Prenzlau train station
| Prenzlau | |
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 Exterior facade of the station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network |
Intermediate station formerly connecting station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | WPL |
| IBNR | 8010282 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | March 16, 1863 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Prenzlau |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | classicism |
| architect | Theodor August Stein |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Prenzlau |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 19 '18 " N , 13 ° 51' 58" E |
| Railway lines | |
disused sections (km 0.0) |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Prenzlau train station is the train station of the Brandenburg district town of Prenzlau in the Uckermark district . Around 2000 passengers use the station, which is served by regional and long-distance trains. The station itself has a house platform and a central platform with a total of three tracks.
history
As early as 1837, the district town of Prenzlau tried to connect to the Prussian railway network. The announced construction of the Berlin-Szczecin Railway should be used to bring the railway as close as possible to Prenzlau in order to enable the construction of a branch line. However, when it was commissioned in 1843, only a train station in Passow and a road leading to the district town were initially set up. Plans to connect the city directly by rail were not accommodated by the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. Only with the efforts of the West Pomeranian cities of Pasewalk , Anklam and Greifswald did the construction of a branch line to the Uckermark and West Pomerania become topical again. The construction of the "Uckermärkisch-Vorpommerschen Eisenbahn" started on August 15, 1861. On October 10, 1862, the first train rolled from Angermünde to Prenzlau. The first section, on which Prenzlau is also located, was finally opened to traffic on March 16, 1863. The inauguration of the railway line from Angermünde to Stralsund took place on October 26th, 1863 by the Prussian King Wilhelm I. Prenzlau city councilor Wilhelm Gottlob Holtz wrote in his diary: “Se. Your Majesty arrived here just after 9 a.m., received by the city authorities, officer corps, estates, clergy, guilds, veterans' association, etc. cet. and linger about 1/4 hour on the one with flags, flags, garlands etc. cet. ornate square. On the evening of the 27th at 8 o'clock the king came through here on his return journey, but did not get out at all. The train was opened to traffic on November 1st. "
The station had five platform tracks (of which only three are still in use) and a brick entrance building in the classicism style .
In 1872 a sugar factory was built in the village, which made it necessary to transport the sugar beets that had been planted in the area . For this purpose, the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen were founded, which were able to start operating on December 2, 1902. To the west of the main tracks, on the north side of the reception building, a circular station was created and provided with appropriate transfer points between the two tracks. The Templin – Prenzlau line had already been opened to traffic three years earlier .
By 1910, the line from Angermünde to Stralsund was continuously expanded to double-track. The station facilities were further expanded in the 1920s.
During the Second World War , the station building was badly damaged and then rebuilt in a modified form. The district station was shut down after the end of the war, and the trains have been running from the other platforms since then.
After the end of the Second World War, the tracks from Prenzlau to Templin and a main track between the Berlin outer ring and Stralsund were dismantled as reparations for the Soviet Union . The continuous double-track line from Angermünde to Stralsund was not put back into operation until 1978; the line to Templin was able to reopen as early as the 1950s.
In 1985, the station was completely renewed by the Prenzlau railway maintenance office (Hbm Eberswalde) in cooperation with the district construction company. The station was now equipped with a ticket sales point including luggage storage, a Mitropa restaurant , a newspaper kiosk, toilets and a heated waiting room on the opposite platform. After the construction work was completed, the station was recognized as an “operation of exemplary order and security”.
With the construction of the largest German ferry port Sassnitz (Mukran) in the 1980s, one of the last major transport construction projects in the GDR, the step-by-step electrification of the Berlin – Stralsund – Mukran line began. In 1987 Prenzlau station was electrified with the help of helicopters from Interflug .
Until the 1990s, Prenzlauer Bahnhof was the hub for the railways in the Uckermark. Due to the closure of the connections to Templin and the network of the Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen, rail traffic is limited to the main route between Angermünde and Stralsund.
On January 20, 2008, the new electronic signal box in Prenzlau went into operation. The signal box controls 46 signals and 15 points in the Pasewalk – Wilmersdorf section. With this and the new interlocking in Tantow the railway line from Berlin to Stralsund, including the route is Szczecin from the operations center of the track in Berlin-Pankow remotely. The modernization meant that Prenzlau did not have to announce the train. Announcements are only made in the event of deviations from normal operation from the central system in Frankfurt (Oder) .
