Greifswald station
| Greifswald station | |
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 Exterior facade of the station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | WGW |
| IBNR | 8010139 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | November 1, 1863 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Greifswald |
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| Architectural style | classicism |
| architect | Theodor August Stein |
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| City / municipality | Greifswald |
| country | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 5 '34 " N , 13 ° 22' 13" E |
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| Railway stations in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | |
The Greifswald railway station is the main station of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern district town of Greifswald in Vorpommern-Greifswald . It is located at line kilometer 209.6 of the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway and is served by local and long-distance trains of Deutsche Bahn . The station itself has a house platform and a central platform with a total of three tracks.
location
The train station is located southwest of the city center of Greifswald, which has 59,382 inhabitants, between Bahnhofstrasse and Osnabrücker Strasse in the Fettenvorstadt district at a height of 2 m above sea level. NHN . The Ryck flows north of the station, to the west of the station is a rainwater retention basin and to the east there is the city moat with the protective wall that separates the city center from the Fettenvorstadt.
history
→ See also the history of the Angermünde-Stralsund railway
The city of Greifswald was connected to the Berlin-Szczecin Railway in the second half of the 19th century . A solemn inauguration of the railway line from Angermünde to Stralsund took place on October 26, 1863 by the Prussian King Wilhelm I , but the scheduled train service did not begin until November 1, 1863. With the construction of the line, a branch to the port was also built. In October 1863 the railway workshop of the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahngesellschaft opened , which was designed for locomotives, passenger and freight cars. In 1868 the station building was completed in the immediate vicinity of the ramparts. The Prussian State Railways took over the Berlin-Stettiner Railway Company in 1881. On November 26, 1896, the Greifswald – Grimmen – Tribsees railway was opened, and in the summer of 1945 it was dismantled with the exception of small remains. The Greifswald – Jarmen railway was opened on September 16, 1897 and stopped again on April 30, 1945. The tracks were dismantled as a reparation to the Soviet Union . On December 20, 1898, the Greifswald – Wolgast small railway was opened and dismantled in mid-1945 as a reparation payment. On January 21, 1903, a small port railway was built, which was expanded on November 21, 1919. Through several renovations and extensions in the years 1863, 1906/07 and 1911 to 1913, the railway company became the largest industrial company in Greifswald with up to 800 employees. There were also plans to build the station at the port, but these were discarded because of the peripheral location for the route. By 1910, the line from Angermünde to Stralsund was continuously expanded to double-track. With the increase in the number of inhabitants at the end of 1928, Greifswald's importance as a transport hub grew . In 1937/38 the station forecourt was redesigned by the municipal green office, the first parking spaces were created and the city moat was piped. During the Second World War the station building was damaged and then rebuilt. After the end of the Second World War, a main track between the Berlin outer ring and Stralsund was dismantled as a reparation for the Soviet Union. The continuous double-track line from Angermünde to Stralsund was not put back into operation until 1978. On September 28, 1969, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built a line to the Lubmin nuclear power plant , which is now operated by Energiewerke Nord GmbH . In 1982 the bus station was built and a green area with a pond was built for it. With the construction of the largest German ferry port Sassnitz (Mukran) in the 1980s, one of the last major transport construction projects in the GDR, the step-by-step electrification of the Berlin – Stralsund – Mukran line began.
On September 9, 1988, electrification went into operation between Züssow and Greifswald and on December 17, 1988 between Greifswald and Stralsund. In the years 2006 to 2008 the station was completely renovated, the platforms, platform roofs, the pedestrian underpass, loudspeakers, lighting, signage as well as the pedestrian and cycle paths were modernized as part of the project "Bahnparallele Greifswald". Handicapped-accessible elevators, guidance systems for the blind and a pedestrian underpass were added. In addition, the roof covering of the reception building was refurbished and the facade on the track side in the house platform area was partially refurbished in accordance with the preservation of monuments. At the same time, Bahnhofstrasse was moved further south. An underpass was built under the station and the old level crossing north of the station was removed after completion of the underpass and replaced by a pedestrian underpass. In the fourth quarter of 2009 until July 15, 2010, the station building was renovated by the federal and railroad's economic stimulus program . As an additional measure to the economic stimulus program, the electronic signal box for the Greifswald area is to be completed and the fire protection at the train station is to be improved. On January 20, 2008 the new electronic interlocking in Prenzlau went into operation. With this and the new interlocking in Tantow the railway line from Berlin to Stralsund, including the route is Szczecin from the operations center of the track in Berlin-Pankow remotely. The station is now a listed building .
