Blankenberg (Meckl) train station
| Blankenberg (Meckl) | |
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 Reception building on the
Bad Kleinen – Rostock route with signal box |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | WBL |
| IBNR | 8010051 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | May 13, 1850 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Blankenberg |
| country | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 46 '19 " N , 11 ° 42' 53" E |
| Railway lines | |
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| Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
The Blankenberg (Meckl) Station is a railway junction in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The station was opened on May 13, 1850, making it one of the oldest stations in this state. This is where the Bad Kleinen – Rostock and Wismar – Karow railway lines intersect . Regular passenger traffic only takes place on the first-mentioned route. Most of the Wismar – Karow railway line has been closed, and there is still occasional freight traffic between Blankenberg (Meckl), Sternberg (Meckl) and Dabel .
location
The station is located in the northwest of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in the village of Blankenberg, which belongs to the municipality of the same name in the Sternberger Seenlandschaft district. The nearest towns are Warin , four kilometers north and Brüel , about four kilometers south of Blankenberg. The main line Bad Kleinen – Rostock, which runs roughly in a west-east direction, and the branch line Wismar – Karow in a north-west-south-east direction cross in Blankenberg.
history
After Mecklenburg had its first rail connection via the Prussian Berlin-Hamburg Railway in 1846, the Grand Duchy planned to build its own route network. In 1847 the connection from Hagenow to Schwerin was opened, which was extended to Wismar a year later. In 1850 Kleinen (later Bad Kleinen) opened a connection to Rostock with a branch in Bützow to Güstrow . When selecting the route for this route, various options were examined. The shortest route from Schwerin via Sternberg to Bützow would have required crossing the Schwerin lake as part of the Paulsdamm . Another variant, with which the line would have opened up the city of Brüel , failed due to resistance from the local city administration. The railroad ran through the small village of Blankenberg between the two towns of Brüel and Warin . Along with Schwaan and Bützow, Blankenberg was one of only three on-the-go stops that went into operation when the route opened. At the beginning, two pairs of trains ran daily between Rostock, Blankenberg and Kleinen.
On November 14, 1887, the Wismar – Karow (Wismar-Karower Railway) line was opened, which crossed the main line at Blankenberg station. It received its own train station, which was at times referred to as Blankenberg Ost . Blankenberg had thus become a small railway junction. Above all, the station served the transfer traffic in the direction of Sternberg, Brüel, Warin and Neukloster . In 1939, for example, seven to eight pairs of trains ran on the branch line, most of which were connected to passenger and express trains on the main line.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Blankenberg became the stopping point for some D trains. In 1977 a new track diagram signal box was opened in the station , which replaced several old signal boxes. The main line has been electrified since 1986, and the side line section of the station was also provided with catenary. Also in the 1980s, the transfer of the Wismar – Karow railway over the line to Bad Kleinen was renewed.
After the political change, the traffic flows changed again. The long-distance train stops ceased to exist in the 1990s, but regional traffic was synchronized . In 1998, passenger traffic on the Wismar – Karow line was discontinued. The section from Blankenberg to Hornstorf (–Wismar) was closed on September 23, 1999. After 2000, most of the freight and secondary tracks were dismantled, only one track connection between the two lines remained. The catenary masts in the branch line were also removed.
In passenger traffic, only the main line is served. The trains run every two hours via Blankenberg
- RE 1 Rostock - Bützow - Blankenberg - Bad Kleinen - Schwerin - Hamburg
- RE 4 Lübeck - Bad Kleinen - Blankenberg - Bützow - Güstrow - Neubrandenburg - Pasewalk - Szczecin.
- RB 17 Rostock - Bützow - Blankenberg - Bad Kleinen - Schwerin - Ludwigslust (only a few trains)
The intercity trains do not stop at the station. There is no passenger traffic on the Wismar – Karow railway line; buses run in the direction of Brüel, Sternberg (Meckl) and Warin. After Sternberg and Dabel, there has been freight traffic again for the biodiesel company ecoMotion since 2002 , which also owns the route and which has outsourced the management of the infrastructure to the Prignitz Railway . The Potsdam railway company operates freight traffic on the route.
Investments
The station consists of two separate parts. In the north are the facilities of the main line Bad Kleinen – Rostock, in the south those of the branch line Wismar – Karow. The station square is located between the two parts of the station , on the eastern side of which the federal highway 192 crosses the railway lines. Both routes also each have their own reception building. To the west of the station square are the now largely dismantled facilities for freight traffic. In this area there is a track connection between the two lines and a water tower. Even further west, the Wismar – Karow railway crosses the line to Bad Kleinen on an overpass.
The late Classicist reception building dates from the time the train station was opened. The eastern part has a single storey with a small tower and the western part has two storeys, plus an attic. The layout of the station square with the post office building on the east side was also built at that time. The two-story station building of the branch line later served as a residential building. To the east of the station square there was originally a half-timbered engine shed and a water station with a tower and a signal tower.
A central platform is available for passenger traffic on the main line . House and central platforms on the Wismar – Karow railway line are no longer used. A signal box opened in 1977 stands north of the main line's tracks.
Both reception buildings, the water tower and some railroad workers' houses north of the Bad Kleinen – Rostock line are on the list of monuments of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . However, both station buildings are empty and are not used. The old post office building on Bahnhofsplatz was partially demolished in 2009.
Web links
- Blankenberg (Meckl) station and track plan (PDF file; 22 kB) on eisenbahn-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ^ German course book summer 1939
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, various course books, e.g. B. Winter 1981/82, digitized
- ↑ List of the federally closed lines in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania that have been closed since 1994. (XLSX) Federal Railway Authority , September 11, 2017, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Manfred Berger , Historische Bahnhofsbauten, Vol. 1, Saxony, Prussia, Mecklenburg and Thuringia , Transpress-Verlag (1980), pp. 214–215
- ↑ List of monuments of the Parchim district for the Sternberger Seenlandschaft department ( memento from July 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 48 kB)
- ↑ Vacancy in the middle of the village , Schweriner Volkszeitung, Sternberg edition, October 26, 2009