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Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn Station
Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn station was a suburban station on the Berlin–Hamburg railway in Westend (Berlin), Westend, a locality of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough in Berlin. It was primarily built for workers at its nearby Siemens Works in the neighbouring quarter of Siemensstadt. Location The station was built on flat land near the south bank of the Spree (river), Spree in the city of Charlottenburg (which became the Berlin borough of Charlottenburg on 1 October 1920) on the border of the locality of Siemensstadt, part of Spandau. The station building was located on the north side of the line to Hamburg and the Berlin–Lehrte railway, Lehrte Railway and its entrance was on Fürstenbrunner Weg. Description A single-storey station building with gabled roof was located next to the railway line on a paved area at the junction of the streets of Fürstenbrunner Weg, Ruhwaldweg and Rohrdamm. The covered platform was between the tracks and a northern crossing loop, which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westend (Berlin)
Westend () is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Germany. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough. Originally a mansion colony, it is today a quite densely settled, still affluent territory adjacent to Berlin's inner city in the east. Geography Westend is situated west of Berlin's inner city on Spandauer Berg, the northern peak of the sandy Teltow plateau between the river valleys of Spree and Havel. It is centered on Theodor-Heuss-Platz, a large square, from where the Heerstraße arterial road, part of the Bundesstraße 2 and Bundesstraße 5 highways, runs west towards the Berlin city limits. In the west and north, Westend borders on the Berlin Spandau borough. The locality also includes the neighbourhoods of Neu-Westend and Ruhleben, a suburban housing area of the 1920s. The site of the former Ruhleben internment camp, a World War I detention camp for civilians, today is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Stadtbahn
The Berlin Stadtbahn is the historic east-west elevated railway of Berlin. It runs from Berlin Ostbahnhof station, Ostbahnhof in the east to Charlottenburg in the City West, west, connecting several of the most major sights of the German capital. The line is protected cultural heritage since 1995. It is often defined more simply as the slightly longer route between Ostkreuz and Westkreuz, although this is not technically correct. The line connects the city's Berlin Zoo, Zoo, Bellevue Palace, Germany, Bellevue Palace, snakes around the governmental district to the Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Friedrichstraße, crosses Museum Island, and moves on to Alexanderplatz (Fernsehturm Berlin, Fernsehturm) and beyond. First completed in 1882, it spans and 11 stations. of its length are elevated on 731 masonry viaduct arches. A further of the line is situated on 64 bridges, that cross adjoining streets and (three times) the Spree (river), river Spree. The remaining length of the line is o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Berlin
West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was claimed by the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany), despite being entirely surrounded by the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany). The legality of this claim was contested by the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. However, West Berlin de facto aligned itself politically with the FRG from May 1949 and was thereafter treated as a ''de facto'' city-state of that country. After 1949, it was directly or indirectly represented in the institutions of the FRG, and most of its residents were citizens of the FRG. West Berlin was formally controlled by the Western Allies and entirely surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany. West Berlin had great symbolic signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (, ) was a guarded concrete Separation barrier, barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR; East Germany). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government of the GDR on 13 August 1961. It included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, beds of nails and other defenses. The primary intention for the Wall's construction was to prevent East Germany, East German citizens from Emigration from the Eastern Bloc, fleeing to the West. The Eastern Bloc, Soviet Bloc propaganda portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from "Fascist (insult), fascist elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people" from building a Communism, communist state in the GDR. The authorities officially referred to the Berlin Wall as the ''Anti-Fascist Protection Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Beusselstraße Station
Beusselstraße is a Berlin S-Bahn station in the Moabit district in the Mitte borough of Berlin. It is located at the Beussel bridge, which carries the street of Beusselstrasse over the Berlin Ringbahn. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn lines and . It is additionally served by the line on weekends. History From the opening of the first section of the ''Verbindungsbahn'' (connecting railway, later called the ''Ringbahn'', "Ring Railway") on 1 January 1872, there was a station that was a little further to the east than the current Moabit freight yard. This marked the beginning of the connecting railway and is still the zero point of the line chainage (distance marks) applied to the Ringbahn. Due to the growing patronage, the station was completely rebuilt in the early 1890s. Passenger and freight traffic were separated. The new Beusselstraße station was opened for passenger services at the Beussel bridge on 1 May 1894 and Moabit station became a freight yard only on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin-Staaken Station
