Potsdam-Babelsberg station
Potsdam-Babelsberg  | |||||||||||
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| Location | Rudolf -Breitscheid-Straße 40,Babelsberg,Potsdam,Brandenburg Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°23′29″N13°05′34″E/ 52.391370°N 13.092758°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||
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| Line(s) | Wannsee Railway(km 31.2)(KBS 200.7) | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 237[1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | BBAB[2] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8080070 | ||||||||||
| Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||
| Fare zone |  :Berlin C and Potsdam B/5851[3] | ||||||||||
| Website | bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1862 | ||||||||||
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Potsdam-Babelsberg stationis anS-Bahnstation in thePotsdamdistrict ofBabelsberg.It is located on the tracks of an extension of theWannsee RailwaybetweenGriebnitzsee stationandPotsdam Hauptbahnhof.It is classified byDeutsche Bahnas acategory 5 station.[1]
Location
[edit]The station is located in the Babelsberg district and is surrounded by the streets of Rudolf-Breitscheid- Straße, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, Schulstraße and Wattstraße. It is located at the kilometre 31.2 on the Wannsee Railway, where it runs parallel to the mainline tracks of theBerlin–Magdeburg railway.
History
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The first station in Babelsberg was opened on the main line in 1862 under the name ofNeuendorfas a special stop for theroyal trainsof the King of Prussia,William I.[4]It was west of the current station. From 1866/1868, ordinary trains stopped at the station, originally at a side platform; later it was supplemented by a second side platform.
In 1888, the tracks of Wannsee Railway was extended from Neubabelsberg (now Griebnitzsee) to Potsdam, resulting in this section now having four tracks. The old station was closed and a new suburban station opened on the Wannsee Railway in the current position. This was renamedNeuendorf-Nowaweson 1 May 1890 and, on 1 March 1908, it was renamedNowawes,[4]the Czech translation of the name Neuendorf ( "new village" ). The track was elevated between 1911 and 1914 and the current station was established.[5]
As of 11 June 1928, the station was served by electric trains of theBerlin Stadtbahn,theRingbahnand the suburban railways, which have been branded as the S-Bahn since 1 September 1928. The trains continued on the tracks of theBerlin-Blankenheim railway(Wetzlarer Bahn) to the Stadtbahn rather than over the Wannsee Railway. Eight years later, on 1 April 1938, the station was namedBabelsberg[4]and, in the same year, the town was incorporated into Potsdam.
The introduction of border controls for inter-zone traffic (betweenEastandWest Germanyin February 1951 meant that the station was closed for several days.[6]
With the construction of theBerlin Wallon 13 August 1961, the railway line from Potsdam to West Berlin was broken. Until 9 October, the track between Potsdam Stadt (nowPotsdam Hauptbahnhof), Babelsberg and Griebnitzsee was operated as an S-Bahn island; it was then operated with diesel railcars.[7]To enable this change of operations, a connecting track was built between the suburban and the long-distance tracks. The trains ran from Griebnitzsee via Babelsberg, Potsdam Stadt, Potsdam West (now Potsdam Charlottenhof) to Potsdam Hauptbahnhof (nowPotsdam Pirschheide). On 29 October of the same year, Griebnitzsee station was converted into a station for carrying out border controls only and the diesel service to Babelsberg was withdrawn.
After the re-opening of the border in 1989, a connection from Babelsberg via Griebnitzsee toBerlin-Wannseewas restored on 22 January 1990 using diesel trains. S-bahn services were restored on 1 April 1992.[8]Four years later, an authentic restoration was carried out on the station.
Infrastructure
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The station is elevated and consists of a 159-metre-long island platform with two platform tracks on the S-Bahn line, which is otherwise single track in this area. Trains regularly pass each other at the station. The two main line tracks of the Berlin–Magdeburg railway run past to the south of the station. Both platforms are each connected by stairs with skylights to an entrance room, which formerly included ticket offices. Today the premises are used for a restaurant, snack bars and a flower shop. The entrances connect to Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in the west and Wattstraße to the east.
The station is protected as a listed monument.[9]
The station'sDS-100code is BBAB[2]and its station code is 237.[1]
Passenger services
[edit]The S-Bahn station is served byline S7of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is possible to change to the bus and tram lines operated by Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^abcd"Stationspreisliste 2024"[Station price list 2024](PDF)(in German).DB Station&Service.24 April 2023.Retrieved29 November2023.
- ^abEisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas)(2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009.ISBN978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^"Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche"(PDF).Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam.Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg.1 January 2017.Retrieved26 November2019.
- ^abcBraun & Dittfurth 2004,p. 37.
- ^Strowitzki 2004,pp. 217f.
- ^Strowitzki 2004,p. 223.
- ^Strowitzki 2004,p. 224.
- ^Strowitzki 2004,p. 227.
- ^"Heritage list of the state of Brandenburg: Potsdam"(PDF)(in German). Archived fromthe original(PDF; 352 kB)on 23 September 2015.Retrieved18 February2015.
Sources
[edit]- Braun, Michael; Dittfurth, Udo (2004). Berliner S-Bahn-Museum (ed.).Die elektrische Wannseebahn. Zeitreisen mit der Berliner S-Bahn durch Schöneberg, Steglitz und Zehlendorf(in German). Berlin: Verlag GVE.ISBN3-89218-085-7.
- Strowitzki, Bernhard (2004).S-Bahn Berlin. Geschichte(n) für unterwegs(in German) (2 ed.). Berlin: Verlag GVE.ISBN3-89218-073-3.
External links
[edit]- "Babelsberg"(in German). stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de. 11 June 2007.Retrieved16 February2015.
