Potsdam Park Sanssouci station
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 Potsdam Park Sanssouci station with the hall of the Kaiserbahnhof
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | BWP |
| IBNR | 8010377 |
| Price range | 3 |
| opening | 1868 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Potsdam_Park_Sanssouci |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Potsdam |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 23 '40 " N , 13 ° 0' 50" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Potsdam Park Sanssouci railway station until 1999 Deer Park is a railway station in Potsdam at the intersection of Berlin-Magdeburg Railway with the avoidance trajectory belonging Jüterbog-Nauen . The entire system consists of the public transport station used by public transport and the Kaiserbahnhof to the west of it . The Kaiserbahnhof as well as the reception building, toilets and open spaces of the citizen station are under monument protection.
history
The Wildpark station was created in 1868 with the double-track expansion of the Berlin – Magdeburg railway line by the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg Railway Company . The original station building was Potsdam's first imperial courtyard station for over 40 years, until the completion of the Kaiserbahnhof to the west, and served as a reception building for numerous Highnesses and Excellencies of Europe.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the appearance of the station changed. With the bypass to Nauen (opened in 1902) and Jüterbog (1908), the wildlife park became a small railway junction. The tracks were laid on a dam, the platforms were connected by a tunnel opposite the station building. For the Krone , the new Kaiserbahnhof was built from 1905 to the west of the old building , which was inaugurated in 1909. The old station building became the citizens' station .
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Since then the station has had an outside platform on the north side next to the hall to the Kaiserbahnhof and two island platforms.
In the 1950s, until the completion of the Berlin outer ring with today's Potsdam Pirschheide station (formerly Potsdam Süd and Potsdam Hauptbahnhof), the station served as an express train stop for some holiday trains from Saxony to the Baltic Sea for a few years.
In the mid-1990s, the station was fundamentally rebuilt. The old platforms and practically all superstructures from the beginning of the 20th century were demolished and replaced by new type platforms. The southern platform was completely removed. Likewise, the old facility of the tunnel disappeared.
Since 1998, through trains to Berlin have stopped at the station again. Initially the RE 2 stopped there every two hours, and since 1999 the RE 1 has stopped every hour.
In the same year the station was renamed Potsdam Park Sanssouci. Initially, this only affected tourist traffic, the station was initially still called Wildlife Park.
Citizens Station
The citizen station represents the part of the station system used for railway operations and consists of a station building with a snack kiosk and toilet block, a covered and an uncovered platform and connecting structures.
investment
The half-timbered station building from 1869 is a rare piece of station architecture and the only surviving Potsdam station building from the early days of the Prussian railways. It still has the historic reception room, the so-called Excellency Room, with a solid wooden coffered ceiling and was renovated in 2013.
The vacant listed building that Deutsche Bahn wanted to demolish was sold to the city of Potsdam in 2006. The listed reconstruction was planned for late 2006 / early 2007, but was postponed. The Potsdamer Kulturverein Rosenweiss e. V. has created a usage concept for the station. There were also rubbish collection campaigns on the station park area, as wild garbage deposits on the park area became rampant over the years since the station was vacant.
The building was to be sold in the following period, its condition had deteriorated further by 2009 and it was considered to be in danger of collapsing. The restaurateur Laggner finally bought the building and undertook to renovate it by the end of 2016. He presented a plan to set up a beer garden and small shops there, although he pretended to want to do this for a much shorter period of time. However, due to various third-party adversities, such as theft and vandalism on the construction site and sponge infestation of the building, this project was delayed so long that the city was forced to impose a contractual penalty on Laggner for non-performance after long threats. In mid-2018, a small café was opened in the building's room of excellence.
At the train station there is a park area designed by Peter Joseph Lenné , on which there are still historical plantations such as horse chestnuts (Aesculus), plane trees (Platanus) and a Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia) from the 19th century. There is an avenue in the south parking area with a ramp towards the embankment. Immediately to the east of it was the first imperial pavilion.
In addition to the reception building and the park, there is also a toilet on the site under monument protection.
Opposite the public station is the imposing wrought-iron post gate (restored in 2009), which was the official entrance to Sanssouci Park.
