Guben station
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 Entrance building, 2013
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | BGU |
| IBNR | 8010357 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | September 1, 1846 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Guben |
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| City / municipality | Guben |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 57 '31 " N , 14 ° 42' 25" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 47 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The station Guben is a junction station of the routes from Berlin via Frankfurt (Oder) to Wroclaw (German Breslau ) and Cottbus after Zbąszynek (formerly Zbaszynek ). Structurally it is an island train station . Only the Frankfurt (Oder) - Cottbus connection is used for passenger transport, while the route to Zbąszynek is also in operation for freight transport.
Location and structure
The station is located northwest of downtown Guben and is connected to the road network via Bahnhofsberg. The station building, which is located on an island, is bordered to the west by the main line Berlin – Wrocław and to the east by the tracks of the main lines Cottbus – Guben and Guben – Zbąszynek, there are track connections between the lines on both sides of the station. A pedestrian tunnel connects the reception building with the platforms and the Bahnhofstrasse to the east of the station . The station forecourt at the station building is connected to the bridge over the tracks on Cottbuser Strasse south of the station via the Bahnhofsberg junction.
The station has four platform tracks. Tracks 2 and 8 are on the west and east side of the house platform; tracks 1 and 3 are on a common central platform on the west side. As a rule, however, tracks 1 and 2 are the only ones served by passenger trains.
The station building is listed in the state monument list of the state of Brandenburg.
history
In 1843 the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (NME) received the concession to build a railway line from Frankfurt to Breslau. Two years later, on August 11, 1845, the foundation stone was laid for Guben station. The opening took place together with the commissioning of the line on September 1, 1846. As the economic success failed to materialize, the Prussian state took over the administration of the company in 1850. In 1882 this was completely nationalized.
From 1866 the line from Guben to Bentschen was built. The builder was the Märkisch-Posener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . As a result, in 1870 the Guben station was expanded to become a crossing station. The station building from 1845 was retained, but was replaced by a new building in an island location. The west side served the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn, the east side the Märkisch-Posener as well as the Halle-Sorau-Gubener Eisenbahn. In order to achieve a suitable track length, the level crossing on the road from Guben to Cottbus was replaced by an overpass further south. The entrance to the station building branched off from here. Since this route was viewed as an unnecessary detour for travelers, a pedestrian tunnel was also created from the station building on the east side of the tracks. After the renovation, the old station building housed the offices of the individual railway companies, the post office and some service apartments. In the new building, the waiting rooms , ticket offices and baggage acceptance as well as some smaller company apartments were set up accordingly . The shared waiting room of the 1st and 2nd class was connected to a separate dining room, whereas the 3rd and 4th class had their own room at each railway administration. From June 26, 1870, the trains ran over the northern Neisse bridge to Bentschen. On September 1, 1871, the route to Cottbus followed, and the Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway was responsible for building and operating it . A railway depot completed the facility. Guben became the meeting point for long-distance trains between Berlin and Breslau on the one hand and Leipzig and Allenstein (now Olsztyn ) on the other. In 1904 the branch line to Forst followed , which actually starts about two and a half kilometers south of Guben station.
After the end of the First World War , the importance of the route from Guben to the east decreased significantly as the border with Poland was moved to the west and the province of Poznan came to Poland. The new end point of the route was Neu Bentschen, as Bentschen already came to Poland. In 1924 a major fire destroyed the depot. From 1904 to 1938 the station was connected to the city center by the Guben tram .
On February 18, 1945, the train traffic in Guben was completely stopped due to the approaching front. With the end of the Second World War, the most necessary damage was repaired by the end of July 1945. Most of the city of Guben came to Poland. Guben station was also subordinated to the Polish State Railways (PKP) on August 1, 1945 , as no suitable transfer station was available on the Polish side. On October 1, 1945 the handover to the Reichsbahndirektion Cottbus took place . Passenger traffic across the Lusatian Neisse was discontinued; Cross-border freight traffic remained on the route of the former Märkisch-Posener Bahn in the direction of Zielona Góra (formerly Grünberg [Schles] ). The Gubin station north of the city was built there on the Polish side. The line of the Lower Silesian-Märkischen-Bahn in the direction of Lubsko (Sommerfeld) was kept for military strategic reasons. However, there was no longer regular traffic across the border, and freight traffic on the Polish side also ended in the small, newly built Gubinek train station south of the city.
In domestic traffic, Guben remained a through station along the route from Cottbus to Frankfurt (Oder). The long-distance trains between these two cities were increasingly routed via Guben and Eisenhüttenstadt , which was emerging further north , and not via the direct main line .
In 1971 the B1 command station went into operation as a track diagram switchboard (GS II DR). Previously, the guard interlocking W2 had already been equipped with a GS I DR table . the station was equipped with track diagram signal boxes. From May 28, 1972, the station became a shared station between the DR and PKP; the previously separate freight train handling of both companies in Guben and Gubin was omitted. On the same day, cross-border passenger train traffic between the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland from Guben to Zielona Góra began. With the strengthening of the Polish trade union Solidarność and the declaration of a state of emergency, passenger traffic ended again in 1981. In the same year, passenger traffic on the branch line to Forst was also discontinued, ten years later this line was closed.
In 1990 the station was connected to the electrical rail network. In 1994 the line to the east on the Polish side was completely renewed for six months. During that time, goods traffic on the line towards Lubsko was resumed; after the construction work was finished, this line was closed on the German side up to the Neisse bridge.
In 1996 there was a brief resumption of cross-border passenger traffic to Poland in the direction of Zielona Góra , which ended again in 2002. Freight traffic across the Neisse remained in operation. As a result of the reduced transport services, Deutsche Bahn initially wanted to shut down and sell the eastern section of the station, but withdrew from this project in December 2010.
Transport links
There are connections to Frankfurt (Oder) and Cottbus. On the city side, the station is connected to Cottbus, Forst (Lausitz) , Guben city center and the surrounding communities via various bus routes operated by DB Regio Bus Ost (Spree-Neisse bus) .
In the 2019 timetable, the following lines stop at Guben station:
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| RE 1 | Cottbus - Guben - Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin Hbf - Potsdam Hbf - Brandenburg Hbf - Magdeburg Hbf | individual trains | DB Regio Nordost |
| RB 11 | Cottbus - Guben - Eisenhüttenstadt - Frankfurt (Oder) | 60 | DB Regio Nordost |
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Guben station on guben-online.de
- History on the part of the Modellbahn Club Guben
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Query of the course book route 201 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b Query of the course book route 211 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Tracks in service facilities (BGU) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Spree-Neiße (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum.
- ^ A b c Thomas Zach, Werner Schulz, Jürgen Kretschmann: History. Modellbahn Club Guben, accessed on March 5, 2017 .
- ^ Römer: Entrance building at Guben station . In: Journal of Construction . Booklet XI and XII, 1870, Col. 451–456 ( zlb.de [PDF; accessed March 5, 2017]). zlb.de ( Memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Bernd Kuhlmann: Two viaducts and a floating bridge over the Neisse . In: Railways across the Oder-Neisse border . Ritzau KG - Zeit und Eisenbahn Verlag, Pürgen 2004, ISBN 3-935101-06-6 , p. 128-139 .
- ^ Holger Kötting: List of German signal boxes. Entries Gp – Gz. In: www.stellwerke.de. October 26, 2015, accessed March 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Partial closure of Guben station has failed for the time being. In: Niederlausitz currently. December 21, 2010, accessed August 17, 2011 .