Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd train station
| Berlin-Lichterfelde South | |
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 The platform
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BLIS |
| IBNR | 8089472 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening |
August 1, 1893 September 25, 1998 |
| Conveyance | January 9, 1984 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lichterfelde_Sued |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Lichterfelde |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 24 '36 " N , 13 ° 18' 31" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd train station is a S-Bahn station on the Anhalter Vorortbahn in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde . From 1943 to 1951, 1961 to 1984 and 1998 to 2005, the station was the end point of the trains coming from Anhalter Bahnhof on the suburban route. From 1951 until the wall was built , the trains ran beyond the city limits to neighboring Teltow . The station was not in operation between 1984 and 1998. The trains have continued to Teltow Stadt since 2005.
Together with the S-Bahn station Osdorfer Straße , this is the connection to the Berlin S-Bahn network for the thermometer settlement .
history
While Lichterfelde already experienced a building boom in the early years , development in Giesensdorf (today: part of Lichterfelde Süd) continued. At the beginning of the 1890s, another villa district was to be built along the Anhalter Bahn . The Volksbau-Gesellschaft , which acquired the corresponding land in Giesensdorf, arranged for a breakpoint to be set up on the route to develop the parceled areas in 1893. However, the original request to expand suburban traffic from Lichterfelde to this point was not met, so that traffic was limited to a few long-distance trains. Since Giesensdorf and Lichterfelde were merged to form the rural community of Groß- Lichterfelde as early as 1878 , the stop was named Groß-Lichterfelde Süd , and the old Lichterfelde train station was renamed Groß-Lichterfelde Ost to differentiate it . The construction of the suburban railway in 1901 and its electrification in 1903 only extended to Groß-Lichterfelde Ost. Groß-Lichterfelde Süd remained a long-distance station with two side platforms .
With the Greater Berlin Act of 1920, the city limits of the Reich capital were moved to shortly after Lichterfelde Süd. In 1925 the station was renamed to Lichterfelde Süd . It was still classified as a long-distance train station and therefore only accessible at significantly higher fares. It was not until 1938 that it was included in the Berlin suburban tariff as one of the last in Greater Berlin.
During the time of National Socialism , an extension of the suburban tracks via Lichterfelde Süd and Teltow to Trebbin was planned as part of the planning for the " World Capital Germania " , and a new line was to be built from Lichterfelde Süd to Stahnsdorf and linked there with the cemetery railway to Wannsee .
For this purpose, the station was rebuilt in 1942/1943 and provided with two central platforms for S-Bahn traffic, while the long-distance train tracks now ran through without stopping. On August 9, 1943, S-Bahn traffic from Lichterfelde Ost to Lichterfelde Süd could initially be taken up. Initially, only the western platform A was used, behind this a double-track sweeping system followed. Steam trains ran from Lichterfelde Süd to Ludwigsfelde.
After the end of the war , long-distance traffic was gradually thinned out, not least because West Berlin should only be accessible via long-distance traffic. The freed-up capacities now made it possible to electrify a long-distance track and thus expand the S-Bahn traffic to Teltow. On July 7, 1951, the 2.6-kilometer section was opened to traffic. The trains switched to the long-distance line behind the station and then ran on a single track into the surrounding area.
In the night of August 12th to 13th, 1961, Lichterfelde Süd became the terminus of the S-Bahn trains along the Anhalter Bahn. The reason was the construction of the Berlin Wall, which meant that the route was interrupted. A short time after the border was closed, however, the route was re-established for a transfer trip, as a train was parked in Teltow that night.
In the following years, the traffic along the route steadily decreased, the main reason for this was the boycott of the S-Bahn , since West Berlin passengers were told that the fare income would be used to finance the border fortifications. This circumstance also ensured that the staff was steadily reduced. When there was finally no more staff available to sell tickets at the station, the passengers had to ask for their tickets from the signal box manager at the station; tickets and change were exchanged using a basket that was lowered from the signal tower to the passenger.
The route is one of those on which the Deutsche Reichsbahn initially maintained trunk operations after the Reichsbahn strike in September 1980 . Only with the takeover of the West Berlin S-Bahn by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe on January 9, 1984 was operations on the line stopped. The railway systems remained unused and fell into disrepair, only the supervisory building was later converted into a dance hall.
After reunification , the entire Berlin S-Bahn network was to be brought back to the level of 1961 as far as possible, so the restart of the Anhalter Bahn was also in sight. In two steps, 1995 and 1998, the S-Bahn was restarted from Priesterweg station . Work in Lichterfelde Süd only began in 1997, a year before the opening. The old platform B was removed and a new central platform was built in its place. At platform A, however, the old superstructures and the signal box were left. On September 28, 1998, the first trains coming from Lichterfelde Ost could approach the station. On February 24, 2005, the line was finally extended to Teltow Stadt. The trains use the first three kilometers of the previously planned route to the cemetery railway .
Connection
The S-Bahn station is served by the S25 and S26 lines of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is also connected to the BVG route network. Several bus routes start and end here :
- M85 (S Lichterfelde Süd - S + U Hauptbahnhof )
- 186 (S Lichterfelde Süd - S Grunewald )
- 284 (S Lichterfelde Süd - S + U Rathaus Steglitz )
literature
- Bernhard Strowitzki: S-Bahn Berlin. Story (s) for on the go . 2nd Edition. Verlag GVE, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89218-073-3 .
Web links
- Current information about the S-Bahn station Lichterfelde Süd from S-Bahn Berlin GmbH
- S-Bahn station Lichterfelde Süd at www.stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- S-Bahnhof Lichterfelde Süd on a private website with many historical photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .