Berlin outer ring

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This article deals with the Berlin Outer Ring railway line built after 1945 . For the rail route before 1945 see Güteraußenring , for the motorway route see Bundesautobahn 10 .

Berlin outer ring
The outer ring near Sellheimbrücke , on the left in the picture you can see the route of the planned S-Bahn.
Route number (DB) :	6126 Saarmund – Eichgestell 6080 Eichgestell – Biesdorfer Kreuz 6067 Biesdorfer Kreuz – Karower Kreuz 6087 Karower Kreuz – Priort 6068 Priort – Golm 6116 Golm – Saarmund 6137 Glasower Damm – Schönef., 3./4. Track 6008 Waßmannsdorf – Schönefeld (S-Bahn) 6011 Biesdorfer Kr. – Springpfuhl (S-Bahn) 6012 Springpfuhl – Wartenberg (S-Bahn) 6009 Karower Kreuz – Bergfelde (S-Bahn)
Course book section (DB) :	207, 209.12, 209.20, 209.21, 209.22
Route length:	125 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	S-Bahn: 750 V  =
Power system :	Long-distance railway: 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Course of the route (counterclockwise)
Legend further from the outer ring (see below) 62.7 0.0 Golm Abzw Kuhfort to Werder (Havel) and Potsdam Berlin – Magdeburg from Werder (Havel) 2.4 Abzw Wildpark West 4.9 Potsdam Pirschheide Jüterbog – Nauen Templiner See / Havel 7.9 Nettle bottom 9.9 Abzw Wilhelmshorst Nesselgrund from Wiesenburg (Mark) 10.9 Bergholz (near Potsdam) Wiesenburg – Berlin from Michendorf Nuthe 15.5 7.8 Saarmund 12.5 Ahrensdorf (district of Zossen) 14.2 Ludwigsfelde - Struveshof ehem. feeder line IFA -Werk to Ludwigsfelde and Berlin 16.2 Genshagener Heide (Person bf until 2012) from Ludwigsfelde and Berlin Bft Genshagener Heide middle Berlin hall to Großbeeren from Ludwigsfelde 18.4 Genshagener Heide Ost junction 24.2 Diedersdorf 26.7 Glasower Damm West junction to Dresden Berlin – Dresden from Dresden 28.1 Glasower Damm Ost junction 30.0 Abzw Selchow West to BER airport Wassmannsdorf from BER Airport (S-Bahn) 35.5 Berlin-Schönefeld Airport Brandenburg / Berlin border to Berlin-Adlershof 39.5 Junction Grünauer Kreuz Süd to Berlin-Schöneweide and Görlitz Grünauer Kreuz Berlin – Görlitz from Görlitz 40.7 Junction Grünauer Kreuz Nord Teltow Canal to Berlin Schöneweide 42.8 Abzw Berlin Wendenheide Berlin-Schöneweide-Berlin-Spindlersfeld Spree 44.2 25.0 Berlin Eichgestell (km 0.0: Teltow via the outer freight ring ) to Berlin-Köpenick and Berlin Ostbahnhof from Berlin-Köpenick Junction oak frame north Berlin Park Railway Kreuz Wuhlheide Berlin – Frankfurt (Oder) 28.6 Berlin Wuhlheide marshalling yard to Berlin-Kaulsdorf U5 , formerly VnK route from Berlin-Rummelsburg 30.0 Biesdorfer Kreuz Süd to Berlin-Lichtenberg 31.2 Biesdorfer Kreuz Mitte to Strausberg / Lichtenb. Biesdorfer Kreuz Berlin – Strausberg from Berlin-Lichtenberg (S-Bahn) von Strausberg and Berlin-Lichtenberg 33.0 -1.2 Biesdorf Cross North v. Strausb., Berlin-Lichtenb. Berlin Springpfuhl to Ahrensfelde to the Tegel – Friedrichsfelde industrial railway Berlin-Bürknersfelde (planned) 0.6 Berlin northeast Berlin Gehrenseestrasse 3.7 Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Berlin-Wartenberg Berlin-Malchow (planned until 1990) Berlin Sellheim Bridge (planned) 8.5 0.0 Karow Ost junction to Bernau and Pankow Karower Kreuz Berlin – Szczecin , stop planned 1.4 Karow West junction from Bernau and Pankow Panke Berlin-Buchholz (planned until 1990) Berlin-Arkenberge (planned until 1990) State border Berlin / Brandenburg Mühlenbeck-Mönchmühle Heather track Tegeler Fliess 11.0 Schönfließ also used to be a regional train station 12.6 Mountain fields 12.8 Abzw Schönfließ West to Oranienburg Berlin – Neustrelitz from Oranienburg 16.5 Hohen Neuendorf West Oder-Havel Canal Velten Canal 20.4 to Hennigsdorf Hennigsdorf North (Berlin – Kremmen ) 21.5 from Hennigsdorf 27.1 Schönwalde (Kr. Nauen) Havel Canal Nieder Neuendorfer Canal 34.6 Falkenhagen (b Nauen) (formerly Personenbf) 35.0 to Hamburg and Berlin Cross Falkenhagen Berlin – Hamburg from Hamburg 37.9 Abzw Brieselang Hasselberg Connection to GVZ Wustermark 39.7 Abzw Wustermark Awf to Hanover and Berlin Cross Wustermark SFS Hannover – Berlin Cross Wustermark Berlin – Hanover 41.7 77.9 from Hanover and Berlin 77.3 Elstal (Kr.Nauen) 75.1 Priort (km 0.0 Jüterbog via the bypass) 70.4 Sentence grain 67.9 Marquardt Sacrow-Paretz Canal 65.5 Bornim pit 62.7 0.0 Golm further on the outer ring (see above)

