We say goodbye!
Goodbye Nagelsweg
Almost exactly 30 years ago, we moved into the VTG Center at Nagelsweg. Now it is time to say goodbye! Together we say “goodbye and farewell.”
Before we open a new chapter at Fleetyard, we want to look back together. Nagelsweg was a place full of encounters, developments, and special moments: from everyday exchanges at the VTG Café or the Rail Connect Lounge to joint after-work sessions in the courtyard. At the same time, we also overcame challenges here: power outages, water ingress, and, not least, the unusual silence in the office corridors during the COVID-19 pandemic have shaped us.
Above all, it is the personal memories that bring this place to life. Some of them have been collected for us by our colleagues:
Voices from Nagelsweg
Mathias Winzek
Sales Manager Bulk/Intermodal
His memories speak in images: atmospheric sunsets after a rain shower, the opening of our DigiLab, seemingly endless corridors. And above all: great team spirit!
Anne Seidel
Team Learning & Development
“At first, I had to get used to the setting,” Anne recalls of her first weeks: closed offices instead of open-plan spaces, a “little sauna” on the seventh floor instead of air conditioning. At the same time, there were also great colleagues, exciting topics, and modern IT equipment. Her conclusion after three years: Nagelsweg had its time. “Now I’m looking forward to an open workplace concept with shared desks at Fleetyard that makes encounters easier, enables quick coordination in everyday work, and at the same time creates good conditions for focused work – including in our hybrid collaboration.”
Paul Weinrich
Risk Manager, CISO & DPO
“One defining memory dates back to my apprentice days in 2014: a workshop where teams built boats, many of which sank. In autumn temperatures, it was a refreshing experience that was, above all, one thing: great fun that strengthened the bond between apprentices from Hamburg, Bitterfeld, and Switzerland – in some cases to this day.”
Reinhard Hillmann
Senior Project Manager Technical Innovation
Stefan Lorenzen
Team Infrastructure Operations
In 2012, things got serious: an excavator damaged a power cable – and suddenly an entire district came to a standstill. For Stefan from the Infrastructure Operations team, this marked the start of an eventful time, as the days that followed saw repeated major issues at the VTG Center. “For us in IT, it meant a state of emergency: emergency measures, additional power outages in the days that followed, and even an external backup generator.” The root cause was eventually identified as a defective main switch in the high-voltage section of the VTG power supply, which — similar to a fuse — kept tripping. Thanks to great commitment and teamwork, the crisis was successfully overcome.
Nagelsweg was all of this
A place for work, exchange, challenges, and countless small stories that still connect us today. Now it is time to move on – with many memories in our luggage.
And what is your favorite memory of Nagelsweg? Feel free to leave us a comment!
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Claus
I will never forget the times, when the upper management actually cared so much that they visited their teams, with a friendly word every now and then, and with open ears and eyes. Or the endless circles it took to climb up the stairs. Or the strange dark liquid (tm) from the old coffee machines. The glorious new coffee machines filled into the fantastic double glass mugs, tasting like fluid gold. Or the great new resting area with the cozy fire on the screen. Or the horrible, horrible restaurant where VTG staff got a company sponsored fdiscount for the offered "food". The freedom & joy when this was replaced by the Sodexo check system. The starting point for company days off, or the great christmas parties. Working till midnight end of december with snow falling from the skies while correct massive inventory problems, snowball fight afterwards included. The disastrous Navision ERP system, which wasn't able to print stock lists, forcing the staff to take screenshot, print them, cut and glue them into one big "picture", simply to be able to understand the stock situation. The surprise when one understood that the stairs down ended in D-bcock on the first floor. The cellars, where strong cold winds blew and howled all day and night. The cellar lights, which shut off automatically, leaving one in the darkest darkness, stumbling and while touching the walls to find the next light switches again. Such a great place, filled with memories of fantastic colleagues, long gone, or grown older with me. I will never forget - often hard times, but always good times, too.