Raasiku train station

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The platforms of the Raasiku station
The water tower of the Raasiku train station

The Raasiku station is a station in the Estonian city Raasiku in the same municipality in Harju County .

Location and connections

The train station is 18 miles from Tallinn and the train ride takes about 35 minutes. There are two platforms at the train station, both 210 meters long. The track to the west is provided with catenary , the track to the east is not. This is completely overgrown. Around 30 passenger trains stop in Raasiku every day . The station is on the Tallinn – Narva line .

The long-distance travel between Tallinn and Moscow coordinated the Go Group belonging AS Go Rail .

history

The station was in 1870 in connection with the construction of Paldiski -Tallinn- Narva - Railway on the lands of the manor house Kambja built. The village of Raasiku was later built around the station.

In 1941 and 1949 the Soviet occupation authorities deported numerous people on trains from Raasiku to the interior of Russia . A memorial stone commemorates the events.

During the German occupation of Estonia in 1942, according to today's information, 234 Jews were deported from the Frankfurt am Main area via Raasiku. At the destination, women, children, older people and people who did not appear healthy were selected, brought to a dune area on the Baltic Sea near Kalevi-Liiva and shot there by a German-Estonian commando. Another 1,000 or so people who arrived on a transport from the Theresienstadt concentration camp on September 5, 1942 , were also selected and shot.

Station building

The two-story station building was completed with the station . It was demolished in 2000. The water tower and other outbuildings still exist.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tallinn - St.Petersburg - Moscow - St.Petersburg - Tallinn. Train no 0004/0005 (034/033 daily). gorail.ee, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Birthe Kundrus , Beate Meyer: The deportation of the Jews from Germany . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2005, ISBN 3-89244-792-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on August 19, 2010]).
  3. ↑ Raasika , short report of the portal Deportál, online at: shoah.deportal.cz / ...

Coordinates: 59 ° 21 '54.8 "  N , 25 ° 10' 37.8"  E