Siemensbahn

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Siemensbahn
Wernerwerk station
Wernerwerk station
Route number : 6022
Route length: 4.5 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 750 V  =
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Gesundbrunnen
S-Bahn station
 0.0 Jungfernheide
   
 to Westkreuz
   
 to Spandau
   
 Spree
   
 1.4 Wernerwerk
   
 3.1 Siemensstadt
   
 4.5 Garden field
Wernerwerk station, 1987
Siemensstadt station
Reception building of the terminus at Gartenfeld
Entrance Siemensdamm Bahnhof Wernerwerk
Factory exit

Siemensbahn is the name of a S-Bahn line in Berlin that runs from Jungfernheide for almost four and a half kilometers to Gartenfeld . The name is derived from the Siemens & Halske company, which built the line independently between 1927 and 1929. It has been out of service since the Reichsbahn strike in September 1980. It is planned Template: future / in 5 yearsto reactivate the route in autumn 2029 .

course

The Siemensbahn begins at Jungfernheide station , where it connects to the Ringbahn . From there it runs to the west and branches off from the Hamburger Bahn at about the same level as the Ringbahn . Unlike the latter, however, it takes the route north across the Spree and first reaches the Wernerwerk train station (location:)  . After the train station, it makes an extensive 90-degree angle, runs briefly to the west, where the Siemensstadt station (location:)  is located (both in the Siemensstadt district ), and then to the northwest. After a good kilometer you reach the terminus at Gartenfeld (location:)  in the location of the same name . This was additionally equipped with an equestrian signal box and a six-track storage facility. Almost the entire length of the route is laid out as a viaduct , only the Gartenfeld terminus is at ground level. Its grounds and buildings have meanwhile been used by a garden center that has since been abandoned. World iconWorld iconWorld icon

Construction and operation

As early as 1905, the Siemens group had its own train station set up for its employees so that they could get to work more quickly. The station on the Hamburger and Lehrter Bahn , which opened as Fürstenbrunn (later: Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn ), initially had high passenger numbers, but was still unfavorable to the factory premises. Since the factory center was also relocated to northern Siemensstadt in the 1920s , the factory management looked for an alternative solution. In 1925, Siemens and the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG) agreed on the construction of a new line.

The Siemens-Bauunion took over the construction of the route and the equipping of the stations . The group provided the site. The Reichsbahn was only supposed to ensure operation. This arrangement was also possible because CEO Carl Friedrich von Siemens was also President of the DRG Board of Directors.

Construction began in 1927 and was completed after two years. On December 18, 1929, traffic could be started. The trains were electric, the great electrification of Berlin's city , ring and suburban railways was in full swing. In the first few years, the trains ran through to Neukölln or Papestrasse . The number of passengers rose significantly, with the route being largely used by workers from the Siemens works. Of the 90,000 or so employees that Siemens employed in Siemensstadt alone at that time, around 17,000 used the S-Bahn, which ran every five minutes, to and from their workplace.

A development plan by Albert Speer provided for a transfer station at the end of the route. The line was damaged in World War II . The Spree bridge was destroyed shortly after the junction. As early as September 17, 1945, it was replaced by a temporary bridge. At this point in time, the Siemens freight railway was provisionally connected to the Gartenfeld S-Bahn station via a wooden ramp, as the Wehrmacht had blown up the Spree bridge. The second track was delivered to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment . Until April 28, 1948, goods traffic took place mainly during the night on the S-Bahn track. The connection remained in place until March 1950 because Siemens was repairing S-Bahn cars for the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

The double-track operation was resumed on December 3, 1956 after the construction of the Spree bridge. The previous number of users was no longer achieved because the Siemens group had relocated its headquarters to Munich . From then on, the line was one of the least used in the entire Berlin S-Bahn network . As a result, the trains were withdrawn to Jungfernheide, and mostly older vehicles from the ET 168 and ET 165 series were used, which last ran every 20 minutes with 30 to 40 passengers.

After the traffic cessation

After the Reichsbahn strike in September 1980, traffic was stopped. The Siemens city possessed with the opened in October 1980 stations Siemensdamm and Rohrdamm the subway line U7 about an alternative to the train stations Wernerwerk and Siemens city.

In August 1995, the section between the district border with Spandau and the Gartenfeld train station was placed under monument protection. In 2005, the Spree was relocated when the new Charlottenburg lock was built, the embankment between the junction of the Ringbahn and the southern bank of the Spree was partially demolished and the foreland bridge of the Spreebrücke was demolished. 2007 contradicted Berlin Senate of the Federal Railway Authority requested declassification of railway property. Negotiations between the Deutsche Regionalisenbahn and the Deutsche Bahn to take over the infrastructure between Wernerwerk and Gartenfeld remained inconclusive in 2008.

