Hamburg Berlin train station
| Hamburg Berlin train station | |
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 Entrance building, in front of it a connecting railway train
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| Place / district | Old town |
| country | Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 32 '51 " N , 10 ° 0' 25" E |
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| Railway stations in the Hamburg area | |
The Berlin train station in Hamburg was the western terminus of the Berlin-Hamburg railway, which opened in 1846 . It emerged from the expansion of the station previously built by Alexis de Chateauneuf for the Hamburg-Bergedorfer Railway in 1842. The Berlin station was completed in 1857 and closed in 1903.
Structural features
For the needs of the Berlin railway, this former “Bergedorfer Bahnhof” made of red brick with plastered cornices was expanded and, above all, a 148 m long and 23.5 m high wooden hall with four tracks was added. This hall was considered to be the most important wooden structure in Germany at the time, for comparison: The hall of the Dammtorbahnhof is 112 m long with the same height and also four tracks.
The reception building was divided into a departure and an arrival area, in which there was a baggage claim and baggage claim area, as well as waiting rooms for the various classes and a ladies' room.
It was put into operation on December 15, 1846, but the renovation and new construction of the 173-meter-long building complex, the freight tracks and the locomotive shed were not completed until 1857 .
To accommodate an optical telegraph connection ( semaphore ), the station was given two high towers, but since the more effective electrical writing telegraph was invented at the same time (1837), they were only decorative accessories.
There were also two turntables for the locomotives in the station building. Uncoupled from the train, they could drive onto the turntables and turn around in the opposite direction for the preferred direction of travel. The tracks with a freight yard and a semicircular locomotive shed were about three times as long as the station.
Location to the other train stations
The station was located south of today's main station at today's Deichtorplatz and extended with its ancillary facilities from the northern part of today's Deichtorhallen to the lock canal .
In 1865 the Lübeck train station was built about 600 meters further east , and in 1866 the Klosterthor train station of the Hamburg-Altona connecting line about 200 meters north. From this a connecting track was later laid in front of the portal of the Berlin train station and on to the Venlo and Hanover train station. This was opened in 1872 after the construction of the Hamburg Elbe bridges, initially only accessible by rail, as the end point of the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn and was located on the opposite Grasbrookinsel (today HafenCity ).
End of operation
As part of the preparations for the construction of Hamburg's main train station , the Berlin train station was closed on May 1, 1903 and a so-called interim station was built on Lippeltstrasse. The central train station went into operation on December 6, 1906.
The wooden station hall
Floor plan of the reception building
Track plan including apron and segment turntable
Former track apron of the station in its current state, looking towards the wholesale market (southeast)
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See also
- Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof - the "counterpart" at the other end of the line was in operation from 1847 to 1884.
literature
- Peter Bley: 150 years of the Berlin-Hamburg railway . 1996, alba, ISBN 3-87094-229-0 .
- Alfred Gottwaldt: The Berlin-Hamburg Railway and its stations 1996 . In: Brandenburg Monument Preservation . Vol. 5, issue 1.
