Berlin Warschauer Strasse train station
| Berlin Warschauer Strasse | |
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 Warschauer Strasse S-Bahn station
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| Location in the network |
Intermediate station former Ostbahn separation station or Silesian Railway stop |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4 (S-Bahn) |
| abbreviation | BWRS |
| IBNR | 8089045 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | August 11, 1884 |
| Website URL | s-bahn-berlin.de |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Warsaw_Strasse |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Dörr Ludolf Wimmer Architects, Berlin (new reception building) |
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| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Friedrichshain |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '22 " N , 13 ° 27' 1" E |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Warschauer Straße is a transfer station in Berlin district of Friedrichshain at Warschauer Straße ( B 96a ). The S-station is located below the Warsaw bridge and the station of the at this point as high web running underground above the Warsaw bridge, parallel to the road and the Warsaw Industrial Palace .
More than 85,000 people change trains every day at the Warschauer Straße junction , where the underground train coming from the western city center and the tram coming from Frankfurter Tor also end.
S-Bahn station
history
The Warschauer Straße S-Bahn station is located on the eastern side of the Warschauer Brücke, with platforms on the S-Bahn lines to Erkner (platform A) and Lichtenberg (platform B) that connect to the Berlin Stadtbahn . The first station building stood at this point from 1884 to 1903, which was replaced by a building on the opposite (western) side of the bridge from 1903 to 1924. The architect of this second station building was Karl Cornelius . In 1924 a new reception building was built at the original location, designed by Richard Brademann . With the destruction of the bridge in 1945, this building was badly damaged and then rebuilt in a different way.
In 1983 the station was modernized. On December 20, 1986 he got a third platform C, in particular to increase the capacity from the new development areas in the northeast of the city ( Neu-Hohenschönhausen and Marzahn ) to the city center. This gave access to two platforms from one track. However, at no time was the system thoroughly repaired. As a result, parts of the ailing reception building had to be closed at the end of 2004 due to acute construction defects. The station building and the platform entrances were then demolished by April 2005. Since then, temporary staircases have provided access to the platforms of the S-Bahn.
New building
A new construction of the station, which has been planned for a long time, is now being carried out as part of the project for the complete renovation of the Ostkreuz station . Two central platforms , which have been used in directional operation since the track system was converted , and a reception building were newly built. This building will provide space for shops, and escalators and elevators will also be installed. In addition, the Berlin Senate had the pedestrian walkway from the subway station extended to the new reception building in order to shorten the transfer distance between the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn.
In March 2012, platforms B and C went out of service and were then dismantled. The train traffic was handled exclusively via platform A (formerly from and to Erkner). On May 13, 2013, the first edge of the newly built platform B was put into operation, and on October 7, 2014, the second track of this platform. The platform was only provisionally completed. Then platform A was demolished and rebuilt.
The work that had already started was canceled in 2015 and re-planned; from August 2015, it was continued with the new planning approval. The larger building will now have a hall with a length of 35 meters and a width of 28 meters, which will be eight meters higher than the Warsaw Bridge.
On August 21, 2017, the newly built southern platform A went into operation and initially handled the entire S-Bahn traffic. Access was provisional through the construction site of the new reception building. The northern platform B went out of service at the same time and was further converted. Since September 2017, train handling has been carried out on platform A by the driver using the driver's cab monitor (ZAT-FM).
Originally, the first shops in the new station building were supposed to open in September 2018, which was not achieved. The northern platform B should be completed in November 2018 and go into operation when the timetable changes at the beginning of December 2018. At the said timetable change, the shell of the station building was opened and the second S-Bahn platform was put into operation, although planned facilities such as elevators are still missing. These as well as the rental units in the station building should now be completed in the first quarter of 2019. The final work is not expected to be completed until the second half of 2019. This schedule could again not be adhered to, and no opening date has yet been announced at the end of the first half of 2020.
The lifting of the pedestrian bridge took place on June 10, 2019. The pedestrian bridge was opened on December 4, 2019. The bridge has a total length of around 103 meters and a width of 3.40 meters. The new bridge was built in three phases and cost a total of 1.5 million euros. This also includes a staircase with a lift and a temporary connection to the Warsaw Bridge. This temporary solution was dismantled by the end of January 2020.
criticism
The massive construction delays are repeatedly criticized by passengers, the press and politicians. The completion of the renovation, originally announced for 2010, has been postponed repeatedly and could not be achieved in 2020 either. Several years after commissioning, the new platforms are not barrier-free because the completion of the elevators has also been delayed repeatedly. The large-scale pollution and littering of the new station is also criticized. Although the train station developed into a drug transhipment point, Deutsche Bahn withdrew its permanent night patrol after a one-year test phase.
During the new construction, the platforms were only covered over half their length, while their entire length was covered before the renovation. It is also criticized that the platforms are not given access from the west side of the Warsaw Bridge, despite the high number of passengers.