The Berlin Outer Ring (BAR) is a 125-kilometer-long railway ring that runs around western Berlin , a double-track, electrified main line. It was planned as a bypass railway since the beginning of the 20th century and was partially built until the early 1940s (sections in the west outside Berlin and as an outer freight ring in the southeast, partly in east Berlin). The GDR completed it between 1951 and 1961, primarily for political and military strategic reasons, because it was used to bypass West Berlin , which became independent after the Second World War . Without the completion of the outer ring it would not have been possible to build the Berlin Wall from a traffic point of view. H. to prevent access to the western part of the city. A corresponding road project was the Potsdam – Schönefeld expressway .

The designation outer ring serves to distinguish it from the older Berlin Ringbahn located in the city center .

course

The outer ring at kilometer 12.0 between Genshagener Heide and Saarmund

The outer ring is 125 kilometers long and around 40 kilometers in diameter. It is located in the federal states of Brandenburg and Berlin, with Berlin only passing through the eastern part. This is due on the one hand to the function of the route as a bypass of West Berlin, but on the other hand it also takes up plans from the 1920s, according to which eastern Berlin should not be bypassed. The line is double-tracked and electrified. Between Glasower Damm at the intersection with the Dresdener Bahn and the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport train station , the outer ring was expanded to include four tracks until 2005. On some sections in and near Berlin, S-Bahn lines also run on the route. The outer ring crosses all of the radial railway lines from Berlin and is linked to almost all of them by rail links.

history

prehistory

As early as the end of the 19th century, the military wanted to connect the railway lines leaving Berlin in a radial pattern. Such a project was also interesting for freight transport. In 1902, the Magdeburger Bahn , the Lehrter Bahn and the Hamburger Bahn between Wildpark (today Potsdam Park Sanssouci ) via Wustermark and Nauen were connected with the bypass railway. In the following years the line was extended somewhat further away from Berlin to Jüterbog an der Anhalter Bahn and Oranienburg an der Nordbahn . In the 1920s, the Seddin marshalling yard was built on the Wetzlar Railway and subsequently a connection via Saarmund to Großbeeren on the Anhalter Railway. At the beginning of the 1930s, a continuation of this connection to the east via Schönefeld to Wuhlheide was planned, which should have the course of today's outer ring. During the Nazi era , the outer freight ring was built, which, although only provisionally, connected Teltow on the Anhalter Bahn via Schönefeld through east Berlin with Berlin-Karow on the Stettiner Bahn from 1940/41 . Compared to the earlier plans and today's outer ring, it ran significantly more northerly and crossed the city limits in the south of (west) Berlin several times.

With the division of Germany and Berlin that became apparent after the Second World War, the Soviet occupying power and later the GDR government needed an efficient bypass of West Berlin. The first measures were the construction of connecting curves to the bypass or to the outer freight ring between Werder and Golm in 1948 and from the Görlitzer Bahn near Berlin-Grünau to the north. In 1950 a connection was established from Berlin-Karow to Basdorf an der Heidekrautbahn and on from Wensickendorf to the Nordbahn to Oranienburg.

