Beeskow train station
Map with all coordinates: | Beeskow | |
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 Listed reception building
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Through station , formerly connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BBES |
| IBNR | 8010029 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1898 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Beeskow |
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| City / municipality | Beeskow |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 10 '39 " N , 14 ° 15' 4" E |
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The Beeskow train station in the north of the town of the same name in Brandenburg was a junction of three branch lines until the 1990s . Today only the line from Königs Wusterhausen via Beeskow to Grunow is in operation. The station building is also a listed building, as is the old Beeskow station in the east of the city, which was used from 1888 to 1898.
location
The train station is in the small town of Beeskow, about 600 meters north of the market square. It is located at km 9.4 of the railway line Grunow - Königs Wusterhausen, which runs approximately in an east-west direction ( counting from Grunow , it is about 49 kilometers to Königs Wusterhausen ). The railway line crosses the Spree about 700 meters east of the station . The 113.3 kilometer long Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn from Falkenberg (Elster) in the southwest and the 33 kilometer long route from Fürstenwalde in the north end in Beeskow.
history
old trainstation
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 8.93 " N , 14 ° 15 ′ 41.62" E
As early as 1870 there were plans to connect the city of Beeskow to the railway network. Initially, the Cottbus-Schwielochsee-Eisenbahn , which at that time operated a horse-drawn railway from Cottbus to Goyatz , planned to extend the line via Beeskow and Müllrose to Frankfurt (Oder) and operate it as a locomotive train. A short time later, the Cottbus-Großenhainer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft planned to build a railway line from Cottbus to Frankfurt via Friedland and Beeskow. On December 31, 1876, the Cottbus – Frankfurt (Oder) line went into operation, but instead of via Beeskow, it took the shortest route several kilometers east of the city. It was not until twelve years later that Beeskow received a railway connection with a branch line of the Prussian State Railroad from Grunow to the Cottbus-Frankfurt line via Schneeberg . The line went into operation on May 15, 1888. The station was built on Frankfurter Chaussee on the eastern edge of the city, separated from the city center by the Spree. Four pairs of trains ran in the first year of operation. A few years later it was decided to connect Beeskow to the west with Königs Wusterhausen and Berlin . However, the old station was not ideal for this connection. The route was relocated in the Beeskow area. The new line with a bridge over the Spree was opened on September 20, 1898. The new train station was north of the city center. The old station went out of service and was used as a railway house. The building with a few outbuildings has been preserved and is used as a residential building. The ensemble of the old station "with reception building, post office, goods shed, toilet building, oven and park-like greenery" is a listed building.
Beeskow as a branch line junction
Also in 1898 the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn opened the line from Falkenberg to Lübben . Three years later, on November 24, 1901, the extension to Beeskow went into operation. The railway got its own station, Beeskow NLE , west of the state train station . On January 31, 1912, Beeskow was connected to the Fürstenwalde – Beeskow district railway . This railway also got its own train station, directly north of the state railway tracks.
During the Second World War, the station suffered considerable damage. In the direction of Lübben and Königs Wusterhausen, continuous traffic was interrupted for a long time after the Spree bridge at Briescht and the viaduct at Lindenberg had been blown up . After 1945 the two private railway companies were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The Beeskow NLE station was renamed Beeskow West . Since the 1960s, the trains from the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn route from Lübben have been led directly to Beeskow station, and the Beeskow West station building has been converted into apartments.
All three routes were of local importance in passenger transport. Freight traffic also served a number of local providers on the one hand, and the routes were also used to relieve the Frankfurt (Oder) node and for military purposes on the other. In 1982 there were goods connections in the station from the former part of the district railway to the port for the supply of building materials and a chipboard plant, from the state railway part to the agrochemical center and from the NLE part to the Rofin plant.
Development after 1990
In 1994 the traffic on the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn was stopped. The German regional railway took over the route, but in the Beeskow area it has remained without traffic to this day and (as of 2012) cannot be used. Due to structural damage, traffic on the former circular route to Fürstenwalde also ended in 1998. A renovation was intended by Deutsche Bahn and the state of Brandenburg. After the expansion of the northern section between Fürstenwalde and Bad Saarow had become significantly more expensive than planned, there were no more financial means available to restart the southern section between Bad Saarow and Beeskow. In the Beeskow area, there had already been some work to renovate the line, including the new platform for the line to Fürstenwalde. Until 2006 there was still a rail replacement bus service to Beeskow, before it was canceled by the state of Brandenburg. The new owner of the line, Scharmützelseebahn GmbH, filed an application in 2011 to de-dedicate the line from railway operating purposes. The station section for trains from Königs Wusterhausen to Frankfurt (Oder) was rebuilt around 2000. The island platform was omitted, the house platform was divided into two parts, similar to a number of other train stations in the state of Brandenburg, so that the trains depart from different parts of the platform in both directions.