Berlin-Staaken is a railway station located in Staaken, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. It is one of only two Deutsche Bahn stations in Berlin not served by the S-Bahn; Albrechtshof station is the other. Overview The station is situated on the " Lehrter Bahn" Berlin-Wolfsburg-Hannover, between the stations of Berlin Spandau and Dallgow-Döberitz. The station has two platforms. The first station in Staaken was opened in 1900. That should change drastically after the Second World War. Staaken was divided by the Allies. The continuous train traffic was interrupted. On West Berlin side 1951 the rapid-transit railway of Spandau west was extended by a station to Staaken. Already in the 1930s an extension of the rapid-transit railway to the Brandenburg Wustermark had been aimed at. The S-Bahn station Berlin-Staaken was in West Berlin. On the other side of the Nennhauser dam was the station Staaken Kr. Nauen (at the former freight yard Staaken) in the GDR area, from where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin-Gesundbrunnen Station
Berlin Gesundbrunnen station () is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is situated in the Gesundbrunnen (Berlin), Gesundbrunnen district, part of the central Mitte borough, as an interconnection point between the northern ''Berlin Ringbahn, Ringbahn'' and ''Berlin Nord-Süd Tunnel, Nord-Süd Tunnel'' lines of the Berlin S-Bahn, as well as a regional and long distance station of the Deutsche Bahn network. The station is operated by the DB Station&Service subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG and is classified as a German railway station categories, Category 1 station, one of 21 in Germany and four in Berlin, the others being Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin Südkreuz and Berlin Ostbahnhof. History When the Berlin–Szczecin railway, 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 railw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin-Spandau Station
Berlin-Spandau station is a Deutsche Bahn station in the Berlin district of Spandau on the south-western edge of the old town of Spandau. The railway junction station is one of the 80 stations classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station. It has the longest train shed () in Germany. The high-traffic station with six platform tracks is a transfer point between long-distance passenger services—Intercity-Express (ICE), Intercity (IC) and EuroCity (EC)—and regional services (S-Bahn, Regionalbahn and Regional-Express). It also provides connections to the inner city by the public transport services operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe: buses and U-Bahn line U7 at the adjacent Rathaus Spandau station. The Berlin–Hamburg railway from the northwest and the Berlin–Lehrte railway from the west join west of the station and the combined lines, after passing through the station, runs over a bridge over the Havel and continues to the east and then runs jointly with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin-Spindlersfeld Station
Spindlersfeld is a railway station in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin on the Schöneweide–Spindlersfeld branch line. It is the eastern terminus of the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn line . It is located at the corner of Oberspreestraße and Ernst-Grube-Straße. A two-track development of the station is not in sight; even if the proposed duplication of the whole line goes ahead, the terminus will still have only one track. Description The station is situated some west of the Altstadt Köpenick, Altstadt of Köpenick, and is also served by routes 61 and 63 of the Berlin tram, Berlin tram network, both of which also serve the Altstadt. History In addition to the platform for the S-Bahn, there were on one side a loading ramp at the freight shed and a loading road. On the other side, there was a loading facility for ''Volkseigener Betrieb, VEB Müllabfuhr'' (the state waste-disposal company). The city of Berlin later closed the garbage loading siding. There were sidings for ''VE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Rail
A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a track (rail transport), railway track. It is used typically in a mass transit or rapid transit system, which has alignments in its own corridors, fully or almost fully segregated from the outside environment. Third-rail systems are usually supplied with direct current. Modern tram systems with street running avoid the electrical injury risk of the exposed electric rail by implementing a segmented ground-level power supply, where each segment is electrified only while covered by a vehicle which is using its power. The third-rail system of electrification is not related to the third rail used in dual gauge, dual-gauge railways. The system is generally associated with a low voltage (rarely above 750 V) and is far less used for main lines than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siemens Railway
Siemensbahn (German language, German for "Siemens Railway") is an Abandoned railway, abandoned 4.5 km Rapid transit in Germany, rapid transit line of the Berlin S-Bahn in Berlin. It was opened in 1929 as a modern, Flying junction, grade separated, third rail, third rail electrified, Double-track railway, double track, heavy rail branch line serving three new train stations, and closed in 1980. The Siemens & Halske company privately financed the line to improve worker access to its industrial district in the eponymous Siemensstadt locality of Spandau. Siemensstadt not only was home to production and research facilities, but a private town with social and childcare services, housing tracts, sports venues, Allotment (gardening), allotments, churches, retail and leisure facilities, all designed to Modern architecture, modern architectural and social standards with minimal municipal oversight. Planning and construction of the Siemens Railway were closely coordinated with Deutsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Westhafen Station
Berlin Westhafen is a railway station, station in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn lines and and the Berlin U-Bahn, U-Bahn line . Overview The S-Bahn station was opened in 1898 under the name ''Putlitzstraße'', which is the street on which the station lies. Despite sustaining damage during the Second World War, the station remained in service. The U-Bahn station was opened on 28 August 1961, soon after the building of the Berlin Wall and also with the name ''Putlitzstraße'', although no direct interchange with the S-Bahn station existed. In 1980 the S-Bahn station lost its service owing to cessation of services on the Western part of the Berlin Ringbahn, Ringbahn (circle line). After the Wall fell, S-Bahn services were gradually reinstated. In 1992, the U-Bahn station was renamed ''Westhafen'' after the nearby Westhafen port and on its reopening on 19 December 1999, the S-Bahn station also assumed this name. Once one of the least-frequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
