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/ref> Nowadays the ground where the station's tracks were located is the seat of the
The Old Nordbahnhof on Mauerpark website
* Locator map of the Old Nordbahnhof (on de.wp)
The Berlin Wall's death strip on the former track ground of the Nordbahnhof
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The old Berlin Nordbahnhof was a short-lived passenger railway terminus
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in Berlin
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, Germany
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. It was situated in Prenzlauer Berg
Prenzlauer Berg () is a locality of Berlin, forming the southerly and most urban district of the borough of Pankow. From its founding in 1920 until 2001, Prenzlauer Berg was a district of Berlin in its own right. However, that year it was incor ...
, close to the borders with Gesundbrunnen, in the area of the "Mauerpark
Mauerpark is a public linear park in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. The name translates to "Wall Park", referring to its status as a former part of the Berlin Wall and its Death Strip. The park is located at the border of Prenzlauer Berg ...
".
Geography
The station was located at the junction point of Eberswalder Straße with Bernauer Straße, close to the " Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark". The sportpark's tramway stop (line M10) serves the area.History
Berlin Nordbahnhof opened on 10 July 1877 as the southern terminus of the Berlin Northern Railway Berlin-Stralsund
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. The passenger traffic was handled by the nearby '' Stettiner Bahnhof'', located at the western end at Bernauer Straße. The Nordbahnhof was a freight yard only except for the years from 1892 to 1898 when a part of local traffic started from Nordbahnhof instead of Stettiner Bahnhof during construction works there.
In 1950 the ''Stettiner Bahnhof'' took the name Nordbahnhof because the city of Stettin
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went to Poland
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and GDR government did not want to use German names for Polish cities. The old Nordbahnhof was renamed to ''Güterbahnhof'' (freight yard) ''Eberswalder Straße''. After the building of the Berlin Wall
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, in 1961, only a small part of local freight traffic remained. It was finally closed in 1985. After 2000 a large fraction of the area became part of the Mauerpark./ref> Nowadays the ground where the station's tracks were located is the seat of the
Mauerpark
Mauerpark is a public linear park in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district. The name translates to "Wall Park", referring to its status as a former part of the Berlin Wall and its Death Strip. The park is located at the border of Prenzlauer Berg ...
, a commemorative park about the Berlin Wall on the former "death strip" nearby Bernauer Straße. Some years before the renewal of Gesundbrunnen station (2006) it was possible to see some remains of the tracks, now removed, from the '' Ringbahn'', between Gesundbrunnen and Schönhauser Allee station.
See also
*Berlin Nordbahnhof
Berlin Nordbahnhof (until 1950 Stettiner Bahnhof) is a railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and local bus and tram lines.
History First station
In 1842, the ''Stettiner Bahnhof'' opened as t ...
Notes and references
External links
The Old Nordbahnhof on Mauerpark website
* Locator map of the Old Nordbahnhof (on de.wp)
The Berlin Wall's death strip on the former track ground of the Nordbahnhof
{{coord, 52, 32, 26.95, N, 13, 24, 13.01, E, region:DE-BE_type:landmark, display=title Buildings and structures in Pankow Nordbahnhof Old Former buildings and structures in Germany Railway stations in Germany opened in 1877