The pneumatic delivery Berlin was a pneumatic delivery system, which from 1865 into the 1970er year for the transport of courier endings in the citizen of Berlin city served.

After in the year 1861 in London a pneumatic tube post office was installed, the royally Prussian telegraph management assigned the company Siemens & Halske the building of a similar system for Berlin. The first line of the pneumatic telegram transport was taken on 18 November 1865 in enterprise and ran between the office for main telegraph and the stock exchange. After different difficulties (strong weather dependence etc.) and a restructuring now the pneumatic delivery mechanism mentioned with 15 offices for pneumatic delivery was made accessible on 18 December 1876 of the public. The citizens of Berlin pneumatic delivery gradually one developed and reached its high point in the year 1939, when nearly 8 million transmissions in a 400-km-Streckennetz between 90 offices for pneumatic delivery were sent away. Thus Berlin had the second largest pneumatic delivery system of the world to Paris.

During the Second World War large parts of the net were destroyed. After parts were again developed, in February 1949 all connections between the East part and the western part of the city were separated. In the east now a 65 kilometer long net was operated, while there were new building distances in the west even, so that the net extended there to 167 kilometers. By the technical progress the pneumatic delivery systems lost at importance and in the western part of Berlin clearly reached the enterprise the 1. March 1963 adjusted. The system was continued to wait until 1972.

In the East part of the city the enterprise was kept upright until 1976 and used also into the early 1980er years still for authority-internal purposes.

The pneumatic delivery lines are today mostly torn off, only individual factory stand still. For interested one the route "technique monument pneumatic delivery" the citizen of Berlin Unterwelten (Related links) is to be received a good possibility a view of to citizens of Berlin the system.

Literature

• Ingmar Arnold: Draft of air. The history of the pneumatic delivery in Berlin and elsewhere. ISBN 389218061X

Related links

• The citizens of Berlin pneumatic delivery with Berlin unterwelten.de
• Katharina Teutsch: '' Like the pneumatic delivery Berlin conquered '' (articles of 28." March 2002 with the citizen of Berlin magazine Metronaut)

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