Berlin Messe Süd train station
| Berlin Trade Fair South (Eichkamp) |
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 Platform, 2011
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BMS |
| IBNR | 8089328 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | August 23, 1928 January 16, 1998 |
| Conveyance | September 28, 1980 |
| Website URL | s-bahn-berlin.de |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Messe_Sued__Eichkamp_ |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Richard Brademann |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | West end |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '55 " N , 13 ° 16' 12" E |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Berlin Messe Süd (Eichkamp) station is at the Spandau Suburban Line situated breakpoint . In the Berlin district of Westend the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Located station was opened on August 23, 1928th Since the start of operations, the trains of the Berlin S-Bahn have been making stops with interruptions from 1980 to 1998. In 2002, the previously called Eichkamp stop was given its current name, which refers to the Berlin exhibition grounds north of the railway and the Eichkamp settlement , which extends southwest of the station.
Location and structure
The stopping point is at the 13.6 kilometer of the Spandau suburban railway from Westkreuz to Stresow . The long-distance tracks of the Hamburg light rail connection run parallel to the suburban tracks , which are led past the platform to the south and cross the suburban tracks in the direction of the Heerstraße train station . The joint in the incision guided route is bordered to the north from the fairground and Jaffe Road and the south of the settlement Eichkamp.
Like the middle staircase, the reception building on Waldschulallee is made of red and bright clinker brick construction based on plans by Richard Brademann . The facade of the station building was almost identical to that of the Westkreuz train station. The skylight structure rises set back above the broad ground floor with triangular wall templates and a profiled cornice. Vertical opal glass lights were attached to the wall templates, which together with the station names in neon letters created an impressive lighting situation at night. When the system was put back into operation, the illuminated letters were replaced by individual golden letters. Between the entrance (right) and the exit (left) there was a kiosk with a sales window facing the street. Inside the reception hall were the baggage claim, two ticket offices added in 1935 and a tavern , and the station restaurant on the left . The lower part of the hall walls are covered with yellow ceramic tiles over a row of black plinths, the upper part is formed by a narrow strip of cornice made of black ceramic shaped stones. The top of the wall and the ceiling are plastered in a cream color. The Gassenschänke, Bahnhofswirtschaft and the kiosk were not reopened when they opened in 1998 and are empty.
Due to the location of the building on the slope, the track side was designed on three floors. The two basement floors were used for service rooms, and the Eich signal box was integrated in the south-eastern part of the first basement , which regulated long-distance and suburban traffic on the route in this area.
In the middle of the station building , the passage, divided by a passimeter , leads off to the bridge footbridge, from which stairs on both sides led to the platform. The green painted iron structures stand out clearly from the red bricks of the reception building. The platform buildings for service rooms, toilets, etc. have cantilevered flat roofs. The infills of the iron construction were covered with red-colored ceramic tiles. Two thirds of the length of the 160 meter long central platform for the S-Bahn is covered. In addition to the central staircase to the reception building on Waldschulstrasse and Jafféstrasse, there has been a western exit to the exhibition grounds and an eastern exit to Eichkampstrasse since 1998. One of the existing stairways was also replaced by an elevator .
The complex is listed as an architectural monument in the Berlin State Monument List.
history
The first stop at Eichkamp was opened on May 1, 1896 on the Wetzlarer Bahn and was located about 250 meters as the crow flies southeast of today's S-Bahn station. The stop had a central platform; the only exit led to the east to Werkstattstrasse (since 1925: Cordesstrasse), where there was a small ticket booth. At that time, the connecting line to Spandau led directly over today's exhibition grounds from the Wetzlarer Bahn to the Heerstraße station. In the course of the " Great Electrification " of the Berlin city, ring and suburban railways and the construction of the exhibition grounds, the railway systems at the intersection of the Wetzlar and Ringbahn as well as the lines coming from Spandau were extensively changed. The connecting line to Spandau was swiveled south to make room for the expansion of the exhibition center. At the same time, it received a second pair of tracks to completely separate long-distance traffic from suburban traffic. The tower station exhibition was built in 1928 as a transfer point between the individual suburban routes and as access to the exhibition grounds (since 1932: Westkreuz ). The old Eichkamp stop on the Wetzlarer Bahn was abandoned and a new stop of the same name was set up on the Spandauer Vorortbahn. On August 23, 1928, the old S-Bahn station was abandoned and at the same time the new station was put into operation. Initially, the stop only had one exit to Waldschulallee to open up the Eichkamp settlement for traffic. For cost reasons, the platform was only roofed at the level of the staircases, but complete roofing and a north-eastern exit to the exhibition center were already planned.
