Zernitz train station
| Zernitz | |
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 Entrance building of the station, track side
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| abbreviation | WZR |
| opening | 1846 |
| Conveyance | 1995 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect |
Friedrich Neuhaus Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Zernitz-Lohm |
| Place / district | Zernitz train station |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 53 '29 " N , 12 ° 21' 4" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Zernitz station was a station on the Berlin-Hamburg railway in Brandenburg . The train station opened in 1846 is one of the oldest in Brandenburg. Originally it served mainly to connect the city of Kyritz . A settlement subsequently arose around the station, which was initially built on an open field, which is also called Zernitz station or Zernitz station . In 1995 the station was closed. The reception building from the time the station was built is a listed building, as is the grave site for 48 Jewish concentration camp inmates in the south of the district. They died in 1945 when a prisoner transport in the train station was accidentally shot at by American low-flying planes.
location
The station is located in the municipality of Zernitz-Lohm in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in the Zernitz-Bahnhof district, about two kilometers west of the eponymous district of Zernitz. It is located at 83.5 km from Berlin. The town of Kyritz, for the connection of which the station was originally built, is about six kilometers north of the station.
history
Original plans for the Berlin-Hamburg railway envisaged a tour of Kyritz, then the district town of the Ostprignitz district . However, a guided tour further south via Neustadt (Dosse) and Wittenberge was realized . As a replacement, Kyritz received a train station in Zernitz. The fact that the main purpose of the station was less the local needs than the connection to places in the vicinity can be seen from the location of the station on the land route from Kyritz to Lohm, clearly outside the town of Zernitz, which is directly on the railway line. The station was not only a station for Kyritz, but also for Wittstock, which is much further away . In the 1880s, the railway facilities were expanded and the station building enlarged.
Ideas to run a route from Zernitz train station to Dosse or Pritzwalk were not realized. Instead, in 1887 Pritzwalk and Kyritz were connected to the Hamburg Railway via the Neustadt – Meyenburg railway line from 1887 , so that Zernitz station lost its importance and from then on served mainly for traffic to the surrounding villages.
On April 16, 1945, a transport of Jewish inmates from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , mainly from Hungary, who were to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp , was accidentally shot at by American low-flying aircraft near the train station. 48 prisoners were killed. They were buried on the southern outskirts, today a memorial there commemorates their fate.
In 1990/91 the station building was extensively renovated. No passenger trains have stopped at the station since 1995. In the course of the reconstruction of the railway line at the end of the 1990s, the station was also closed down and the platforms, switches and sidings were removed.
Investments
railway station
The station building is located north of the railway line (on the side where the city of Kyritz is also located), while most of the districts of Zernitz and Zernitz Bahnhof are south of the line. In contrast to most of the station buildings on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, the two-storey building with a gable roof initially had a cross-shaped floor plan with triangular gables with acroteria on all sides . The long sides had four axes with a central projection , the transverse sides three. Friedrich Neuhaus (the building director of the Berlin-Hamburger-Bahn) and Ferdinand Wilhelm Holz are named as architects of the building with a “sober classical plaster structure” . Presumably in the late 1880s the building was extended lengthways. Unlike other during this time extended station buildings along the way (such as the Paulinenaue Station ) retained the limited his strictly symmetrical, clear a few forms in Zernitz, structure. It has been preserved in that form to this day.
In 1990/91 the building was extensively renovated and the window areas were given a strong yellow color. It was only listed as a historical monument in 1993. After being used for residential purposes in the 1990s, it is empty today. The toilet house is located next to the station building. South of the tracks is the goods shed, which was probably built in the 1880s. The ensemble is on the list of monuments as a “station building with toilet block and forecourt”.
With the exception of the two through tracks, nothing of the railway station's track systems has survived, and Zernitz still serves as a block location .
District
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Zernitz train station
Zernitz-Lohm municipality
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| Coordinates : | 52 ° 53 ' N , 12 ° 21' E |
| Height : | 32 m |
| Residents : | 247 (Dec. 31, 2006) |
| Postal code : | 16845 |
| Area code : | 033973 |
The settlement around the train station officially bears the name Bahnhof Zernitz , but is also called Zernitz train station on the entrance signs and in other places . It was only created after the station went into operation. Mainly traders and business people settled here. The settlement belonged to the municipality of Zernitz, which on December 31, 1997 was combined with the neighboring municipality of Lohm to form today's municipality of Zernitz-Lohm .
The state roads L14 from Kyritz to Lohm and L141 from Neustadt (Dosse) to Breddin cross in the village .
Most of the houses in the settlement are on Stüdenitzer Strasse, which runs parallel to the railway line and south of it, and some houses are grouped around the station building on the north side of the tracks. The road from the direction of Kyritz used to cross the railway line at a gated level crossing west of the station. When the railway line was expanded, the crossing was closed and replaced by an underpass east of the station. To the south of the main street is a little wood in which the cemetery for the Jewish concentration camp prisoners is located with a small memorial.
Jewish Cemetery
The memorial for murdered Jewish prisoners is a listed building. A memorial plaque there commemorates the victims in German and Hebrew.
"This is where our forty-eight brothers and sisters from the Theresienstadt concentration camp who have been killed by murderers rest"
In addition, another board describes the events in German, Hebrew and Hungarian and a third board gives the names of the dead. Next to the actual memorial there is another grave for the Jewish lawyer Theodor Steigerwald, who died in 1947. During the war he had hidden from the National Socialists in the Kyritz area. Before his death, he had wished to be buried here as well.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e State of Brandenburg, Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning (ed.), Berlin-Hamburg Railway, Classicist Railway Station Buildings in Brandenburg (PDF; 5.7 MB), p. 34/35
- ^ Karl Baedeker , Handbook for Travelers in Germany, Central and Northern Germany , section From Berlin to Hamburg , Baedeker, Coblenz 1855, digitized on lexikus.de
- ^ Erich Preuß: Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Archives of German Small and Private Railways . Transpress, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-344-70906-2 , p. 86.
- ↑ Information board in the memorial
- ↑ Georg Dehio. Handbook of German Art Monuments: Brandenburg , Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 1160.
- ↑ Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg, Manfred Hamm, Architecture & Beauty: the Schinkel School in Berlin and Brandenburg , Transit, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88747-121-0 , p. 170.
- ↑ a b List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Ostprignitz-Ruppin (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum Status: December 31, 2011
- ↑ Community and district directory. In: geobasis-bb.de. Land surveying and geographic base information Brandenburg, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Main statutes of the municipality of Zernitz-Lohm dated December 2, 2008 (PDF; 20 kB)
- ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
- ↑ Regina Scheer: Dealing with the monuments. A research in Brandenburg. Ed .: Brandenburg State Center for Political Education and: Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, Potsdam 2003. ( Online (PDF; 1.6 MB) ( Memento from December 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))