Berlin-Friedenau train station

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Berlin-Friedenau
Platform of the Friedenau train station
Platform of the Friedenau train station
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation BFRU
IBNR 8089058
Price range 4th
opening November 1, 1874
Website URL s-bahn-berlin.de
Profile on Bahnhof.de Friedenau
location
City / municipality Berlin
Place / district Schöneberg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 28 '12 "  N , 13 ° 20' 26"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '12 "  N , 13 ° 20' 26"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Berlin
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The Berlin-Friedenau Railway Station is at the Berlin Wannseebahn situated above-ground station with a central platform and two tracks. It was opened in its current form in 1891 and has a so-called “ greenhouse style ” entrance . A first station was set up at this point as early as 1874. The station is listed as BFRU in the operating point directory.

Location and name

The Friedenau train station is not in the Friedenau district of the same name , but in Schöneberg . It owes its name to the fact that when it was built it primarily benefited the residents and visitors of the Friedenau country house colony, which was founded at the time.

Steps to the platform in the Friedenau S-Bahn station

Access to the platform is only possible at the southwest end of the platform via Baumeister - / Bahnhofstraße or via Dürerplatz . A northeast exit in the direction of Rubensstrasse would make it easier to change to bus line 187, but has not yet been implemented. As part of the construction of the city ​​motorway east of the Wannseebahn (west bypass), older tracks, storage areas and small buildings were cleared. The exit from the Friedenau S-Bahn station to Dürerplatz has since been passed under the western bypass.

Since the early 2000s, the Friedenau station has had a passenger elevator from the platform to the platform tunnel. Since then, passengers with restricted mobility have been able to get on and off barrier-free in the direction of Dürerplatz . Another elevator went into operation at the north-western entrance from Bahnhofstrasse in April 2014; it was originally supposed to be built in 2004.

From the northeast end of the platform you can see the defiant patina-covered “studio tower” of the listed residential complex of the Ceciliengärten . The painter Hans Baluschek had an honorary apartment with a studio in this building between 1929 and 1933.

history

The main line Berlin – Potsdam was put into operation as early as 1838; until 1847 the line was expanded to two tracks. In order to allow the local trains of the Potsdamer Bahn that run between Berlin and Steglitz to stop near Friedenau, the first station was opened here on November 1, 1874. The merchant and landowner August Sponholz made the land available for this. In order to connect the newly created rural community of Friedenau to the Wannseebahn in times of poor roads and transport connections, Sponholz negotiated with the non-profit association Friedenau with the management of the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway company . Beginning in November 1874, 14 trains a day, later 21, stopped at the newly built Friedenau station, for which Sponholz had collected 6,000 marks with banks and other real estate companies  (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 45,000 euros). At that time there were no underpasses, platform tunnels and raised platforms. The station building was built in the "Swiss house style" that was more common at the time on the west side of Bahnhofstrasse. It is the only one of the Wannsee railway stations that has been preserved in half-timbered construction to this day .

On October 1, 1891, parallel to the main line, a separate pair of tracks was opened for local traffic between Potsdamer Bahnhof and Zehlendorf , which was called the New Wannseebahn . The local traffic could thus be operated independently of the long-distance traffic, so a closer train sequence was possible. As part of the four-track expansion of the main line, the intersections were replaced by underpasses (e.g. Rubensstrasse , Bergstrasse , Albrechtstrasse , Hindenburgdamm , Drakestrasse ) and platform tunnels were created. The Friedenau train station was also relocated and redesigned, from now on it was located on the Neue Wannseebahn . He received a higher roofed platform, the platform tunnel and the “greenhouse access” from Bahnhofstrasse. The old reception building lost its function and was later rented to other users.

The trains of the Wannsee Railway rarely went to Potsdam, as the connection via the Stadtbahn and the Wetzlar Railway was faster and you could change trains in Wannsee. Between 1900 and 1902 an electrical test operation was introduced on the line. At the same time and after this time, the trains ran into the station with steam until 1933.