Station building
The station building was completed in 1879 and consists mainly of travertine - natural stone . It was built in the style of classicism . In the building there is a reception hall with several seats and a DB travel center. From the fourth quarter of 2009 to July 15, 2010, the station building was renovated by the federal and railroad's economic stimulus program. The Prime Minister Erwin Sellering ( SPD ), the Chairman of the Board of Management of DB Station & Service AG, Dr. André Zeug and the Lord Mayor of Greifswald Arthur König ( CDU ). The measure was planned by DB Station & Service and carried out by FORM NORD GbR. During the renovation, the basement ceiling was insulated on the underside and the roof structure and the inner walls of the listed building were provided with high-quality insulation from the inside. For reasons of monument protection, no modern thermal insulation composite system could be applied to the clinker brick facade of the building . Instead, the outer facade was cleaned with superheated steam , defects were repaired and then completely glazed . The reception hall and the entire building were given a new color scheme, which was carried out in accordance with the restoration report in coordination with the preservation authorities. In addition, the ventilation system was refurbished and converted to the latest ventilation technology. The renovation measure had the aim of a holistic renovation of the substance, the greatest possible saving in carbon dioxide and an optical modernization of the reception building. The energetic renovation of the reception building at Greifswald train station thus contributes to saving resources and thus to the sustainable protection of our ecosystem . Overall, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by 70 tons per year, which corresponds to around 27%. The amount of energy saved is sufficient to heat 27 single-family houses for a year.
Track system
The station has three platform tracks. Track 1 is located on the 55 cm high house platform and is 321 meters long. Platforms 2 and 3 are on the central platform , which is also 55 cm high. The platform on track 2 is 321 m long and on track three 143 meters, they are both connected to the house platform by an underpass. As planned, only tracks 1 and 2 are used; passenger trains only run from track 3 in the event of delays if several trains run one behind the other. Otherwise, track 3 is also used more often to park slow freight trains so that passenger trains can overtake them. Long-distance trains cannot stop at platform 3 due to the short length, as can regional trains with more than four cars. At the station there were three shunting tracks for goods traffic, there were still works tracks to the industrial mill and to the Greifswald news electronics plant , but these were dismantled due to the low usage. From the station forecourt there is a connection to several bus routes operated by the Greifswald municipal utility . There is also a taxi rank in front of the train station.
Freight depot
In Greifswald, goods were handled by rail and ship. The main goods handled in the 19th century were beets, potatoes, grain, rape, poppy seeds, phazelia , flour and dairy products. These were transshipped at the port, loaded onto the ship from the train and from the storage facility. Foundry products and machine parts were loaded from Kessler's machine works. Goods arrived from the ship, such as B. building materials, stones, wood, coal, gravel, iron, paper and textiles, were partially reloaded directly onto the port railway or loaded at the freight station between Gützkower and Grimmer Straße. The freight yard and the shunting area of the Reichsbahn were also located there. From the Greifswald train station to Grimmer Straße there were animal stalls for buying cattle, pigs and small animals, which were then transported away by train. In the 20th century, fuel for the army was brought by train to the fuel store in Ladebow to supply the People's Navy . The works railway drove to and from Lubmin to the nuclear power plant from a dead end (track 3) of the old Reichsbahn repair plant. Today there are only a few trains to and from Greifswald. Most of these are nuclear waste shipments to the North interim storage facility in Lubmin. The track to Ladebow, which has not been used for a number of years, has been repaired since the beginning of 2013 in order to enable rail operations again. Since then, individual fertilizer trains have been running. The targeted number of 100 freight trains per year is currently far short.
Bus station
From 2010 a new bus station was built right next to the station building on the station forecourt . The new ZOB should be more practical and more passenger-friendly. Switching between the bus lines and the train is therefore possible over short distances. The Greifswald train station will thus become one of the most modern hubs in public transport in the state. The bus station will be built as a covered island bus platform with eight bus platforms (three stops for city traffic and five for regional traffic). It will also be built with two display boards and a building with a waiting room for passengers and a mobility center with information and ticket sales. A guidance system for the blind will be set up for the visually impaired and the bus platform will be adapted to the height of the low-floor buses for people with reduced mobility so that they can get on and off at almost the same height.