The station building was renovated in 2009/10. At the Prenzlau city council on June 26, 2008, funding of 10,000 euros was approved to renovate the station concourse in the second half of 2008. The renovation of the reception hall planned for 2008 at a cost of 230,000 euros was postponed to 2009 and inaugurated on May 12, 2010 by the owner of DB Station & Service . Deutsche Bahn AG announced on December 14, 2009 that the freight yard in Prenzlau should be closed. In the first half of 2017, the goods handling building was demolished and the loading tracks replaced. At the beginning of February 2010, two LED train destination displays were put into operation that only inform passengers in the event of a delay.
At the end of 2013, a WLAN hotspot was created, which enables travelers and visitors to use the internet free of charge for 30 minutes.
On February 21, 2018, the bilingual place-name sign with the Low German version "Prentzlow" was unveiled at the train station.
On the night of January 24th to 25th, 2019, the ordnance disposal service successfully defused a 100-kilogram Soviet-made bomb from the Second World War on the loading platform of Prenzlauer Bahnhof. Before that, around 800 residents had to be evacuated.
People tunnel
In June 2008, the city of Prenzlau presented a possible new construction variant, which could replace the ailing single- span steel trough bridge made of riveted solid wall girders and the station underpass with a new replacement tunnel in the station area. The total costs in the context of a trade-off between the pedestrian bridge and the pedestrian tunnel, including parking spaces and road connections, were estimated at around 1.99 million euros. With effect from May 7, 2009 the pedestrian bridge was closed due to construction defects and demolished in 2010. The tunnel should be accessible to the disabled in an eastward direction towards the loading street with elevators to the platforms. A new tunnel construction was contractually agreed with representatives of Deutsche Bahn AG in 2010 on the basis of a level crossing agreement (total expenditure 2.8 million euros). In May 2011, the Prenzlau city council was informed that the municipal tender for the passenger tunnel had resulted in 3.85 million euros. There was a prospect of 75 percent funding from the Brandenburg Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture. The Uckermark district also supported the investment project with 100,000 euros. With this infrastructure measure, the station was also accessible to the residents of the eastern part of Prenzlau without long detours and climbing stairs, which is also important for the 2013 State Garden Show in Prenzlau . On the night of June 23, 2011, the piling work began to install the sheet pile wall. On June 2, 2012, the tunnel from the main reception building to the central platform was partially commissioned. The second section was opened to the public on November 14, 2012.
New platforms
The German Bahn AG began with the renovation of the house and the central platform on March 20, 2012. included the construction project, the production of 780 m edge of the platform, the platform surfaces, the Blind, partial demolition of the underpass to the central platform, surface works, demolition of the platform roof, and the building a 50 m long system roof on the central platform. In total, Deutsche Bahn invested around four million euros in federal and state funds. Experts criticized the fact that the platforms were built in accordance with the European standard for long-distance routes with a height of 76 cm. Compared to other stations with 55 cm platform height on KBS 203 (Greifswald, Züssow, Pasewalk), ground-level access to regional trains is not possible. Furthermore, no emergency telephones were planned. On June 2, 2012, the first train left the renovated house platform and on August 3, 2012, all platforms were again opened to traffic. On November 14, 2012 the elevators, the pedestrian tunnel in the eastern section, the parking lot and the passenger information system went into operation. In addition, a monitoring system was set up that monitors the pedestrian tunnel, the station forecourt, the reception building and the platforms including the track systems with cameras. The entire project cost a total of 8 million euros, shared by the federal, state, city and DB Station & Service. On track 1 there has been no platform roofing since late summer 2017 due to a defect in some metal pillars. At the end of May 2019 it turned out that the Federal Railway Authority had not received an application for approval of a new roof. The district administration Uckermark, the city of Prenzlau and the competence center for railway stations of the state of Brandenburg at VBB have so far remained inactive. From June 10 to 22, 2020, track 3 (formerly track 7) was renewed. In July 2020 it will be announced that Deutsche Bahn intends to implement a new platform roof of the Zwiesel type as a replacement for the historic platform roof on the main platform in early autumn 2023 at the earliest. The building and roof should be separated. At the same time, the floor covering from 2012 is to be renewed and the guidance system for the blind is to be updated.