The station building has since been demolished, 1987
Warschauer Straße S-Bahn station, the Erkner platform on the left , 1992
Temporary platform for regional trains during the renovation of the light rail, 1997
Warschauer Strasse S-Bahn station seen from the west.
View of the platform towards Ostkreuz.
Subway station
The underground station on the Warschauer Brücke was built by Paul Wittig on behalf of Siemens & Halske and put into operation on August 17, 1902. It is the terminus of Berlin's first elevated railway line , today's U1 line , and consists of a 360-meter-long and 26-meter-wide masonry viaduct , in whose arches shops, workshops and business premises were housed. The first workshop for the Berlin elevated and underground railway was also located at the terminus at Warschauer Brücke . The four-track hall parallel to the railway line was reconstructed as part of the reopening of the station in 1995 and has been used as a covered parking facility ever since. The eight-track car hall I, which was built in 1909 at a right angle to the high station along Rudolfstrasse, is also only used as a storage hall.
At the end of the Second World War , the station was closed; it did not start operating again until October 14, 1945. With the construction of the wall in 1961, the station was shut down again. The rooms were converted into storage rooms, among others for the Berlin light bulb factory Narva .
After German reunification , the Warschauer Brücke underground station was restored in accordance with historical preservation criteria. The track system was also rebuilt so that the station only had three platform tracks instead of four, but these were lengthened for the use of 8-car trains. The station went back into operation on October 14, 1995, as a transfer station corresponding to the neighboring S-Bahn station now under the name Warschauer Straße . Initially, the trains ran alternately as the U1 line to Krumme Lanke and the U15 line to Uhlandstrasse . On December 12, 2004, the Nollendorfplatz - Krumme Lanke line became an independent line U3 , the U15 was renamed U1. On certain occasions, the U12 line also runs in the direction of Ruhleben from time to time .
The extension of the subway line through the Warsaw road to the Frankfurter Allee (today's underground station Frankfurter Tor the subway line U5 ) was licensed in 1914, the First World War , however, and its consequences prevented the elevated railway company from running. In the Berlin urban development plan for transport up to 2025 , which was adopted in 2011, this expansion is no longer planned. Plans to relocate the Warschauer Straße underground station over the S-Bahn station of the same name in order to make it easier to change trains are also no longer being pursued. Only the extension of the pedestrian walkway from the underground station to the new station building of the S-Bahn was planned by the Berlin Senate and has now been implemented.
In 2015, the BVG submitted the proposal to the Berlin Senate to extend the U1 parallel to the Stadtbahn to Ostkreuz station. However, the required building preparations in the course of the conversion of the Ostkreuz were not initiated. In contrast to other projects, the request came from the BVG, not from politics. Their representatives pleaded for a postponement, as further construction would tie up too many resources . After the 2016 election, all subway projects were stopped and the tramway was preferably expanded.
Right in the subway hall there has been a bronze coat of arms of Warsaw on the wall since 1991 . It is brought into a connection with the city partnership in Berlin.
Entrance area and car hall during construction, 1901
Rudolfstrasse entrance, 1932
During decommissioning from 1961 to 1995
U12 train on the viaduct, on the left the workshop of the former elevated railway company
tram
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The tram on Warschauer Strasse between the Warschauer Brücke underground station and the Zentralviehhof , called " Flachbahn " when it opened, is special in that it was initially also operated by the elevated railway company and not by one of the many tram companies. Originally, the elevated railway was to be led further north through Warschauer Strasse. However, that did not happen. Due to the confrontation between East and West , the tram had not crossed the Oberbaum Bridge since 1953 , but a crossing was still possible. That is why the East Berlin transport company had a turning loop for the tram built around Revaler Straße, north of the Warschauer Straße station , so that the use of two-way trams could be dispensed with.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Berlin and Germany, the Berlin Senate resumed plans to expand the tram network in the direction of West Berlin . As a first step, on May 18, 2000, the Senate had the tram route run from Warschauer Strasse over the bridge to the underground station. The BVG had a stump end point built here as an interim solution, as a rapid extension of the line towards Hermannplatz was planned. Due to the financial difficulties of the state of Berlin, these plans have been postponed for the time being, so the use of two-way trams has now become indispensable.
Line overview
The station is served by the S-Bahn lines S3, S5, S7, S75 and S9 as well as the underground lines U1 and U3. Other local transport serves the station south of the Warschauer Brücke (called: S + U-Bahnhof) and / or north of it (Helsingforser Platz, S-Bahnhof, Revaler Straße). In addition to the tram lines M10 in the direction of Prenzlauer Berg and M13 in the direction of Lichtenberg, there are also possibilities to change to the bus lines 248 and 347 to develop the residential areas to Ostbahnhof, Ostkreuz and Stralau. The night bus line N1 runs parallel to the route of the U1 from Helsingforser Platz via Nollendorfplatz to the zoological garden .
