Wiesenburg (Mark) railway station
| Wiesenburg (Mark) | |
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 Station reception building, platform side.
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Former separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | BWG |
| IBNR | 8010376 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | May 15, 1879 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Wiesenburg__Mark_ |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Wiesenburg / Mark |
| Place / district | Wiesenburg train station |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 5 '56 " N , 12 ° 25' 54" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Wiesenburg (Mark) station in the southwest of Brandenburg went into operation in 1879 and was the separation station for two main lines from 1923 to 2004 . The station has a reception building from the opening time of the station that has largely been preserved in its original condition. The station building is a listed building with some auxiliary structures and has been owned by a local association since 2011, which operates a café and other facilities for public use in it.
Location and name
The station is located in the municipality of Wiesenburg / Mark in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, roughly halfway between the two towns of Wiesenburg in the north-east and Jeserig in the south, each about 2.5 kilometers away, a few kilometers from the state border with Saxony-Anhalt . At the station, the federal highway 107 crosses the tracks. The extensive forest areas of the Brandtsheide are located around the train station; the Wiesenburg Castle Park begins north of it . Around the station there are some properties, especially along the main road, which form the Wiesenburg Bahnhof settlement (sometimes just called the station ). While the houses on the main road belonged to Wiesenburg, the train station itself was in Jeseriger area. In 2001 the place and train station became part of the Wiesenburg / Mark community. In 2018 it was decided to transfer the station from the Jeserig district to the Wiesenburg district.
Until 1910 the station was only called Wiesenburg , since then it has had its current name. While the municipality of Wiesenburg / Mark is written with a slash, the station is called Wiesenburg (Mark) .
history
The first years
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, the need for a direct connection from Alsace-Lorraine to Berlin and further to the eastern border of the newly formed German Empire grew, especially among the military . In 1873 a law was passed by which the state decided to build the connection known colloquially as the cannon railway. Some of the existing routes could be used, the remaining sections were newly constructed. One of the longest new building sections was built between Berlin and Blankenheim. For strategic reasons, the route was to bypass the major cities, so that the Elbe crossing at Barby was laid out well south of Magdeburg but still far away from the conurbations around Dessau , Halle (Saale) and Leipzig .
Wiesenburg was one of the more important places on the planned route, so that the location of the route opening should be at a train station. Originally a more local route was planned, but the local landowner, Curt von Watzdorf, did not want the railway line to divide the castle grounds. So the route led south past the village. The first section of the railway line with the Wiesenburg station went into operation on May 15, 1879.
At the end of the 19th century, route extensions were repeatedly being discussed. While initially a narrow-gauge railway from Wittenberg via Wiesenburg to Görzke was under discussion, plans from 1899 envisaged a regular-gauge small railway from Klein-Wittenberg via Wiesenburg to Görzke.
New plans for a railway line in the direction of Görzke came up after a connection to the north had been realized from there in 1911, the Wusterwitz – Görzke railway line opened . However, the construction of the line via Wiesenburg did not take place, which is said to have been due to the refusal of the Görzk landowner Eugen Bertrand to make land available for it.
There have also been plans for a connection towards Dessau for a long time. This was intended to create a further connection from Berlin to Central Germany and to relieve the busy Anhalter Bahn . After the First World War initially delayed this project, the new railway line went into continuous operation on June 1, 1923. Wiesenburg was the branch station for the new route.
Wiesenburg as a railway junction
The volume of traffic increased due to the construction of the new line and the Seddin marshalling yard that was built after the First World War . That is why the facilities at Wiesenburg station were expanded in the early 1920s. Additional tracks were added, two new signal boxes and a central platform were built.
However, the station continued to be of local importance for both passenger and freight traffic. The trains on both branches from the direction of Güterglück and Roßlau stations were usually either tied through to Berlin (after the division of Germany, sometimes only to Drewitz ) or at least continued to Belzig . Only relatively few passenger trains began and ended in Wiesenburg. Accordingly, mostly only passenger trains stopped at the station, express and most express trains ran through the station without stopping. There were a few exceptions, for example in the 1970s and 1980s an express train ran from Aschersleben via Dessau to Berlin, which started a connection from Güsten via Güterglück in Wiesenburg.
In freight transport, serving the local timber industry was of particular importance, and until the early 1990s there were military transports to and from the Altengrabow military training area , which were loaded in Wiesenburg. A large head ramp was created for this.
Only after the fall of the Wall in the GDR, in May 1992, was electrical operation between Seddin and Roßlau, and thus in the Wiesenburg station, started. In the following year, the section from Wiesenburg towards Güterglück was electrified. ICE trains to and from Berlin used this connection until the end of 1995. Then they were led over Brandenburg / Havel ( Berlin – Magdeburg railway ) and later via the Lehrter Bahn or high-speed line Hanover – Berlin .
In the mid-1990s, passenger traffic from Berlin via Wiesenburg to Dessau was timed, and Wiesenburg (Mark) station has been served every two hours since then. There were only individual trains in the direction of Güterglück. For a short time at the end of the 1990s there was a two-hour service via Bad Belzig and Wiesenburg via Güterglück and Barby to Magdeburg. At the beginning of the 2000s, trains on this Wiesenburg line only operated on weekends. In 2002/2003 the passenger traffic from Wiesenburg towards Barby and also the goods traffic on this route was stopped. At the end of 2004, the last scheduled train ran on the route from Wiesenburg in the direction of Güterglück (without stopping at Wiesenburg station). The line was subsequently closed and partially dismantled.
