Berlin-Lichterfelde West train station
| Berlin-Lichterfelde West | |
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 Entrance building of the station
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| Operating point type |
Railway station (long-distance train) Stopping point (S-Bahn) |
| Location in the network | Separation station (mainline) |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BLIW (long-distance train) BLWE (S-Bahn) |
| IBNR | 8089071 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | December 15, 1872 February 1, 1985 (reopening of the S-Bahn) |
| Conveyance | September 18, 1980 (S-Bahn) |
| Website URL | sbahn.berlin |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Berlin-Lichterfelde West |
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| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Lichterfelde |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 26 '36 " N , 13 ° 17' 41" E |
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The Berlin-Lichterfelde West station is a station of the Deutsche Bahn in Berlin district of Lichterfelde . It was set up in the 1870s on the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line to develop the Lichterfelde-West villa colony and is one of the first suburban train stations in the Berlin area.
Today it serves the local rail passenger traffic of the S-Bahn Berlin as a stop on the Wannseebahn . It is also used to connect the freight traffic of the Zehlendorfer Railway . From 1947 to 1993 the station was used by the Berlin Brigade of the US Army .
The entire system of the station with its characteristic reception building in the style of a Tuscan villa is a listed building .
history
Edification and pre-war
The station was opened on December 15, 1872 as Lichterfelde (Potsdamer Bahn) . The station was initially equipped with only two side platforms and an elaborate reception building in the style of a Tuscan villa. The construction was initiated and financed by the Hamburg entrepreneur Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn , who acquired the area of today's villa colony and founded the villa colony. The station was intended to serve the development of the elegantly designed district of Lichterfelde West and was accordingly built in a representative country house style. Carstenn hoped that a quick rail connection to Berlin's city center would make his foundation even more attractive.
With the growth of the town of Lichterfelde one renaming followed another. In July 1884 the station was initially called Groß-Lichterfelde (Potsdamer Bahn) , two years later the name was changed to Groß-Lichterfelde B. M. , the B. M. standing for Berlin - Magdeburg , the two endpoints of the line. In order to avoid confusion, the Groß-Lichterfelde train station on the Anhalter Bahn from Berlin to Halle was renamed Groß-Lichterfelde B. H. (now the Lichterfelde Ost train station ).
Until the opening of the new Wannseebahn in 1891, the Groß-Lichterfelde B. M. station was fundamentally rebuilt. The suburban trains of the Wannseebahn received their own pair of tracks next to the Berlin – Magdeburg line , the "main line" of the Prussian State Railways . The embankment was raised, the overpass over Drakestrasse was built and the stations received their central platforms that are still in place today. A sweeping system was also set up in Lichterfelde West. On October 1, 1891, the line and the new station were opened. In the area of the long-distance railway, the tracks were also expanded, and the freight station of the same name was built here. The station was given a new name on January 1, 1899, this time Groß-Lichterfelde West , which gave all three Lichterfelde train stations ( east , south and west) an orientation based on the direction of the compass.
Between 1900 and 1902 the Wannseebahn was electrified for a test run with 750 V direct current . The knowledge gained was finally used on the Anhalter suburban railway , which was operated with the same system from 1903. This operation lasted until the conversion to the current system with 800 V direct current in 1929.
In 1904, the private Zehlendorfer Eisenbahn- und Hafen AG was founded, which branches off at the Lichterfelde West train station in a southerly direction and connects the industrial companies in Schönow (today the districts of Zehlendorf and Lichterfelde ) with the network of the state railway. It is still operated today as a private siding, but is incorporated into the DB Group .
Interwar period
After the incorporation of Groß-Lichterfelde into Groß-Berlin in 1920, Groß- vor Lichterfelde was omitted , and the train stations were renamed accordingly in 1925.
From May 15, 1933, the electric trains of the Berlin S-Bahn stopped at the station . In addition to the light rail cars, the newly acquired "Wannseebahn" type trains, which, in contrast to the normal ET 165 series cars , had recessed rivets, were used.
During the Second World War , the station was damaged by an Allied air raid on April 30, 1944 . The tracks at the south-western end of the station were completely destroyed, so that a replacement rail service had to be set up between Zehlendorf station and Lichterfelde West . The remaining traffic finally came to a standstill at the end of April 1945, a few days before the end of the battle for Berlin .
post war period
As early as June 6, 1945, operations could be resumed, even if only marginally. About a year and a half later, the US occupation forces moved into the freight yard , which set up a military station here. From here the soldiers' trains then ran over the Helmstedt-Marienborn border crossing to West Germany . This traffic ended with the departure of the Americans in 1993.
Since the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) continued to operate the entire S-Bahn, the West Berlin population increasingly boycotted the means of transport after the construction of the Berlin Wall . The shrinking passenger numbers and the Berlin S-Bahn strike, which was held in September 1980 as a protest by the West Berlin Reichsbahner about their working conditions , ultimately led to the line being closed.
On January 9, 1984, the DR ceded the operation of the S-Bahn to the BVG . This initially operated a 21-kilometer trunk network, but gradually put some of the lines closed in 1980 into operation, including the Wannseebahn on February 1, 1985. Comprehensive rehabilitation of the line began immediately after the takeover. Some areas that had been neglected for decades were repaired, such as the reception building, which was damaged in a fire in 1965. The left wing could no longer be saved.
Others
In the center of the station concourse is the seating sculpture Flora von Lichterfelde by the Berlin-based sculptor Wolf van Roy .
Connection
The S-Bahn station is served by the S1 line of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is possible to change to the bus lines of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
literature
- Harald Hensel, Christiane Kundt: Lichterfeld station history (s); 140 years of train station Berlin-Lichterfelde West , Friends of the Citizens' Meeting Point Bahnhof Lichterfelde West e. V., Berlin, 2012
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Lichterfelde West train station on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Query of the course book route 200.1 at Deutsche Bahn.