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In Erfurt, railway employees will be in charge in the future.
A chic campus is being built on the site of an old freight yard, where cobwebs still hang from wooden ceilings.
Erfurt - Deutsche Bahn AG (DB) is investing around 110 million euros in a nationwide training center that will be built in Erfurt in the coming years.
The DB campus in the Thuringian state capital will create a central learning and meeting place for the company's employees, a kind of "team cabin for the DB team," said CEO Richard Lutz on Thursday in Erfurt.
Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (Left) spoke of a central personnel development center for the future of the railway.
Old warehouses are used
The center, which will be located on the site of a former freight yard, will offer meeting and training opportunities for up to 60,000 rail employees annually once it is fully completed at the end of 2028.
The campus will then offer 7,600 square meters of space for seminars and events as well as 15,000 square meters of green and leisure facilities.
60 percent of the required buildings are to be built new, the rest are existing buildings that will be converted for this purpose.
Currently, cobwebs still hang from the ceilings and beams in the old warehouses of the former freight yard.
First building at the end of 2025
With the first building expected to be completed at the end of next year, the company says the capacity will initially be up to 15,000 participants.
The aim is to make the complex rail system an understandable experience for employees from various areas of the company
Ramelow offered the railway that Erfurt, with its technical college, could also become an important location for the central training of traffic engineers.
The state supports the project, which, according to Ramelow, should become the core of a new urban district in Erfurt.
“Thuringia is ready with the state development company to develop this district.” The state company should, among other things, ensure that overnight accommodation is created - there is talk of up to 500 additional beds to the existing hotel capacities in Erfurt.
Erfurt is an ICE hub
The state capital has been an ICE hub for several years with its central location in Germany.
But there are also a number of proposals for reactivating disused regional rail lines in the Free State, said Ramelow.
“Stop saving on infrastructure,” the Prime Minister called on the federal government.
Ramelow also expressed the wish that there would soon be a collective agreement between the railways and the train drivers' union.
“Because I think stationary trains are stupid.”
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Erfurt prevailed over 13 other applicant cities for the DB Campus, said Mayor Andreas Bausewein (SPD).
According to him, the campus will be a “key investment” for the ICE City project, which has been discussed for years.
The city, together with the state, also makes a financial contribution to the development of the site.
Bausewein did not provide any information about the amount of money.
dpa