Schönfließ station

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Schönfließ
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Data
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2, formerly 4
abbreviation BSFL Fernbahn
BSNF S-Bahn
IBNR 8081290
Price range 6th
opening 1953
Profile on Bahnhof.de Schoenfliess
location
City / municipality Mühlenbecker Land
Place / district Schönfließ (Oberhavel)
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 39 '53 "  N , 13 ° 20' 23"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 39 '53 "  N , 13 ° 20' 23"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Brandenburg
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The Schönfließ station in Brandenburg is on the northern Berlin outer ring . The station, which opened in 1953, has been served by the Berlin S-Bahn since 1961 and was also used by regional trains until 1993. At the Schönfließ West junction to the west of the actual station, two connecting curves to the Berlin Northern Railway begin .

location

The train station was built about one kilometer north of Schönfließ . It is located at kilometer 11.1 of the Karower Kreuz - Priort section of the Berlin outer ring north of Berlin. The area between the station and the town has remained undeveloped to this day.

history

With the division of Germany and Berlin, an efficient way of bypassing West Berlin was necessary since the early 1950s . The Berlin outer ring was created, its northeastern part between Karower Kreuz and Birkenwerder went into operation in 1952. From 1953 onwards, internal trains in the GDR (with the exception of the Berlin S-Bahn) were no longer allowed to run through West Berlin. The Berlin Northern Railway was also affected. The trains have since used the outer ring. Since there were still hardly any controls between the east and west within the city of Berlin, the trains to East Berlin were also subjected to controls. From 1953 Schönfließ became such a control station. On October 4th of the same year the station went into operation for public transport.

Train accident at Schönfließ in 1979

After the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, the S-Bahn section between Oranienburg and Hohen Neuendorf was separated from the rest of the network. In order to reconnect this region to the Berlin S-Bahn network, the track between Hohen Neuendorf and Karower Kreuz was fitted with a power rail in just 72 days. The S-Bahn over this section went into operation on November 19, 1961. As a result, a separate double-track S-Bahn route was built between Hohen Neuendorf and Schönfließ south of the outer ring with the new Bergfelde stop , which was opened on May 27, 1962. Schönfließ station and the section from there to Karower Kreuz were still used jointly between the S-Bahn and long-distance trains. An overpass was built to the west of the station, on which the S-Bahn trains in the direction of Oranienburg crossed the long-distance tracks. Also in 1962 a second connecting curve (the so-called "long curve") went into operation from the long-distance tracks of the outer ring west of Schönfließ to the northern railway.

The joint operation caused operational bottlenecks. In a serious train accident between Schönfließ and the Karower Kreuz on December 18, 1979, the driver of an S-Bahn train was killed when it ran into a freight train that was stopping. Seven people were injured. At the latest with the electrification of the main line tracks of the outer ring with AC contact lines, the separation of the suburban and main line tracks became urgently necessary in the early 1980s. In 1982 a separate S-Bahn platform was put into operation in Schönfließ, which was initially only used as a single track by the trains going to Berlin. On September 2, 1984, the separation of the S-Bahn and long-distance trains was completed and the own S-Bahn track between Schönfließ and Karower Kreuz went into operation. Since then, all S-Bahn trains have stopped at their own platform; The new Mühlenbeck-Mönchmühle stop was opened east of Schönfließ . In the same year, on December 15, electrical operation began on the long-distance railway tracks of the northeastern outer ring and thus in Schönfließ station.

Development after 1990

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the towns northwest of Berlin were again connected to the city by a shorter route than via the outer ring. The already sparse regional traffic was discontinued when the timetable changed on May 28, 1995, and the northern platform track was later dismantled. For the S-Bahn in the direction of Oranienburg there has been a shorter route via Frohnau since May 1992. Nevertheless, the S-Bahn remained in operation in this area. Schönfließ is considered to be the station in the Berlin S-Bahn network with the lowest number of people getting on and off. In view of the low number of passengers, there were repeated considerations to replace the traffic with trains on the regional tracks, but these were not implemented.

passenger traffic

Unused regional platforms with passing trains.

In the first few years after the start of passenger traffic on the Berlin outer ring, some of the passenger trains from the north ended in Oranienburg , while some were routed via the outer ring to Berlin-Lichtenberg , some of them also to Ostbahnhof . These trains also stopped in Schönfliess. In 1957, this affected five pairs of trains from and to Berlin, which continued to Neubrandenburg or Stralsund . A special feature at that time was a pair of trains from Berlin that drove via Löwenberg (Mark) , Neuruppin , Wittstock (Dosse) and Meyenburg to Güstrow and Rostock . After the Wall was built, passenger train traffic from Oranienburg to Berlin was discontinued on November 19, 1961, at the same time that the S-Bahn was commissioned in this area. There were still a few trains running from different places such as Nauen or Falkensee northwest of Berlin to Berlin-Lichtenberg, in some cases also Ostbahnhof. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, five trains ran in the morning to Berlin via Schönfließ, four or five trains back in the afternoon, depending on the timetable year, and on weekends the offer was limited to two pairs of trains. In addition, a passenger train came from Schwerin to Berlin-Lichtenberg in the evening .

Express and express trains had no scheduled traffic stops in Schönfließ, only control stops until the Wall was built. The only exception at the end of the 1980s was an express train from Schwerin, which replaced the passenger train that otherwise ran around this time on Sunday evening.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, regional transport services were quickly thinned out and discontinued in 1993.

