The Rügen Railway and Technology Museum (Eisenbahn & Technik Museum Rügen or ETM) is a German railway museum based on the Baltic Sea

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...

 island resort of Rügen

Rügen

Rügen is Germany's largest island. Located in the Baltic Sea, it is part of the Vorpommern-Rügen district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.- Geography :Rügen is located off the north-eastern coast of Germany in the Baltic Sea...

 in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a federal state in northern Germany. The capital city is Schwerin...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It was established in 1994 and is housed in the museum section of the Nazi

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

-built Kraft durch Freude

Kraft durch Freude

Kraft durch Freude was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was a part of the German Labour Front , the national German labour organization at that time...

('strength through joy') building complex at Prora

Prora

Prora is a beach resort on the island of Rügen, Germany, known especially for its colossal Nazi-planned touristic structures. The massive building complex was built between 1936 and 1939 as a Kraft durch Freude project. The eight buildings are identical, and while they were planned as a holiday...

 which is a protected monument.

In the vicinity of the station, in a 4000 m² hall and in the open air, the following may be visited:

• Locomotives and other exhibits, especially those of the Deutsche Reichsbahn
  Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft
  The Deutsche Reichsbahn – was the name of the German national railway created from the railways of the individual states of the German Empire following the end of World War I....
  
  , but also other railway administrations:
  • 03 193
    DRG Class 03
    The Class 03 steam engines were standard express train locomotives in service with the Deutsche Reichsbahn.- History :...
    
     with streamlining made at the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Meiningen. The locomotive is now displayed with running number 03 002
  • DRG Class 44
    DRG Class 44
    The Class 44 was a ten-coupled, heavy goods train steam locomotive built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn as a standard steam engine class . Its sub-class was G 56.20 and it had triple cylinders...
    
     - no. 44 2397-6 with oil-firing
  • DRG Class 50 - no. 50 3703 ex 50 877
  • Saxon IV K
    Saxon IV K
    The Saxon IV K were eight-wheeled, narrow gauge, Günther-Meyer type steam engines built for the Royal Saxon State Railways with a rail gauge of 750 mm. A total of 96 were built between 1892 and 1921, making the Saxon IV K the most numerous narrow gauge locomotive in Germany...
    
     - DRG no. 99 584
  • ÖBB Class 1118
  • SDZ P36-123 - Russian steam locomotive P36-123
  • Culemeyer heavy trailer with a Kaelble tractor
  • Steam-driven rotary snow plough
• Cars (not just East German makes)
• Lorries
• Fire engines, e.g. by Magirus Deutz
  Magirus
  Iveco Magirus AG is a truck manufacturer based in Ulm, Germany, founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus . The company began manufacturing fire-fighting vehicles in 1864. In the late 1910s, it started the production of trucks and buses...
  
   and IFA
• Tractors

External links

• Website of the Railway and Technology Museum