Berlin-Halensee station
- Berlin ring road ( KBS 200.41, 200.42, 200.46 )
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The train station Berlin- Hallensee is an S- rail station in the Berlin district of Hallensee the district of Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf. It is located on the ring road and is connected by a link with the north crossing rail. The station is located on the Kurfürstendamm, which ends about 300 meters west of the Rathenau Square, and was known by the occupation of the signal box during the Berlin S-Bahn strike in 1980.
For S-Bahn station includes a parking and turning facility, this is located east of the platform.
History
Early years
The station was opened together with the extension of the ring railway route from Schöneberg to Moabit on November 15, 1877. The first simply furnished breakpoint was located south of the present platform on the site of the reciprocal conditioning and bore the name Grunewald. In 1884 the reconstruction of the plant, where the old platform was removed in favor of a four-track system was sweeping. North of this emerged two platforms for the circle line trains and from here passed over a newly established connection curve and from the light rail trains. At the same time the name was changed to the present name Hallensee while the nearby train station Hundekehle was named Grunewald at the Wetzlar train. A representative reception building at Kurfürstendamm completed the installation.
The station building was a two-story brick building in the Romanesque Revival style. It was located at the northwest end of the station with outputs to Kurfürstendamm and the adjacent Seesener road. At this, the glazed, colloquially referred to as " greenhouses " Additions joined to the two platforms A and B. The roof structure of the two platforms consisted of a central einstieligen roof construction, as they could be found only on the circle line. Supports this kind are still to be found inter alia in the Prenzlauer Allee station. The four-track reversing facility joined south, north of the station was the separation of town and ring line.
On November 6, 1928, the recording of the electrical operation was performed. For this purpose, all investments of the suburban were converted, the converted signals, increases the platforms to the still valid height of 960 millimeters and take further action. As train groups perverted the traction group A along the ring road and the Südringspitzkehre and train group G, the coming of Mahlsdorf waved over the eastern and rail on the ring and then inverted over the connecting Neukölln - Baumschulenweg to Görlitz line towards Grunau. On Sundays the train group E was operated in excursion service, which drove a full ring.
After the in the 1930s caused by Hitler designs for a "World Capital Germania " the circle line should be expanded dramatically. The Hallensee station should get it west of the existing platforms another single-track platform. Background was the conditioning of a compound curve of the ring to the rail, in contrast to the existing led to the west where a new Westbahnhof should be located in place of the old station West Cross. The action never came across the planning stage.
During the Second World War, the reception building was hit by Allied bombers and then burned out. The ruin was once again made another 15 years and also served as access to the station. The city was now become separated, but the leadership of the S -Bahn was incumbent continues the Deutsche Reichsbahn, which continued to exist in the GDR.
At the instigation of the Berlin Senate, the bridge was reconstructed the Hallensee and 1958, ordered the demolition of the existing station building, a two-storey steel-framed building was built until 1960 in its place. The client was vThe.
S -Bahn boycott and poor workers strike
After the construction of the Wall on 13 August 1961, there was already four days later to - proclaimed by the German Trade Union Federation and the Governing Mayor Willy Brandt - Boycott the S-Bahn. " The train driver pay the border fortifications at the innerberlinischen border," it said. The action already took place early with great approval and about 400,000 passengers turned away from the S-Bahn, but the West Berlin by crossing and now Obsolete transport of GDR citizens was also a cause. Nevertheless, the Reichsbahn initially retained the old clock densities, on the train group A even until 1980. However, changed of May 1976 alternating the terminals Sun Alley and Köllnische Heath. The coming of the light rail train group G ( Friedrichstrasse - Köllnische Heide) was adjusted simultaneously.
From May 1977 until the strike in 1980 reversed the train group C between Zoo and Sun Alley ( previously from healthy well ) in the rush hour.
Due to the dramatic drop in passenger numbers, the Reichsbahn looked increasingly forced to thin out the operation. However, a sole thinning of the bid schedule was not enough to offset the annual deficit of 120 to 140 million marks. Therefore, it came to saving staff. However, the remaining West Berlin Reich workers complained about the extra work that had to pay these as well as in comparison to other Western companies lower payment. When the DR announced a further saving measure in September 1980, it came on 15 September to the first walkouts. Two days later it came to the climax of the strike, in which all traffic was stopped in the West. Empire workers occupied the interlocking Hal in the station. The subsequent train driver are also the main fuses of the trains have removed to prevent any scabs could not continue to provide the service.
However, the West Berlin police was not able to clear the interlocking, as the plants were owned by the DR and thus not part of the territory of West Berlin. This only happened on September 22 by the transport police, which consisted of West Berlin Reich railroaders, and British soldiers. The eight strikers were subsequently arrested.
Three days later, the strike was largely set so that the rest of the sequence could be determined. The circle line was then shut down and maintain the operation only on the rail and in the north-south tunnel and the adjacent lines.
Temporary use and reopening
After the mothballing the station area fell progressively. Only the reception building continued to be used from 1985 as a dealership of the manufacturer Opel. In subsequent years, sparked a lot of discussion about the re- opening of the line. Among the various proposals, such as the railways are to restore, there was also the variant, the S -Bahn tracks, including the parallel urban motorway to " lids ", ie convert the entire route in a tunnel section. On the overlying surface space for 1400 to 1600 dwellings to be built. The absence of private investors provided, however, that the project was put on hold.
In 1989 the decision to restart the ring road until 1991. Initially, only the section Westend- Schöneberg should go into operation. Through the intervening Come reunification of the two halves of the city it was decided to reopen the route equal to Baumschulenweg.
The station was then set extensively repaired. Since the Südringkurve now with only one track should still be used for operating trips, enough of a platform; the old platform A was then removed. In the remaining one renewed base as well as the structures and also replaced the roof structure. The greenhouse transitions were maintained in a modern form. In addition, the station received a lift. The reversing facility in the South, however, was reduced to only one track, as on the remaining surface introduces the new route. Just before re-starting the old station building also was demolished due to disrepair. The area lies fallow until today. The inauguration of the section took place on 17 December 1993.
Although the space for a second platform is still present and the station was first modernized only provisionally, an extension is not currently planned. The cap on the ring road section near Lake Halen is currently also no current topic. In addition to the lack of investors, the web also pursued at times other plans with the terrain.
Freight yard
On the freight train tracks of the ring road, southwest of the S- platform, there was the train yard Hallensee. The former achtgleisige goods station until the 1990s in operation. A part of the site was also then still used by commercial enterprises. After the area was cleared from the summer of 2010, was built in 2013 on a 40,000 m² large portion of a hardware store.
On 2 June 1913, the cemetery was opened train from Wannsee to Stahnsdorf. At its train a cadaver unloading hall, where the coffins from Berlin were transhipped from the wagon on carts originated. The corresponding loading point for the coffins built the Prussian State Railway on the site of the goods station Hallensee.
At the former goods station branches off from the mainline tracks of the circle line from a compound curve that crosses the parking area Grunewald train to Wetzlar.
Connection
The S-Bahn station is served by lines S41, S42 and S46 of the Berlin S-Bahn. There is a transit traffic to the bus lines of the Berlin Transport Authority.
Gallery
Disused rail station, 1986
Coal train with BR 132 passes through the station, 1989
Güterbahnhof Hallensee, 1989