Berlin Ostbahnhof
Berlin Ostbahnhof (
History
Early history
The station opened on 23 October 1842 as Frankfurter Bahnhof, the terminus of an 81 km (50 mi) railway line to
In 1867, the Old Ostbahnhof (also called Küstriner Bahnhof), the terminus of the Prussian Eastern Railway line was opened, located slightly north of the present Ostbahnhof station. In 1882 the Old Ostbahnhof was again abandoned and Schlesischer Bahnhof was rebuilt on the present site when construction began on the Berlin Stadtbahn, an elevated railway through the Berlin city center built to link the city's major stations. The Stadtbahn was completed in 1886; two of the four tracks later came to form one of the main routes of the Berlin S-Bahn suburban railway.
As the terminus of both the Silesian and the Eastern Railway line, Schlesischer Bahnhof quickly developed to Berlin's "Gate to the East". Until
World War II and GDR
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The station was severely damaged by
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 Central Station). The plan called for a hotel and a large reception area for arriving
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Recent years
The name Hauptbahnhof remained long after the division of Berlin ended, until 1998, when the station was re-renamed Berlin Ostbahnhof, restoring the 1950-1987 name. 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
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The station is served by the following service(s):[4]
Long distance
Line | Route | Interval | |||
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ICE 9 | Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin – Cologne – Bonn | One train pair | |||
ICE 10 | Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin – Wolfsburg – Hanover – | Bielefeld – Hamm – | Dortmund – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – | Cologne | Hourly |
Mönchengladbach – Aachen | One train | ||||
Wuppertal – Cologne | Every 2 hours | ||||
Bremen – Oldenburg | One train pair | ||||
ICE 12 | Berlin Ostbahnhof – Basel (– Bern – Interlaken Ost )
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Every 2 hours | |||
ICE 13 | Berlin Ostbahnhof – Braunschweig – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Frankfurt South – Frankfurt Airport | Every 2 hours | |||
ICE 14 | ( | Some trains | |||
ICE 19 | Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Spandau – Hanover – Bielefeld – Hagen – Wuppertal – Cologne (– Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart) | Every 2 hours | |||
IC 56 | Cottbus
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One train pair | |||
ICE 77 | Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Hbf – Wolfsburg – Hanover – Osnabrück | – Münster (ICE) | Some trains | ||
IC 77 | – Amsterdam (IC)
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Every 2 hours | |||
EC 95 PKP: EIC |
Berlin-Warszawa-Express: Berlin Hbf – Frankfurt (Oder) – Poznań – Warszawa Centralna |
Four train pairs daily | |||
EC 95 PKP: IC |
Gedania: Berlin Hbf – Frankfurt (Oder) – Poznań – Gdynia Głowna |
One train per day | |||
EC 95 PKP: IC |
Wawel: Berlin Hbf – Frankfurt (Oder) – Wrocław – Katowice – Kraków – Rzeszów – Przemyśl |
One train per day | |||
NJ Berlin-Zürich | Berlin Ostbahnhof – ( Basel – Zürich
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One train pair | |||
NJ | – | Breclav –
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Vienna | One train pair | |
Bratislava – Budapest | |||||
Katowice – Kraków – Przemyśl | |||||
ES | Brussels – Rotterdam – Amsterdam – Amersfoort – Bad Bentheim – Berlin – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Dresden – Bad Schandau – Prague | 1 train pair thrice a week |
Regional services
Line | Route |
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HBX |
Harz-Berlin-Express )
Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Potsdam – Magdeburg – Halberstadt (train split) (– Quedlinburg – Thale) / (Wernigerode – Goslar |
RE 1 | Magdeburg – Brandenburg – Potsdam – Berlin-Wannsee – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Erkner – Fürstenwalde (Spree) – Frankfurt (Oder) (– Cottbus) |
RE 2 | Nauen – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Ostkreuz – Königs Wusterhausen – Lübbenau (Spreewald) – Vetschau – Cottbus |
RE 7 | Dessau – Bad Belzig – Michendorf – Berlin-Wannsee – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Königs Wusterhausen – Lübben (Spreewald) – Senftenberg |
RE 8 | Wismar – Schwerin – Wittenberge – Nauen – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport |
RB 23 | Golm – Potsdam – Potsdam Griebnitzsee – Berlin-Wannsee – Berlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport |
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Spandau – Westkreuz – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Ostkreuz – Karlshorst – Köpenick – Erkner |
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Westkreuz – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Ostkreuz – Lichtenberg – Strausberg Nord |
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Potsdam – Wannsee – Westkreuz – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Ostkreuz – Lichtenberg – Ahrensfelde |
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Spandau - Westkreuz – Hauptbahnhof - Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Schöneweide – BER Airport |
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).
See also
- East Side Gallery
- Maria am Ostbahnhof
- Deutsche Bahn
- Sibirjak
- S-Bahn Berlin
- B.V.G.
- Berlin Wriezener Bahnhof
References
- ^ Code for DB Main line
- ^ Code for S-Bahn
- ^ "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 26 November 2019.
- ^ Timetables for Berlin Ostbahnhof (in German)
External links
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- Berlin Ostbahnhof information on the website of Deutsche Bahn