Berlin Frankfurter Allee train station
| Berlin Frankfurter Allee | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Operating point type |
Station part (S-Bahn) Bft Abzw (long-distance train) |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BFA (S-Bahn) BFAL (long-distance train) |
| IBNR | 8089013 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | May 1, 1872 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Berlin_Frankfurter_Allee |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Friedrichshain |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 30 '54 " N , 13 ° 28' 29" E |
| Railway lines | |
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Ringbahn (KBS 200.41, 200.42, 200.8, 200.85, 200.9) |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The S + U-Bahn station Berlin Frankfurter Allee is a transfer station in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain on the border with Lichtenberg . It is served by the S41, S42, S8 and S85 S-Bahn lines as part of the Ringbahn and by the U5 underground line below the street of the same name . It emerged from a historic ring railway station in the second half of the 19th century. From 1949 to 1961, the station, like the street, was called Stalinallee .
S-Bahn station
The first railway stop at this point was opened on May 1, 1872 under the name Friedrichsberg . The name goes back to the Friedrichsberg colony south of the train station. The Frankfurter Allee station, which still exists today, was opened in 1890/1891 . In addition to a central platform , the station received a brick-style reception building.
When the underground railway was built in the late 1920s, the old Ringbahn bridge had to be torn down and replaced with a new, wider one. It was actually planned to establish a direct transfer connection between the underground station of today's line U5 and the ring station, but this was not implemented. The planned widening of the track axes in this area can still be seen today from the length of the steel girder on the median of Frankfurter Allee.
The electronic interlocking Frankfurter Allee has been controlling the section of the S-Bahn tracks between Prenzlauer Allee (a) and Neukölln (a) since April 2012. This replaced three conventional signal boxes at the Greifswalder Strasse, Ostkreuz and Treptower Park stations, as well as the automatic route block previously installed in this area . The control computer building is on the edge of the former container terminal.
Since July 2014, train handling has been carried out by the driver using the driver's cab monitor (ZAT-FM).
In the fall of 2015, extensive renovation work began on the station building and the small shopping mall.
Container terminal
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Right from the start, the station had a freight station on the east side of the Ringbahn tracks. Shortly after the Ringbahn was built, large freight and shunting yards were built in Rummelsburg and Lichtenberg-Friedrichsfelde . They were connected to the Ringbahn via a connecting line mainly used for freight traffic , which reached the Ringbahn directly south of the Frankfurter Allee station.
From 1968 to 1970 the first container station in the GDR was built in the station area , accessible from the Lichtenberg side of the railway via a specially constructed access road. On June 30, 1968, the first container train with 30 containers left for the Rostock overseas port . A total of 18 installation areas allowed the handling of up to 1000 containers a day, which was used by around 500 Berlin companies. As a visible sign of the gable was a residential building at the corner Möllendorffstraße (then: Jacques-Duclos Street ) at the time of his unnamed access road, a facade with a loaded with container KamAZ - trucks .
After the political change , the station lost its importance. It was closed on December 31, 1999. Deutsche Bahn AG, as the owner of the area, had all tracks, crane systems and storage buildings removed in the following ten years. A new use is not recognizable.
In order to preserve the history, the former access road was named Am Containerbahnhof in 1997 . Today it serves as a delivery route for the ring center and the associated visitor car park.
In May 2019, the B2 signal box building at the southern end of the former container station was demolished.
Subway station
The underground station was first opened as Frankfurter Allee (Ringbahn) on December 21, 1930 . Like the entire route that was inaugurated that day, it was designed by Alfred Grenander . The abbreviation for the underground station is Ff .
The original basic color of the station was red, small tiles . However, this was changed to orange during a major renovation in the 1980s. After another renovation in 2004, the red was restored with new wall cladding. At the same time, an elevator was installed between the platform and the mezzanine. The adjacent shopping center Ring-Center I can also be reached from there.
Unlike most stations, which correspond to the basic type of Memeler Straße station (today: Weberwiese ), it was given a double row of columns instead of a single one. In addition, it has a maximum width of 13.30 meters, which seemed necessary due to the expected heavy transfer traffic to the S-Bahn. According to the width, the entrances and exits are also generously designed. To the east and west of the station there is a double-track sweeping system .
Connection
There are transfer options to the tram lines M13 and 16 as well as to the bus line N5 (night traffic).
literature
- Berlin S-Bahn Museum: Line without End - The Berlin Ringbahn , GVE Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-074-1 .
- Peter Bock (Ed.): U5 Between Alex and Hönow. Story (s) from the underground. GVE e. V., Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89218-079-2 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information (S-Bahn station)
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 36 kB)
- Berlin Frankfurter Allee train station, on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
- ↑ The seventh year at Ostkreuz . In: point 3 . No. 4 , February 23, 2012, p. 12 ( online [PDF; accessed February 15, 2017]).
- ↑ News in brief - S-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . September 2014, p. 179 .
- ↑ Restrictions in the routing at the Frankfurter Allee S-Bahn station. S-Bahn Berlin GmbH, May 23, 2026, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Berliner Bezirkslexikon at luise-berlin