Luckau-Uckro station
| Luckau-Uckro | |
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 Reception building of the Berlin-Dresdener Eisenbahn with station forecourt, 2012
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (Berlin – Dresden) 2 (NLE, unused) 1 (DUE, closed) |
| abbreviation | BUK |
| IBNR | 8010353 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | June 17, 1875 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Luckau |
| Place / district | Uckro |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 51 '7 " N , 13 ° 36' 28" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Luckau-Uckro station (until 1996 Uckro , in its first years of operation Uckro-Luckau ) is a station in the district of Uckro in the city of Luckau in the south of Brandenburg. It is located on the Berlin-Dresden Railway and acted as a junction station with the Dahme-Uckro Railway and the Niederlausitzer Railway . All three railway lines had their own station buildings. These have been preserved, all three buildings are listed .
location
The station is located at the 76.0 kilometer (counted from Berlin) of the Berlin – Dresden railway line west of the center of the Luckau district of Uckro in the Dahme-Spreewald district of Brandenburg . The railway line runs approximately in a north-south direction. The actual city of Luckau is about eight kilometers to the east; the city of Dahme / Mark is about 13 kilometers to the west. It lies to the east at the foot of the Lusatian border wall that begins with the Lower Lusatian ridge , a smaller ridge that the railway line crosses to the south.
history
Original plans included a route for the Berlin-Dresden railway across the city of Dahme, but failed due to the resistance of the local mayor. The same is said of Luckau. The route was built at a higher cost because of the mountain ranges around Uckro. On June 17, 1875, the station in the village of Uckro was opened along with the line. In its first years of operation, it bore the double name Uckro-Luckau after the nearby town of Luckau. Luckau and Dahme received stagecoach connections to Uckro.
In the following years there were again plans to connect Dahme to the railway. A larger regular-gauge network was in the planning stage, and finally the activities were reduced to one route from Dahme - Uckro - Luckau. After the city of Luckau also waived, the Dahme-Uckroer-Eisenbahn AG (DUE) was founded on October 21, 1884. On July 31, 1886, the 12.6 kilometer route from Uckro to Dahme went into operation.
In the 1890s, planning began for the construction of a railway line from Falkenberg via Uckro, Luckau to Lübben . The Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn (NLE) went into operation between Luckau and Uckro on December 20, 1897, followed by the extension to Falkenberg and the section between Lübben and Luckau on March 15. The line crossed the main line several kilometers south of Uckro, the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn received its own station east of the state railways.
After the Second World War, both private railways were taken over by the Deutsche Reichsbahn . In October 1953, the Uckro station became the starting point of one of the largest manhunted breakdowns by the German People's Police in the GDR when five young men from Czechoslovakia, the Mašín brothers and three of their friends, who to this day are either called anti-communist resistance fighters or criminals, were on the Escape to West Berlin after a shootout. A police officer, the local ABV , was killed. Only two of the five fugitives were subsequently shot.
With the beginning of Berlin and German division at the end of the 1940s, the importance of the Uckro station grew. Since the Dresden Railway led to West Berlin , trains in Uckro switched from the main line to the tracks of the Niederlausitzer Railway in order to reach the eastern part of Berlin via Lübben. Since 1952 the Dresdener Bahn was connected to East Berlin via the Berlin outer ring . Nevertheless, the change between the Dresden Railway and the Niederlausitzer Bahn in Uckro was frequently used during construction work, for freight transport or for military reasons during the GDR era.
On September 27, 1981, the main railway section of Uckro station was connected to the electrical network from the south. The section to Rangsdorf followed a little later, and in 1983/84 electrical operation to Berlin was also started. Passenger traffic in the direction of Dahme had already ceased on January 3, 1968. Freight traffic remained in operation there until the early 1990s, and in 1993 the line was shut down.
