Bad Belzig train station
| Bad Belzig | |
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 Station building, platform side
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Connection station , former crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4 (2 in operation) |
| abbreviation | BBIG |
| IBNR | 8010031 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | May 15, 1879 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bad Belzig |
| Place / district | Bad Belzig |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 8 '9 " N , 12 ° 35' 42" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The station Bad Belzig went in 1879 with the opening of the Berlin-Blankenheim Railway , a section of the canon rail , into operation. Since 1904 it has also been served by the Brandenburg city railway, which has been largely without traffic and has been partially shut down since 2003. The main railway station building dates from when the station was opened and is also a listed building, as is the city railway station building and a number of other buildings in the station area.
Location and name
The station is located in the town of Bad Belzig in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district at route kilometers 65.23 on the Berlin – Blankenheim railway line, the zero point of the kilometer reading is Berlin-Charlottenburg station . The route runs roughly from east to west in the area of the station. The urban railway, which begins at Treuenbrietzen station , reaches Bad Belzig from the south-east, the station is at 21.6 km. Your continuation towards Brandenburg an der Havel leaves the station in the same direction, crosses under the main line and then turns north.
The train station is about a kilometer southeast of the city center on the outskirts, well above the city center. The urban development ends in the station area to the south just behind the railway facilities. Originally, the area east of Eisenhardt Castle with the train station belonged to the municipality of Sandberg , which was not incorporated into Belzig until 1914.
Until the end of 2011 the station was only called Belzig , the city had already received the addition of Bad in 2010. After the opening of the Brandenburg city railway in 1904, a distinction was made between the stations Belzig Staatsbf , later Belzig Rb (for Reichsbahn) of the main railway and Belzig Städtebf or Belzig Brandenb Städteb of the urban railway. After the nationalization of the urban railway, the name Belzig applied to both parts.
history
The station went into operation together with the line on April 1, 1879 for goods traffic and on April 15 of the same year for passenger traffic. Soon after its opening, the rail connection led to a boom in tourism in the city.
Belzig was one of the most important stations on the line and was the only station on the line east of the Elbe to have a larger type of reception building. At the beginning of the 20th century, Belzig became a hub. The originally private Brandenburg urban railway connected Belzig in one direction with Niemegk and Treuenbrietzen and in the other with Brandenburg an der Havel, Rathenow and Neustadt (Dosse) . The urban railway built a separate section of the station with its own station building, but the state railway facilities were also expanded in this context.
In 1923, the connection to Roßlau and further into Central Germany, which had been planned before the First World War , went into operation from the neighboring Wiesenburg (Mark) station . With this and with the new Seddin marshalling yard , the importance of the line and Belzig station grew, especially in freight traffic. Belzig was a station of the second highest station class II, especially its operational tasks were important.
A train station belonged to the station , but it was of relatively minor importance. It was subordinate to the Seddin depot. In the 1930s only three locomotives were stationed in it. The locomotive station was closed in the 1970s and converted into a locomotive operations center.
After the Second World War, the division of Germany affected traffic on the route. The direct connection to West Berlin was only permitted for freight traffic, trains to the eastern part of the city had to take the detour via the Berlin outer ring . The route remained particularly important for freight traffic. In 1963, passenger traffic on the urban railway section between Belzig and Treuenbrietzen was stopped. Freight trains continued to use the route, later only between Belzig and Niemegk. In 1990 the electrical contact line in the station went into operation. At the western end of the station, a new signal box was built, which was originally planned as an electromechanical signal box. However, from 1990 onwards enough materials were available to set up a track diagram interlocking there.
In 2003 the traffic on the urban railway between Brandenburg and Belzig ended. The line was shut down and later partially dismantled. The route to Niemegk was taken over by the Deutsche Regionalisenbahn , which would like to use it for special trips and occasional freight traffic.
With the connection to an electronic signal box in 2005/2006, the track and platform systems were rebuilt and a number of tracks that were no longer required were removed. In 2011 the station building was renovated.
Investments
General
From a monument protection point of view, the station complex is an “exemplary example of a joint station where different railway companies meet and are connected to each other by traffic”. This is less about uniformity, but rather "the growth over the course of several phases can be traced". The station building originally used by the state railway is located on the north side of the tracks. On the south side are the systems of the Brandenburg city railway with its own reception building. In the western part of the station are the facilities for passenger traffic, in the eastern part the former facilities for goods traffic and operational tracks.
