Szczecin Główny Railway Station
| Szczecin Główny | |
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 The new reception building opened in 2016
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| IBNR | 5100057 |
| Price range | A. |
| opening | 1843 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Szczecin |
| Voivodeship | West Pomerania |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 25 '10 " N , 14 ° 33' 7" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Poland | |
The Szczecin Główny station (until 1945: Stettin Hauptbahnhof) is the largest passenger station in the Pomeranian city of Stettin (Szczecin) in northwestern Poland and the hub of its rail traffic . It is located on the banks of the Oder in the southern center of the city.
history
On August 15, 1843, the first train left Stettin for Berlin . The station, a terminal station , was located southeast of the city center, right on the edge of the fortifications. On May 1, 1846, the line was opened over the Oder towards Stargard , which was extended further to Posen in 1848 . Because of the cramped location of the station between the Szczecin fortifications and the Oder, the connection of the line to Stargard was cumbersome: It crossed the Oder on a wooden bridge south of the station, which was difficult to reach via a saw drive . From Stargard a line to Köslin was built in 1859 , which was extended to Danzig in 1870 .
The station had a wooden hall to protect travelers. 1863 Szczecin was treated with a railway line to the west with Pasewalk , Neubrandenburg , Güstrow connected and other cities in the direction of Hamburg. The line did not branch off in the Szczecin station itself, but in the barn station upstream (today Szczecin Gumieńce).
The station soon reached the limits of its capacity. Due to the location near the Oder on one side and a slope on the other side (part of the former city fortifications), the facilities could hardly be expanded. The Wroclaw – Stettin railway line, which was opened in 1877, therefore ended in its own station, the Wroclaw Railway Station, on the right-hand side of the Odra.
Also east of the Oder, a large freight yard (today's area of the Szczecin Port Centralny station) was built from 1865, which relieved the main station, and the facilities of the main station were rebuilt. An operational bottleneck was removed: Instead of the old Oder bridge, a new swing bridge was built northeast of the station as a direct extension of the Berlin route. Because of the cramped space situation, a number of engineering structures were necessary. A brick viaduct was built right next to the train station over the access road from the city to the train station, before the line reached the actual Oder bridge after a tight curve. On the other side of the Oder, another viaduct was connected over some streets. Further east, another bridge was built over the Parnitz, a tributary of the Oder. To the east of the Parnitz the new freight yard was built, through which the main tracks of the Stargard route ran. The old station was only used for passenger traffic. Between the old and the new train station, the route ran through a sheet metal tunnel, as no embankment was allowed to be built in the fortress city of Szczecin due to military requirements. In the station itself, the level crossings were replaced by level-free crossings.
In 1882 a line went into operation in the direction of Gollnow , which was extended to Swinoujscie until 1901 . It branched off from the line to Stargard at Altdamm station on the other side of the Oder (today Szczecin Dąbie).
Since 1886 the trains on the line from Wroclaw were also brought into the station, the Wroclaw station was still used for freight traffic. On March 15, 1898, another line went into operation with the connection via Pölitz to Jasenitz (Jasienica), which was extended to Ziegenort in 1910 . This route branched off south of the station from the Berlin route. In the course of the construction of the line, the track systems of the station were redesigned, but the limited capacity did not change much. In 1908 the station was redesigned again, the bridges over the Oder and its tributaries were renewed and a new station building was built. The track situation was essentially retained.
20th century
In the 20th century, various approaches to solving the limited capacity of the train station were discussed. Several concepts for relocating the station or expanding the facilities were examined. This included projects such as the construction of large freight yards in the southwest (south of Scheune) and in the east of the city and a new central passenger station in the Torney area west of the city center.
Already in 1923 100 million marks were approved for the construction of a southern bypass of the city with a new bridge over the Oder. Finally, in the 1930s, the Stettin freight line was built, a half-ring in the south around the city. This enabled freight traffic to bypass the main station in an east-west direction.
At the end of the Second World War, a number of railway systems in Szczecin were destroyed. The area around Szczecin became part of Poland in 1945 after the Potsdam Agreement , the station was named Szczecin Główny . The traffic from the Polish heartland to the main train station was initially exclusively via the freight lane. It was not until 1948 that the Oder bridge at the station and the connection towards Kostrzyn (Küstrin) were repaired again. The direct line to Altdamm, after 1945 Szczecin Dąbie, was not rebuilt.
Between 1978 and 1983 the lines to the station were electrified.
21st century
After four years of preparation, construction of a new reception building began in October 2014. After a year and a half of construction, it went into operation on April 29, 2016. It adjoins the old station building to the south and is connected to the second and third platforms via a new bridge. The fourth platform can still only be reached indirectly via one of the other platforms, or directly from the streets, both from the Ulica Krzysztofa Kolumba and the Ulica Stefana Czarnieckiego above.
The first track ends a little south of the reception building, trains from / to Berlin stop here (2017). This means that the second track is right in front of the station building. A large display in the reception hall shows arrivals on the left and next to it the departures.
Location and facilities
The train station is located southeast of the city center near the Oder. It has four platforms with eight platform tracks. The station building is located southeast of the platforms between the tracks and the Oder on the side of the tracks facing away from the city. The platforms are connected to the reception building by a bridge (with escalators and lifts). An older pedestrian bridge connects all four platforms and allows access from the southwest. The bus station is about 100 meters north of the train station. To the southwest of the station there are some parking facilities for passenger trains. There is a tram stop in front of the reception building; other tram lines run from an intersection about 300 meters northeast of the station.
There is a depot south of the station .
literature
- Peter Bley: Railway junction Szczecin / Stettin . Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-933254-97-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Manfred Berger : Historic station buildings IV, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, West Prussia, East Prussia. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71029-X , pp. 23-26.
- ↑ a b The construction of the new central freight station in Stettin. In: Wochenblatt des Architekten-Verein zu Berlin , Volume 1, 1867, pp. 117–119 ( digitized version ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check Original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note .; Pdf; 88MByte).
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , ed. from the Prussian Ministry of Finance, Volume 43, No. 15/16, Berlin, February 21, 1923, p. 90.
