Glöwen station
| Bells | |
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 Station building, street side. The tracks are to the right of the building.
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Former connecting station |
| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | WGF |
| IBNR | 8011641 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | October 15, 1846 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Gloewen |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| architect |
Friedrich Neuhaus Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Plattenburg |
| Place / district | Bells |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 54 '12 " N , 12 ° 5' 2" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The station Glöwen is the railway station of the town of the same in the community Plattenburg . It is located on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway and was opened in 1846. From 1890 to 1971 a railway line from Glöwen to Havelberg branched off from the station , from 1900 to 1967 a line of the narrow-gauge West Prignitzer Kreisbahn from Viesecke ended in Glöwen . The classical reception building from the time the route was built is a listed building.
location
The station is located at 101.8 km on the Berlin – Hamburg line on the southern outskirts of Glöwen, about one kilometer south of the town center. The railway line runs in this area approximately in an east-west direction and crosses the federal highway 107 in the station area . The town of Havelberg is about ten kilometers to the south .
history
The Berlin-Hamburg railway between Berlin and Boizenburg was opened on October 15, 1846, and the Glöwen station went into operation on that day. From the beginning, the station was not only intended for the comparatively small town of Glöwen, but also as a transfer point for Havelberg and a number of other places. In the first few years after the station opened in 1846, two person mail courses per day ran to Havelberg , plus one course a day further to Genthin and one person course even to Rostock . In 1847, the train station in Glöwen ranked sixth in passenger numbers behind Berlin, Hamburg, Hagenow, Wittenberge and Ludwigslust.
In the following years there were various plans to connect further railway lines in Glöwen. In 1872 the Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft considered starting preparatory work for a railway from Glöwen in the direction of Jüterbog or Wittenberg via Brandenburg and on to Saxony . In the course of the founders' crash , these plans were given up again.
On February 15, 1890, the railway to Havelberg went into operation. Original plans for a further north-south connection were not pursued any further. On the one hand, the topographical situation in the Havelberg area, where it would have been necessary to cross the Havel, was difficult; on the other hand, a network of narrow-gauge railways was built around 1900 in the Prignitz north of the Hamburger Bahn. Continuous connections from Havelberg to the north were no longer possible. A stretch of this narrow-gauge network has connected Glöwen with Viesecke since 1900 and, over further stretches, with Pritzwalk , Kyritz and Perleberg .
Around 1940 extensive military installations were built south of Glöwen. A plant was built south of the station, including ammunition processing, in which prisoners from the Glöwen subcamp also had to work in the last years of the war . The plant received a siding branching off the line to Havelberg.
After the end of the war, the railway to Havelberg was dismantled as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union . After violent protests from the region, it was then rebuilt, but as a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 750 millimeters. Even after the Second World War, Glöwen remained an important military location, for which the train station was also used. This was also expressed in the fact that until the beginning of the 1990s, Glöwen was also a stop for several express trains between Schwerin and Berlin. In 1967 the narrow-gauge railway to Viesecke was discontinued and dismantled a little later, in 1971 the same happened with the line to Havelberg.
In the mid-1990s, traffic was synchronized. Local trains connected Glöwen every two hours with Wittenberge and Nauen , where there was a connection to Berlin; from 1996 directly with Berlin Westkreuz . In 1997, traffic between Wittenberge and Berlin was reduced to an hourly rate. The line between Berlin and Hamburg was expanded in two stages in the 1990s and 2000s. In the first stage of expansion, the line was electrified and Glöwen station was rebuilt and provided with external platforms. In the second stage, the line was expanded to a maximum speed of 230 km / h, in this context the level crossing of the federal road at Glöwen station was replaced by an underpass.
Today the Glöwen station is served hourly by the line RE 2 of the East German Railway , which connects Cottbus and Wismar via Berlin and Wittenberge. The bus line 900 from Stendalbus to Havelberg stops at the train station with a connection to Stendal .
Investments
Reception building
The station building from the construction time of the line stands west of the Chaussee to Havelberg and south of the tracks, on the side facing away from the town. It was probably designed by the building director of the Berlin-Hamburg railway, Friedrich Neuhaus, together with Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz . The basic design of the building is similar to the Ludwigslust train station and the former Boizenburg train station building, which is no longer preserved . The two-story building with a flat hipped roof has an L-shaped base, the outer sides face north to the track side with six axes and to the east to the street side with nine axes. The asymmetrical layout clearly distinguishes it from most other buildings on the Berlin-Hamburg railway. The shape of the building, unlike some other stations of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, was not changed by later additions, with the exception of a loggia added on the inside facing the courtyard at the latest in 1859. Living rooms were set up in the longer wing of the building, and the waiting rooms were located in the shorter wing.