The importance of the Niederlausitz Railway also declined after German reunification . Freight traffic was significantly reduced, the military reasons for efficient bypass routes no longer existed and in passenger traffic the competition from cars increased. In February 1995 the section between Uckro and Luckau was closed due to the poor condition of the track and regular passenger traffic was no longer resumed. On May 27, 1995, passenger traffic between Uckro and Herzberg (Elster) was canceled by the State of Brandenburg. A year later, on June 1, 1996, passenger traffic between Luckau and Lübben also ended, causing the city of Luckau to lose its rail connection. At the same time, however, the Uckro station was renamed Luckau-Uckro . The place Uckro was not incorporated into the city of Luckau until 2002.
In 1998, the German regional railway took over the Niederlausitzer railway line. Until 2008 it still carried out sporadic seasonal traffic. Since then, the line and the corresponding part of the station in Uckro have not been used, but have not been formally closed.
The station forecourt was converted by 2013. A new bus stop, 55 Park & Ride spaces and a covered bicycle system were built. The cost was 580,000 euros. The newly designed station forecourt was inaugurated at Easter 2013.
The station building of the Berlin-Dresdener Eisenbahn was to be auctioned in spring 2013.
passenger traffic
Since the separation of fast and slow passenger traffic at the end of the 19th century, Uckro was mostly only served by passenger trains, and express and express trains rarely stopped there. In 1939 four passenger trains and one pair of express trains stopped on the main line every day; there were also two passenger trains and a pair of express trains on weekends. In the direction of the south, an express train from Berlin to Chemnitz also stopped at the station. At that time, three pairs of trains drove on the NLE towards Falkenberg and eight towards Luckau. At that time four passenger trains and three buses offered by the railway company drove on the route to Dahme. Even after the Second World War, the offer was similar. In 1960 four pairs of passenger trains drove on the main line with a stop in Uckro, express trains did not stop there. The offer on the NLE was identical to that of 1939, six pairs of trains went to Dahme (five pairs of trains on Sundays). With the exception of the thinning out and later discontinuation of traffic to Dahme, the offer remained at a similar level until the 1990s.
Today, Uckro is served every two hours by the RE 3 regional express line. The trains run from Stralsund via Pasewalk , Berlin and Zossen to Uckro and then via Doberlug-Kirchhain to Elsterwerda. From Monday to Friday, in addition to these, individual RE 3 lines run from Schwedt / Oder via Berlin and Uckro to Elsterwerda during rush hour.
Investments
The station complex consists of three adjacent independent stations. While they were all generally referred to as Uckro in public timetables , the DUE and NLE stations were internally named Uckro West and Uckro South . The facilities of the Berlin-Dresden Railway are slightly above the level of the surrounding area. The track systems consist of two through tracks and two external platform tracks with outside platforms. A tunnel connects both platforms. The station building is to the east of the tracks, followed by the paved station forecourt. On the other side of the forecourt is the station building and then the tracks of the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn. The facilities of the Dahme-Uckroer Railway were on the other side of the main line. The tracks of this railway are dismantled. The entire "Uckro station complex" with the "station reception building on the Berlin-Dresden route including the station forecourt, the station reception building of the Niederlausitzer Eisenbahn, station reception building on the Dahme-Uckro line with toilet block" is a listed building. The complex also includes a “residential building for railway staff with stable building (No. 5)” south of the station forecourt.
The track systems of the two private railways were relatively small, as the operational center of both lines was not in Uckro, but in Dahme and Luckau. The DUE only had two tracks at the station building; the NLE has five tracks with a loading line. The connecting tracks from the main line to the branch line and the former freight transport systems of the main line are located south of the passenger transport system.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Erich Preuß : Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , pp. 174/175
- ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945-1993, Railway in the GDR. GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 124
- ^ Erich Preuß : Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 178
- ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
- ↑ A good change to the Regional Express to Berlin. (No longer available online.) Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg , August 2, 2013, archived from the original on August 18, 2013 ; Retrieved August 25, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ a b Uckroer Bahnhof under the hammer . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , March 28, 2013.
- ^ German course book, summer 1939
- ^ Course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, summer 1960
- ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: District Dahme-Spreewald (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2011
- ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 184