Train traffic
Until 1945
In the first few years, seven pairs of trains ran daily through Greifswald between Berlin and Stralsund. Of these, four were pure passenger train pairs, one was a pure freight train pair and two were mixed train pairs. In the early years, the trains initially ran together with the Szczecin trains and were winged in Angermünde . Since passenger traffic increased more than initially expected, the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft set up its own pairs of trains just a few years later. By 1876 opened distance Ducherow-Swinoujscie that a continuous connection to Usedom allowed, and the route Altefähr Mountains , including a Trajektverkehrs between Stralsund and Altefähr in 1883 increased the numbers again. In 1891 the latter was extended to Sassnitz , from where a mail steamer line continued in the direction of Trelleborg from 1897 . In 1909, this resulted in what is known as the “ royal line ” between the two ports. At the same time as the railway ferry was set up, a pair of night trains was set up between Berlin and Stockholm . Since 1896, regional trains and occasional freight trains have also operated on the newly opened Greifswald-Jarmen and Greifswald-Tribsees lines; these trains were discontinued from 1945, as the lines were shut down and then dismantled. In 1897 regional and freight trains were added on the newly opened narrow-gauge line Greifswald – Wolgast. These trains finally stopped running since 1945 because the line was closed and the tracks were dismantled.
By increasing the line speed on the main line, the travel time was shortened. Due to the increasing number of passengers, the Deutsche Reichsbahn had to constantly expand the offer. Capacity utilization reached its pre-war high in 1939 with up to eight pairs of passenger trains a day. As in previous years, freight traffic was mainly limited to agricultural products. During the Second World War, the line was damaged or destroyed in several places. As a result, no trains could run during this time.
1945 to 1989
After initial repairs, the first trains were able to run on the line from June 1945. Continuous traffic between Berlin and Stralsund was possible from the end of the year. In 1947 the Rügen dam could be used again, so that the train traffic to Sweden increased again. Freight traffic now mainly transported products from the metal and oil industries. In the time of the GDR long-distance trains ran from Saßnitz (today Sassnitz ) via Berlin to Dresden , Karl-Marx-Stadt and Meiningen , from Stralsund via Berlin to Leipzig or Halle (Saale) , in some cases further to Nordhausen and from Züssow via Greifswald and Rostock to Wismar . There was also a connection in Sassnitz to Oslo and Helsinki.
Since 1990
Shortly after the political turning point in the GDR in 1989/1990, both passenger and freight traffic decreased noticeably, as this now largely shifted to the road; there was a gradual transition from the earlier offer to clocked lines. In the supraregional freight traffic on the route between the Berlin area and the Sassnitz- Mukran ferry port , the number of trains fell in the 1990s due to changes in the flow of goods , as many trains have been running to and from the ports in Rostock and Hamburg since then. The declining regional freight traffic was further restricted by the then DB Cargo AG from the mid-1990s for economic reasons, including the MORA C program . In 1993, trains on Interregio Line 36 ran from Stralsund via Berlin to Frankfurt / Main for long-distance passenger rail transport . This route was converted into Intercity Line 15 in 2002 . In 1993 there were also express trains going to Sweden .
Since the beginning of the 2000s, trains of the Usedomer Bäderbahn have been running in addition to DB's regional express line 3 , which is now also served by DB Regio Nordost. From the 2002 timetable change, in addition to the existing IC line, the InterConnex line 2 also ran between Stralsund and Zittau , after several line changes between Stralsund and Dresden . The connection was discontinued at the 2006 timetable change due to unprofitability. From December 2010, Deutsche Bahn thinned long-distance traffic on the route considerably. Three out of five daily IC trains on the Berlin-Greifswald-Stralsund route have been canceled. Since then, only one IC 50 train and one EC 27 train has been running every day. After protests from Stralsund and Greifswald about reduced train connections to Berlin, an ICE pair of trains on line 28 from Munich to Stralsund was promised Runs Sunday to Friday in the direction of Stralsund and Monday to Saturday in the direction of Munich. Since April 2012 there have also been two holiday trains on the IC 32 line on summer weekends between Cologne (via Duisburg ) and Binz , but they replace the trains previously running from Cologne via Hamburg . From Monday to Friday an IC 30 train runs between Hamburg and Greifswald via Stralsund. There are also occasional special trips on the route to the Ladebow harbor.
