Falkenhagen station (b Nauen)
| Falkenhagen (b Nauen) | |
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 Falkenhagen station (May 1999)
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BFAH |
| opening | May 23, 1954 |
| Conveyance | June 2, 1996 |
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| City / municipality | Falkensee |
| Place / district | Waldheim |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 35 '21 " N , 13 ° 2' 26" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Falkenhagen (b Nauen) station is a station in the Havelland district in Brandenburg, northwest of Berlin on the Berlin outer ring . The station is mainly in the area of the city of Falkensee . For passenger traffic, the station located far from the settlement areas was in operation from the end of the 1950s until 1996 under the name Falkenhagen (Kr Nauen) . At the time of the Berlin Wall , it was an important rail hub. After 1990 its importance decreased significantly, in 1996 the passenger traffic was completely stopped. Since then, the station has been used exclusively for operational purposes.
location
The station is located on the Berlin outer ring northeast of the intersection with the Berlin-Hamburg railway . The Berlin-Lehrter Railway crosses the outer ring five kilometers to the southwest . The station is located in the middle of the forest between the Falkensee district of Waldheim and Brieselang, about one kilometer away . The central area of the station with the former platform systems is in the area of the city of Falkensee, the south-western part of the station with the branching off to the Hamburger Bahn belongs to the area of the municipality of Brieselang. The Falkenhagen district of the same name is more than five kilometers away and has nothing to do with the train station.
history
Development of the station
In the 1950s, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built the Berlin outer ring to bypass West Berlin and to increase the capacity of the rail network in the Berlin area. The north-western part of the outer ring from Bergfelde to Brieselang was initially opened as a single track in 1953, followed by a connecting curve to Finkenkrug on May 23, 1954, and the Falkenhagen station was also opened, but initially only served operational tasks. In 1955, the extension to the Lehrter Bahn and to Priort followed on the route of the bypass railway that was opened in 1902 and included in the Berlin outer ring . Initially, the station was not used for public transport. With the growing separation of the GDR from West Berlin, passenger traffic on the outer ring increased. From May 5, 1958, the so-called "transit trains" of the S-Bahn, which connected the eastern part of Berlin with Falkensee and other cities such as Potsdam or Oranienburg and did not stop in West Berlin, were discontinued in favor of trains on the outer ring.
Transfer stations had gone into operation at several points of connection between the outer ring and other railway lines. While other of these stations ( Hennigsdorf Nord , Bergholz , Potsdam Hauptbahnhof ) were designed as tower stations directly at the intersection of the routes, a system of several transfer stations was created northwest of Berlin. The Falkenhagen station played a key role, especially after the wall around West Berlin was built. The outer ring remained as the only connection to East Berlin and a few weeks after the wall was built in this area it was expanded to double-track. The locations on the Hamburger Bahn ( Falkensee , Nauen ) and the Lehrter Bahn ( Wustermark , Elstal , Staaken ) were connected to East Berlin and Potsdam via Falkenhagen . The train station was of enormous importance for passenger traffic. Every day around 85 passenger trains left the station in different directions.
In 1971 a new signal box of the type GS II Sp64b was built directly at the intersection with the Hamburger Bahn. The signal box controlled the systems in the station, including the branches to the Hamburger Bahn and the other branches at the Falkenhagen intersection.
In 1983 the Berlin outer ring and with it the Falkenhagen station was electrified. The connections to the Lehrter Bahn and Hamburger Bahn as far as the adjacent train stations in Wustermark , Wustermark marshalling yard , Albrechtshof and Nauen were also given contact lines.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, passenger traffic decreased significantly. In 1996 the last passenger train stopped at the station, since then it has been a purely service station. The station building fell into disrepair and was demolished in 2006. In 2009 the pedestrian bridge over the tracks was removed. In the autumn of the same year, the station was connected to an electronic signal box , the local signal box was dispensable.
passenger traffic
In the 1960 timetable, one year before the construction of the Berlin Wall, eight pairs of trains ran to Falkenhagen station between Berlin (mostly Ostbahnhof , sometimes Lichtenberg ) and Falkensee. The trains were used by travelers to East Berlin who, for example, as state employees, had not been allowed to use the S-Bahn through West Berlin since 1958. In addition, some commuter trains ran through the station between Falkensee and Hennigsdorf , but they did not stop there, and neither did the long-distance trains between Berlin and Schwerin.
From the 1960s until the reopening of connections to West Berlin in 1990, the operating program for passenger transport looked something like this: trains ran every hour from Falkenhagen via Hennigsdorf Nord to Birkenwerder , where there was a connection to the S-Bahn to East Berlin. Most of these trains came from Falkensee via Finkenkrug , some of them from Albrechtshof . Feeders to these trains also ran almost every hour from Staaken station via Wustermark marshalling yard (sometimes also via Wustermark station ) and about every two hours via the western Berlin outer ring from what was then Potsdam Central Station (now Potsdam Pirschheide). In and from the direction of Nauen there was a connection in Finkenkrug. In addition, four to five pairs of trains came directly to Berlin-Lichtenberg in the morning and back in the afternoon and a few trains to Hennigsdorf during shift change times in the local steelworks. A few direct connections to Nauen via Brieselang completed the offer.
After the fall of the wall, the direct routes to Berlin went back into operation and the connections via Falkenhagen became gradually dispensable. The connections in the direction of Wustermark were discontinued in 1991, but a clocked line to Nauen went into operation. Like the one after Falkensee, this was discontinued in the spring of 1995. In the end there was only one line every two hours from Potsdam Pirschheide via Golm , Hennigsdorf Nord to Oranienburg . Since June 2, 1996, no passenger trains have stopped at Falkenhagen station.
Investments
The track system consisted of two through tracks without a platform in the middle and two tracks with an outside platform, which were connected by a pedestrian bridge. Similar systems were built on the Ring in Golm, Saarmund, Genshagener Heide , Schönfließ and Schönwalde (Kr Nauen). The platform track on the southeast side had a blunt-ended piece so that several passenger trains could leave the platform within a few minutes. The station building, which consisted of a ground floor and an upper floor in the roof gable facing the platform, stood on the southeastern platform. On the forest side, the building had a basement due to the slope of the terrain.
In 2010 the platform track on the southeast side was removed.
Operationally at Falkenhagen station, the branch from the Berlin outer ring to the Hamburger Bahn in the direction of Brieselang and Finkenkrug belongs. Directly at the intersection of the outer ring with the Hamburger Bahn stands the Fah signal box, which gradually went out of operation between 1995 and 2002 and was replaced by an electronic signal box . After that it was empty. In March 2019, a fire severely destroyed the signal box and made the building dilapidated.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin , GVE-Verlag Berlin, 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 278 and p. 294
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, course book summer 1957
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin, The development of the Berlin railway network since 1838 , Verlag GVE, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 106
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin, GVE-Verlag Berlin, 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , pp. 114f.
- ↑ a b Kursbuch the German Railway, internal traffic, schedule years 1985/86
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin , GVE-Verlag Berlin, 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 134
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, course book, summer timetable 1960
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann, Bahnknoten Berlin , GVE-Verlag Berlin, 2nd edition 1996, ISBN 3-89218-099-7 , p. 106