Grabow (Meckl) station
| Grabow (Meckl) | |
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 Road to the train station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | WGRB |
| IBNR | 8011681 |
| Price range | 6th |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Grabow__Meckl_ |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Grabow |
| Place / district | Grabow |
| country | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 16 '58 " N , 11 ° 33' 51" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
The Grabow (Meckl) Station is located on the Berlin-Hamburg railway in southwest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . Together with four other stations, also opened on October 15, 1846, it is the oldest train station in this state. The classical reception building from the opening time and a few other buildings in the station area are under monument protection.
location
The station is located in the town of Grabow in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, seven kilometers from the Ludwigslust railway junction . It is located at kilometer 163.2 of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway and is the last Mecklenburg train station before the Brandenburg border. The train station is about 500 meters northeast of the city center. The railway line crosses the Elde River to the southeast of the station .
history
Prehistory and construction
Around 1840, plans for the construction of a railway line between Berlin and Hamburg matured. Different variants were discussed. In Hamburg, a route from Wittenberge to the left of the Elbe was favored. Even with a course to the right of the Elbe, there were several options, such as a course near the river or further inland. On November 8, 1841, the five states of Prussia , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Denmark , Lübeck and Hamburg signed a state treaty for the construction of a railway line between Berlin and Hamburg. The Mecklenburg side under Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II managed to achieve a route that passed as close as possible to the Mecklenburg residence in Schwerin .
A few months earlier, representatives of the city of Grabow in Berlin had campaigned for the place to be connected to the railway line. In March 1841 it was agreed that the city of Grabow would provide the Berlin-Hamburg railway company with land and material for the construction of the railway free of charge. The company for its part promised to build a train station and a transfer station on the Elde at its own expense. Initially, the plans envisaged that the line would touch the city in the southwest with a train station west of the Grabow harbor, later the line would run on the northeastern edge of the city. Both plans were in the interest of the city, since on the one hand only little valuable land had to be given to the railway and on the other hand the nearby town of Ludwigslust was to be passed some distance away. After Friedrich Neuhaus visited Grabow, however, it turned out that the final route would require a number of valuable pieces of land to build the railway and the city had to compensate the owners accordingly. In addition, the new route touched Ludwigslust close to the center, so that stronger competition was feared.
Train station and surroundings
On October 15, 1846, the line between Berlin and Boizenburg went into operation, making it the first railway line in Mecklenburg, and from December 15 of the same year the connection to Hamburg was completed. Stations in Mecklenburg were created for the route opening in Grabow, Ludwigslust, Hagenow , Brahlstorf and Boizenburg. In the first years of operation of the line, Grabow was on the customs border between Mecklenburg and Prussia. With the establishment of the North German Confederation , there was a customs union from 1868 and controls were no longer applicable.
In 1868 the Elde in the Grabow area was expanded. As a result, a reloading facility was set up on the railway bridge in the southern part of the station, where goods were to be reloaded between ship and railroad using a crane. However, demand remained low and the crane was dismantled again in 1885. In the second half of the 19th century, the area around the station was gradually developed for urban development. The Kießerdamm between the city and the train station was paved and provided with an avenue of lime trees for pedestrians. In 1858 a barrel factory was built at the station; In the following decades the district court and post office settled on Kießerdamm. From 1890 a residential area was built beyond the train station.
In the first decades after the line was built, efforts were still being made to run another line from Dömitz via Grabow to Parchim and Waren (Müritz) , but the neighboring Ludwigslust station has developed into a railway junction instead since 1880. As a result, Grabower Bahnhof fell behind Ludwigslust.
Transport relations changed after the Second World War. The route between Hamburg and Berlin lost its importance due to the inner-German border. Instead, the connection between Rostock and Wismar in the direction of Magdeburg and Leipzig , which uses the Berlin-Hamburg railway between Ludwigslust and Wittenberge, grew in importance.
In 1986/87 the section between Magdeburg and Schwerin and with it Grabow station was electrified. After German reunification, rail freight traffic declined. The freight transport systems in Grabow station became dispensable and the tracks dismantled. As part of the conversion of the Berlin – Hamburg line to a high-speed line, the previous restricted level crossings, including three in the city of Grabow, one at the northern and one at the southern end of the station, were removed and replaced by underpasses.
passenger traffic
In the first years of operation of the line, the station was connected to Hamburg and Berlin by two pairs of passenger trains and one pair of freight trains (with passenger transport), plus an intermediate train from Hamburg to Wittenberge and back.