From May to October 2020, the track systems in the station will be extensively modernized. The previous mechanical security technology will be replaced by an electronic interlocking whose operator station will be set up in the renovated building of interlocking B2. A new track 2 will be built for train crossings and connected to the line towards Grunow with a new switch. The entry speed from Frankfurt will be 60 km / h in the future. Furthermore, freight tracks 3 and 4 will be completely renewed and LED track field lighting will be installed there. The loading lane at tracks 8 to 10 will also have a lighting system. The rail connections to the chipboard plant and the Raiffeisen site will be retained. At the same time, the city is having the station building redesigned into a social center.
passenger traffic
Passenger traffic on the state railway was initially low until after 1900 and then gradually increased. In 1905 five pairs of trains ran between Königs Wusterhausen and Beeskow, and four further to Grunow. In 1914 there were seven pairs of trains, and the offer was similar between the two world wars. In the 1970s and 1980s, around twelve pairs of trains ran between Königs Wusterhausen and Beeskow a day, and a few less to Grunow. In 1994 the traffic was synchronized, the trains between Königs Wusterhausen and Beeskow ran partly every hour, partly every two hours. A year later, a continuous hourly service was introduced, with trains running from Grunow to Frankfurt (Oder). Trains from Königs Wusterhausen to Berlin have been running since 1998. At times there was a continuous line from Prenzlau via Templin , Oranienburg , Berlin, Königs Wusterhausen, Beeskow to Frankfurt (Oder). When the timetable changed in December 2004, passenger traffic on this line was taken over by the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn (ODEG). Today the Niederbarnimer Railway serves the train station every hour with the RB 36 (until 2012: OE 36) Berlin-Lichtenberg - Königs Wusterhausen - Beeskow - Grunow - Frankfurt (Oder). At the weekend, the offer between Beeskow and Frankfurt was initially reduced in winter, and since December 2012 year-round, to a two-hour service, which was condensed into the summer timetable again at hourly intervals at the 2013 timetable change. Since the timetable change in December 2014, the line has been taken over by the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn and only runs between Königs Wusterhausen and Frankfurt; Berlin-Lichtenberg is no longer served.
During the existence of the route, three to five pairs of trains ran almost constantly on the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn, in the direction of Fürstenwalde it was mostly four to six pairs of trains until 1994. In 1994 the train service was condensed and in some cases a two-hour service was introduced, which in 1995 was extended to cover the entire day. After the travel times could no longer be kept, in 1997 only two trains ran through to Beeskow on the outskirts of the day; buses ran at the other times. In 1998 the traffic was completely switched to bus operation.
Investments
Until the renovation, the state train station had a house platform and an island platform. At the west end of the house platform is the command signal box B2, behind it there is a barrier for the road towards Fürstenwalde. To the east of the reception building were the facilities for freight traffic that are no longer used today. The district station on the other side of the tracks has its own station building. The freight transport facilities of the circular path were also on its east side. Engine shed and coaling system. There was a siding from the district station to Beeskower Hafen on the Spree. The platform of the circular railway was connected to that of the state railway via a pedestrian tunnel, which was removed when the station was renovated at the end of the 1990s.
To the west of the level crossing were the facilities of the Niederlausitzer Railway. The NLE station consisted of six tracks, a two-storey reception building, goods shed, ramp, loading street, engine shed and other treatment facilities. A connecting track led to the state train station.
The station building on the Grunow – Königs Wusterhausen line with extensions is a listed building. The station buildings of the two private railways have also been preserved. The NLE building is inhabited, the circular path was empty, and in 2016 the renovation of the district train station, which now serves as a residential building, began.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg (Beeskow station)
- Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg (old Beeskow station)
- Private website about the railways around Königs Wusterhausen with historical pictures of the Beeskow train station
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Müller, Chronicle of the Frankfurt / Oder - Müllrose - Grunow / NL - Cottbus railway line , part 1 , accessed on January 8, 2012
- ↑ a b Private website for the train station , accessed on January 8, 2012
- ↑ a b Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Oder-Spree district . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09115543, December 31, 2018, p. 27 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 257 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
- ^ A b Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 192
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion Berlin, track plan of Beeskow station from 1982
- ↑ Railway renewed tracks and points in Beeskow. In: MOZ.de. April 27, 2020, accessed May 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Timetable change in VBB on December 9, 2012 / Press / Press releases / 2012 - 11 :: VBB Online. (No longer available online.) In: vbb.de. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012 ; Retrieved December 9, 2012 . 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.
- ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , pp. 202/203.
