Koenigsberg Ostbahnhof
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The Prussian Eastern Railway initially ended in the Königsberg Ostbahnhof .
Building history
The opening train entered the 126 m long and 33 m wide hall on August 2, 1853. In addition to two side and one central platform, two uncovered platforms were added on the west side, which from 1889 served the trains to Labiau and Tilsit .
Towards the end of the 19th century, the platforms for the trains from Eydtkuhnen and Berlin were too short, so that the switch area on track 1 was covered with planks and steps were placed on the car doors.
The station concourse was surrounded on three sides by buildings. On the east side of the forecourt was the side wing of the multi-storey north building with the reception rooms. The baggage handling, the ticket office and the waiting rooms, which are separated by class, could be reached from the pillared vestibule.
The west wing and the upper floors contained office space. This was where the inspections were initially housed , from 1873 the Line Commission , from 1879 the Railway Operations Office, from 1895 the Railway Directorate (until the move to the suburban Langgasse) and until 1929 also various railway and Reichsbahn offices.
The north side had direct access to the cross platform and a covered exit for ceremonial receptions.
Plans for the redesign of the old Königsberg railway systems and the two terminal stations, East and South Station, through a new central station designed as a through station had been in existence since the turn of the century. The First World War prevented the implementation. It was not until 1929 that the Reichsbahn was able to inaugurate the new Königsberg main station, now known as Kaliningrad-Passaschirski station. The facilities of the Ostbahnhof were then torn down.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1