The facade is designed with various decorative elements. These include a meander strip on the eaves cornice and a number of decorative elements on windows and doors, such as ventilation rosettes in the cornice above the window axes. The window elements on the railroad side are richly decorated. Manfred Berger stated in 1980 that the building would create “a functional, but beautiful functional building [...] that arouses astonishment in this small town in the Mark Brandenburg region”.
The building was listed as a historical monument in 1982. After the local staff was withdrawn in the 1990s, the building was unused and vacant. Damage from decay was clearly visible. The plaster had crumbled off in many places, the decorative elements were partially destroyed. The “station reception building” is also listed in today's monument lists. The reception building has been privately owned since 2013 and has been renovated. There are now five apartments in the building and the preserved historical waiting room. We are still looking for a user for the Mitropa restaurant.
Other plants
Originally, both platforms were accessible from the station building. Since the renovation in the 1990s, the station has two outer platforms that are connected by a pedestrian tunnel. The two continuous main tracks are located between the two platform tracks. As part of the further expansion of the route, an underpass was built for the federal road after 2000, which had previously crossed the route on a barrier level crossing.
The freight traffic facilities are located on the north side of the tracks. The terminal building, also from the early days of the station, which was built in the brick construction with half-timbering typical for the region at the time, "with a wide cantilevered roof over the loading platform" and which contrasted with the reception building, no longer exists. Three tracks are still available in the area north of the platforms and connected from the west. To the east of the main road there is another track for loading and unloading.
To the west of the reception building were the tracks for the route in the direction of Havelberg with a platform.
The systems of the narrow-gauge railway in the direction of Pritzwalk and Lindenberg were arranged north of the tracks of the main line. To the east of today's federal road, on the track in the direction of Lindenberg, there was a platform with a small reception building that is used today (as of 2012) by a local association. The facilities for freight traffic and for moving the locomotives were west of the road next to the freight facilities of the main line. A track connection between the narrow-gauge tracks and the narrow-gauge line to Havelberg, which was also rebuilt after the Second World War, did not exist; the vehicles were transported between the two parts of the station using standard-gauge transfer cars.
In April 2015, the new P + R area on the station forecourt went into operation, which offers 134 parking spaces, five of which are for disabled people and four for short-term parking. The construction, less subsidies, was financed half by the municipality of Plattenburg and the city of Havelberg .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Postal Department. Berlin, January 8, 1847, p. 3.
- ↑ a b c d e f g State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Classicism station buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), pp. 36–38.
- ^ Peter Bley: 150 years of the Berlin - Hamburg railway. alba, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 , p. 39.
- ^ Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg, Manfred Hamm, Architecture & Beauty: the Schinkel School in Berlin and Brandenburg. Transit, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88747-121-0 , p. 231.
- ^ Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg, Manfred Hamm, Architecture & Beauty: the Schinkel School in Berlin and Brandenburg. Transit, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88747-121-0 , p. 168.
- ^ A b c d Manfred Berger , Historische Bahnhofsbauten, Vol. 1, Saxony, Prussia, Mecklenburg and Thuringia , Transpress-Verlag (1980), pp. 178–179.
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Prignitz (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2013.
- ↑ Investor Roland Wierling would like to relocate the bakery, ice cream parlor, doctor's practice and apartments in the venerable building in Glöwen ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), in: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , February 27, 2013.
- ↑ Wolfgang Masur: Glöwen station: 170-year-old feels young. Volksstimme, accessed October 26, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß, Elfriede Rehbein: Schmalspurbahn-Archiv. transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1980, p. 151.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn: Tracks in service facilities, Glöwen station, as of October 1, 2012. ( stredax.dbnetze.com PDF) accessed on January 8, 2013.
- ↑ Klaus Kieper, Reiner Preuß, Elfriede Rehbein: Narrow-gauge railway archive. transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1980, p. 160.
- ^ Dieter Haase: Ceremonial commissioning of the train station in Glöwen. Retrieved October 26, 2017 .