Berlin Bornholmer Strasse train station
| Berlin Bornholmer Strasse | |
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 Bornholmer Strasse station, southern end of the platform
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4 (S-Bahn) |
| abbreviation | BBOF (long-distance train) BBOS (S-Bahn) |
| IBNR | 8089008 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening |
October 1, 1935 December 22, 1990 |
| Conveyance | August 13, 1961 (ghost train station) |
| Website URL | s-bahn-berlin.de |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bornholmer_Strasse |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Richard Brademann |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Prenzlauer Berg |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '16 " N , 13 ° 23' 53" E |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Bornholmer Strasse station is a station of the S-Bahn in Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg of Pankow . It is located on the Berlin Northern Railway and the Szczecin Railway as well as a connection to the Schönhauser Allee station on the Berlin Ringbahn . The passengers enter it via both sidewalks of the Bösebrücke .
history
Passenger traffic on the Northern Railway, which began operating in 1877, had been routed to the Szczecin station , the starting point of the Szczecin Railway, which opened in 1842, since the end of the 19th century . Both routes branched north of Bornholmer Straße, but there was no train station in this area for a long time.
On October 1, 1935, the Bornholmer Strasse railway station with two platforms , built according to plans by the Reichsbahn architect Richard Brademann , was opened to traffic. In the press the station was described as "Berlin's most beautiful station"; Brademann pointed out that the station "also has to represent."
After the Second World War , Berlin was divided. The station was right on the border between the Soviet sector ( East Berlin ) and the French sector in West Berlin . In order to no longer lead East Berlin travelers in the direction of Pankow via the West Berlin station Gesundbrunnen , from the end of 1952 the existing connecting curve for freight traffic from the direction of Schönhauser Allee was electrified for S-Bahn operations. The tracks passed east of Bornholmer Strasse station, the trains did not stop there.
The station was closed when the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961. The sector boundary running directly on the western track was marked by a wire mesh fence. On August 23, 1962, the escaping GDR transport policeman Hans-Dieter Wesa was shot by a comrade under the bridge . The West Berlin train traffic in the direction of Frohnau and Heiligensee was from now on only handled via the tracks on the western platform A, whereby the trains did not stop. Originally, the idea was to keep it open for West Berlin travelers, such as the Wollankstrasse station , which is also located in East Berlin . This did not happen and the train station was not used and in the broader sense is included in the “ ghost train stations ”. The train traffic from Schönhauser Allee in the direction of Bernau and from 1962 Oranienburg took place via the connecting curve, which was expanded to two tracks after 1961 and separated from the long-distance tracks; the two tracks in the immediate border area were accompanied by an additional wall. In the typical Berlin mother joke , this construction project was ridiculed as the "Ulbricht curve".
After German reunification , platform A was reopened on December 22, 1990. On August 5, 1991, two temporary side platforms were built on the east curve, where the trains in the direction of Bernau then stopped again. Later the station was rebuilt so that there is one platform for the trains in north-south and one for those in south-north direction. On December 1, 1997, the reopened platform B for trains going north went into operation.
Investments
The station is spanned by the Bösebrücke. The station building is a riding station at street level above the tracks. The bungalow-like building has a pentagonal superstructure and a small tower that is decorated with the S-Bahn symbol. Like Baumschulenweg, the station originally consisted of a side platform B for traffic to the north - there was no track from the east - and a central platform A to the south. Today the platform systems consist of two island platforms with four tracks that are operated in one direction. The western platform serves the trains from the Northern Railway and the Szczecin Railway in the direction of the city center or the Ringbahn, the eastern platform for the trains in the opposite direction.
The long-distance railway tracks run east of the S-Bahn tracks. There are no platforms for long-distance trains in the Bornholmer Straße area.
The station's facilities (station building and stairway access) built by Richard Brademann are now a listed building .
Connection
Bornholmer Strasse station is next to Gesundbrunnen station the hub for northern Berlin S-Bahn traffic. The lines from the direction of Oranienburg (S1, S26) and Hennigsdorf (S25) as well as Bernau (S2) and Hohen Neuendorf (S8, S85) converge here. You can change to the tram lines M13 and 50 of the BVG .
literature
- Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlin's S-Bahnhöfe / A three-quarters of a century . be.bra verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , pp. 45–47
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Bornholmer Straße station at stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- Geisterbahnhof Bornholmer Strasse, May 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
- ↑ "Humboldthain" and "Bornholmer Straße" - two new train stations in the north of Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost , November 16, 1933
- ↑ a b c Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlin's S-Bahnhöfe / A three-quarter century . be.bra verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , pp. 45–47