Construction of the outer ring

Bridge over the Nuthe near Saarmund

Abzw Schönfließ West, 1997

The construction work on the southern Berlin outer ring began on November 1, 1950. First, the section was tackled, which in Genshagener Heide connected to the east of the existing route of the bypass . Between July and December 1951, the route between Genshagener Heide and the Wendenheide junction in the south-east of Berlin went into operation in several sections, with several connecting curves being added. To the north of Wendenheide, the outer freight ring was initially used. On November 22, 1952, the section from the outer freight ring was opened at today's Karower Kreuz and Bergfelde, as well as the connecting curve at the Bergfelde  - Birkenwerder junction . The next steps were the opening of the connecting curve Karow West - Berlin-Blankenburg junction (1953), the Wuhlheide marshalling yard (October 1, 1953) and, at the same time, the Bergfelde - Falkenhagen  - Brieselang section , initially single-track. This was followed by 1953/55 the connecting curve branching point Karow West - branching point Karow Nord, the doubling of the former bypass path between Saarmund and Genshagener Heide, the compound curves branching point Hennigsdorf (West) - Hennigsdorf , Hennigsdorf East - Hennigsdorf, Hohen Neuendorf West  - Birkenwerder and of Falkenhagen to Finkenkrug and Brieselang. On October 2, 1955, the Falkenhagen - Wustermark junction and the connecting curves to Wustermark marshalling yard and Wustermark were opened. On December 11, 1955, the Wustermark - Elstal branch was opened, and the so-called bypass railway was integrated into the Golm - Elstal section .

The last missing piece was the demanding section between Saarmund and Golm with crossing of the Templiner See . For this purpose, a construction warehouse (SAGO) was set up near Wilhelmshorst, which was used by the GDR border troops until 1990 after the construction work was completed. On September 30, 1956, it and the connecting curve Potsdam Süd - Werder were opened to traffic. That closed the ring. The connecting curves Nesselgrund Ost - Wilhelmshorst and Golm - Wildpark (September 28, 1957), Genshagener Heide - Birkengrund (northwest curve, June 1, 1958), Werder (Havel)  - Golm (February 6, 1959) and finally Glasower Damm - followed. Blankenfelde (southwest curve, May 25, 1961).

In 1958, the passenger trains on the outer ring were included in the Berlin S-Bahn tariff. Based on the first Soviet satellite , they were popularly called " Sputnik " because they also moved on a circular orbit around West Berlin.

After the Berlin Wall was built

On August 13, 1961, when the Wall was built, the GDR's borders with West Berlin were closed. This made it necessary to build a new S-Bahn connection between Berlin-Blankenburg and Hohen Neuendorf in the direction of Oranienburg. In 1962, separate S-Bahn tracks were put into operation between Schönfließ and Bergfelde (in the remaining section, the S-Bahn and long-distance railway shared the tracks) and branches from Bergfelde / Bergfelde Ost - Birkenwerder were created. Also in 1962, an S-Bahn line from Adlershof to the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport train station went into operation and this was also opened for long-distance trains for public travel. Before, it only served as a control station.

In the same year, additional structures were built in the Hasselberg - Brieselang junction area, and the Hennigsdorf - Wustermark marshalling yard section was electrified on a trial basis with "industrial power" 25,000 volts / 50 Hertz. The purpose was to test the E 251 series locomotives built by LEW in Hennigsdorf . In 1973 the overhead line was removed again. Individual masts were preserved and were used again in 1983.

On April 16, 1982, a GS II Sp 64b track diagram was completed at the Glasower Damm junction (Mahlow station). At the same time, a second track was put into operation between the Glasower Damm Ost and Glasower Damm Süd (Blankenfelde) junction.

In 1982 the Saarmund - Glasower Damm (- Blankenfelde) section, including the Saarmund - Michendorf link and the Genshagener Heide / Genshagener Heide Ost - Ludwigsfelde curves, and the Priort - Saarmund section, were electrified. In 1983, the Wustermark / Wustermark marshalling yard  - Priort, Berlin-Schönefeld airport  - Grünauer Kreuz, Birkenwerder junction - Wustermark Süd junction and the connecting curves Golm / Wildpark West - Werder junction, Wustermark north junction - Wustermark shunting yard / Wustermark and the so-called Falkenhagener followed Cross.

On May 17, 1983, the third and on September 26, 1986 the fourth track between the Glasower Damm junction and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport went into operation. Between the Karower Kreuz and Schönfließ two separate tracks for the S-Bahn were put into operation on September 2, 1984 due to the upcoming electrification of the long-distance tracks.

Development from 1990

With the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, the political reasons for bypassing West Berlin ceased to exist. As early as 1991, the long-distance trains in the direction of Magdeburg ran again via Berlin-Wannsee and no longer via the outer ring. However, the infrastructure of the direct routes to Berlin was interrupted in many places.

As a result of the decline in freight traffic after the fall of the Wall, the Berlin Wuhlheide marshalling yard was shut down on June 10, 1994 and later completely demolished.

With the opening of the north-south long-distance line with the Tiergarten tunnel in Berlin on May 28, 2006, the Anhalter Bahn to the south was reopened, but not the Dresdener Bahn. Since then, trains to Dresden have been running between Genshagener Kreuz and Glasower Damm via the outer ring. For this purpose, a connecting curve had to be rebuilt from the direction of Berlin and Teltow, which initially leads into the long curve in a south-west direction .

Southern Berlin outer ring with a new airport connection

As part of the western rail connection of Berlin Brandenburg Airport , the third and fourth track between the Glasower Damm Ost junction and the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport train station were taken out of service at the beginning of 2008 . From Schönefeld the route of the new S-Bahn to the airport is on the level of these tracks as far as Waßmannsdorf . There the S-Bahn leaves the BAR and leads over a semicircular arch to the long-distance railway tracks. These thread east of Glasower Damm in the new Selchow junction, level-free from the BAR to the east. S-Bahn and long-distance trains then arrive at the airport train station from the west in parallel. A total of 15 new kilometers were built for long-distance and regional traffic and eight kilometers for the S-Bahn. The S-Bahn line from Schönefeld to Berlin Brandenburg station and the long-distance line from Glasower Damm Ost via the airport station to Görlitzer Bahn were put into operation on October 30, 2011, but are not yet used for public transport due to the delays in the construction of BER Airport . ^[outdated]

At the timetable change on December 9, 2012, the Genshagener Heide station was abandoned for passenger traffic and the new Ludwigsfelde- Struveshof stop two kilometers to the west with two 140-meter-long side platforms went into operation. In 2013 the stop was completed with a pedestrian bridge and a P + R parking lot . A total of 3.9 million euros was invested for this.

The construction of a tower station at the intersection with the Stettiner Bahn ( Berlin Karower Kreuz station ) is under discussion .

Unrealized projects

The four-track expansion of the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport - Grünauer Kreuz section, which was planned and partially started at the end of the 1980s, was discontinued during the construction phase. Some of the new parallel tracks were already in place and, although some of them have since been dismantled, are still clearly visible today. Even if the southern Berlin outer ring still has a high route utilization, mainly due to freight trains, there is now no longer any need for a four-track expansion.

Connecting curves were built at almost all intersections with other routes, but not always in all directions. There are gaps, especially in the direction of Berlin, especially where the routes ended at the border with West Berlin. Among other things, a connection from the city center to the north at Kreuz Wuhlheide was not implemented. The route should first branch out towards the southeast and then cross the Frankfurt route. The dam and bridge abutment were built and can still be seen today. In Hennigsdorf Nord there are remains of the unfinished connecting curves in the direction of Velten .

Occasionally, in connection with the connection from Potsdam to Berlin Brandenburg Airport near Schönefeld, the construction of connecting curves from the direction of Potsdam in the direction of Schönefeld at the Werder junction or at Bergholz has been discussed. So far there are no concrete projects.

During the GDR era, the construction of new large housing estates was planned in the north of Berlin. In this context, the construction of new S-Bahn stations between Karower Kreuz and Mühlenbeck-Mönchmühle near French Buchholz and Arkenberge was planned. The contours of the platforms can still be seen today.

The route was also prepared for an extension of the S-Bahn from Wartenberg to Sellheim Bridge. This section was included in the plans for a long time with an extension to the planned Karower Kreuz train station; work on this project was not stopped until 2006.

Further projects include an extension of a S-Bahn line between Biesdorfer and Grünauer Kreuz and the construction of the Bürknersfelde train station between Springpfuhl and Gehrenseestrasse a little north of the Landsberger Allee bridge . However, these projects are primarily made dependent on the financial situation of the State of Berlin, so that their implementation is currently not on the agenda.

