Berlin-Staaken train station

Berlin-Staaken
Staaken station
Data
Operating point type	Breakpoint
Platform tracks	2
abbreviation	BSTA
IBNR	8013021
Price range	6th
opening	1900
Profile on Bahnhof.de	Berlin-Staaken
location
City / municipality	Berlin
Place / district	Staaken
country	Berlin
Country	Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 32 '16 "  N , 13 ° 8' 29"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '16 "  N , 13 ° 8' 29"  E
Railway lines
Berlin – Lehrte (KBS 202, 209.13)
Railway stations in Berlin

The Berlin-Staaken Bahnhof is a 1998 stop for regional trains in the district Staaken in Berlin 's Spandau district . Before that there were several different train stations in Staaken that served suburban and freight traffic, were the terminus of the Berlin S-Bahn or functioned as the GDR's border control station.

history

The station was built in 1900 on the Berlin-Lehrter Railway from Berlin to Hanover , after it had previously driven past the village for almost 30 years. For a long time the breakpoint served to develop Staaken.

That changed drastically after the Second World War . Staaken was split up by the Allies . The continuous train traffic was interrupted. On the West Berlin side, the S-Bahn from Spandau West was extended by one station to Staaken in 1951 . As early as the 1930s, an extension of the S-Bahn to Wustermark in Brandenburg had been sought. The S-Bahn station Berlin-Staaken was in West Berlin . On the other side of Nennhauser Damm in GDR territory was Staaken Kr. Nauen station (at the former Staaken freight yard), from where suburban trains ran in the direction of Wustermark and Nauen. To change between S-Bahn and suburban trains, travelers had to change stations and pass a checkpoint. With the construction of the Wall , another Staaken station was added well before the border: Staaken (GDR) . It was used to control freight trains between West Berlin and West Germany or the GDR.

Transit train from Hamburg passes through the border installations at Staaken station, 1986

Disused S-Bahn station Berlin-Staaken in West Berlin , 1986

When in 1976 Staaken was supposed to be passed by transit trains between Berlin and Hamburg , a new Staaken control station (GDR) was built further west. Before that, since 1961, the Hamburg long-distance trains had to take the detour via the Berlin outer ring and Griebnitzsee . The transit tracks were cordoned off on both sides by a high protective wall between the border and the control station. The station Staaken Kr. Nauen for inland transport within the GDR has been moved to the west on the field road. There the passenger trains from the direction of Wustermark ended on a separate head track south of the protective wall to the transit tracks.

Formerly located in the death strip level crossing "Elefantentor", 1991

At the new Staaken Kr. Nauen station there was probably the safest level crossing in the world for the crossing of Feldstrasse over the transit tracks: Because the protective wall had to be interrupted here, massive roller doors instead of barriers secured the sealed off transit corridor when there was train traffic through Staaken.

On the West Berlin side, the S-Bahn service to Staaken ended after less than 30 years as a result of the Berlin S-Bahn strike in 1980. After the Berlin S-Bahn was taken over by the Berliner Verkehrs-Betriebe in 1984, a S-Bahn Considering the development of Staakens.

With German reunification , all of Staaken became part of the Spandau district again . In regional traffic, from 1990 onward trains from Nauen again ran via the Lehrter Bahn to Berlin-Spandau, which completely replaced the previous train service from 1991. The trains could no longer approach the head track on Feldstrasse, and the stop in Staaken was omitted. Due to pressure from the population, shuttle trains ran between Dallgow (later: Dallgow-Döberitz) and Staaken on weekdays before a provisional stop was built on the main tracks, so that a connection from Staaken towards Spandau was again created. From 1996, the Lehrter Bahn was expanded as one of the German Unity transport projects for a top speed of 250 km / h. Rail transport was replaced by buses for two years. The old Staakener train stations were demolished during the construction work. In 1998 the newly built platform on the side of the ICE route was inaugurated at the level of the station that existed from 1951 to 1976.

The Berlin-Albrechtshof train station is also in the Staaken area .

Connection

The regional express line RE 4 in the direction of Wustermark-Rathenow and Berlin- Ludwigsfelde as well as the regional train line RB 13 of Deutsche Bahn stop in Staaken . In addition, the BVG Metrobus line M32 runs in the direction of Spandau Town Hall .

RE 4	Rathenow - Wustermark Station - Dallgow-Döberitz - Berlin-Staaken - Berlin Jungfernheide - Berlin Südkreuz - Ludwigsfelde - Jüterbog	Hourly
RB 13	Wustermark station - Elstal - Dallgow-Döberitz - Berlin-Staaken - Berlin-Spandau - Berlin-Jungfernheide Line only runs from Monday to Friday during rush hour	about every hour

See also

• Berlin border crossings

Web links

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

• Site plan of the Staaken border station in 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 . 
2. ^ Course book 1992/93