Kybartai Railway Station
The Kybartai Station (formerly Вержболово / Werschbolowo, German : Wirballen, Lithuanian : Virbalis) is a border station between Russia and Lithuania on the Lithuanian side and the train station of the city Kybartai .
The station was opened in 1851 with the Berlin - St. Petersburg connection and was the first Russian border station to the Kingdom of Prussia . It was named after the city of Verkbolovo . Since the Central European standard gauge and the Russian broad gauge met here on a branch of the Warsaw-Petersburg Railway and in the neighboring German border station Eydtkuhnen on the Prussian Eastern Railway , the station received a particularly splendidly equipped reception building , because all passengers had to change here, including the Tsar and his family when they went to Western Europe by train.
After the First World War , Versbolovo fell to Lithuania in 1919 and was given the name Virbalis. The station was later named after the town of Kybartai, on whose territory it is located. At the end of the Second World War , the magnificent station building was blown up by a unit of the Red Army , which was supposed to destroy the station building at Eydtkuhnen, but confused the two stations out of ignorance of the location. After the war ended, a simpler building was built. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union , the station has been a border station again, now between the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and Lithuania, with Russia this time on the western side of the border.
literature
- Richard Deiss: Vane Cathedral and Sugar Beet Station. A short story about 200 European train stations . Bonn 2010, p. 117.
Coordinates: 54 ° 38 '24.9 " N , 22 ° 45' 32.9" E