Ahrensfelde cemetery station

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Ahrensfelde cemetery
Platform, 2014
Platform, 2014
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation BAFR
IBNR 8011004
Price range 6th
opening November 16, 1908
Profile on Bahnhof.de Ahrensfelde_Cemetery
location
City / municipality Ahrensfelde
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 34 '50 "  N , 13 ° 34' 23"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 34 '50 "  N , 13 ° 34' 23"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Brandenburg
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Ahrensfelde Friedhof is a stopping point and former train station on the Wriezener Bahn in the Brandenburg municipality of Ahrensfelde . The operating site is located in the immediate vicinity of the Ostkirchhof Ahrensfelde , the facility of which is closely related to the construction of the station.

Location and structure

The stop is located in kilometer  14.72 of the VzG route 6528 ( Berlin Wriezener Bf  - Ahrensfelde  - Werneuchen  - Wriezen ) and is the first and last in Brandenburg. The route is classified as a branch line , single-track and not electrified.

The platform is located west of the main line and has a usable length of 135 meters, the platform height is 76 centimeters. There is access to the west of Ulmenallee near the Ostkirchhof and to the east via a passenger crossing to Bahnstraße. The platform is partially covered. The western edge of the platform was also used until 1924, and there was still a siding and a siding to the Ostkirchhof. The former station building is located west of the track system and is used privately. Lindenberger Strasse crosses the route south of the platform.

history

The construction of the station went hand in hand with the construction of the Ostkirchhof Ahrensfelde of the Berlin City Synodal Association . In 1907 the association acquired 285 hectares of land from the municipality of Ahrensfelde to build a central cemetery for the eastern Berlin districts. The Wriezener Bahn , which opened in 1898, was one of the decisive factors in the search for a suitable site, as both the corpses and the visitors were to be driven over the route . The Königliche Eisenbahn-Direktion (KED) Berlin responsible for the route was opposed to the plan to build another station on the uphill section between the Ahrensfelde and Blumberg stations . She therefore referred to the existing facilities. The KED and the responsible minister for public works, Paul von Breitenbach, were only convinced by a report that was presented after 70,000 travelers were expected in the first year of operation . On July 1, 1908, what was then the second largest cemetery in Germany with an area of ​​285 hectares went into operation. The initially provisional Ahrensfelde Friedhof stop followed on November 16, 1908. A renaming of the operating site to Ahrensfelde Ostkirchhof , as requested by the city synod , did not materialize.

Platform roofing, 2014

At the request of the Berlin City Synod, the train station should be designed generously. The central platform was to be laid out "in the manner of the Berlin suburb stations" with high platform edges and connected via a pedestrian tunnel. The representative reception building should have two waiting rooms for the 1st / 2nd and 3rd / 4th Class with space for 50 people each, two halls for the mourning congregations of 20 people and a room for the clergy. An additional track should be available for handling the special trains for the mourning parishes, as well as a siding to the cemetery chapel for transferring the hearse. In addition, service apartments for six station employees and a goods shed were planned. The high-rise buildings were adapted to the sacred architecture of the cemetery buildings. Since the city synod was unable to raise the 400,000 marks required by KED Berlin for the construction  , the management canceled the facilities for freight traffic. Compared to the plans, the new reception building should only include the rooms for station service, ticket sales and baggage handling, as well as a waiting room. Since only little traffic was expected apart from the funerals, the management also intended to impose the personnel costs on the city synod for the first five years. The Minister of Public Works prohibited this. After around two years of construction, the station was opened for unrestricted passenger, freight and express freight traffic.

Both the number of burials and that of travelers fell well short of expectations. In the opinion of the Berlin city synod, the decisive factor was the lack of local tariff on the Wriezener Bahn. Despite the burial costs more than twice as high, the Berliners preferred to have their deceased buried close to the city. The Berlin corpse wagons pointed out that the rail journey would result in permanently higher costs, and the coffins also had to be more stable.