Route and facilities

Saarmund train station

The outer ring runs from Saarmund via Genshagener Heide  - Schönefeld Airport  - Grünauer Kreuz  - Wuhlheide  - Biesdorfer Kreuz  - Schönfließ  - Falkenhagen  - Golm  - Potsdam Pirschheide back to Saarmund.

In-house, the outer ring is divided into six sections, partly due to the history of the building, which have their own route numbers and are separately kilometred.

• Saarmund - oak frame
• Oak frame - Biesdorf cross
• Biesdorfer Kreuz - Karower Cross
• Karower Cross - Priort
• Priort - Golm
• Golm - Saarmund.

Separate route numbers have been assigned for the third and fourth track between Glasower Damm and Schönefeld, as well as a total of four S-Bahn routes running wholly or partially on the outer ring.

With the exception of the Heidekrautbahn and the Schöneweide – Spindlersfeld branch line , connecting curves to all routes crossing the Ring have been built.

The respective nodes have been expanded to varying degrees. At the Grünauer Kreuz intersection there are no intersections in almost all directions, and the track systems are correspondingly extensive. Similar to the Biesdorfer Kreuz, the facilities of which extend over several kilometers, and partly in the Genshagener Heide area. Other knots, especially on the northern and western parts of the ring, were simply made. Linking stations for passenger traffic were built at some of these intersections. The stations Bergholz (b Potsdam) and the former Potsdam Central Station (today P-Pirschheide) in the southwest and Hennigsdorf Nord in the north were designed as tower stations and are now closed. Important transfer stations that are not directly at an intersection were Falkenhagen (b Nauen) and Berlin-Schönefeld Airport . The outer ring was primarily designed for long-distance and freight traffic and local traffic from the towns west of Berlin to East Berlin . In this respect, the number of stations for passenger traffic is relatively low, especially in the East Berlin area.

Saarmund - oak frame

Between Saarmund and Genshagener Heide, the outer ring uses the route of the section of the bypass line from Michendorf to Großbeeren that was opened in 1926 . Accordingly, the kilometering of this section begins in Michendorf; Saarmund train station is at 7.2 km. The subsequent section in the direction of Schönefeld is the first part of the outer ring built after 1950. On July 8, 1951, the section between Genshagener Heide and Schönefeld as well as the connecting curves Genshagener Heide Ost - Ludwigsfelde and Glasower Damm Ost - Blankenfelde were put into operation. This was followed by the Schönefeld - Grünauer Kreuz section on August 12 and the extension to Wendenheide on December 2 of the same year.

Operational locations:

Saarmund

The station consists of two continuous main tracks without and two outside tracks with a platform, which are connected by a pedestrian bridge (popularly known as the gallows ). This construction method can be found at several outer ring stations. To the west of the station, the outer ring from the direction of Golm and the also double-track former bypass line from Michendorf unite. This route connects the outer ring with the important Seddin marshalling yard .

The old pedestrian bridge was demolished in July / August 2015, followed by a new replacement and the renovation of the two side platforms. The platform towards Golm is still not barrier-free. The cost was 2.7 million euros.

Ahrensdorf

Ahrensdorf is a former depot, which around 1960 was also used for several years in passenger traffic.

Struveshof

Struveshof is a new stopping point that has opened up the city of Ludwigsfelde since December 2012 as a replacement for the less favorably located Genshagener Heide train station.

Genshagener Heide

→ Main article : Genshagener Heide train station

The design of the former Genshagener Heide passenger station corresponds to that of Saarmund. In the area of ​​the train station, the outer ring crosses the Anhalter Bahn . A crossing-free unthreading for traffic in the direction of Halle / Leipzig is possible via the so-called loop  - also known as the Kramer curve or pig's ear - a connecting curve north of the outer ring and west of the Anhalter Bahn. The connection from the Anhalter Bahn in the direction of Berlin to the outer ring in the east via the Kramer curve only went into operation in 2006.

Diedersdorf

Diedersdorf is a four-track depot which, despite its proximity to the place of the same name, never had passenger traffic.

Glasower Dam

Here is the intersection with the Dresden Railway . Level branches (junction Glasower Damm West and East ) were created from the outer ring from both directions to the Dresden Railway only in the south. The section east of Glasower Damm to the Berlin Schönefeld Airport train station was one of the most frequented lines of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in GDR times and was expanded to include four tracks. The two southern tracks were removed for the construction work on the route to Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

Selchow

At the Selchow junction, there has been a level-free extension from the outer ring towards the west to the new airport since 2011. Since 2011, the S-Bahn has also been running further east from the airport towards the city on the subgrade of the outer ring.