The following buildings are on the list of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: "State railway station building with restaurant, waiting room, toilets and ice cellar" (No. 11), building inspection building (No. 9), water station "Wasserwerk" (No. 6), goods shed with loading ramps on both sides , Reception building of the Brandenburg city railway (No. 3), residential building (No. 1), double residential building (No. 2), warehouse (fuel storage), residential building (No. 4), goods shed, locomotive and wagon hall, "Big" signal box .
The numbers refer to the house numbers in the street “Am Bahnhof”, house numbers 1 to 4 are on the south side of the tracks, the others are north of the tracks.
Listed buildings
Reception building
The building on the north side of the tracks was built with the construction of the line in 1878/79 and corresponds to the standard construction type for larger stations on the Berlin – Blankenheim line. Originally identical or mirror-symmetrical to Belzig, there are station buildings in Barby , Calbe (Saale) West, Hettstedt and Klostermansfeld .
The reception building is essentially a two-story, seven-axis brick building with a hipped roof , the adjoining three-axis restaurant wing on the west side is one -story . The reason for this is that the waiting rooms of III. and IV. Class wanted to be provided with a sufficient height. In the central part of the building were the ticket office, service rooms and the first and second class waiting room. On the upper floor, two company apartments were set up for railway employees. At the beginning of the 20th century, the building was expanded in the same style on its east side, and a single-storey extension was built on the west side. One of the design components of the station building, similar to that of other stations along the route, is the "carefully crafted ornumental terracotta architectural decoration".
In 2010 the building was bought by the Bad Belzig public utility company, then renovated and re-inaugurated on November 25, 2011 as the Fläming station Bad Belzig . In the station there is a surveying office, social counseling for the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, a landscape architecture office and a regional shop with a café.
Platform roofing
The monument database mentions the roof directly adjacent to the reception building from the time of the station renovation in 1900/1905 with a pent roof and riveted steel girders. During the renovation of the station building in 2011 it was not rebuilt.
Toilet house and ice cellar
The toilet block adjoins the reception building to the east. It is a one-story massive brick building. In addition to the toilets for men and women, there were also storage rooms and stables in the building that were used by the employees living in the station.
The reception building and toilet block are structurally connected. Originally the passage between the two was provided with an archway typical of the train stations along the route. This was removed when the station building was expanded in 1904.
The ice cellar adjoining to the east on the street side also dates from the beginning of the 20th century.
Administration building (railway inspection, Am Bahnhof 9)
The management building of the railway inspection of the Prussian State Railway, later the Reichsbahn-Betriebsamt, is diagonally opposite the station building on the other side of the street. It is a representative two-story, eight-axis, plastered building with a mansard roof . It was built in 1906/07 and was used as an operations office by the Reichsbahn until 1946.
Water station
The water station is on the side of the road facing away from the track, about 200 meters west of the reception building. It dates from the time the railway line was built in 1877/78. The main water stations on the route were built in Halensee (today Berlin Grunewald ) and Güsten , Belzig received a water station of medium size in addition to Hettstedt.
The supply of the locomotives in the water proved to be particularly difficult here, as the station is located on the slopes of the Hohen Fläming about 30 meters above the valley floor. and a water-bearing layer could not be found near the train station. Therefore, a well had to be built 720 meters away in the valley. From there the water was pushed 33 meters up to the water station.
Today the building is used privately, a water level marker on the street side has been preserved.
Goods shed
The goods shed is several hundred meters east of the reception building. It is a brick building that is dated to 1878/1879 and therefore also dates from the time the station was opened. Two loading ramps at the shed are also on the list of monuments. The building is currently unused.
Station reception building (urban railway)
The station reception building of the urban railway is on the south side of the track system. It is a two-storey building made of yellow bricks from 1904. It is two-storey, partly single-storey, with a gable roof . Compared to the buildings of the state railway, the somewhat more modest building and its ancillary buildings are considered to be “solid and appealing evidence of the brick building that was so characteristic of Brandenburg architecture” at that time.
Similar to the state railway building, the station of the urban railway is also a type construction. The construction contract at the time provided: “2-storey, with a 1.5 m high jamb, around 106 square meters of built-up area, solid with a double cardboard roof, partly with a basement, containing 1 service room on the ground floor. 2 waiting rooms with a hall, on the upper floor: 2 rooms, 2 chambers, 1 kitchen. "
It is no longer used for railway purposes.
Residential building (Am Bahnhof 4) and storage shed
The building stands to the east next to the station building of the city railway, it is a massive two-story building made of dark red bricks. The house, which is listed in the list of monuments as “residential building” and is dated to 1930 or 1940, is the service building of the railway maintenance office built in 1938 with apartments for employees on the upper floor.
