Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn station
| Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn | |
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 Fürstenbrunn station
(later: Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn) |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | BSMF |
| opening | June 1, 1905 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | West end |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 ′ 41 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 10 ″ E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The station Siemens City Fuerstenbrunn was a suburban station at the Hamburg train in Berlin district of Westend . It was built primarily for workers at the nearby Siemens works.
location
The station was in the city of Charlottenburg (from October 1, 1920 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg ) on the border of the Siemensstadt district of Spandau , in flat terrain near the south bank of the Spree . The station building was on the north side of the route of the Hamburger and Lehrter Bahn , access was from Fürstenbrunner Weg.
description
In front of the single-storey station building with a gable roof , which was lower than the railway line, was a paved square at the junction of the streets Fürstenbrunner Weg, Ruhwaldweg and Rohrdamm. The covered platform was located in the middle between the track - formerly out of town - and a subsequently built northern crossing track. From there a staircase led down to street level. The staircase had half-timbered elements and a nested roof structure.
history
The Siemens company financed the construction of the station, which was built in coordination with the state railway administration, but against the objection of the then independent city of Charlottenburg. On June 1, 1905, it was opened under the name Fürstenbrunn , initially as a breakpoint . At that time, up to 25 pairs of trains ran between Spandau and Strausberg via the Hamburg light rail connection and the light rail . In addition, there were two to three pairs of trains from and to the Nordring , which were discontinued on April 30, 1911 because of the level switch connection at Jungfernheide station .
During shift change times at Siemens, it was frequented by the company's workers and therefore got a second track and a sweeping system for reinforcement trains from the Lehrter station in 1906/1907 . In 1911 the Putlitzstrasse station in between was also given a sweeping system, as the train sequence between the two stations had to be shortened to three minutes during shift change times. By 1914, plans were ripening to lay another pair of suburban tracks north of the existing tracks in order to be able to run trains from the Nordring to Fürstenbrunn again. In this context, the station should have a second island platform and more extensive sweeping and parking facilities. As a result of the First World War , this project was not carried out.
On April 1, 1925, the station was given the suffix Siemensstadt . However, when the Siemensbahn went into operation on December 18, 1929, the number of passengers dropped significantly.
Until August 27, 1951, it was approached by suburban trains pulled by steam locomotives , which began and ended in the Lehrter station . Shortly before its final shutdown, the Jungfernheide - Spandau section of the Hamburg Railway was electrified in 1951 with a lateral busbar for S-Bahn operations. Since then it has been approached by electric S-Bahn trains of train group N (North Pole) , initially every 20 minutes and from 1976 every 30 minutes. They operated from 1955 on the Spindlersfeld - Nordring - Spandau West route , from 1961 between Gesundbrunnen and Staaken and from 1972 only from Beusselstraße to the former Spandau train station (today: Stresow ) and back.
As a result of the building of the Wall and the S-Bahn boycott , the number of passengers fell sharply from 1961, to 67 people a day on average in 1976. In 1968 the northern crossing track was closed, and in 1976 in the evening - which was still unusual at the time - supervision was withdrawn. As a result of the railroad strike of 1980 , the S-Bahn service in the Jungfernheide - Spandau section was no longer resumed after it ended on September 17th of that year. The station fell into disrepair, the station building was demolished in March 1987 and the platform in November 1996. During the construction of the high-speed line from Hanover to Berlin , the remains were removed.
literature
- Peter Bley: 150 years of the Berlin - Hamburg railway . 1st edition. Alba, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 .
- Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlin's S-Bahn stations. Three quarters of a century . Be.bra, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , p. 275 f .
Web links
- History and stories about the Berlin S-Bahn: Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn
- Berlin S-Bahn lines out of service: Jungfernheide-Spandau
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Bley: 150 years of the Berlin - Hamburg railway . 1st edition. Alba, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 , p. 115 ff .
- ^ Peter Bley: Berlin S-Bahn . 5th edition. Alba, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-87094-343-2 , p. 28 .
- ^ Hans D Reichardt: Berlin S-Bahn . 1st edition. Alba, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-87094-307-6 , pp. 139 .