Stahnsdorf station
| Stahnsdorf | |
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 Forecourt of the former
Stahnsdorf S-Bahn station with the station restaurant and memorial for the 100th anniversary of the opening |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | July 3, 1913 |
| Conveyance | August 13, 1961 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Stahnsdorf |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '23 " N , 13 ° 11' 24" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 61 m |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Stahnsdorf station was the station of the municipality of Stahnsdorf in today's Potsdam-Mittelmark south-west of Berlin and end point of the railway line Berlin-Wannsee Stahnsdorf (graveyard orbit). It was opened in 1913 and served primarily to serve the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf . In 1961 it was shut down due to the construction of the wall . Some remains of platforms are still there today.
The station building no longer exists, the building of the former station restaurant and a railway station housing complex are under monument protection.
location
The station was the end point of the cemetery railway, at route kilometer 4.2, counted from the Berlin-Wannsee station . The facilities are located east of the south-west cemetery , which is located in the north-west of the village. The next stop, Dreilinden , was nearly two kilometers to the north.
history
Stahnsdorf station went into operation on June 3, 1913 as the terminus of the cemetery railway. The inauguration took place the day before. A reception building was created opposite the main entrance to the cemetery. The operating site was initially called the Stahnsdorf cemetery . The royal building officer Gustav Werner of the city synod (the city synod was the cemetery carrier) designed the station building. On May 4, 1926, the station was renamed Stahnsdorf Reichsb. The first electrically operated train on the Berlin S-Bahn stopped in Stahnsdorf on July 10, 1928.
In April 1945 the service was temporarily suspended because the bridge over the Teltow Canal had been blown up. The trains already ended in Dreilinden at this time . It only reopened in May 1948. The name was changed again. From now on the station was only called Stahnsdorf .
The location to nearby West Berlin impaired traffic more and more after the Second World War . This resulted in the suspension of traffic on January 19, 1953. But the S-Bahn was resumed on September 11, 1954. With the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, train traffic was completely stopped on the entire route. The station building was blown up in 1976. It was still in use until December 1973.
After the year 2000 there were several discussions about extending the S-Bahn from Teltow Stadt to Stahnsdorf and thus reconnecting the community to the S-Bahn network.
Memorial to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the cemetery railway in 2013
Monument depicting the former reception building
Back of the monument with description and photos of the station
Investments
In its early days, the station had three tracks. There was a 220 meter long central platform on which tracks one and two were located. An extension of the facilities and an extension of the route to the south were planned very early on. The southern end of the platform was connected to the station building via a pedestrian tunnel. This extended to the east side of the station. 300 meters south of the platform there was a siding for steam locomotives where coal and water could be reloaded. There was a loading siding on the eastern side.
In Stahnsdorf station there was a mechanical switch and signal box. A small switch booth was available for five switches in the parking area.
Today the building of the former train station restaurant is still there. The platform still exists, but has grown over significantly.
The number of tickets issued, which varied depending on the number of funerals, was estimated at around 550 to 1200 a day in 1914.
Overgrown platform in spring 2016 from the southeast
Overgrown platform in spring 2016 from the northwest
Former railway housing complex on Bahnhofstrasse
Underpass under the old Potsdamer Landstrasse north of the former platform
Corpse transport
There was a freight track west of the platform. A specially constructed corpse removal route served as access to the tracks. A morgue was built for reasons of piety and as weather protection. In the summer of 1914 the number of bodies in one month was put at about 122. In one day it was ten. The transport of corpses by rail was stopped in 1952/53.
literature
- Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer (Ed.): Berlin's S-Bahnhöfe - A three-quarters of a century . Be.bra, 1998, ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , pp. 289-290 .
Web links
- Stahnsdorf. In: stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de. May 11, 2014, accessed March 9, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Brandenburg examines the S-Bahn extension to Stahnsdorf. S 25 from Teltow - to Berlin-Wannsee. In: Tagesspiegel . February 3, 2015, accessed March 9, 2016 .