Berlin Westhafen train station
| Berlin West Harbor | |
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 S-Bahn platform
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BWH |
| IBNR | 8089116 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening |
October 1, 1898 December 19, 1999 |
| Conveyance | September 18, 1980 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Moabit |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '11 " N , 13 ° 20' 38" E |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Westhafen station is an S-Bahn and U-Bahn station in the Berlin district of Moabit in the Mitte district , not far from the Westhafen . The S-Bahn station is on the Ringbahn , while the U-Bahn station is on the U9 . In the operating point directory , the S-Bahn station is listed under BWH , the U-Bahn station has the abbreviation WF at BVG .
S-Bahn station
The above-ground station on the Ringbahn , initially called Putlitzstraße , was opened in 1897/1898 on the street or bridge of the same name. It served as a replacement for the Moabit station on Siemensstrasse and Quitzowstrasse, which was closed in 1894 and has since been used as a freight station. The Putlitzstrasse train station was the starting point of a crook by the shoemaker Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt, who achieved world fame as " Captain von Köpenick " (later in the literary drama of the same name by Carl Zuckmayer ). From here he drove 2nd class with his ten-person “crew” - this 3rd class - to Köpenick , where he took the city treasury with an amount of 3557.45 marks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 22,000 euros ).
Putlitzstrasse station was equipped with two platforms, one for the Ringbahn trains east of the Putlitz bridge and one for the suburban trains of the Hamburger and Lehrter Bahn west of the Putlitz bridge. In addition, the station received a contemporary reception building made of red brick . The first electric S-Bahn stopped here on February 1, 1929.
After the National Socialists took power in Germany, the Deutsche Reichsbahn had a platform built on the pull-out tracks of the Moabit freight station south of the station in the late 1930s , which was used to transport people, primarily Jews , to the extermination camps .
The station building was damaged in the Second World War , but was left standing for the time being. After the war, a memorial for the trains to the extermination camps was erected here. 1952 followed the closure and the subsequent demolition of the suburban platform in 1961; the Lehrter station as the end point of the route was also closed. The suburban trains that previously stopped here from Spandau West will in future run electrically to the ring platform since 1951. Even after the Wall was built on August 13, 1961, nothing changed in the situation, apart from the respective terminus of the S-Bahn trains.
In 1966, the old above-ground station building had to be demolished; the war damage has only been poorly repaired to date. In its place a simple new building was built. This had to give way again in 1976, this time the new construction of the Putlitz Bridge , on which the train station is located, was decisive. The work was completed in 1979, the platform could now be reached via a staircase on each side of the street.
However, the S-Bahn station was shut down again in 1980 as a result of the Reichsbahn strike. The station should have been reopened quickly after the BVG took over the operating rights in 1984, but the ailing condition of entire routes prevented it from being reopened quickly.
The platform and entrances were rebuilt after the political change in the course of the restoration of the northern ring line, and access to the underground was also restored. The S-Bahn station could be reopened on December 19, 1999 under the name Westhafen , whereby the station was initially the terminus for the trains arriving from Jungfernheide; When the gap between Westhafen and Gesundbrunnen was closed in June 2002, the ring was completely navigable again.
When the new S-Bahn station was built, a threading out towards the main station was prepared for the S21 S-Bahn project .
At the S-Bahn platform, the train driver handles the train using the driver's cab monitor (ZAT-FM).
Subway station
The underground station on Line G, today's U9, was opened on August 28, 1961 a few weeks after the Wall was built , also under the name Putlitzstraße . The architect Bruno Grimmek designed the 110-meter-long platform. At first, like other Berlin underground stations, the station was designed in such a way that it was not possible to change to the S-Bahn. Rather, the S-Bahn boycott should be promoted by this structural measure. In 1975 a transition to the S-Bahn platform was built.
The subway station was renamed “Westhafen” in 1992. In 2000, the subway station was completely redesigned according to plans by Françoise Schein and Barbara Reiter as part of the “ INSCRIRE - writing human rights ” project; the wall tiles in the platform area now have quotations from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . This means that the Westhafen station joins similar underground stations in Paris ( Concorde station ), Brussels , Stockholm and Lisbon . In the entrance area there are quotes from Heinrich Heine in German and French. Since the renovation there are also elevators.
Freight depot
North-west of the S-Bahn station is the freight yard of the West Harbor with its container transshipment point.
Connection
The station is served by the S41 and S42 lines of the S-Bahn and the U9 line of the U-Bahn. With the exception of a night bus line running along the underground, there are no transfer options to other local public transport.
| line | course | Clock in the peak hours |
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Gesundbrunnen - Schönhauser Allee - Prenzlauer Allee - Greifswalder Strasse - Landsberger Allee - Storkower Strasse - Frankfurter Allee - Ostkreuz - Treptower Park - Sonnenallee - Neukölln - Hermannstrasse - Tempelhof - Südkreuz - Schöneberg - Innsbrucker Platz - Bundesplatz - Heidelberger Platz - Hohenzollerndamm - Halensee - Westkreuz - Messe Nord / ICC - Westend - Jungfernheide - Beusselstraße - Westhafen - Wedding - Gesundbrunnen | 5 min |
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Osloer Straße - Nauener Platz - Leopoldplatz - Amrumer Straße - Westhafen - Birkenstraße - Turmstraße - Hansaplatz - Zoological Garden - Kurfürstendamm - Spichernstraße - Güntzelstraße - Berliner Straße - Bundesplatz - Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz - Walther-Schreiber-Platz - Schloßstraße - Rathaus Steglitz | 4 min |
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 34 kB)
- Westhafen S-Bahn station at stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- Westhafen underground station at untergrundbahn.de
- About the inscriptions at the Westhafen underground station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ News in brief - S-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . April 2016, p. 73 .