroad Station. The passing point will be dismantled during the system's temporary closure between 1991-2006.
( 04.1956 , Strassenbahnen in Osteuropa )
Werdau/VEB Gotha + Lindner
A train is about to turn onto Strasse der Jugend (nowadays Markgrefenweg) at the beginning of the western half of the former circular line around the city. This section will be dismantled while the system was closed between 1991-2006. The 1912 ex-Leipzig Werdau/VEB Gotha motor car 13 operated in Nordhausen between 1957-1976, while the 1908 ex-Halle Lindner trailer 2 at the time of this photo was one of only two trailers on the property, both of which operated 1958-1973.
( 16.05.1968 , Strassenbahnen in Osteuropa )
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Upon the re-opening of the line in 2006, the new stub-end terminal was created just around the corner from the square in-front of the Main Railroad Station. The stretch of the line via Bahnhofstrasse is built via the western curbside. Even though technically separated from other traffic, Hauptbahnhof-bound streetcars face opposing automobile traffic head-on.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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The new stub-end terminal that opened in 2006, looking north, toward the Main Railroad Station.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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Upon the reopening of the cut version of the line in 2006, the passing point at the Main Railroad Station was relocated from the square in-front of the Station, onto Bahnhofstrasse, just off the new stub-end terminal.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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School kids are a devoted constituency of the tram. Most stops along the line are located on one side of the track (the left side for Hauptbahnhof-bound trams). The curbside track alignment continues via the entire length of Bahnhofstrasse.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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Note a segregated public transport traffic lane marked "BUS", used by trams and buses alike.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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Upon the re-opening in 2006 the line received various segregation and safety upgrades.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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The remains of the old tracks and the former passing point are still visible in the middle of Jagerplatz. The line was relocated to the curbside during the rehab prior to the re-opening of the system in 2006.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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Track alignment on Poststrasse remains the same as it was before the rehab and the re-opening of the line in 2006, which makes this stretch the most genuine on the system. Hauptbahnhof-bound trams conflict head-on with oncoming automobile traffic.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Raw Sw/LEW TZ70/1
A tramway stop near the Depot.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha T57
At the time of the photo this was one of three cars of this type (36, 37, 38) considered available for regular service. The tram is passing next to the Depot. The former line through the historic center and Markt used to turn off here to the viewer's left, onto Postring. The section was closed in 1976.
( 03.10.2005 , Stefan Kunzmann )
Gotha ET54+EB54
Naumburg was next to the last system in Germany to operate trams with car bodies of LOWA type. These cars were in service until the temporary closure of the system in 1991. The city of Rostock was the last to operate similar cars, until 1992.
( 08.1989 , Sludgeulper )
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At the time of the photo this was one of two cars of this type on the property (50, 51) - both of them were used in regular service. The tram is passing next to the Depot.
( 03.10.2005 , Stefan Kunzmann )
Raw Sw/LEW TZ70/1
At the time of the photo this was one of two cars of this type on the property (50, 51). The tram is passing through the extensive trackwork in-front of the Depot.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha E54
A reserved tram awaits its turn in-front of the Depot
( 08.1989 , Sludgeulper )
Raw Sw/LEW TZ70/1
This is as close as the latest version of the line gets to the historic city center.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Steam engine
Naumburg's main square at the end of the XIXth century, at the time when steam trains operated through the square. Except for the trees, the square looks the same today.
( 1895 , Postcard )
Lindner (left); Herbrand/VEB Gotha (right)
The passing point at the Naumburg's main square. The car on the left is the 1928 ex-Halle Lindner car, that operated in Naumburg under fleet number 11 in 1972-1981. The car on the right is the 1909 ex-Leipzig Herbrand/VEB Gotha car, that operated in Naumburg under fleet number 15 1957-1978, and number 18 1978-1981.
( 10.02.1973 , Strassenbahnen in Osteuropa )
Remains of the passing point at the Naumburg's main square. Trams were removed from the square in 1976, when most of the historic center was pedestrianized.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Overall view of the Naumburg's main square. Tracks of the former tram line are visible in the foreground.
( 09.1991 , Deutsches Bundesarchiv )
Gotha ET54
Cars of ET54 type operated in regular service until the temporary closure of the system in 1991. Naumburg is considered the last city to employ such cars. This 1956 tram is the only specimen left on the property, preserved as a museum piece. There is also a matching trailer of EB50 type.
( 16.09.2007 , Christian Bier )
Gotha T57
At the time of the photo this was one of three cars of this type (36, 37, 38) considered available for regular service.
( 13.01.2007 , Christian Bier )
Raw Sw/LEW TZ70/1
Tram fallows the ring road around the historic center via the newest section of the line. This stretch was opened in 1982 to substitute for the stretch through the historic city and Markt, closed in 1976. The closure of the Markt section effectively broke the circular pattern of the Naumburg's only tram line, thus, between 1976-1982 trams operated via the extended semicircle.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha B57
A trailer is out on the line for the tram parade. As of the date of this photo the use of trailers was not warranted by passenger patronage. Moreover, due to the single-track stub-end design of the Vogelwiese Terminal, upon the re-opening of the line in 2006 trailers could not be operated under normal circumstances.
( 16.09.2007 , Christian Bier )
Gotha T57
At the time of the photo this was one of three cars of this type (36, 37, 38) considered available for regular service.
( 31.03.2007 , Christian Bier )
Raw Sw/LEW TZ70/1
Vogelviese-bound tram enters the Theaterplatz passing point and stop. The remains of the track through the historic city center and Markt are visible diverging to the left. The line through Markt was closed in 1976, with the section via Marienring (in the background to the right) opening instead in 1982. Between 1976-1982 the Theaterplatz Stop acted as a Terminal of the remaining semicircular line.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
CKD T2D
7 Czech-built T2D cars were delivered second hand from Halle in 1982, and oeprated in Naumburg until 1989.
( 08.1989 , Sludgeulper )
Raw Sw/LEW TZ70/1
As of the date of this photo, this was the major passenger generating stop in the city center. In the late 2008 / early 2009 the stop was rebuilt into the miniature transportation center with the bus-to-tram transfer option.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha G4-65
At the time of the photo single-ended trams could not be used in regular passenger service, as both terminals of the existing single-track line were stub-ends. Thus, 202, the ex-city-of-Gotha double-articulated car of "two-beds-and-the-bath" type, was confined to tram parade appearances.
( 16.09.2007 , Christian Bier )
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Hauptbahnhof-bound tram departs the Vogelwiese Terminal.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
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At the time of this photo Vogelwiese was the terminal of the semicircular line that re-opened in 2006. There were plans to extend the line via the previously existed corridor 600 m. farther down to Salztor.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha T57
Tram parade.
( 03.10.2005 , Stefan Kunzmann )
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha ET54 (left) workcar; Gotha B57 (middle); Raw Sw BZ70 (right)
Ex-Halle workcar and 2 ex-Jena trailers.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Gotha ET54 workcar (left); Gotha B4-65 (middle)
Ex-Halle workcar and ex-city-of-Gotha double-articulated car of "two-beds-and-the-bath" type.
( 28.08.2008 , Yury Maller )
Lindner
The highlight of Naumburg tram museum's collection, this 1928 car was delivered second-hand from Halle in 1977.
( 03.10.2005 , Stefan Kunzmann )
LOWA/LEW EB50
This LOWA trailer is the only one to match the single remaining Gotha ET54 car of similar appearance (but not built by LOWA). The 1951 trailer came second-hand from Halberstadt in 1985.
( 29.03.2007 , Christian Bier )