Berlin Schönefeld Airport

→ Main article : Berlin Schönefeld Airport train station

Originally built purely as a control station for trains to Berlin, it has been an important transfer point for long-distance traffic since the early 1960s. All long-distance trains from (East) Berlin to the south and west stopped here. After 1990 it gradually lost its importance in long-distance traffic, with the opening of the new airport (the date has not yet been set in May 2017), regional traffic will be relocated to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport train station . However, the station will remain the S-Bahn stop.

Grünauer Cross

→ Main article : Grünauer Kreuz

Here the outer ring crosses the Görlitzer Bahn . Extensive level-free threading in all directions resulted.

Wendenheide

At the Wendenheide junction, a track from Berlin-Schöneweide train station joins the outer ring.

Oak frame

Eichgestell is a depot where a connection to the Berlin Stadtbahn branches off at the same level .

Oak frame - Biesdorf cross

This section of the route was not expanded to double tracks until the 1960s, the section Eichgestell - Wuhlheide Rbf only after 1983 together with the electrification, until then the track of the provisional outer freight ring was largely used. Correspondingly, the route kilometers are based on that of the outer freight ring. The zero point of the kilometrage is in Teltow station , the Eichgestell depot as today's route start is at kilometer 25.0.

The ring was originally created to bypass West Berlin and therefore runs in the north, west and south of the city through sparsely populated areas beyond the city limits. In contrast, the eastern part of Berlin is crossed, with the route between Grünauer and Karower Kreuz almost following the route of the former outer freight ring. The former Wuhlheide marshalling yard has been dismantled.

Biesdorfer Kreuz - Karower Cross

→ Main article : Biesdorfer Kreuz

North of the Biesdorfer Kreuz is the Berlin Northeast freight station, which is connected via separate feed routes. On the ring route runs in this section by the plate areas Marzahn and Hohenschonhausen a train -distance (also between Karower cross and mountain field in North Berlin). In Hohenschönhausen there is a later built-in stop for regional trains, the only regional station on the outer ring in Berlin.

Karower Cross - Priort

Crossing the Havel Canal near Schönwalde / Glien

At the Karow Ost junction, the kilometering starts again.

To the west of Hennigsdorf, the route almost follows the motorway route planned for the Berliner Ring in the 1940s , which was to run significantly more southerly than the motorway that was completed by 1979.

Operational locations:

Buchholz and Arkenberge

The two stations were to become S-Bahn stops in the 1980s after the construction of new residential areas in northern Berlin. These residential areas and with them the corresponding stations were never built; however, the platform shells are still recognizable.

Arkenberg

The name Arkenberge also bears a transition point between a double-track and a single-track section of the S-Bahn east of the Mühlenbeck-Mönchmühle S-Bahn station.

Mühlenbeck-Mönchmühle

The stop on a single-track section of the S-Bahn went into operation in 1984. It consists of an elevated outside platform. To the west of the stop, the route of the Heidekrautbahn crosses the outer ring.

Bergfelde S-Bahn station, 1991

Schönfließ

→ Main article : Schönfließ train station

Bergfelde (b Berlin)

The stop with a central platform between the S-Bahn tracks was opened on May 27, 1962.

Schönfließ West

At the Schönfließ West junction, the two connecting curves of the long-distance line in and from the direction of Schönfließ to the Berlin Northern Railway from and to Birkenwerder (b Berlin) join the Berlin outer ring.

Bergfelde East

At the Bergfelde Ost junction, trains coming from Hohen Neuendorf West can leave the outer ring and take a connecting curve to the Berlin Nordbahn.

Hohen Neuendorf West

→ Main article : Hohen Neuendorf West train station

Hennigsdorf North

→ Main article : Hennigsdorf Nord train station

The two side platforms on the Berlin outer ring were opened on April 30, 1953. Since August 18, 1958, it has been possible to change to the Kremmener Bahn . On May 28, 1995, passenger traffic was stopped on the upper level. Since then, passenger trains have left the outer ring at junction Hdo and Hdw and pass through Hennigsdorf station (b Berlin) ; the branches are parts of the Hennigsdorf Nord station.

