Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof

Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof
Through station

Rear of the station (2010)
Location Eberswalde, Brandenburg
Germany
Coordinates 52°50′02″N 13°47′50″E / 52.833830°N 13.797092°E / 52.833830; 13.797092Coordinates: 52°50′02″N 13°47′50″E / 52.833830°N 13.797092°E / 52.833830; 13.797092
Line(s)
Platforms 5
Other information
Station code 1444
DS100 codeWE[1]
IBNR8010093
Category3[2]
History
Opened 1 August 1842
Traffic
Passengers < 5,000/day[3]

Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof is historically the most important and now the only remaining station in the city of Eberswalde in the German state of Brandenburg. It was opened in the summer of 1842 outside the then city limits on the Berlin–Szczecin railway. The city fathers of Eberswalde did not want a modern railway in their city, so the station was built three kilometres west of the city centre in a wooded area where the Westend district is today.

Station

Eberswalde was one of the first cities in Germany to be connected by rail. Seven years after the first German railway line was opened between Nuremberg and Fürth, it was then still unusual for German cities to be connected to the very new railway networks. It soon became clear that the development of the railway line was important for the supply of the city. In the following years the city grew mainly to the west towards the station, whose buildings were designed by F. Neuhaus. In 1867, a wooden bridge was built over the tracks.

Truss bridge built in 1910 before its demolition in 2004
2012

On 1 May 1844 the following buildings and facilities were present at Eberswalde station:[4]

Eberswalde has been a junction since 1866, when a line to Wriezen was opened; it was extended to Frankfurt (Oder) in 1876/77. The station was extended between 1866 and 1867. In 1873, a roundhouse was built with eight stalls and the old two-stall engine shed was demolished. On 7 January 1878, the repair shop of the Berlin-Stettin Railway Company (German: Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) (now the Deutsche Bahn maintenance depot), was opened. Near the station, a line towards Joachimsthal and Templin was opened in 1898, starting from a junction at the nearby station of Britz on the Berlin–Szczecin line. Between 1906 and 1910, the station was remodelled extensively for the first time. It received several platforms, a pedestrian tunnel, a large lobby and several restaurants. In the following decades Eberswalde was a popular destination for Berliners and the station restaurants were especially well attended.

Because of the construction of the Westend district in 1904, a railway bridge was built in 1910 to replace the old wooden bridge. A trolley bus line (Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde) operated for a few months in 1901. From 1910 to 1940 an electric tramway (Straßenbahn Eberswalde) operated from Eberswalde Marktplatz (market place) to the station forecourt. In 1940 the tramway was converted into a trolley bus line, which is now the oldest existing trolley bus line in Germany.

Until about 2004, Eberswalde Station remained largely in its 1910 state, few improvements had taken place. The station facilities were mostly in a poor condition, so a complete reconstruction was then carried out, which involved moving the tunnel to the north and the platforms to the south. The Eberswalde railway station bridge was demolished and replaced by a new structure. Only the main building of the former station is preserved. An old mechanical destination indicator, which is protected as a monument, has been returned to the platform.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):[5]

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
ICE 15
towards Stralsund Hbf
ICE 28
towards Munich Hbf
IC/EC 32
towards Cologne Hbf
toward Stralsund or Schwedt
RE 3
toward Falkenberg (Elster) or
Elsterwerda-Biehla or
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Melchow
toward Senftenberg
RB 24Terminus
RB 66
Preceding station   Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn   Following station
TerminusRB 60
Niederfinow
TerminusRB 63
toward Joachimsthal

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bahnhofsentwicklungsprogramm Brandenburg. Aktueller Stand und Konzeption 2006" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. 2006-11-00. p. 27. Retrieved 7 March 2011. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ Wegemund, Andreas. Das Bw Eberswalde (in German). ISBN 3-88255-443-6.
  5. ↑ Timetables for Eberswalde Hbf (German)

References

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