Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof
- Berlin -Magdeburg ( KBS 201)
- Brandenburg cities railway ( KBS 209.51 )
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Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof ( railway authorities Brandenburg Hbf) is the main railway station of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. He is on the railway line between Berlin and Magdeburg, which is connected there to the Brandenburg cities railway. It has largely lost its former significant role in long-distance and freight traffic remained the tasks are in regional traffic. A water tower on the site of the former goods station and a plaque commemorating French forced laborers at the station buildings are national monuments. The name suffix Hauptbahnhof got the station only after the end of World War II, before he was called Brandenburg Rb ( Rb is Reichsbahn ).
Location
The station is located at kilometer 61.3 of the railway line between Berlin and Magdeburg (counting from the previous Potsdamer Bahnhof in Berlin ), which extends approximately in an east-west direction. West of the station crosses the route of the Brandenburg cities railway, the main train and via connecting arcs to the central station. The station is located south of the Brandenburg city center.
History
Generally
Brandenburg was first connected to the railway network in 1846 with the opening of the Berlin- Potsdam- Magdeburg Railway on 7 August 1846. In 1904 the Brandenburg cities railway from Treuenbrietzen went over Brandenburg to Neustadt (Dosse ) in operation. Today, only the portion between Brandenburg and Rathenow is still used. The cities had its own railway station Neustadt Brandenburg, who was lying next to the main train station and later became the station part of the main station. The track opened in 1901 and decommissioned in the 1960s Westhavelländischen orbits Röthehof - Roskow -Brandenburg Brandenburg did not touch the main train station. Terminus of the route in the town of Brandenburg the station was Cracow Gate in the north- east of the city, a branch line leading to the Brandenburg Station Old City on the cities web.
In 1995, the route from Berlin to Magdeburg, and thus also the Brandenburger main station was electrified.
Passenger
Brandenburg was for a long term hold many long-distance trains from Berlin via Magdeburg and on to western and southern Germany. With the division of Germany after 1945 and the construction of the Berlin Wall changed the traffic flows. In long-distance train station of the trains between Berlin and Magdeburg, sometimes further served to Halberstadt it came up a inter-zone of Görlitz Brandenburg to Cologne. In transport, there have been a number of moves of Brandenburg in Potsdam, some popularly called "Sputnik " trains from Berlin via the Berlin outer ring went to Potsdam to Brandenburg on. The Transit trains from West Berlin to West Germany also went over Brandenburg, held there but not.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall held back trains to western and southern Germany in Brandenburg. International trains, including night trains to Paris and Amsterdam served the station. After electrification in 1995 some ICE trains ran to the train station. With the commissioning of the high-speed line Hannover- Berlin, the long-distance traffic shifted primarily on this route and no longer went about Brandenburg. In the early years there were some ICE trains on Brandenburg and Magdeburg, but were soon discontinued.
The Regional Transport was the mid-1990s gradually harmonized with and compacted in the sequence on the main line and in the direction Rathenow a hour, in the direction of Berlin even run two trains per hour.
The Roadmap 2014 held in Brandenburg, situated in the territory of the Transport Network Berlin- Brandenburg, in addition to two pairs of trains over long distances, the following lines:
The line RE 1 runs between Brandenburg and Magdeburg, every hour, on to Berlin and Frankfurt an approximate half hour is offered, which is compressed in the rush hour by individual amplifiers trains to Potsdam. The RB 51 runs to Rathenow every hour.
Facilities
The station has a main platform and earlier two island platforms on the passage rails of the main track. The outermost track was just like the subsequent sidings dismantled, so that the southern of the two island platforms to an outer platform was. The platforms are connected by a tunnel with each other and with the station forecourt on the north side of the railway tracks, direct access from the south, there is not.
The station building is located north of the tracks. To the west there are two platforms with head rails for the trains to cities railway.
In the western part of the station are the transfer tracks for the transport to the towns railway, in the eastern part of the station, the facilities of the freight station, which is no longer used today. Much of the volume of goods of the city was and old town is turned over to the city railway station in Brandenburg.