Klein Warnow train station
| Klein Warnow | |
|---|---|
 Entrance building of the station
with goods shed |
|
| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 0, formerly 2 |
| abbreviation | WKWA |
| opening | 1846/47 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Karstädt (Prignitz) |
| Place / district | Klein Warnow |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 14 '11 " N , 11 ° 39' 48" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Klein Warnow station until 1938 Wendisch Warnow called, is located in the same place at the Berlin-Hamburg Railway . The station, which opened in 1846/47, was most important in the first 20 years of operation when it was the Prussian border station to Mecklenburg . Since the end of passenger traffic in 1993, the station has only been used for operational purposes. The reception building and a number of other buildings are listed.
location
The station is located at the 154.8 kilometer of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway in Klein Warnow, which today belongs to the Karstädt community in the Prignitz district of Brandenburg . A few hundred meters northwest of the station, the train crosses the Meynbach , which forms the historical border with Mecklenburg and the current border with the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The town of Hühnerland is about one kilometer away in Mecklenburg , and the next larger town, the town of Grabow , is seven kilometers away . The Karstädt community center is about ten kilometers south.
history
The fact that a train station was built in Wendisch Warnow (often also spelled Wendisch-Warnow ), which has only a few inhabitants , is due to its location on the border with Mecklenburg. On October 15, 1846, the Berlin-Hamburg Railway was first opened between Berlin and Boizenburg (then Boitzenburg ). A month earlier, the relevant provisions for customs clearance of trains on the border with Mecklenburg had been published in the “Regulations governing the handling of goods and property transport on the Berlin-Hamburg railway in relation to customs” of September 11, 1846 . A secondary customs office was opened in Wendisch Warnow, which was subordinate to the main customs office on the Chaussee in Warnow (today Groß Warnow ). There was another main customs office for rail traffic in Wittenberge.
On December 15, 1846, continuous passenger traffic to Hamburg was started, and freight traffic followed at the turn of the year. Originally the station in Wendisch Warnow was only intended to be used for customs formalities, but was opened to public transport after a short time, probably as early as 1847.
Passengers were checked on the train between Wendisch Warnow and Wittenberge, their luggage, with the exception of hand luggage, had to be stowed in the luggage trolley before reaching Wendisch Warnow. The controls in freight traffic were distributed among the stations in Wendisch Warnow, Wittenberge and Berlin. Wendisch Warnow was primarily responsible for the control and taxation of cattle imported into Prussia. In 1855, 16,019 head of cattle were processed in Wendisch Warnow, a year earlier there had been only 5,678 head of cattle. About this significant increase in Wendisch Warnow and the neighboring border crossing on the Chaussee it is said:
“The traffic with cattle in the main administrative district of Warnow was very important in the past year; 56 oxen, 6649 fattened pigs and 8213 head of sheep more than 1854 were imported from abroad, mainly destined for Berlin. It is said that there was a greater need for fat pigs from Mecklenburg, because imports of this type of cattle from Moldavia and Wallachia were almost entirely absent. "
Because of the border clearance formalities, all trains between Berlin and Hamburg stopped in Wendisch Warnow. In the 1855 timetable, the station was served by seven pairs of passenger trains every day, and the fast courier train also stopped in Wendisch Warnow.
With the formation of the North German Confederation and the connection of Mecklenburg and Lübeck to the Zollverein in 1868, the border and customs formalities were no longer necessary. On August 28, 1868, the Prussian Ministry of Finance announced that "the day on which the completely free movement of goods with Mecklenburg and Lübeck would open" the secondary customs office in Wendisch Warnow would be closed. The main customs office in Warnow was also closed.
The train station rapidly lost its importance. In 1868, with 4631 passengers a year, it was the station of the Berlin-Hamburg railway with the lowest number of passengers. Nevertheless, two more civil servants' houses were built at the station. After the borders were opened, the station was also largely insignificant for freight traffic. In 1867 it was announced that a branch line had been laid from the station to the nearby St. Paul and Walter lignite mines , the very first "direct rail connection" in the Potsdam administrative region . However, the mines had to cease operations as early as 1870 because there were no buyers due to the poor quality of the lignite.
From then on, Wendisch Warnow was only served by some of the passenger trains; in the 1880s, four pairs of trains stopped there a day. This frequency of use remained for more than a hundred years, with a slight increase in the period between the two world wars, until passenger traffic was discontinued.
During the time of the Third Reich, the place and station Wendisch Warnow were renamed Klein Warnow in 1937 . In 1987 the railway line in the station was electrified. In 1994 the passenger traffic in the station was stopped, the goods traffic had already been given up in 1976 in GDR times. The station has not been occupied since the expansion of the railway line and is still used for operational purposes.
Investments
The reception building is a two-storey building with a flat gable roof , consisting of five axes in the longitudinal direction and three axes in the transverse direction. On the ground floor, the platform-side front continues as a wall on the ground floor, and the goods shed adjoins it to the southeast. The architectural style corresponds to the other station buildings of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, mostly designed by Friedrich Neuhaus and Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz . The platform roof in front of the reception building and goods shed is no longer preserved.
To the south-east of the reception building there is an official residence on the tracks, which has largely the same design as the station building. Further south towards Dorfstraße there are two more civil servants' houses. A number of smaller outbuildings complete the ensemble.
The station has been a listed building since 2005. The protected ensemble forms the "Klein Warnow station, consisting of the station reception building, goods shed, three civil servants' dwellings, four outbuildings, oven and paving on the forecourt".
The reception building and the adjoining office building are empty; the other two houses and part of the outbuildings are used privately (as of summer 2013). The meadow on Dorfstrasse around the also listed oven, a more than a hundred years old bush oven, was prepared by the Groß Warnow village association. An "oven festival" takes place here every year.
The station originally had a house platform at the station building and an island platform for trains going north via this platform. Today the layout consists of the two through tracks and a passing track on the northeast side with the corresponding switches.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ supplement to the 41st piece of the official journal of the Royal Government to Potsdam and the city of Berlin , in 1846, online
- ↑ a b c d e f g h State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburger Eisenbahn, Classicist station buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), pp. 46–47
- ^ Prussian Trade Archive. Weekly for trade, commerce and transport companies. According to official sources. Born in 1856. Second half. Printing and publishing of Decker's Secret Court Book Printing House, Berlin 1856, pp. 218–219.
- ↑ Timetable from 1855, in: Peter Bley, 150 Years Railway Berlin - Hamburg . alba, Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 , p. 62.
- ↑ Yearbooks of customs legislation and administration of the German Customs and Trade Association, born in 1868. Jonas Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 1869, digitized version .
- ^ Journal of mining, metallurgy and saltworks in the Prussian state . Volume fifteen, published by Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1867, p. 95.
- ^ Journal of mining, metallurgy and saltworks in the Prussian state . Eighteenth volume, published by Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1870, p. 69.
- ↑ see e.g. B. Klein Warnow in the DR course book 1981/82
- ↑ 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