To the Kremmener Bahn in the direction of Velten (Mark) , dams were piled up and abutments for a bridge over the Hennigsdorf – Velten road were built. However, tracks were not laid.

Schönwalde (b Nauen)

Originally the station under the name Schönwalde (Kr Nauen) consisted of two continuous main tracks without a platform and two outside tracks with a side platform, which were connected by a pedestrian bridge. After the fall of the Wall , passenger trains no longer stopped here, first an outer track was dismantled, later the pedestrian bridge and the other outer track.

In the meantime Schönwalde (b Nauen) is only a transfer point with two points and a connecting track between the main tracks.

Falkenhagen station (b Nauen)

→ Main article : Falkenhagen station (b Nauen)

Brieselang Hasselberg

At the junction in Brieselang Hasselberg there is the possibility of changing between the two railway lines via a connecting curve between the Hamburg railway towards Brieselang – Nauen and the Berlin outer ring towards the south.

Wustermark Awf

At the Wustermark Awf junction, it was originally possible to use connecting curves between the north-western Berlin outer ring and the Lehrter Bahn to switch to both west and east. The connecting curve to the Wustermark train station , i.e. heading west, was dismantled after the fall of the Wall. The connecting curve to the east does not lead directly into the tracks of the Lehrter Bahn, but into the Wustermark marshalling yard .

In addition, the siding to the freight traffic center Wustermark branches off at this operating point .

Priort - Golm

South of the intersections with the Hamburger and Lehrter Bahn, the ring follows the route of the former bypass to Golm. It also uses their mileage. While the outer ring is otherwise completely counterclockwise, it runs in the opposite direction on this section. The junction to the Lehrter Bahn is at route km 77.9, the Golm station at km 62.7. The Jüterbog train station is the zero point of the kilometers .

Station buildings from the beginning of the 20th century can still be found in Priort and Satzkorn.

Golm - Saarmund

Bridge over Lake Templin on a postage stamp from the GDR Deutsche Post (September 21, 1976)

In Golm, the kilometrage of this route section starts at 0.0. The remains of the Potsdam Pirschheide train station are in the middle of the forest. The upper part of the outer ring is open today, only the two through tracks are still in operation; the former four platform tracks were closed and the platform entrances walled up. Only the lower part of the station at the bypass is still in use.

The most impressive part of the route is the crossing of Lake Templin east of Potsdam Pirschheide on a dam. At Saarmund, a connection from Michendorf joins the ring with the important marshalling yard in Seddin.

literature

• Bernd Kuhlmann: The Berlin outer ring . Kenning, Nordhorn 1997, ISBN 3-927587-65-6 .
• Wolfgang Adam: Diary sheets of the electrification of the railway lines in the district of Zossen . In: Home calendar for the Zossen district . Council of the district, Zossen 28.1985, pp. 50–58.
• Peter Bley: From the freight bypass to the Berlin outer ring. Volume 1: Development 1865-1945 . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-941712-40-9 .
• Peter Bley: From the freight bypass to the Berlin outer ring. Volume 2: Development 1945 - 1961 . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-941712-52-2 .

Web links

Commons : Berliner Außenring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route, operating points and some permitted speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
• Berliner-Bahnen.de - railways in the Berlin area
• Disused train stations on the Berlin outer ring
• Opening and closing dates of the stations on the outer ring

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany . 9th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-89494-145-1 .
2. ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft: Overview map of the Reichsbahndirektionskreises Berlin. January 1932, digitized
3. ↑ Erich Preuß , Reiner Preuß : Chronicle of the Deutsche Reichsbahn 1945-1993, Railway in the GDR. GeraMond, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7654-7094-3 , p. 35.
4. ↑ Detlef Hoge: "The rail connection of the BBI airport" with maps and general plans. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
5. ^ From December 9th new train stop in Struveshof. DB Mobility Logistics AG, December 7, 2012, archived from the original on March 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Better to change at Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof train station. (No longer available online.) Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg , December 12, 2013, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Appendix to the urban development plan, building project I 15 1.b and I 17, p. 17/18 ( Memento of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Appendix to the urban development plan, building project I 15 1., p. 17. ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ News in brief: Railway . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 5 , 2016, p. 94 .
10. ↑ www.autobahngeschichte.de , accessed on May 10, 2010.
11. ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn: Overview map of the RBD Berlin. 1943, digitized
12. ↑ Bergfelde. Retrieved December 27, 2015 .