Stolpe Süd station

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View from the West Berlin side along the Kremmener Bahn to the GDR. The watchtower stands on a railway overpass over a path at the southeast end of the former Stolpe Süd station.

The Stolpe Süd station , until 1959 Hennigsdorf Süd , was a station of the Berlin S-Bahn on the Kremmener Bahn , which only existed for a few years. It was established in 1954 as a control station on the border between the GDR and West Berlin , opened for public transport in 1958 and closed with the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.

location

The station was built at kilometer 18.0 of the Kremmener Bahn (the route kilometrage began at the former freight station of the Berliner Nordbahn , later Berlin Eberswalder Strasse station ), 1020 meters northwest of the Berlin-Heiligensee station and 1450 meters southeast of the Hennigsdorf station . The station was located in Stolpe-Süd a few hundred meters west of the settlement between the Oder-Havel Canal and the border with Berlin ( Reinickendorf district ). Since 1998, the area around the former train station has belonged to the town of Hennigsdorf in the Oberhavel district in Brandenburg .

history

Former railway bridge at the southeast head, 1996

In 1893 the line went into operation from Berlin via Hennigsdorf to Kremmen, in 1927 it was electrified with direct current as far as Velten and subsequently the Berlin S-Bahn trains ran to there. As a result of the division of Germany and Berlin, the train crossed the border between West Berlin and the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR north of Heiligensee station . In 1952, the GDR increased its border controls. The next train stations outside the Berlin city limits became control stations where all trains going into the city were checked for several minutes. Initially, the controls took place on the Kremmener Bahn in Hennigsdorf station (b Berlin). However, this turned out to be a bottleneck, on the one hand because of the large number of visitors there, and on the other hand also for the train traffic on the Kremmener Bahn itself. The only single-track route could be used every 30 minutes at most because of reparations to the Soviet Union after the Second World War. In addition, however, the GDR had set up so-called transit trains during rush hour traffic that did not stop at the stations on West Berlin territory. These had a disruptive effect on the operation of the Kremmener Bahn, which led to frequent delays.

On June 4, 1954, the control station Hennigsdorf Süd went into operation south of Hennigsdorf. With the commissioning, the train crossings were relocated from Hennigsdorf station (b Berlin) to the new station and the timetable was adjusted accordingly. Initially, it was not used for public transport, which was initially indicated with a footnote under the course book tables, later the stop was not mentioned in the course book at all. On November 3, 1958, the stop was opened for public travel and renamed Stolpe Süd on October 4, 1959 .

With the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, the Kremmener Bahn was interrupted at the border. It is possible that Stolpe Süd was hit by S-Bahn trains from the direction of Hennigsdorf for a short time, but in the same month the facilities at the station were torn down because they stood in the way of the border security systems. There was only one S-Bahn bridge over a path at the southeastern head of the station. This served as the foundation of a watchtower. When the line was rebuilt in 1998, these remains were removed so that there are no more traces of the station.

Investments

The station consisted of a wooden central platform in the embankment with two tracks, two switches at both ends of the platform and the signal boxes B4 in the north and W3 in the south. The platform was accessed at its north-western end via a staircase between the superstructures of an underpass. Below were the barracks for the border control personnel.

literature

  • Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlin's S-Bahnhöfe / A three-quarters of a century. be.bra verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , p. 290.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlin's S-Bahnhöfe / A three-quarter century . be.bra verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , p. 290.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Stolpe Süd on kremmener-bahn.net, accessed on February 5, 2015.
  3. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn, course book summer 1957.
  4. ↑ Stolpe Süd on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de, accessed on February 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlin's S-Bahnhöfe / A three-quarter century . be.bra verlag, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-930863-25-1 , p. 290.

Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '48.65 "  N , 13 ° 13' 23.99"  O