Karstädt train station
| Karstädt | |
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 Station reception building, platform side
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | former touch station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2, formerly 3 |
| abbreviation | WKT |
| IBNR | 8011994 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1853 (freight traffic) 1859 (passenger traffic) |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Karstaedt |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Karstädt |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 9 '39 " N , 11 ° 44' 20" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Karstädt station is the local train station Karstädt in the same community. It is located on the Berlin-Hamburg railway and was opened in 1853 for freight traffic and in 1859 for passenger traffic. From 1911 to 1975 (passenger traffic) and until the beginning of the 1990s (freight traffic), Karstädt was a connecting station to the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn . The classical reception building is under monument protection together with an outbuilding, the goods shed and the paving of the forecourt.
location
The station is located at kilometer 144.3 of the Berlin – Hamburg railway line west of the center of Karstädt. The railway line runs in this area approximately in a north-south direction and in the station area crossed the old route of federal highway 5 , which is now passed on a bypass road. The district town of Perleberg is about 15 kilometers to the southeast, and the Wittenberge railway junction is just 20 kilometers to the south . The stretch of the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn from Perleberg reached Karstädt from the southeast, ran a short distance parallel to the main line and then continued to the northeast.
history
The Berlin-Hamburg railway between Berlin and Boizenburg was opened on October 15, 1846. In the first few years of operation of the line, the only stopover between the Wittenberge and Grabow stations was Wendisch Warnow station , which served as a border station on the Prussian border with Mecklenburg-Schwerin .
On November 1, 1853, the Karstädt railway station initially went into operation for freight traffic. The Gühlitz-Warnower-Aktiengesellschaft used the station to transport the lignite mined near Gühlitz and built a road from Gühlitz to Karstädt. The station was probably only opened for passenger traffic in 1859 with the completion of the reception building. The stop does not appear in the 1855 timetable.
In 1880 five pairs of passenger trains stopped at the station. In 1911 the line of the Westprignitzer Kreisringbahn went into operation, which got its station on the forecourt of the state train station.
The almost dead straight stretch of over twenty kilometers around Karstädt was used for high-speed tests at the end of the 1920s. In 1931 which reached Schienenzeppelin of Franz Kruckenberg in Karstädt a world speed record of 230 km / h and the 24-year had long inventory.
The volume of passenger traffic remained moderate. In the 1930s, six pairs of passenger trains served the station a day, four of which ran to Berlin, the other two only to Wittenberge.
In 1975 passenger traffic on the circular ring road was stopped. Most of the line was dismantled, the section from Karstädt to Perleberg remained for freight traffic and occasional diversions until the early 1990s. The section from Karstädt to Margarethenthal near Dallmin also remained in operation until after 1990 to serve a starch factory there.
In 1986/87 the connection from Magdeburg to Schwerin and with it the Karstädt train station was electrified. In the second half of the 1980s, Karstädt became an express train stop for a few trains. An express train from Schwerin to Berlin and back stopped at the station twice a week. Otherwise, the number of passenger services on offer remained low and for decades was limited to four pairs of trains a day.
In the mid-1990s, traffic was synchronized. Local trains connected Karstädt with Wittenberge and Schwerin every two hours .
In the 1990s, the station was rebuilt and provided with external platforms. In a second expansion stage, the line was expanded to a maximum speed of 230 km / h and all level crossings on the same rails were removed and replaced by overpasses or underpasses. The crossing of the former federal road in the station area was completely closed, cyclists and pedestrians can use the platform tunnel.
Today (as of 2017) the Karstädt train station is served every two hours by line RE 2 from Cottbus via Berlin and Wittenberge via Karstädt to Ludwigslust , Schwerin and Wismar .
Investments
Reception buildings and other high-rise buildings
The station building is on the east side of the track system, on the side of the track facing the town. Originally it consisted of four longitudinal axes with a gable roof and a central risalit on the platform side over two axes. It was similar to the station buildings previously built on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, for example those in Grabow and Bergedorf , which, however, were built with five axes from the start. The risalit on the town side is only indicated. In the years 1877/78 the building was expanded considerably. Five more axes were added to the south, the two southern axes also being provided with a risalit, so that the building appears almost symmetrical from the track side.
To the north of the station building is a small outbuilding with a half-timbered facade in the roof area. Because this building is already shown on a picture from around 1860, it is assumed that it is one of the oldest parts of the station and possibly dates back to before the construction of the reception building. The former goods shed is even further north. To the south of the reception building was a separate toilet block "in romantic brick shapes". When the station was rebuilt, it had to give way to the access to the platform tunnel.
In the early 2000s, the building was one of the few remaining station buildings from the early years of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway that was not yet a listed building. In the meantime, the ensemble of the station “consisting of the station reception building, ancillary building, goods shed and paving” is a listed building. After the building had been largely vacant for a long time, the last remaining tenant, a restaurant, moved out of the station at the beginning of 2013.
Other plants
Originally, the station had a house platform at the station building on the track to the north and a platform accessible via this track on the track in the opposite direction. To the west of the through tracks were freight tracks, further freight tracks were connected to the east of the station north of the reception building. In this area was also the transfer track to the track of the circular ring railway. Their platform was on the main line on the forecourt of the state train station, to the north of which were the facilities for freight traffic.
Since the renovation, the station has three through tracks. The house platform is on the track to the north. The outer platform for the trains traveling south is on a passing track, in between there is a track for passing trains without a platform. Both platforms are connected by an underpass with ramps.
Of the freight traffic connections, the one to the brickworks still exists on the northwest side of the tracks, the connection to a grain factory on the northeast side is still being served. Other connections used to lead to the dairy and the flake factory east and northeast of the station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Bahnhofsbau des Klassizismus in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), pp. 46–47
- ↑ Timetable from 1855, in: Peter Bley, 150 Years Railway Berlin - Hamburg . alba, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 , p. 62.
- ^ Peter Bley, 150 years of the Berlin - Hamburg railroad . alba, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 , p. 130.
- ^ The time after 1975 on prignitzer-kreisringbahn.de, accessed on June 21, 2013.
- ↑ a b Manfred Berger , Historische Bahnhofsbauten, Vol. 1, Saxony, Prussia, Mecklenburg and Thuringia , Transpress-Verlag (1980), pp. 183-184.
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Prignitz district (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2012
- ↑ Instead of Wonneberger, Count is now the landlord. In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, local edition Prignitz, January 10, 2013
- ↑ a b Track plan from 1965, online ( memento of the original from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (accessed on June 21, 2013)