Since the line was out of service, Deutsche Bahn AG or the Spandau and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf districts , in which the line runs, have only carried out a small amount of maintenance work on the decaying and overgrown track systems, the substructure and the stations. Deutsche Bahn estimated the cost of securing the route at EUR 500,000 per year. She later put the cost of three years (2013–2015) at just 133,000 euros.

In 2014, the architect Rebecca Chestnutt-Niess worked with students on drafts for re-use. The re-urbanization project of Siemensbahn comprised the establishment of a swimming lane on a section of the route, the targeted greening of the viaduct and the preparation of a footpath and cycle path.

Reactivation and expansion

Siemensbahn is still included in the Berlin zoning plan from November 2017. It should then be possible to extend it beyond Gartenfeld via Daumstraße ( Wasserstadt Oberhavel ) to Hakenfelde . In the course of the early public participation of the new building project “New Garden Field”, the Senate Administration also presented a different route. The island of Gartenfeld would have to be crossed under, the route would have to be led north along the Rohrbruchteich to Daumstrasse and the Gartenfeld train station would be relocated to the Gartenfeld island. How much the recommissioning would cost has not yet been estimated.

After Siemens AG decided in 2018 to build a campus in Siemensstadt for research purposes, the company and the Senate spoke out in favor of reactivating Siemensbahn. In June 2019, Deutsche Bahn and the Senate signed a financing agreement for early planning services for 2.3 million euros. The reconstruction was subsequently included in the transport project i2030 of the two federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg and the DB AG.

At the end of 2019, DB Netz AG put out a feasibility study for the 2nd construction phase Gartenfeld - Hakenfelde across Europe. It should represent different routes for a double-track extension designed for a maximum speed of 100 km / h with the intermediate stops “Gartenfeld”, “Wasserstadt Oberhavel” and “Hakenfelde”.

At the beginning of 2020, vegetation work was carried out to clear the route in order to measure the existing facilities and to carry out a subsoil investigation and environmental mapping. The viaduct between Spree and Popitzweg is statically calculated in order to be able to evaluate its further usability. The construction of a third platform edge is under discussion in the Berlin-Jungfernheide S-Bahn station .

The end of the overall planning is expected for mid-2026. According to the current status, a reopening is planned for autumn 2029.

literature

  • Peter Bley: The Siemensbahn Jungfernheide-Gartenfeld . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-941712-76-8 .
  • Bernhard Strowitzki: S-Bahn Berlin - history (s) on the go. GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-89218-073-3 .
  • The new Siemensbahn / Jungfernheide - Wernerwerk - Siemensstadt - Gartenfeld stations . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , vol. 63, 1929, pp. 865–873.

Web links

Commons : Siemensbahn  - Collection of Pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b i2030 - More rail for Berlin and Brandenburg In: Answer to a written question from MP Tino Schopf (SPD) , August 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ Note in the Lexicon of Siemensstadt in Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / w4.siemens.de  
  3. ^ Bodo Schulz, Michael Krolop: The private and industrial railways in Berlin (West) . P. 117.
  4. ^ Bodo Schulz, Michael Krolop: The private and industrial railways in Berlin (West) . P. 118.
  5. ↑ Siemensbahn could soon go to Tegel . In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 9, 2016
  6. ↑ Siemensbahn: Will the old line be revived? In: Berliner Zeitung , September 9, 2016
  7. ^ A b Elmar Schütze: City-West has plans for Siemensstadt. Re-use of the Siemensbahn in Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung . July 25, 2014 ( [1] [accessed November 23, 2019]).
  8. ↑ FNP - Updated work card, status November 2017. Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ New building project "Neues Gartenfeld" - comparison of the current draft with the preliminary draft from the early public participation in 2017. Senate Department for Urban Development and Housing, accessed on November 1, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: Siemens is building campus in Berlin for 600 million euros. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 30, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Sabine Beikler, Henrik Mortsiefer: Siemens is investing 600 million euros in Berlin. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 31, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  12. ^ Deutsche Bahn and Senate sign agreement on Siemensbahn
  13. ↑ Technical planning services for traffic systems. DB Netz AG, November 13, 2019, accessed on November 23, 2019 .
  14. ^ Reports from the Berlin S-Bahn . In: Bahn-Report . No. 3 , 2020, p. 36 .