Potsdam Griebnitzsee train station
| Potsdam Griebnitzsee | |
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 Entrance building, 2005
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (long-distance train) 2 (S-Bahn) |
| abbreviation | BGBS (long-distance train) BGRI (S-Bahn) |
| IBNR | 8080530 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | June 1, 1874 |
| Website URL | sbahn.berlin |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Potsdam_Griebnitzsee |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Günther Liège |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Potsdam |
| Place / district | Babelsberg |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '40 " N , 13 ° 7' 38" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Potsdam Griebnitzsee station is a regional and S-Bahn station on the Berlin-Magdeburg Railway and the Wannseebahn . It is located in the far east of Potsdam-Babelsberg , northeast of the media city Babelsberg and south of the Griebnitzsee . During the division of Germany , it served as a border station for traffic to West Berlin . Today the station is served by the S-Bahn line S7 and the regional trains RB21 and RB22.
A historic rectifier factory east of the reception building housed the Berlin S-Bahn Museum until 2016 . In the immediate vicinity there is a location of the University of Potsdam and the Hasso Plattner Institute .
history
Until 1949
The station was in 1874 at the Berlin-Potsdam Railway for the development of the residential area Neubabelsberg built; hence its original name Neubabelsberg . It went into operation on June 1st of the same year.
The first reception building was a rebuilt wooden pavilion by Kyllmann & Heyden , which was built as the German House last year at the Vienna World Exhibition . The reception building, which has been preserved to this day, was designed by Günter Lüttich in 1931 . On April 1, 1938, the station was renamed Babelsberg-Ufastadt due to its proximity to the ever-growing Ufa film grounds .
At the end of the Second World War , the Teltow Canal Bridge near Kohlhasenbrück was blown up, as a result, the S-Bahn traffic between Zehlendorf and Babelsberg-Ufastadt was suspended from April 1945 to June 15, 1948.
Border station
Another renaming took place in 1949 in Griebnitzsee . From 1952 Griebnitzsee was a control station. From 1961 to 1989 the station was closed to local traffic and until 1990 the GDR border station and border crossing point (GÜSt, passenger traffic ) . Getting on and off at Griebnitzsee station was not permitted in transit traffic through the GDR to and from West Berlin .
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Inter-zone traffic between West and East Germany via the Berlin light rail . Later, interzonal trains were routed via the Berlin outer ring (including the train pairs Aachen - Potsdam - Görlitz and Munich - Leipzig - Potsdam - Rostock ), so the crossing served exclusively for transit traffic between West Berlin ( Berlin-Wannsee , Zoologischer Garten , Friedrichstraße ) and West Germany from, to
- Schwanheide / Büchen ( Hamburg , Northern Germany ) until 1976
- Marienborn / Helmstedt ( Hanover , West Germany)
- Gerstungen / Bebra ( Hesse , Frankfurt am Main , Saarbrücken )
- Probstzella / Ludwigsstadt ( Southern Germany , Nuremberg , Munich , Stuttgart )
- Gutenfürst / Hof ( Regensburg , Munich ) from October 1972
- International traffic e.g. B. from Paris to Warsaw (between Helmstedt and Berlin as a transit train).
Until August 13, 1961 ( construction of the wall , S-Bahn ) and from 1990 (local traffic) there was one
- Exchange traffic between West Berlin and the GDR. From 1952, driving across the border was only allowed with a permit and was forbidden for West Berliners. From 1953 to 1958 (completion of the outer ring) there were “pass-through trains” between Potsdam and East Berlin that passed through West Berlin without stopping.
Since the station was near the border with West Berlin, it was heavily secured and guarded. This also included checking the access routes in order to prevent an escape from the GDR . In addition, uniformed personnel patrolled the station with watch dogs , who also checked the drive and the underside of the train for hidden people. Initially, the controls were carried out in the stopping train. Later the border police (GDR designation: control organs ) only got on (towards West Germany) or out again (towards Berlin) and carried out the controls in the moving train (transit trains from 1972).
On April 18, 1962, two NVA officer pupils attempted to leave the GDR via the station area in a shooting, in which the refugee Peter Böhme and the border police officer Jörgen Schmidtchen lost their lives.
After 1990
The station has been open to the public again since 1990. When the S-Bahn traffic between Wannsee and Potsdam began on April 1, 1992, the S-Bahn platform also went into operation. A new platform roof and a second entrance were built. In 2000 the station hall was renovated for around 4.5 million marks .
Today the station is particularly frequented by students . The Babelsberg campus of the University of Potsdam is located in the immediate vicinity of the train station . The Institute for Computer Science , the Hasso Plattner Institute , the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and the Babelsberg Film University in the media city of Babelsberg are the reason why many students flock to and from the S-Bahn trains here every day. The regional trains RB 21 and RB 22 also function as shuttle trains for students to the two other locations of the University of Potsdam in Golm and at the New Palais (via the Potsdam Park Sanssouci station ).
Operationally, it was very restrictive that only one side platform was available for regional traffic on the double-track line. This meant that trains from Berlin in the direction of Potsdam could not stop at Griebnitzsee station. A second regional platform was originally supposed to be built in 2013, but this has been repeatedly delayed. Finally, the platform went into operation when the timetable changed in December 2016. Around three million euros were invested in the 140-meter-long platform and an elevator.
The station building is on the city of Potsdam's list of monuments as the Griebnitzsee S-Bahn station .
Connection
| line | course |
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| RB 21 | Wustermark - Priort - Golm - Potsdam Hbf - Griebnitzsee - Berlin Zoological Garden - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Friedrichstrasse |
| RB 22 | Berlin-Schönefeld Airport - Saarmund - Golm - Potsdam Hbf - Griebnitzsee - Berlin Zoological Garden - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Friedrichstrasse |
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Potsdam Central Station - Babelsberg - Griebnitzsee - Wannsee - Nikolassee - Grunewald - Westkreuz - Charlottenburg - Savignyplatz - Zoological Garden - Tiergarten - Bellevue - Central Station - Friedrichstrasse - Hackescher Markt - Alexanderplatz - Jannowitzbrücke - Ostbahnhof - Warschauer Strasse - Ostkreuz - Nöldnerplatz - Lichtenberg - Friedrichsfelde Ost - Springpfuhl - Poelchaustraße - Marzahn - Raoul-Wallenberg-Straße - Mehrower Allee - Ahrensfelde |
literature
- Deutscher Bahnkundenverband (Ed.): 125 years of the train station at Griebnitzsee . Verlag GVE, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89218-062-8 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Griebnitzsee station on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- Photos and memories of a GDR border guard ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Jörg Limberg: Potsdam. The villa and country house colony Neubabelsberg , Brandenburgische Denkmalpflege, 1993, issue 2, p. 49 ( online , PDF)
- ↑ wsa-b.de
- ↑ a b Finally a worthy entrance again. May 4, 2000. Retrieved November 29, 2012 .
- ↑ Earlier - and yet four years too late Potsdam Latest News, January 21, 2016
- ↑ Regional trains from Berlin now stop in Griebnitzsee. Deutsche Bahn AG, December 9, 2016, archived from the original on March 19, 2017 ; accessed on March 18, 2017 .