Boossen station
| Booze | |
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 Reception building and forecourt
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| Location in the network | former separation station |
| Design | former through station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | BBSZ |
| opening | 1880/1911 |
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| City / municipality | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| Place / district | Booze |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 22 '17 " N , 14 ° 29' 12" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Booßen station is located in the town district of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) . The station north of the city at the Eberswalde-Frankfurt (Oder) was since the 1910s, a junction station initially only for freight, and later for passenger used link towards Lebus and Küstrin . From 1926 to 1945 Boossen was the end point of a frequent suburban train connection to and from Frankfurt. In 1977 one of the worst train accidents in the GDR occurred due to human failure by the switchman. Passenger traffic in Boossen has been suspended since 1996, and the line to Küstrin was subsequently closed. In the period that followed, Boossen also lost its operational tasks. The station building dates from the time the station was renovated after 1910 and is a listed building.
location
The station is located in the Boossen district of Frankfurt east of the village center, about six kilometers north of Frankfurt city center. It is located at line kilometer 123.1 of the Eberswalde – Frankfurt (Oder) railway line (counted from the former Stettiner train station in Berlin). The route runs roughly in a north-south direction in Boossen. Towards the northeast, a connecting route to the Kunersdorf desert junction branched off in Boossen for traffic in the direction of Küstrin.
history
In 1877 the railway line from Eberswalde to Frankfurt (Oder) , which had ended in Wriezen, was extended. The population in Boossen, which at that time had around 1,600 inhabitants, also requested a rail connection.
“As soon as the construction of the railway in question began, all Boossen was hoping to get at least one stop for passenger traffic and thus comfortable communication with Frankfurt aO. [...] In order to achieve the desired goal as soon as possible, at the request of the Boossen residents in the last half of last year, a collective petition was sent to the management of the railway to set up a stop for passenger traffic with numerous signatures from Boossen , Cliestow and Area sent. "
In March 1880, the residents were initially assured of a stop on a test basis, and the timetables from March 1881 contain Boossen.
After 1910 a large marshalling yard was built in Frankfurt (Oder) on the Eberswalder route, which went into operation in 1917. Since the Küstrin line branched off to the south of the marshalling yard, a double-track connection was set up from Boossen station to the Kunersdorf desert junction near Lebus. Since then, goods traffic from the marshalling yard in the direction of Küstrin has been via Boossen. Passenger traffic initially remained on the old route, although the operation of the two almost parallel routes was already considered uneconomical at the time. The Boossen station was expanded and relocated to the north, the new station building was built in 1911/12. Apartments for railway officials were built in the old station building.
During the Second World War, a camp was set up in nearby Gronenfelde for the so-called Eastern workers , forced laborers from the war-occupied areas. Until 1944, the transport of the camp inmates was handled via the Boossen station before a separate siding was used there.
Towards the end of the Second World War, the railway systems in the Frankfurt area were badly affected during the violent fighting. The line in the direction of Küstrin was particularly badly hit and was not fully operational again until 1950. Due to the new demarcation towards Poland, however, it lost its importance and was downgraded to a branch line. The original route between Frankfurt and the Kunersdorf desert junction was dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union, so that all traffic on this route also ran via Boossen. Parts of the track systems in Boossen station and the signaling technology were also dismantled as a reparation payment; the signal box north of the reception building was later demolished. Some of the tracks were later connected to a provisional signal box again, but the manually operated points remained in the north end of the station.
On the night of June 27, 1977, the D 1918 from Zittau to Stralsund , which was supposed to continue in the direction of Eberswalde, was instead directed in the direction of Lebus. The cause was human failure on the part of the Boossen switchman, aided by the inadequate safety technology in the Boossen station. In Lebus, the express train collided with an oncoming freight train. 26 people were killed.
The accident was the reason why Boossen received a new electromechanical signal box in 1979 .
After the political change, the traffic flows in passenger traffic changed. The Frankfurt marshalling yard was closed. The offer concept on the route towards Eberswalde has been changed. In the past, alternating passenger trains with stops at all stations and express trains, which between Eberswalde and Frankfurt only stopped in Bad Freienwalde (Oder) , Wriezen , Werbig and Seelow , have been running since 1995. A number of stations were closed, and the stop in Boossen was also canceled for trains on this line. The trains to Küstrin stopped in Boossen for a year. In 1996 all traffic on this route was canceled and Boossen lost its passenger traffic. In 1997 the line to Küstrin was officially closed, in the following years the points in the station were removed and Boossen was closed as an operating point.
passenger traffic
Boossen was mainly used for local traffic on the route to Eberswalde. From 1926 to 1945 Boossen was the end point of a connection of shuttle trains with which the extensive facilities of the marshalling yard were to be developed. Originally these were locomotive-hauled, purely service passenger trains. Since 1926, two Linke-Hofmann-Busch railcars were used. On August 1, 1926, the connection was also opened to public transport and from then on also served local needs. In 1939, 18 pairs of trains ran on the route a day. After the end of the Second World War, the connection was not re-established. For this, Boossen was also served by the passenger trains in the direction of Kietz (today called Küstrin-Kietz again). Cross-border passenger traffic from Frankfurt and Boossen to Küstrin was only resumed in 1993. Although the two-hour service was started in 1994, the demand remained too low, so that the connection and thus the passenger traffic service at Boossen station was discontinued in 1996.
Investments
The station is located north of the flyover of Bundesstraße 5 over the railway line. Directly south of the underpass was the original Boossen stop, which was operated until around 1910. Its reception building has been preserved and is used as a residential building. The station, which has been in use since 1910, originally had four through tracks. The reception building is two-story with a pointed roof. The station building with the official apartment and toilet block is a listed building. With the exception of the continuous track, the track systems are no longer in operation, the switches have been removed, and some remains of the old track systems are still there.
See also
literature
- Lothar Meyer, Horst Regling, Frankfurt (Oder) railway junction. transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71126-5 , pp. 62-64
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Lothar Meyer, Boossen station on the pages of Eisenbahnfreunde Frankfurt (Oder)
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted in: Lothar Meyer, Horst Regling, Eisenbahnknoten Frankfurt (Oder). transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71126-5 , p. 63.
- ^ A b Lothar Meyer, Horst Regling, Frankfurt (Oder) railway junction. transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71126-5 , p. 63.
- ↑ Lothar Meyer, Horst Regling, Frankfurt (Oder) railway junction. transpress, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-613-71126-5 , p. 134.
- ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: City of Frankfurt (Oder) (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2011