Jamlitz station
| Jamlitz | |
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 Entrance building of the station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | BJL |
| opening | December 31, 1876 |
| Conveyance | December 29, 1998 |
| location | |
| Place / district | Jamlitz |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 59 ′ 34 " N , 14 ° 22 ′ 15" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Jamlitz station , previously called Lieberose station , was a station on the main line from Cottbus to Frankfurt (Oder) in Brandenburg . Until 1958 there was a connection to the narrow-gauge Spreewald Railway . The main line was closed in December 1998 and later dismantled. The station building and a number of other buildings in the station area are listed as historical monuments.
Location and name
The station is located in the municipality of Jamlitz in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg on the eastern edge of the town north of the federal highway 320 . The main line between Cottbus and Frankfurt runs roughly in the north-south direction in the station area, the station is at route kilometer 109.8, counting from Großenhain Cottbuser station . In the Spreewaldbahn network, it formed the eastern end point. To the south of the station, in the Lieberoser Heide, are the extensive facilities of a former military training area .
The small town of Lieberose is about five kilometers to the west. The station was named after her until 1958, although a distinction was occasionally made between Lieberose Staatsbahnhof on the main line and Lieberose connecting station or Lieberose Spreewaldbahnhof on the Spreewaldbahn. Under the name Jamlitz there was a stop on the Spreewaldbahn north of the center of the village; in the city of Lieberose the narrow-gauge railway had the Lieberose Stadt station . After the cessation of traffic on the narrow-gauge railway, the remaining station on the main line was named Jamlitz .
history
Infrastructure
The line from Cottbus to Frankfurt and the Lieberose train station were opened on December 31, 1876, and regular operations began one day later. Since 1898 the station has been a junction with the narrow-gauge Spreewald Railway. In this context, the systems of the standard track assessment were expanded and the reception building enlarged.
The Kurmark SS military training area was built south of Jamlitz since 1943 . As a result, the station became important for military traffic and for the transport of prisoners. For the construction of the training area, Jewish forced laborers, mainly from Poland and Hungary, were used, who were housed in the Lieberose subcamp near the train station . Most of the workers were deported here by train from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and prisoners who were no longer able to work were brought there to be murdered. In this context (military training area) extensive loading facilities were built in the area of the station.
More than half of the 6,000-10,000 prisoners did not survive the work in Jamlitz or were returned to Auschwitz. A large number of the remaining prisoners were murdered when the camp was liquidated in February 1945 or driven on the death march towards Oranienburg . Only about 400 prisoners survived the camp.
After the Second World War , the military training area was taken over by the Red Army . The concentration camp was also used as an internment camp by the Soviet occupying forces until 1952 . In this Soviet special camp , it was likely that not only former Nazi perpetrators died of malnutrition or secondary diseases in the post-war period. On the branch line, Spreewaldbahn, passenger traffic between Lieberose Stadt and Lieberose station was stopped in 1952, and freight traffic on this section also ended in 1958. The main route through the now called Jamlitz station was used primarily for freight traffic. In terms of passenger traffic, it was primarily of local importance; most of the traffic between Cottbus and Frankfurt instead ran via Guben and Eisenhüttenstadt . In addition to local passenger and freight traffic, the station was used for military traffic to the training area.
Since the political change in the GDR in 1989, the importance of the route has continued to decline. Freight traffic was reduced. In June 1993 the ticket office in the station was closed. Passenger traffic was greatly thinned out in 1995 and completely stopped a year later. The Jamlitz station was still used for some time in freight traffic for timber transports in the direction of Cottbus, there was no longer any train traffic to the north. At the end of 1998 the line was closed.
passenger traffic
In the first few years after the opening, there were continuous trains from Frankfurt (Oder) via Cottbus to Dresden . In later years the main part of the travel traffic consisted of passenger trains commuting between Frankfurt and Cottbus. High-speed trains rarely used the route and usually did not stop at the station. In the 1980s, the offer was reinforced by a few trains between Cottbus and Jamlitz. In 1993, the two-hour service was introduced on the route, but the offer was only available for two years. In 1995 only four pairs of trains ran on working days between Peitz and Grunow via Jamlitz, one year later passenger traffic was completely stopped.
Passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge railway was insignificant for most of the years. In 1905, in addition to two pairs of trains in the direction of Byhlen, there were three other pairs between Lieberose Stadt and Lieberose, but in later years the total volume on this section was limited to a maximum of two pairs of trains, some of which only ran on a few days of the week.
After the shutdown
In the autumn of 2006, the tracks on the line were dismantled on a section over 30 kilometers long, including the Jamlitz station. In 2008 the Berlin youth welfare association Karuna e. V. the station ensemble, which has not been used since the line was closed, with the aim of setting up a meeting place for young people there. In the following years the building was partially renovated, so the roofs were renewed and new windows were installed. The project was criticized by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation because it could not be used as a meeting place for young people due to the “emotional burden” that lay on the site as the scene of a mass murder in World War II. In 2012 the facility planned at Jamlitz station was named Justus Delbrück House - Academy of Codetermination at Jamlitz station . The namesake is the anti-fascist Justus Delbrück , who was interned in the special camp Jamlitz after the Second World War and died there. October 2013 as part of the of found Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg operation supported 96 hours instead of extensive renovation work in the station building.
Facilities and monument protection
The station building is to the west of the continuous tracks of the main line. The southern part of the building dates from when the train station was opened, while the northern part was created when the Spreewald Railway opened at the end of the 19th century. The facilities of the narrow-gauge railway were to the west of the reception building; in the southern part there was a connection between narrow-gauge and standard-gauge lines. Furthermore, there were various loading facilities for military transports and a connection to a wood processing facility on this site.
The station ensemble with reception building, farm building, goods shed, water tower , two water cranes , ramp, platform and cobblestone access roads has been a listed building since December 2006. According to the assessment of the Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, the Jamlitz train station is a typical and structurally little changed intermediate train station which has regional, traffic, technical and architectural historical and urban significance.
“In particular, the older part of the station reception building, with its more representative, balanced design in historicizing forms, occupies a prominent position in the inventory of the numerous central stations in the state of Brandenburg that have been preserved, but are mostly now massively modified. Here, with the simplest means, a high-quality architecture with high aesthetic standards was created in terms of proportions and execution as well as in terms of the exterior design. "
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- My Jamlitz station by Andreas Weigelt
- Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum, Department of Preservation of Monuments: Assessment of the “Jamlitz Railway Station” monument . December 2006. (PDF; 69 kB)
- Video stop (epunkt) for street children
Individual evidence
- ^ "Lieberose" concentration camp sub-camp on the pages of the Evangelical Church Community Lieberose and Land, accessed on September 5, 2011
- ↑ Matthias Müller, Chronicle of the Frankfurt / Oder - Müllrose - Grunow / NL - Cottbus railway line , part 14 , accessed on November 9, 2011
- ^ Matthias Müller, Chronicle of the railway line Frankfurt / Oder - Müllrose - Grunow / NL - Cottbus , part 16 , accessed on November 9, 2011
- ↑ Disused routes in Brandenburg. (xlsx) Topic: Railway operations, publication from: 11.09.2017. In: www.ebd.bund.de. Federal Railway Office, November 9, 2017, accessed on December 28, 2018 (list of the federally-owned lines in the state of Brandenburg that have been closed since 1994).
- ^ Matthias Müller, Chronicle of the Frankfurt / Oder - Müllrose - Grunow / NL - Cottbus railway line , part 3 , accessed on November 9, 2011
- ↑ Matthias Müller, Chronicle of the Frankfurt / Oder - Müllrose - Grunow / NL - Cottbus , part 24 , accessed on November 9, 2011
- ^ Controversial youth project in Jamlitz . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , March 9, 2010
- ^ Youth meeting at the Nazi crime scene . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 21, 2010
- ↑ Homepage of the institution , accessed on February 10, 2013
- ↑ Bahn-Report 1/2014, p. 38
- ↑ Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald, information on the monument inventory ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 219 kB), as of October 12, 2010
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum, Department of Preservation of Monuments: Assessment of the “Jamlitz Railway Station” monument . December 2006. (PDF; 69 kB)