In 1935, the second exit as an extension of the pedestrian bridge was opened to better connect the exhibition center and the newly built Deutschlandhalle . The design by Fritz Hane and Hugo Röttcher was based on the existing facility, but dispensed with a reception building. The access building only had a simple hall with ticket offices and pass meters. On May 15, 1936, the halt was renamed Deutschlandhalle .
Due to the war, S-Bahn traffic came to a standstill in April 1945 and was resumed on June 9, 1945. On October 1, 1946, the company was renamed Eichkamp .
After the building of the Wall and the ensuing S-Bahn boycott , the number of passengers in the entire West Berlin S-Bahn network fell drastically. This development was followed on September 17, 1980 by a strike by the West Berlin Reichsbahner, as a result of which the Reichsbahn stopped traffic on most of the routes, including the Spandau suburban railway. Although the entrances in Eichkamp were locked after this development, the stop was exposed to vandalism in the following time .
On January 9, 1984, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) took over the operating rights of the West Berlin S-Bahn. In the following years the southern section of the Spandau suburban railway was used for driving school purposes. A restart was also planned. The plans took shape with the reunification of both halves of the city in 1989/1990. In the following year, 1991, the first step was to renovate the reception building. In 1997, the rest of the facilities at the stop were refurbished, followed by the restart of the section from Westkreuz to Pichelsberg on January 16, 1998 . The north entrance was later removed and an elevator system for barrier-free access was built in its place . In connection with the reopening, an eastern access to Eichkampstrasse and a western access to the exhibition grounds were also realized. The latter is only open for events and is correspondingly broad for the large number of visitors. For better orientation, the station was renamed Messe Süd (Eichkamp) on June 16, 2002 .
traffic
The S-Bahn station has been served by lines S3 and S9 of the S-Bahn Berlin since December 2017 , which means there are direct connections to Spandau, Erkner and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport . At Eichkampstraße there is a possibility to change to bus line 349 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
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Spandau - Stresow - Pichelsberg - Olympiastadion - Heerstraße - Messe Süd - Westkreuz - Charlottenburg - Savignyplatz - Zoological Garden - Tiergarten - Bellevue - Central Station - Friedrichstraße - Hackescher Markt - Alexanderplatz - Jannowitzbrücke - Ostbahnhof - Warschauer Straße - Ostkreuz - Rummelsburg - Rummelsburg depot - Karlshorst - Wuhlheide - Köpenick - Hirschgarten - Friedrichshagen - Rahnsdorf - Wilhelmshagen - Erkner |
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Spandau - Stresow - Pichelsberg - Olympiastadion - Heerstraße - Messe Süd - Westkreuz - Charlottenburg - Savignyplatz - Zoological Garden - Tiergarten - Bellevue - Hauptbahnhof - Friedrichstraße - Hackescher Markt - Alexanderplatz - Jannowitzbrücke - Ostbahnhof - Warschauer Straße - Treptower Park - Plänterwald - Baumschulenweg - Schöneweide - Schöneweide depot - Adlershof - Altglienicke - Grünbergallee - Berlin-Schönefeld Airport |
literature
- Wolfgang Kramer, Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's S-Bahn stations. Three quarters of a century . be.bra, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-930863-25-1 .
- Bernhard Strowitzki: S-Bahn Berlin. Story (s) for on the go . 2nd Edition. GVE, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89218-073-3 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Area map S Messe Süd (Eichkamp). (PDF; 154 kB) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, December 11, 2011, accessed on January 9, 2012 .
- Mike Straschewski: Messe Süd (Eichkamp). In: www.stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de. December 20, 2009, accessed January 8, 2012 .
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 200.5 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ a b c Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ a b c d e Susanne Dost: Richard Brademann (1884–1865). Architect of the Berlin S-Bahn . VBN Verlag B. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933254-36-1 , p. 130-134 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Mike Straschewski: Messe Süd (Eichkamp). In: www.stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de. December 20, 2009, accessed January 8, 2012 .
- ^ Mike Straschewski: Eichkamp (Wetzlar Railway). In: www.stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de. December 21, 2009, accessed January 10, 2012 .
- ^ Bernhard Strowitzki: S-Bahn Berlin. Story (s) for on the go . 2nd Edition. GVE, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89218-073-3 , p. 247-248 .
- ^ Bernhard Strowitzki: S-Bahn Berlin. Story (s) for on the go . 2nd Edition. GVE, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89218-073-3 , p. 250-252 .
- ^ Bernhard Strowitzki: S-Bahn Berlin. Story (s) for on the go . 2nd Edition. GVE, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89218-073-3 , p. 252-256 .
- ↑ News in brief . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . Issue 10, 1991.