On the station garden area there was a hall for a garden bar and an ice cellar .
traffic
The train station is now frequented by hundreds of commuters and students to the nearby University of Potsdam every day . It is also the starting point for tour groups and hikers for tours to the Sanssouci Park , the New Palace and the nearby wildlife park. Several bus lines also stop at the train station.
| line | course | Tact |
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| RE 1 | Brandenburg - Werder - Potsdam Park Sanssouci - Potsdam - Berlin-Wannsee - Berlin - Fürstenwalde - Frankfurt | Hourly |
| RB 20 | Potsdam - Potsdam Park Sanssouci - Golm - Hennigsdorf - Birkenwerder - Oranienburg | Hourly (Mon-Fri) |
| RB 21 |
( Berlin Friedrichstraße - Berlin Zoological Garden / Potsdam Griebnitzsee -) Potsdam - Potsdam Park Sanssouci - Golm - Wustermark Sat – Sun: from Potsdam HVZ: from Berlin Friedrichstraße, otherwise from Griebnitzsee |
Hourly (Mon-Fri) Two- hourly ( Sat-Sun) |
| RB 22 |
(Berlin Friedrichstraße - Berlin Zoological Garden / Potsdam Griebnitzsee -) Potsdam - Potsdam Park Sanssouci - Golm - Saarmund - Berlin-Schönefeld Airport Sat – Sun: from Potsdam HVZ: from Berlin Friedrichstraße, otherwise from Griebnitzsee |
Hourly |
Kaiserbahnhof
The Kaiserbahnhof Potsdam (originally courtyard station in the wildlife park ) now houses a Deutsche Bahn academy and serves it for representative purposes. It consists of a reception building and station hall as well as the basement.
investment
The building was built according to plans and under the direction of the court architect Ernst von Ihne . The station was completed in 1909 in the English cottage style of sandstone . The main part is the single-storey reception building in the form of an English country villa. Behind a vestibule of the driveway was the Kaisersaal with panels , wooden floor and fireplace, which looked like a saloon car . A tapestry door led to the entourage hall, which was otherwise accessible from the tower. Three flights of stairs led to the platform hall a few meters higher. One of them was the imperial staircase with a double-leaf door, another for court members and the last for servants .
The hall is equipped with a mansard roof with dormers in tunnel vault covered. The facades are provided with English country house windows similar to those of the Cecilienhof Palace . The gable walls are glazed against drafts at the top . The station cost 200,000 marks, the financing came from the budget of the railway administration.
use
The first state guest was Theodore Roosevelt . Tsar Nicholas II , who brought the chimney of the Kaisersaal as a present, was received at the station in 1910 by a court train . From here, Empress Auguste Viktoria follows her husband into exile in the Netherlands on November 27, 1918 . Her coffin came back here three years later. From 1939 on, the "Secret High Command of the Air Force" was stationed in the Potsdam Wildlife Park . Hermann Göring's special train also went there during the Second World War . After 1945 the station was the terminus of the “Blue Express” of the Soviet military command on the Moscow – Berlin route .
From 1952 in the possession of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the building was successively used as a company treasury, company vocational school , cultural area and by the transport police, in order to finally decay as a storage room and to be closed in 1977 due to the risk of collapse.
On June 16, 2005, the station was reopened after restoration . The building (basement, adjoining building) is used as an academy for managers of Deutsche Bahn (DB Akademie GmbH), receptions take place in the restored hall, it is not open to the public.
In October 2015 the premises of the Kaiserbahnhof were the scene of the Petersburg Dialogue for German-Russian Understanding and Cooperation.
"Royal Route"
The other terminus of the Königsweg by rail from Berlin to Potsdam was the Potsdamer Bahnhof in Berlin. The route had another stop in Schöneberg with access to the Alter St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin cemeteries on Großgörschenstrasse. It was called Hofstation and had its own platform between the Großgörschenstrasse pedestrian underpass and Yorckstrasse , as well as between the two platforms of today's Yorckstrasse station .
literature
- Barbara Eggers: The Kaiserbahnhof Wildpark in Potsdam, a reception building for "High and Highest Lords". The court architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne and the private court station of Kaiser Wilhelm II. With a foreword by Hans-Joachim Giersberg and photographs by Jürgen Strauss. Strauss, Potsdam 1999, ISBN 3-929748-17-7 .
- Berlin S-Bahn Museum: The route without end - The Berlin Ringbahn. GVE, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-074-1 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg (Potsdam Park Sanssouci station, formerly community station)
- Entry in the monument database of the state of Brandenburg (Kaiserbahnhof)
- Pictures from the Kaiserbahnhof
- Architecture BDS Architects
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Könnicke: Delay at the Bürgerbahnhof. Potsdam Latest News, July 8, 2013, accessed June 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Dirk Becker: Dispute over citizen station. Potsdam Latest News, February 22, 2005, accessed June 19, 2017 .
- ^ Jana Haase: "Lutter & Wegner" in the crown estate. Wine bar, weekly market and “poultry house”: How Josef Laggner wants to change the crown property. Potsdam Latest News, April 8, 2009, accessed June 19, 2017 .
- ^ René Garzke: New café opened in the Bürgerbahnhof. Progress on the permanent construction site. Potsdam Latest News, July 10, 2018, accessed July 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Marco Zschieck: Petersburg Dialogue in Potsdam. Meeting at court. Potsdam Latest News, October 21, 2015, accessed June 19, 2017 .