By the end of 1913, the association tried several times to persuade KED Berlin and the Minister of Public Works to introduce the suburban tariff. The neighboring communities of the Wriezener Bahn and the transport committee of the Greater Berlin Association followed suit . On November 23, 1913, there was even a call from over 1000 cemetery visitors. In his reply of November 29, 1913, the minister referred to the fact that the extension of the suburban tariff to the Wriezener Bahn required the expansion of the double-track main line and the removal of all level crossings . For the section from Berlin to Ahrensfelde Friedhof, the costs would have been around 6.2 million marks. On the other hand, there were losses of 89,000 marks for the year 1912. In addition to the Berlin Rieselfeldern , the main reason for the low volume of traffic on the railway was also the cemetery.

The Deutsche Reichsbahn , newly founded in April 1920, responded to the request for a fare reduction on July 15, 1920 by halving the fare for 4th class for relatives of deceased people buried in the Ostkirchhof. The passengers had to show an ID with the seal and signature of the respective sexton . Nevertheless, the volume of traffic at the station continued to decline, so that the Reichsbahn closed express goods and baggage handling from April 15 and reduced the number of trains stopping. Operationally, the station was switched through, the intersection and the siding were not used as planned. The Reichsbahndirektion Berlin issued a separate instruction for handover trips to the cemetery . From July 1, 1927, all trains stopped again.

From May 15, 1938, the Berlin suburban tariff applied on the Wriezener Bahn to Werneuchen . At around the same time, the station was operationally downgraded to a halt. The plans to transform Berlin into the world capital Germania , which began a short time later, provided for the introduction of the electric S-Bahn service on the Wriezener Bahn to Werneuchen. In Ahrensfelde Friedhof, the restoration of the station system and the construction of a single-track sweeping system north of the platform were planned. There was no implementation, instead the remaining tracks were dismantled in 1946. The switch connection from the continuous main track 3 to crossing track 2 was retained as a siding. Until the 1960s, the track was used to deliver fir greenery .

As a result of the political division of Berlin , the People's Police of the German Democratic Republic, founded in 1949, introduced passport controls at Berlin's external borders in the summer of 1952. The controls carried out on the Wriezener Bahn in Ahrensfelde Friedhof were maintained until after the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. In the early 1980s, the pedestrian tunnel was closed and replaced by a level access.

After 2016, the barrier-free expansion and modernization of the stop from federal and state funds were planned. The plans drawn up by DB Station & Service provided for the demolition of the existing platform and a new construction on the east side of the tracks. For the new building, DB Station & Service would have to acquire a parcel of land from the municipality of Ahrensfelde, which spoke out against the location. The measure has therefore been postponed until further notice.

traffic

Railcar of the ODEG at the Hp Ahrensfelde cemetery, 2014

Since the Ostkirchhof went into operation about a quarter of a year before the bus stop, the transport of corpses had been handled via the neighboring Ahrensfelde train station until then . From there, the coffins were transported to the cemetery by cart. The transfers by rail began at the Ostgüterbahnhof , where a corpse collection point was set up. From Monday to Saturday, a “coffin train” with three to four covered wagons ran to Ahrensfelde cemetery every day. After the Ahrensfelde Friedhof station was put into operation for the time being, ten trains only stopped for public transport to and from Berlin; Trains to Berlin were therefore only allowed to be used for boarding, trains to Werneuchen accordingly only for getting off. Only with the expansion to the station in October 1910 did the regulation cease to exist.

By the beginning of the First World War in the summer of 1914, the number of trains stopping in Ahrensfelde Friedhof rose to 16 pairs of trains. The trains usually started at Wriezener Bahnhof in Berlin. Most trains went to Werneuchen or Tiefensee , the other trains continued to Wriezen or Königsberg (Neum) (since 1945 Polish: Chojna ). In 1918 the KED Berlin stopped the transport of mortal remains.

As a result of the low demand, from April 15, 1924 to July 1, 1927, only passenger trains stopped at the cemetery between 1:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. On the other hand, additional relief trains were inserted on the day of atonement and prayer as well as on the Sunday of the dead; in 1934 six pairs of trains were specified. According to the 1932/33 winter timetable, 18 pairs of trains served the station. With the introduction of suburban traffic, the range of services to and from Berlin was reduced to an almost hourly service, and the number of trains rose to 22 pairs a day.