Deletion of long-distance trains
Deutsche Bahn withdrew from long-distance transport in Brandenburg . In December 2010 three of five daily IC trains on the Berlin – Prenzlau – Stralsund route were canceled. A pair of ICE trains running on the route between Munich and Stralsund on weekdays from March 2011 did not stop in Prenzlau. After ongoing protests from the Uckermark about reduced train connections to Berlin, the state of Brandenburg ordered additional train connections to Prenzlau. On January 10, 2011, the replacement service between Eberswalde or Angermünde and Prenzlau in the afternoon (from Monday to Friday) was increased by two pairs of trains. These trains are operated by the Ostdeutsche Eisenbahngesellschaft (ODEG). As part of the regional conference of the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association on May 2, 2012 in Eberswalde, the ICE stop was announced from December 2012. Since December 9, 2012, the ICE has also been running from Prenzlau station.
ICE train baptism
On May 4, 2013, the ICE train inauguration (# 215) took place in Prenzlau station . The event was attended by Infrastructure Minister Jörg Vogelsänger , District Administrator Dietmar Schulze, Mayor Hendrik Sommer, Prenzlauer Swan Queen Patricia Kaiser, the representative of Deutsche Bahn AG for the East region and the states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Joachim Trettin, and many others Representatives from politics and from DB AG. The lift was the ICE T -Tz 1170 of the 411 series (2nd series), which was put into service on September 17, 2005 and is approved for Austria. Entertainment during the christening was provided by the Geesow Schalmeienkapelle, "Bahnhofsvorsteher" Horst Buddrus from the Historienspektakel Prenzlau eV and the Prenzlauer Freiwillige Feuerwehr.
Transport links
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) |
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| ICE 28 | ( Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Nuremberg - Munich | a pair of trains (Mon-Fri, Sun)
two pairs of trains (Sa) |
| IC 28 | (Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin | two pairs of trains |
| IC 32 | (Ostseebad Binz -) Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Dortmund - Cologne | individual trains (Fri-Sun) |
| IC 32 | Dresden - Elsterwerda - Berlin - Eberswalde - Prenzlau - Greifswald - Stralsund - Ostseebad Binz | single move (Sa) |
| IC 56 | Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Wolfsburg - Hanover - Bremen - Oldenburg | single train (Sun) |
| RE 3 | Stralsund - Greifswald - Prenzlau - Eberswalde - Berlin - Ludwigsfelde - Jüterbog - Falkenberg (Elster) | 120 |
| RB 62 | Prenzlau - Angermünde (- Eberswalde) | six pairs of trains (Mon-Fri)
a pair of trains (Sat-Sun) |
literature
- Dieter Grusenick, Erich Morlok, Horst Regling: The Angermünde-Stralsund Railway including branch lines . transpress, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-613-71095-1 .
- Cold horror at the station . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 4, 2009.
- Demand for a complete overhaul . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , August 12, 2009.
Other stations
other stations in Prenzlau are:
- Kreisbahnhof-Prenzlau (also Prenzlau-West) Prenzlauer Kreisbahnen
- Prenzlau-Vorstadt railway station Löwenberg – Prenzlau railway line
Both stations are no longer served.
Web links
- Historical view of the station (PDF; 194 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 203 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Platform information at Prenzlau station ( memento from August 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on January 1, 2013.
- ↑ Benedikt Dittrich: The flat center Prentzlow . Ed .: Prenzlauer Zeitung from February 22, 2018.
- ↑ Bomb successfully defused. City of Prenzlau, accessed on April 11, 2019 .
- ↑ a b light at the end of the tunnel. (No longer available online.) March 21, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 25, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Delicious pancakes for hard-working tunnel builders. In: nordkurier.de. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012 ; Retrieved June 3, 2012 .
- ↑ a b "Großer Bahnhof" at the train station. November 14, 2012, accessed December 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Large train station in Prenzlau (PDF; 6.3 MB) December 7, 2012, p. 6 on rodinger-prenzlau.de .
- ↑ Deadly carelessness right on the rails. In: nordkurier.de. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
- ↑ DB World . No. 1 , 2013.
- ↑ Prenzlau's platform roof is a long time coming. In: nordkurier.de. May 25, 2019, accessed May 25, 2019 .
- ^ Regional Conference Uckermark-Barnim Eberswalde May 2nd, 2012. (PDF; 2.3 MB) May 2nd, 2012, p. 27 , archived from the original on March 29th, 2013 ; accessed on January 1, 2013 .
- ↑ "Prenzlau" hurries through the region. In: nordkurier.de. Retrieved May 4, 2013 .