Berlin Gesundbrunnen station
Berlin Gesundbrunnen station (
History
When the Berlin–Stettin railway was opened in 1842, the tracks ran farther northwestwards with a hazardous level crossing on Badstraße. Nearby Gesundbrunnen station was inaugurated on 1 January 1872 with the northern Ringbahn line; it became an important railway hub with the opening of the Berlin Northern Railway to Neubrandenburg; the junction was finished on 10 July 1877. From 1 May 1897, it also offered access to the Berlin–Stettin line, whose original tracks were shifted southwards to meet the parallel Ringbahn here.
On 8 August 1924 Gesundbrunnen was one of the first stations to become part of the Berlin S-Bahn system when third rail trains ran from Stettiner Bahnhof to Bernau. After the opening of the Nord-Süd Tunnel in 1939, trains ran from Gesundbrunnen via Humboldthain station and Stettiner Bahnhof directly to Anhalter Bahnhof in the south.
Plans for an access of Gesundbrunnen station to the
World War II and Cold War
On 3 February 1945, this station was destroyed by an air raid.
After World War II and the division of Berlin, long-distance train service diminished and was finally discontinued on 18 May 1952. The S-Bahn system was also affected by the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, when the network was partitioned into an eastern and western half.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
In the Pilzkonzept master plan the station was modernized as Berlin's northern long-distance train station and during 2005 there were discussions to rename the station to Nordkreuz (North Cross) reflecting the names of the other connection stations on the Ringbahn namely
Despite its station category 1 the station had no representative entrance building - the old entrance building had been demolished and it had never been replaced giving the new station a peculiar appearance. The area designated for the entrance building was left as a public open space (Hanne-Sobek-Platz). The planning was stopped not only by financial cuts but also due to the existence of the nearby Gesundbrunnen-Center shopping center that was opened in 1997 offering 25000 square meters of shopping facilities plus a direct connection to the railway station. The planning resumed during 2010 and construction work on a new entrance building began by the end of 2011, with the 3300 square meters projected to cost a total of 7.4 million euros.[5] The new entrance building opened in autumn 2015.
Rail services
Long-distance services
Gesundbrunnen station is served by the following services:
Line | Route | Frequency |
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ICE 8 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Munich | 120 min |
ICE 11 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Frankfurt – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Munich – Innsbruck | 120 min |
ICE 15 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Frankfurt (Main) | 120 min (Sprinter) |
ICE 18 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Munich | One train pair |
ICE 28 | München – Nürnberg – Erfurt – Leipzig – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – (Stralsund – Ostseebad Binz) | Some trains |
ICE 29 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Nürnberg – München | 120 min (Sprinter) |
IC 17 | Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2 – Doberlug-Kirchhain – Elsterwerda – Dresden-Neustadt – Dresden Hbf (– Freiberg – Chemnitz ) |
120 min |
EC 27 | Prague – Dresden – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Eberswalde – Stralsund – Ostseebad Binz
|
1 train pair |
IC 32 | Prenzlau – Stralsund – Ostseebad Binz
|
Some trains |
Regional services
Gesundbrunnen station is served by the following services:
Line | Route | ||
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FEX | BER Airport – Terminal 1-2
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RE 3 | Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Jüterbog – Ludwigsfelde – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Eberswalde – Angermünde – | Schwedt (Oder)
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Prenzlau – Pasewalk – Greifswald – Stralsund
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RE 5 | Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin Potsdamer Platz – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Oranienburg – Neustrelitz – | Güstrow – Rostock | |
Neubrandenburg – Stralsund | |||
RB 21 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Jungfernheide – Berlin-Spandau – Dallgow-Döberitz – Wustermark – Golm – Potsdam | ||
RB 27 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Schönerlinde – Schönwalde – Basdorf – Klosterfelde | ||
RB 54 | Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Oranienburg – Löwenberg (Mark) – Herzberg (Mark) – Rheinsberg (Mark) | ||
RE 66 | Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Bernau (b Berlin) – Eberswalde – Angermünde – Stettin
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S-Bahn and U-Bahn services
Gesundbrunnen is a station on Berlin S-Bahn and Berlin U-Bahn networks. The station is served by the following services:
- )
- Südkreuz - Blankenfelde)
- Teltow Stadt)
- Teltow Stadt)
- Westend- Gesundbrunnen)
- Ostkreuz- Gesundbrunnen)
- U8 (Wittenau - Osloer Straße - Gesundbrunnen - Alexanderplatz - Hermannstraße)
References
- ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ "Bahnhofskategorieliste 2015" (PDF). DB Station&Service AG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
- ^ "Grünes Licht für Bahnhof Gesundbrunnen". Deutsche Bahn. 2011-02-08. press release.
External links
- Berlin S-& U-Bahn network map Archived 2018-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
- S-Bahn station information (in German)
- Long distance/Regional station information