S-Bahn and U-Bahn
Tram and bus
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Lüneburger Str. ← S + U Hauptbahnhof - Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark - S Warschauer Str. - S + U Warschauer Str. |
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Virchow-Klinikum → S Warschauer Str. / ← Revaler Str. |
| 248 | Dillenburger Str. - U Breitenbachplatz - S Südkreuz / east side - U Hallesches Tor - S + U Alexanderplatz / Grunerstr. - S Ostbahnhof - S + U Warschauer Str. |
| 347 | S Ostbahnhof - S + U Warschauer Str. - Tunnelstr. |
| N1 | Helsingforser Platz - S + U Warschauer Str. - U Wittenbergplatz - S + U Zoological Garden ← Hertzallee |
Web links
- Underground station: Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 47 kB)
- Warschauer Straße S-Bahn station on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- Deutsche Bahn website for the Berlin Warschauer Strasse construction project
- Architect's project website
- Information and pictures on the renovation of the Ostkreuz and Warschauer Straße stations on bastellen-doku.info
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Klaus Kurpjuweit: Changing made easy. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 14, 2013, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ a b A new face for Warschauer Strasse . In: point 3 . No. 1 , 2013, p. 12 f . ( online [accessed January 14, 2013]).
- ↑ Station building number 5 is being built on the Warschauer Brücke ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on the Berlin S-Bahn website, November 22, 2011
- ↑ Stefan Metze: Completed the major construction phase between Ostkreuz and Ostbahnhof . In: Ostkreuzblog . May 14, 2013.
- ^ Stefan Metze: New platforms opened in Ostkreuz and Warschauer Straße . In: Ostkreuzblog . October 9, 2014.
- ↑ Klaus Kurpjuweit: New S-Bahn station Warschauer Straße is delayed . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 27, 2015.
- ↑ Thomas Fülling: The S-Bahn station Warschauer Straße is being built again . In: Berliner Morgenpost . August 21, 2015.
- ↑ Hildburg Bruns: S-Bahn station Warschauer Straße: That is why there is no more construction here . In: BZ . July 27, 2015.
- ↑ From August 21st, the S3 goes to Westkreuz . In: point 3 . No. 15 , 2017, p. 11 ( online [accessed November 11, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Thomas Fülling: Reconstruction at the Warschauer Straße S-Bahn station will last until 2019 . In: Berliner Morgenpost . 19th April 2017.
- ↑ News in brief - S-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 11 , 2017, p. 230 .
- ^ Peter Neumann: New Railway Projects. Here passengers have to expect closures in 2018 . In: Berliner Zeitung . February 16, 2018.
- ↑ Klaus Kurpjuweit: Where the train digs (further) this year . In: Der Tagesspiegel . 15th February 2018.
- ↑ a b c Thomas Fülling: The second platform on Warschauer Strasse is ready . In: Berliner Morgenpost . December 9, 2018.
- ^ Building project in Berlin Warschauer Strasse train station . Deutsche Bahn. Accessed on December 27, 2018: "Due to slight delays in the construction process, the building will only open in the first quarter of 2019 (instead of the end of 2018)"
- ^ Christian Bahl + Arvid-Johannes Heinrich: 3rd Building and Information Dialogue 2017 . Deutsche Bahn. October 17, 2017. Archived from the original on January 2, 2018. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- ↑ a b c New pedestrian bridge opened on Warschauer Strasse . Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection of Berlin. 3rd December 2019.
- ^ Warschauer Strasse S-Bahn station will remain a construction site for months. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 16, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 .
- ↑ Completed the most important stage in the Ostkreuz renovation . In: Signal (traffic magazine) . No. 4 , 2017, p. 12 f .
- ↑ Berlin traffic pages : signal box district Warschauer Straße
- ↑ Ulrich Lemke, Uwe Poppel: Berliner U-Bahn , 3rd edition, p. 130.
- ^ Johannes Bousset: The Berlin U-Bahn , p. 130.
- ^ A b Hans-Ulrich Stockhorst: Warschauer Strasse underground station before and after the wall was built . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 5 , 2013, p. 85 f .
- ↑ EhJ Bousset: The Berlin U-Bahn , p. 11.
- ^ State of Berlin, Senate Department for Urban Development: Urban Development Plan for Transport. Status: March 2011, p. 58 and Appendix: Catalog of measures, p. 18 (PDF; 10.4 MB).
- ^ Thomas Fülling: Dispute over the extension of the U1 underground line to Ostkreuz. . In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 2, 2015.
- ↑ IG Nahverkehr: To the underground extension from Warschauer Straße . The left. November 12, 2015.
- ↑ Klaus Kurpjuweit: All subway projects stopped . In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 9, 2016.
- ↑ Beatrice Kunath: Where the coat of arms in the Warschauer Straße underground station comes from ( memento of the original from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Berliner Morgenpost -online from March 16, 2014