Since the timetable change in 2019, the trains of the Usedomer Bäderbahn only run to Züssow, since then the ODEG has been running as the new operator between Stralsund and Züssow as RE 10.
Lines
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU | Vehicle material |
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| IC 28 | ( Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin | two pairs of trains | DB long-distance transport | BR 101 + IC car |
| ICE 28 | (Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Nuremberg - Munich | a pair of trains (Mon-Fri, Sun)
two pairs of trains (Sa) |
ICE T | |
| IC 30 | (Züssow -) Greifswald - Stralsund - Rostock - Schwerin - Hamburg - Bremen - Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne - Stuttgart | a pair of trains (Mon-Fri, Sun) | BR 101 + IC car | |
| IC 32 | (Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Dortmund - Duisburg - Cologne | individual trains (Fri-Sun) | ||
| IC 32 | Dresden - Elsterwerda - Berlin - Eberswalde - Prenzlau - Greifswald - Stralsund - Ostseebad Binz | single move (Sa) | ||
| IC 56 | Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bremen - Oldenburg | single train (Sun) | ||
| RE 3 | Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Jüterbog - Falkenberg / Elster (to) / Lutherstadt Wittenberg (from) | 120 | DB Regio Nordost | Locomotive + double deck car |
| RE 10 | Rostock - Ribnitz-Damgarten - Stralsund - Greifswald - Züssow | 120 (Rostock - Stralsund) individual trains | East German Railway | Siemens Desiro Mainline |
Culture house of the railway workers
The cultural house of the railway workers is only a few hundred meters away from the train station. It was the center of the cultural life of the railway workers in Greifswald and the surrounding area. In their free hours, railway workers met there to work in interest groups, to read a book or to be sociable. The Modellbahnclub Greifswald e. V. carried out model railway exhibitions there several times. It was built as a saltwater and mud bath and today houses the Greifswald District Court and the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Finance Court .
Greifswald Süd stop
The Greifswald Süd stop is located in the south of Greifswald . It is located 2.6 km south of Greifswald train station on the Angermünde – Stralsund and Greifswald – Lubmin lines . The RE 3 and RE 10 trains serve the stop every two hours. The stop has two tracks, each with a 156 m long and 55 cm high platform . It belongs to category 6 and was completely renovated in 2007.
literature
- Dieter Grusenick: 145 years Greifswald station: 1863–2008. Contributions to the Greifswald railway history. Neddermeyer, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-933254-91-4 .
- Dieter Grusenick, Erich Morlok, Horst Regling: The Angermünde-Stralsund Railway including branch lines . transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71095-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Station category list 2012 ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Greifswald station. In: der-egoswalder.de. Retrieved April 10, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c Ostseebahnhof gets the finishing touches. (No longer available online.) In: bahnhof.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 28, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 2nd electoral period. (PDF; 956 kB) August 11, 1997, p. 471 , accessed on May 6, 2012 .
- ^ Greifswald station Energy-efficient renovation of the reception building. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: bahnhof.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 28, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Greifswald. (No longer available online.) In: deutschebahn.com. DB Station & Service, July 11, 2018, archived from the original on July 20, 2018 ; accessed on July 20, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State promotes rehabilitation of the railroad track to the Ladebow seaport. (No longer available online.) November 14, 2012, archived from the original on November 11, 2014 ; Retrieved February 28, 2013 .
- ^ Cornelia Meerkatz: Greifswald - first two trains to Ladebow. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. May 25, 2017. Retrieved June 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Start of construction for the bus station in Greifswald. In: bahnaktuell.net. July 27, 2010, accessed July 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Dieter Grusenick, Erich Morlok, Horst Regling.
- ^ German course book summer 1939
- ^ Course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn winter timetable 1981/82
- ↑ From Cuba to Ladebow with 86 1333. In: Drehscheibe Online Forums. July 16, 2017. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
- ↑ history. Modellbahnclub Greifswald eV, accessed on May 6, 2012 .
- ^ Greifswald South. (No longer available online.) In: deutschebahn.com. DB Station & Service, July 11, 2018, archived from the original on July 20, 2018 ; accessed on July 20, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