At the end of 2012, the offer between Berlin, Wiesenburg and Dessau was condensed on weekdays. From Monday to Friday, Wiesenburg station is served hourly by the RE 7 trains in the direction of Berlin and Dessau, and every two hours on weekends.
Station at the park
In 2009, residents from Wiesenburg and the surrounding area came together with the aim of reviving the station building. In May 2010 you founded the Bahnhof am Park cooperative . In June 2011, the station building became the property of the cooperative. In the autumn of the same year, the station was the scene of Aktion 96 Stunden , a series of programs by the RBB in which the broadcaster and volunteers support interesting projects in Berlin and Brandenburg. In spring 2012 the Café Flämingperle was opened in the train station with an attached regional store.
Investments
Reception building
Below: Ground floor, above: 1st and 2nd floor
On the ground floor: I: vestibule, II: passage, III / IV waiting rooms for 3rd and 4th or 1st and 2nd class, V: ticket and baggage counter, VI : Station supervisor, VII goods shed, VIII – XII syringe room, toilets and stables, XIII: cattle ramp, XIV: loading ramp; XV: Hall (open covered shelter towards the platform).
Living rooms on the upper floors.
The reception building dates from when the train station opened. It is a brick shell in "simple, dignified forms". Two types of construction were developed for the route construction, one for larger and one for smaller stations. The train stations in Drewitz (today Potsdam Media City Babelsberg ), Michendorf , Beelitz (today Beelitz-Heilstätten), Brück, Wiesenburg, Nedlitz , Lindau (Anh) and Neugattersleben were equipped with the latter . While the first three stations mentioned were subsequently expanded and the outbuildings in Lindau and Neugattersleben no longer exist, the external design of the buildings in Brück, Wiesenburg and Nedlitz largely corresponds to the original condition. The station buildings in Brück and Wiesenburg are practically identical, the one in Nedlitz is arranged in mirror image.
The building consists of a middle section with a ground floor and two upper floors. The railway-related facilities such as ticket issuance and the seat of the dispatcher were located on the ground floor, and apartments for railway employees on the upper floors. On one side of this part was a one-story goods shed with a loading and cattle ramp, and on the other side another one-story wing in which the waiting rooms and a restaurant were laid out. This part is slightly higher than the ground floor of the middle part and therefore has not been built over with an upper floor. A separate one-storey outbuilding, which contained the toilets, is attached to this wing. An archway connects it structurally with the main building, through which the access to the platform runs. On the main building there is an annex for the station master facing the platform and a covered shelter in front of the waiting room wing.
The waiting room wing in the entrance building was used for gastronomy for a long time. After several years of vacancy, the Bahnhof am Park association set up a café with a farm shop on the premises, which is also used for cinema evenings and other events. The association also reopened a waiting room in the station building, which can also be used outside the opening times of the café.
Other plants
The original track systems on the smaller stations of the railway line, like the reception buildings, were also designed according to a uniform pattern. The stations had 450 meters long overtaking tracks and a 150 meter long platform. The loading route was laid out on the goods shed on the side of the reception building. The track and platform systems at Wiesenburg station were expanded when the line to Roßlau was built. In addition to the main platform at the entrance building, the station has an island platform with two platform edges and a short platform roof. There are passing tracks south of it.
The station has two signal boxes, both of which are mechanical signal boxes of the unit type . The dispatcher interlocking Ww is to the west of the platforms at the level crossing, the warden interlocking Wo several hundred meters away at the eastern head of the station.
The station building with ancillary buildings and the two signal boxes have been on the monuments list of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district for several years, and in 2013 the protection of monuments was extended to include the platform roof and a railway house opposite the train station (Am Bahnhof 41).
environment
The station was built in the middle of the forest away from the village. Originally there was only a forester's house nearby. After the railway was built, some production facilities, especially wood processing companies, settled in the area. A siding connected the station with a sawmill to the north. In the vicinity of the train station, especially on the main street, a few residential buildings were built that today form the "inhabited part of the community" train station . The station is located on the southern edge of the extensive park of Wiesenburg Castle .
The Wiesenburg train station is the starting point for the Hoher Fläming art hiking trail . Since 2007 and 2010, respectively, two routes have connected the Wiesenburg and Bad Belzig stations. A total of 28 works of art by various artists are presented along the two stretches of the art trail.
Web links
- Homepage of the Bahnhof am Park association , including a page on the history of the station
- Video "Bahnhof am Park"
- Delivery to the Wiesenburg station in the holdings of the Reichsbahndirektion Magdeburg in the Saxony-Anhalt State Archives, Dessau department
Individual evidence
- ^ New order at Wiesenburg station. In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , July 18, 2018, online .
- ↑ a b history on the pages of bahnhof-am-park.de, accessed on August 25, 2014.
- ↑ Zeitschrift für Kleinbahnen, Volume 6 (1899), p. 263
- ↑ Eva Zeller , As long as I can remember: The novel of a youth. , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, p. 188.
- ↑ various course books
- ^ Chronicle of the cooperative , on the website of the Bahnhof am Park association, accessed on July 13, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e The construction work on the Berlin – Blankenheim railway line (end), in: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume XXXIII, Verlag von Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1883, pp. 414–418, online (.pdf).
- ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Potsdam-Mittelmark (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2013, also compare the lists from previous years.
- ↑ Kunstwanderweg , on the website of the Bahnhof am Park association, accessed on July 13, 2014.