Potsdam Park Sanssouci railway station

• Berlin -Magdeburg (km 30.1 ) ( KBS 201/260 )
• Jiiterbog - Nauen (km 58.8 ) ( KBS 209.20 / 209.21 )

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The station Potsdam Park Sanssouci, to 1999 Deer Park train station, is a railway station in Potsdam. It lies at the junction of railway line between Berlin and Magdeburg with the members of the bypass railway line Jiiterbog - Nauen. On the site of the station is the famous imperial station. The actual reception building of the railway station, also known as civil station, is a timber-framed building dating from 1869. It is the only surviving station building in Potsdam from the early days of the Prussian railways.

History

The Game Park station was built in 1868 with the doubling of the railway line to Magdeburg. The station had a covered platform, a lobby, snack kiosk and toilets. With the construction of the station a half-timbered building was receiving. It was over 40 years until the completion of the westerly Kaiserbahnhof, the first Imperial Hofstation Potsdam and served as a reception hall for numerous Highnesses Excellencies and Europe.

Beginning of the 20th century, the image of the station changed. With the bypass path to Nauen ( opened in 1902 ) and Jiiterbog (1908 ) was wildlife park to a small railway junction. The railway tracks were laid on an embankment, the platforms were connected by a tunnel opposite the reception building. West for the Emperor was of the old building, the new emperor station, which was inaugurated in 1909. The old station building was in accordance with the Civil Station.

The station has since decreed an outdoor platform on the north side next to the hall to Kaiserbahnhof and two island platforms.

In the 1950 years of the station functioned until the completion of the Berlin outer ring with the present station Potsdam Pirschheide (formerly South Potsdam and Potsdam Hauptbahnhof) some years. Than express support for some holidaymakers trains from Saxony to the Baltic Sea

The mid-1990s, the station was completely rebuilt. The old platforms and virtually all structures, which dated back to the early 20th century, were demolished and replaced by new type platforms. The southern platform was completely removed. Likewise, the old institution of the tunnel disappeared.

Since 1998, stopped again through trains to Berlin at the station. First there held every two hours, the RE 2, since 1999 every hour of RE 1 In the same year the railway station in Potsdam Sanssouci Park was renamed. First, the only affected the travel, ground internally was the first station to continue wildlife park.

Citizens station

The half-timbered station building is a rare representative of the station architecture from the 1860s.

The vacant Grade II listed building, which already wanted to tear down the German railway, was sold to the city of Potsdam in 2006. The historically appropriate reconstruction was planned for late 2006/early 2007, but was postponed. The Potsdam cultural association Rose White eV has created to the train station a use concept. The association invites to special tours to the station and park history. It organized waste collection campaigns were carried out at the station parking area, as during the years of vacancy of the station on hand took illegal waste deposits on the park grounds.

The building was to be sold, his condition continued to deteriorate until 2009 and he was considered a danger of collapsing. In addition, the association Rose White, the restaurateur Laggner has applied for the purchase of the building. Laggner plans to set up on the grounds of a beer garden and small shops.

The beer garden was opened on Whit week end of 2011. In July 2011, the gutting of the building began. After progressive rehabilitation, the opening of a café or a restaurant in the spring of 2014 provided a total investment volume is estimated at 1.8 million euros.

At the station there is a designed by Peter Joseph Lenne Park grounds on which today historic plantations such as horse chestnut (Aesculus ), plane (Platanus ) and a Caucasian wingnut ( Pterocarya fraxinifolia ) from the 19th century are situated. One avenue which is located in the Südparkbereich is available with a ramp toward the embankment. Immediately east of it there was the imperial pavilion. Southeast is the imposing wrought iron Posttor (2009 restored), which was the official entrance to the Park Sanssouci. At the station, landscaped grounds, a hall for a garden restaurant and an ice house were located.

Today's traffic- importance

The station is now used daily by hundreds of commuters and students at the nearby University of Potsdam. He is also the starting point of tour groups and hikers for trips to the park Sanssouci, the New Palace and the nearby wildlife park. Moreover Several bus lines stop at the station.