To the east is a small, one-story storage shed, which was built between 1900 and 1905 with the urban railway system. He has an extension made of dark red clinker bricks, which was probably built at the same time as the house.
Residential buildings (Am Bahnhof 1 and Am Bahnhof 2) and storage buildings
Both railroad houses are on the south side of the track system, west of the station building of the city railway.
The residential building at Am Bahnhof 1 is a two-storey brick building with a gable roof from 1904. The house at Am Bahnhof 2 next to it is a single-storey semi-detached house, also a solid brick building with six axes and a gable roof. Both houses are used privately. In terms of monument protection, the railway as well as the residential and commercial buildings of the urban railway are characterized by "harmonious design and technical care".
Between the residential buildings and the station building of the urban railway there is a small warehouse, a single-storey building with red tiles with a gable roof.
Locomotive hall
The locomotive shed, also known as the “Lokomotivhalle”, is located in the eastern part of the station, opposite the goods shed, on the southern side of the tracks. It is a massive building made of red bricks on a field stone base with a gable roof. Originally, it was a two-tier rectangular shed, which was later expanded to four stands and a turntable in the direction of Berlin. In the 1970s, after the Belzig train station was closed, part of the hall was demolished and the turntable expanded.
Some of the tracks to the east behind the locomotive hall are used by the "Eisenbahnfreunde Hoher Fläming eV" association, which has a small vehicle collection there.
The tracks of the main line from Berlin run north of the locomotive shed, those of the city rail line south of it. To the south of it, at about the same height, was the three-tier locomotive shed for the city railway, which burned down in 1998.
Big signal box
The Big signal box is located on the south side of the track system, west of the city station. It is a four-storey building made of plastered bricks with a flat roof, which the list of monuments dates to around 1950 or 1960. In fact, the signal box is much younger and went into operation on May 15, 1992. It is a switchboard of the type III GS 8030, the first of its type in the German Railway . It replaced the two mechanical signal boxes Bo and Bwf as well as a key work of the urban railway.
On November 26th, 2006 it went out of service after being connected to an electronic signal box .
Tracks and platforms
Before the station was rebuilt in the mid-2000s, the state railway had a house platform and two intermediate platforms , which were only accessible by crossing the track on the house platform. To the south of it there were through tracks and a connection to the urban railway section. A house platform and an intermediate platform belong to the city station. The associated tracks are brought together on the west side of the platforms and end bluntly. To the east of the main line's platforms, there are extensive freight transport facilities. From the urban railway, the two mainline tracks in the direction of Brandenburg and Treuenbrietzen ran parallel to each other for a kilometer south of the main line, before they separated and the track in the direction of Brandenburg was run under the line to Berlin.
The urban railway section is connected to the main railway section via a pedestrian bridge. This was replaced by a new building as part of the electrification of the route.
With the connection of the station to an electronic signal box, the systems were converted in 2005/2006. The intermediate platforms disappeared, a new island platform was built in the direction of Berlin, which can be reached via a new staircase from the pedestrian bridge. The stairs were fitted with elevators during the renovation. A number of tracks that are no longer needed have also been removed.
In front of the station building there are some bus stops for the main bus routes in the region, but the city's main bus station is located near the center.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The construction work on the Berlin - Blankenheim railway line (end), in: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume XXXIII, Verlag von Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1883, pp. 421–422, online (.pdf).
- ↑ Helga Kästner, Belzig on historical postcards. A historical city tour. , accessed February 10, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Jürgen Krebs: Kanonenbahn Berlin – Sangerhausen. Between Fläming and Mansfelder Land. Wolfgang Herdam Fotoverlag, Gernrode 2004, ISBN 3-933178-09-6 , pp. 54–55.
- ↑ a b c d Jörg Raach, Matthias Baxmann, Fascination Railway. Railway culture in Brandenburg , L + H Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-39396-2921-4 , pp. 115–117.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- ↑ a b c The construction work on the Berlin - Blankenheim railway line (end), in: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume XXXIII, Verlag von Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1883, pp. 414-418, online (.pdf).
- ↑ Flaemingbahnhof on the website of Stadtwerke Bad Belzig, accessed on February 7, 2014.
- ^ Walter Menzel, Die Brandenburgische Städtebahn. Transpress, Berlin 1984, p. 91.
- ↑ Signal boxes on Kanonenbahn.de, accessed on February 7, 2016, list of German signal boxes on stellwerke.de, accessed on February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn, track plan 1984.