S-Bahn platform with train from Berlin to Birkenwerder

After the Berlin S-Bahn traffic began, Schönfließ was initially served by S-Bahn trains from Oranienburg to Warschauer Straße every hour. With the improvement of the infrastructure, it was possible to start the 20-minute cycle on the route from 1962, although individual journeys were canceled as planned due to route bottlenecks between Hohen Neuendorf, Schönfließ and Berlin-Blankenburg until the early 1980s. In the 1970s and 1980s Schönfließ was served by train group K between Oranienburg and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport. With the introduction of the line numbers in the entire Berlin S-Bahn network in 1991, the line was named S 10. In the course of the resumption of the S-Bahn service on the direct route via Frohnau in 1992, this line was limited to the Birkenwerder - Schönefeld section . The course of the line changed several times. Since 2004 the line S 8 Birkenwerder (or Hohen Neuendorf ) - Berlin-Grünau (during rush hour to Zeuthen ) has been running via Schönfließ. The usual 20-minute intervals during the day were thinned out to hourly intervals in evening traffic. The section between Blankenburg and Hohen Neuendorf is the only one in the Berlin S-Bahn network that does not have continuous night traffic on weekends.

Investments

Left S-Bahn, middle long-distance train tracks. Behind the train, the rest of the former overpass of the S-Bahn tracks, on the right behind the signal box.
Level crossing with signal box.

The station was built in the typical arrangement of the stations of the Berlin outer ring with two through tracks and two platform tracks that branch off from them to the outside and are connected by a pedestrian bridge. With the separation of the S-Bahn and long-distance trains at the beginning of the 1980s, a separate central platform for the S-Bahn with two tracks was then built to the south, which can be reached from the pedestrian bridge through a passimeter building . This is where the ticket office used to be. The northern platform track of the mainline section has been dismantled, the southern one is still in operation. The northern part of the pedestrian bridge is closed. The area beyond the tracks can be reached via a level crossing to the west of the platforms. It is one of the few railroad crossings with barriers both in the Berlin S-Bahn network and on the Berlin outer ring. The old WSSB barrier system was replaced in 2012 by a new half-barrier system from Siemens.

At the entrance there are some bicycle parking spaces and a small parking lot. The train station is not connected to the bus service.

A GS II DR track diagram has been located at the level crossing since 1964. In addition to the train station and the level crossing, the Schönfließ West junction and the Arkenberge junction of the S-Bahn are also controlled from there. The Schönfließ West junction is 1.7 kilometers west of Schönfließ train station. Two connecting curves of the mainline line from the outer ring towards the north begin here. The S-Bahn line is only single-track east of the station; another double-track section begins at the Arkenberge junction behind the Mühlenbeck-Mönchmühle stop. The remains of the former overpass of the S-Bahn track in the direction of Oranienburg over the long-distance tracks west of the station can be seen in the area.

For the control of the S-Bahn, an electronic interlocking (ESTW) will replace the conventional GS II technology in the coming years. The reason for this is the decision that the future security system for the Berlin S-Bahn, which replaces the traffic lock, should not be adapted to the old DR interlocking technology.

Others

The Schönfließ Dorf train station is also located in Brandenburg on the Eberswalde – Frankfurt (Oder) railway line . It was given the addition of village long before the Schönfließ train station went into operation to distinguish it from the Schönfließ Bad train station , which was also Brandenburg until 1945 and is now Trzcińsko-Zdrój in Poland. For the station Schönfließ there was no name affix.

Connection

line course
Berlin S8.svg Birkenwerder  - Hohen Neuendorf  - Bergfelde  - Schönfließ  - Muehlenbeck-Mönchmühle  - Blankenburg  - Pankow-Heinersdorf  - Pankow  - Bornholmer Strasse  - Schoenhauser Allee  - Prenzlauer Allee  - Greifswalderstraße  - Landsberger Allee  - Storkower road  - Frankfurter Allee  - Ostkreuz  - Treptow Park  - Plänterwald  - Baumschulenweg  - Schöneweide  - operating Schöneweide  - Adlershof  - Grünau  (- Eichwalde  - Zeuthen )

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Schönfließ  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin, The development of the Berlin railway network since 1838, Verlag GVE, 2006, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 110.
  2. ↑ a b Bahnhof Schönfließ on Stadtschnellbahn.de, accessed on February 2, 2012
  3. ^ A b c Peter Bley, Berliner Nordbahn - 125 years of the Berlin – Neustrelitz – Stralsund railway. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-33-7 , p. 93
  4. ^ A b Peter Bley, Berliner Nordbahn - 125 years of the Berlin – Neustrelitz – Stralsund railway. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-33-7 , pp. 95/96
  5. ^ A b Peter Bley, Berliner Nordbahn - 125 years of the Berlin – Neustrelitz – Stralsund railway. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-33-7 , p. 100
  6. ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin, The development of the Berlin railway network since 1838, Verlag GVE, 2006, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 141
  7. ↑ Peter Bley: From the freight bypass to the Berlin outer ring . tape 3 : Development 1961 to 2018. VBN, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-941712-67-6 , p. 255 .
  8. ^ Ministry of Transport of the GDR, official timetable of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, summer timetable 1957
  9. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, course book 1989/90
  10. ↑ http://www.kibou.de/gozer/S-Bahn/chronik.cgi?a=1991&q=2
  11. ↑ Track plan from the time before the station renovation on w-schlegel.de, accessed on February 2, 2012
  12. ↑ Deutsche Bahn track plan at Schönfließ station (PDF; 143 kB), status 2010, accessed on February 2, 2012
  13. ↑ Entry on www.stellwerke.de , accessed on February 2, 2012