From May 15, 1933, the line could also be operated electrically in regular traffic on the Berlin S-Bahn, so that the railcars of the ET 165 series (Wannseebahn) that had already been procured could be used on it. In this context, other train stations ( Schöneberg , Feuerbachstrasse , Sundgauer Strasse ) were built at the same time .

Former station building
View in northeast direction, a prototype of the
BVG class 480 on the platform

After the full length of the north-south tunnel was completed in 1939 , it was possible for the first time to travel by S-Bahn from Wannsee via Friedenau and the center of Berlin to Oranienburg . In the last days of the war in 1945, the north-south tunnel was flooded by blasting under the Landwehr Canal and the Spree . Until the tunnel was completely restored, the Wannseebahn trains had to turn again in the above-ground Potsdamer Bahnhof by the summer of 1946 and then in the underground Anhalter Bahnhof . It was not until November 1947 that they could drive through to Oranienburg again. However, this connection had to be shortened again as a result of the construction of the Wall in 1961 to Frohnau . At the tunnel stations, with the exception of the Friedrichstrasse station , which was used as a border crossing point to allow access to East Berlin , the trains ran without stopping from August 1961.

After a strike by West Berlin employees of the Reichsbahn in 1980, the Wannsee Railway was shut down for passenger traffic. There were only operational trips between the Wannsee depot and the Anhalter Bahnhof in order to be able to exchange the trains on the remaining north-south routes Heiligensee - Lichtenrade / Lichterfelde Süd .

Only after the Berlin Senate took over the West Berlin S-Bahn on January 9, 1984, the line was able to reopen on February 1, 1985 after intensive renovation work at the stations. At this time the Friedenau train station woke up from its slumber. The opening date mentioned could only be kept because work was carried out in the winter of 1984/1985 despite the freezing temperatures; some work had to be repeated later. Postponing the opening was out of the question in view of the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives on March 10, 1985, as the reactivation of the S-Bahn met with great public interest and became a campaign topic.

The S1 S-Bahn trains, which run between Oranienburg and Wannsee , currently stop at Friedenau station. During construction work on the Stadtbahn in the mid-2000s, the S1 was extended to Potsdam for some time .

The area around the station at the entrance to Bahnhofstrasse has changed positively in the 2010s. There is a restaurant with a beer garden on the opposite corner of Sponholz and Baumeisterstraße . A small café was built right next to the entrance (with a beer garden on the railway line and a street café on the forecourt). The old station building from 1874 was renovated and has been used for exhibitions and small concerts since 2004. In addition, a small playground was opened on the railroad track in spring 2008.

Connection

The station is served by the S1 line of the Berlin S-Bahn. The BVG stop Rubensstraße / S Friedenau on bus route 187 is around 300 meters away .

line course
Berlin S1.svg Oranienburg  - Lehnitz  - Borgsdorf  - Birkenwerder  - Hohen Neuendorf  - Frohnau  - Hermsdorf  - Waidmannslust  - Wittenau (Wilhelmsruher dam)  - Wilhelmsruh  - Schönholz  - Wollankstraße  - Bornholmer Strasse  - Gesundbrunnen  - Humboldt Park  - North Station  - Oranienburgerstraße  - Friedrichstrasse  - Brandenburg Gate  - Potsdamer Platz  - pickup Train station  - Yorckstraße (Großgörschenstraße)  - Julius-Leber-Brücke  - Schöneberg  - Friedenau  - Feuerbachstraße  - Steglitz town hall  - Botanical Garden  - Lichterfelde West  - Sundgauer Straße  - Zehlendorf  - Mexikoplatz  - Schlachtensee  - Nikolassee  - Wannsee

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Current stations - Second elevator for the Friedenau station . In: point 3 . No. 9 , 2014, p. 11 ( online , PDF [accessed December 14, 2012]).
  3. Stairs instead of elevator: Toll disaster makes passengers sweat. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 28, 2004, accessed November 16, 2014 .
  4. Tempelhof-Schöneberg • Streets - Squares - Bridges. Berlin 2012. Published by BA Tempelhof-Schöneberg, page 424
  5. ^ Peter Bley: 150 Years of the Berlin – Potsdam Railway . Alba, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-87094-221-5 , p. 84 .