Before the Second World War, train traffic was relatively brisk. In 1939, Grabow station was served daily by a total of nine pairs of trains. This included four pairs of trains running between Hamburg and Berlin, two pairs of trains between Hamburg and Wittenberge and three pairs that commuted between Ludwigslust and Grabow. Express and express trains did not stop at the station.
The importance of the station in passenger traffic decreased after the Second World War. After there was still a continuous pair of express trains from Rostock via Schwerin and Grabow to Zwickau at the beginning of the 1950s , the offer was limited to four pairs of trains a day for four decades. From the 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s a train ran south from Schwerin to Nauen at around 3 a.m., a train from Rostock to Nauen in the morning, a train from Schwerin to Berlin in the afternoon and a train between Schwerin and Wittenberge in the early evening. From the opposite direction, an express train from Berlin to Schwerin reached the station around 3 a.m., a train from Wittenberge to Schwerin in the morning, from Nauen to Schwerin at noon and from Nauen to Rostock in the early evening. After the political change, traffic in the direction of Hamburg increased significantly, and there were occasional direct trains there.
In the mid-1990s, the range was expanded and then clocked. Since then, Grabow station has been served every two hours. Since the end of 2011, the RE 2 line has been connecting Grabow to the north directly with Wismar, Schwerin and Ludwigslust, and to the south with Wittenberge, Nauen, Berlin and Cottbus .
Investments
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The station building is located southwest of the tracks. It is a classicist two-storey building with five axes in the longitudinal direction and three axes in the transverse direction with a gable roof and a mezzanine . In both directions the building was given a central projectile with a triangular gable, so that an approximately cruciform floor plan results. It has not been used for railway purposes since the early 1990s. Until shortly after 2000 there was still a restaurant in the building, since then it has been empty. In June 2015 it was sold at auction for 7,500 euros.
The architect of the building is not known by name, but due to the similarities to many other buildings on the Berlin-Hamburger, it is assumed that the director of the Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn Friedrich Neuhaus provided at least specifications for the architecture of the station. A building practically identical to the Grabower station was built in Bergedorf station near Hamburg; In 1937 it was demolished when the local railway facilities were being rebuilt.
At the station building, the house platform is on the continuous line from Ludwigslust to Wittenberge. This track was used to access a narrow island platform on the track in the opposite direction until the station was renovated in the 1990s. The equipment for freight transport was located behind it until the renovation. These track systems have been removed, with the exception of one track that has now been provided with an outside platform for the trains in the direction of Ludwigslust. A half-timbered goods shed has been preserved, but is empty.
The restricted road crossing at Kießerdamm at the southern end of the station was replaced by an underpass in the course of upgrading the line to a high-speed line in 2004. Access to the platform in the direction of Ludwigslust runs through this underpass.
The reception building, two sheds, a wall and a residential building opposite the train station are listed as historical monuments.
Web links
- Railway, train station, bridges and tunnels in Grabow and historical photos of the Grabow railway systems on grabow-erinnerungen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Oscar Kurz: Grabow becomes a railway station , supplement to the Elde newspaper December 31, 1943; Christian Madaus (after Oscar Kurz): Grabow becomes a railway station in: Grabower Heimathefte , Heft 16, Barsbüttel, self-published, 1997
- ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Classicist Railway Station Buildings in Brandenburg , Part 2 (PDF; 5.7 MB), p. 48
- ↑ a b 700 years of Grabow i. Meckl: 1252-1952, the colorful city on the Elde , city of Grabow, 1952 p. 17/18
- ^ A b Oscar Kurz, The townscape of Grabow in the course of time , in: Grabow i. Meckl., "The colorful city on the Elde" , special edition of the Mecklenburg monthly magazine , Carl Hinstorffs Verlag , Rostock, 1935
- ↑ Timetable for the history of the city on the pages of the Grabow Office, accessed on September 14, 2011
- ↑ State of Brandenburg, Ministry for Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Classicist Railway Station Buildings in Brandenburg , Part 1 (PDF; 5.5 MB), p. 8
- ^ German course book, summer 1939
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, Kursbuch Winter 1951/52
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, Kursbuch Winter 1968/69; Course book 1989/90
- ↑ a b State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburg Railway, Classicist Station Buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.5 MB), pp. 21/22
- ↑ Bargain: Grabower Bahnhof sold. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung, Ludwigsluster Tageblatt, June 26, 2015.
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn press release of November 22, 2004 on pressrelations.de, accessed on October 13, 2011
- ↑ List of monuments of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district , status: November 2011