Between April 1945 and November 24, 1945 the train traffic stopped completely. After operations resumed, four pairs of trains initially commuted between Berlin-Lichtenberg and Werneuchen, and a year later there were six pairs of trains. The offer remained after the restart in Wriezen and increased to twelve train pairs by 1951. Little had changed in this timetable structure until 1991. From 1976 to 1982 the Deutsche Reichsbahn gradually extended the Berlin S-Bahn to Ahrensfelde. In the same period, she withdrew the suburban trains to Ahrensfelde, where there was a connection to the S-Bahn. An expansion of the electrical operation from Ahrensfelde via Ahrensfelde Friedhof to the Ahrensfelde Nord stop, which opened in 1983, was taken into account in the planning.

With the 1992 summer timetable, the Deutsche Reichsbahn introduced the hourly service between Ahrensfelde and Werneuchen on the route. Since May 1993 some trains ended, and since May 1994 all trains ended again in Berlin-Lichtenberg. In the opposite direction, the trains ended in Tiefensee from May 1998 .

In December 2004, after winning the tender, the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (ODEG) took over operations on the line from DB Regio , which has ended in Werneuchen since December 9, 2006. On December 14, 2014 the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn took over the management of the ODEG.

Timetable offer 2017
line course operator
RB 25 Berlin Ostkreuz  - Berlin-Lichtenberg  - Ahrensfelde  - Ahrensfelde Cemetery  - Ahrensfelde North - Blumberg-Rehhahn - Blumberg (b Berlin)  - Seefeld (Mark) - Werneuchen Niederbarnimer Railway

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahrensfelde cemetery. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, July 11, 2018, archived from the original on August 26, 2018 ; accessed on August 26, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Jan Feustel: A cemetery with almost no graves. The Ostkirchhof Ahrensfelde and the Prussian railway . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 6, 2008, pp. 150-154 .
  3. ↑ a b c Horst Regling: The Wriezen Railway. From Berlin to the Oderbruch . transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71074-9 , pp. 41-51 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Zeitz: About the Barnim into the Oderbruch. 100 years of the Berlin - Wriezen railway line . In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter . Volume 4, 1998, pp. 91-99 .
  5. ^ Deutscher Bahnkundenverband (Ed.): Network plan for the redesign of the Berlin railway systems from May 15, 1941 . Reprint. GVE, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89218-094-6 .
  6. ↑ 100 years Ostkirchhof. In: www.mehrow.de. Retrieved June 22, 2015 .
  7. ↑ a b Horst Regling: The Wriezen Railway. From Berlin to the Oderbruch . transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71074-9 , pp. 78-83 .
  8. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Ed.): List of measures ZIP DB Station & Service AG. Future Investment Program (ZIP); Work package “Accessibility at small stations” . June 7, 2016 ( bmvi.de [PDF]).
  9. ^ Kai-Uwe Krakau: Station will not be rebuilt . In: Märkische Oderzeitung . February 16, 2018 ( moz.de ).
  10. ^ Course book summer 1914.
  11. ↑ Niederbarnimer Kreisblatt . November 20, 1934.
  12. ↑ Kursbuch Winter 1932/33.
  13. ↑ Course book summer 1939.
  14. ↑ Jens Dudczak, Uwe Dudczak: Werneuchen. In: Berliner-Bahnen.de. Retrieved June 22, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Horst Regling: The Wriezen Railway. From Berlin to the Oderbruch . transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71063-3 , p. 98-100 .
  16. ↑ Horst Regling: The Wriezen Railway. From Berlin to the Oderbruch . transpress, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-613-71063-3 , p. 118-121 .
  17. ↑ Peter Neumann: The end of five railway lines will come by May . In: Berliner Zeitung . March 31, 1998 ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed June 22, 2015]).
  18. ↑ Peter Neumann: Better service on the rails . In: Berliner Zeitung . December 2, 2002 ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed June 22, 2015]).
  19. ^ Peter Neumann: Last train to Putlitz . In: Berliner Zeitung . November 27, 2006 ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed June 22, 2015]).
  20. ↑ Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn expands route network . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 7, 2014 ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed June 22, 2015]).