Berlin Ostbahnhof

Berlin Ostbahnhof
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Berlin Ostbahnhof
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Station building
Operations
Category 1
Type Bf
DS100 code BHF [1], BOSB [2]
Station code 1071
Construction and location
Opened 1842
Location Berlin
State Berlin
Country Germany
Local authority Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Am Ostbahnhof
10559 Berlin
Route information
List of railway stations in the Berlin area

Berlin Ostbahnhof (translates from German as Berlin East railway station) is a mainline railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is in Friedrichshain, now part of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, and has undergone several name changes in its history. It was known as Berlin Hauptbahnhof from 1987 to 1998, a name now applied to Berlin's new central station. Alongside Berlin Zoologischer Garten station it was one of the city's two main stations; however, it has declined in significance since the opening of the new Hauptbahnhof on 26 May 2006, and many mainline trains have been re-routed through the new Tiergarten tunnels, bypassing Ostbahnhof.

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History

Early history

The station opened in 1842 as Frankfurter Bahnhof as the terminus of the 100-km railway to Frankfurt (Oder). The first building was slightly north of its present location. In 1845, it was renamed Niederschlesisch-Märkischer Bahnhof (Lower Silesia-Brandenburg Station) after a railway merger. When the railways were taken over by the Prussian state in 1852, it was renamed Schlesischer Bahnhof (Silesia Station). It was rebuilt on the present site in 1882 when construction began on the Berlin Stadtbahn, the elevated railway through the city center built to link the city's major stations, completed in 1886. Two of the four tracks on the Stadtbahn later came to form one of the main routes of the Berlin S-Bahn suburban railway. The Ostbahnhof has never had a link to the Berlin U-Bahn subway, nor is one planned.

World War II and DDR

The Ostbanhof after its reconstruction following WWII (1954)

The station was severely damaged in the Second World War and completely rebuilt by the East German railway, the Deutsche Reichsbahn; in 1950 it was renamed Berlin Ostbahnhof, as Silesia was now largely in Poland.

Following the division of Germany the station was, together with Berlin-Lichtenberg, one of two major railway stations in East Berlin. The wall ran only 200 m away from the station; today that part is the East Side Gallery, the longest remaining fragment of the Berlin Wall. In 1987 the postwar building was demolished and the station began to be rebuilt as East Berlin’s main station, grandly renamed Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main Station). The plan called for a hotel and a large reception area for arriving Soviet bloc dignitaries. However, only part of the work was complete by the time of German reunification in 1990. A partially built staircase to the underground car park from this period in front of the station remains (in 2006) unfinished and fenced off. A partly constructed hotel was demolished in the early 1990s.

Looking west from a mainline platform, facing the two S-bahn platforms

Recent years

The name Hauptbahnhof remained long after the division of Berlin ended, until 1998, when the station was re-renamed Berlin Ostbahnhof. One year later, work began to demolish the station and rebuild it once again, which was completed in 2002. Little remains of the 1980s structure except for an administrative block, some façade elements, and parts of the platform structure.

Characteristics

The station has 11 tracks and 9 platforms. 5 platforms are used for main line and 4 for S-Bahn. 2 tracks are through tracks.

Train Services

Awaiting eastbound departures in 1973.
The station has been known by several names over its 160-year history

S-Bahn, regional and long-distance services call at the station; though a number of Intercity-Express and Intercity services were lost to the newly-opened Berlin Hauptbahnhof station further west, the Ostbahnhof still remains an important station for the eastern parts of Berlin

Preceding station   DB AG   Following station
Berlin Hbf
ICE 10 Terminus
Berlin Hbf
ICE 11 Terminus
Berlin Hbf
toward Zurich Hbf
ICE 12 Terminus
Berlin Hbf
toward Copenhagen Central
ICE 75 Terminus
Berlin Hbf
toward Århus Central
ICE 76 Terminus
EuroCity
Frankfurt (Oder)
toward Warszawa Wschodnia
Berlin Hbf
toward Oldenburg (Oldenburg) Hbf
IC 56
Lübben
toward Cottbus or Dresden Hbf
Berlin Hbf
toward Schiphol
Intercity (DB) 140 Terminus
toward Rathenow
RE
Königs Wusterhausen
toward Cottbus
toward Dessau Hbf
RE
Berlin-Karlshorst
toward Wünsdorf-Waldstadt
toward Brandenburg Hbf
RE
Erkner
toward Frankfurt (Oder)
toward Magdeburg Hbf
RE
Erkner
toward Eisenhüttenstadt
toward Nauen
RB
Berlin-Karlshorst
toward Senftenberg
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
toward Spandau
S3
toward Erkner
toward Westkreuz
S5
toward Strausberg Nord
toward Potsdam Hbf
S7
toward Ahrensfelde
toward Spandau
S75
toward Wartenberg

In popular culture

The Ostbahnhof was featured in the 2004 movie The Bourne Supremacy. In the film, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is seen parking his car here, entering the station and leaving a bag in a locker, and tracking down Pamela Landy (Joan Allen).

References

  1. ^ Code for DB Main line
  2. ^ Code for S-Bahn

See also

External links

Media related to Berlin Ostbahnhof at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 52°30′36″N 13°26′05″E / 52.51°N 13.43472°E / 52.51; 13.43472


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