Berlin Gesundbrunnen station

Berlin Gesundbrunnen station (German: Bahnhof Berlin Gesundbrunnen) is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is situated in the Gesundbrunnen district, part of the central Mitte borough, as an interconnection point between the northern Ringbahn and 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 Category 1 station, one of 21[4] in Germany and four in Berlin, the others being Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin Südkreuz and Berlin Ostbahnhof.

Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Deutsche Bahn Berlin S-Bahn Berlin U-Bahn
Bf
2012
General information
LocationBadstraße 1-3
Mitte, Berlin
Germany
Coordinates52°32′55″N 13°23′22″E / 52.54861°N 13.38944°E / 52.54861; 13.38944
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms5 island platforms
Tracks10
Other information
Station code528
DS100 codeBGS (long distance)
BGB (S-Bahn)[1]
IBNR8011102 (long distance)
8089015 (S-Bahn)
Category1[2]
Fare zoneVerkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB): Berlin A/5555[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1 January 1872; 152 years ago (1872-01-01)
Passengers
130,000
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Berlin Hbf
towards München Hbf
ICE 8 Terminus
Berlin Hbf ICE 15 Eberswalde Hbf
Berlin Hbf
towards München Hbf
ICE 18 Terminus
Berlin Hbf
towards Zürich HB
ICE 20
Berlin Hbf ICE 21 Bernau bei Berlin
Berlin Hbf
towards München Hbf
ICE 28
Berlin Hbf ICE 29 Eberswalde Hbf
ICE 91
Berlin Hbf IC 17 Oranienburg
towards Warnemünde
Berlin Hbf IC 56 Oranienburg
towards Rostock Hbf
Preceding station Following station
Berlin Hbf FLX 10 Terminus
Preceding station DB Regio Nordost Following station
Berlin Hbf
Terminus
Flughafen-Express Berlin Ostkreuz
towards BER Airport
Berlin Hbf RE 3
Bernau bei Berlin
Oranienburg RE 5 Berlin Hbf
Berlin Jungfernheide
towards Nauen
RB 10 Terminus
Berlin Jungfernheide
towards Potsdam Hbf
RB 21
Preceding station Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn Following station
Terminus RB 27
selected trains only
Schönerlinde
towards Klosterfelde
Berlin-Lichtenberg
Terminus
RB 54
selected trains only
Oranienburg
Preceding station Berlin S-Bahn Following station
Bornholmer Straße
towards Oranienburg
S1 Humboldthain
towards Wannsee
Bornholmer Straße
towards Bernau
S2 Humboldthain
towards Blankenfelde
Bornholmer Straße
towards Hennigsdorf
S25 Humboldthain
towards Teltow Stadt
Bornholmer Straße
towards Blankenburg
S26
Wedding
One-way operation
S41 Schönhauser Allee
Ringbahn (clockwise)
Wedding
Ringbahn (counter-clockwise)
S42 Schönhauser Allee
One-way operation
Preceding station Berlin U-Bahn Following station
Pankstraße
towards Wittenau
U8 Voltastraße
Map
Location
Berlin Gesundbrunnen is located in Berlin
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Location within Berlin
Berlin Gesundbrunnen is located in Germany
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Location within Germany
Berlin Gesundbrunnen is located in Europe
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Berlin Gesundbrunnen
Location within Europe

History

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Rebuilt Gesundbrunnen station in 1898

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.

 
U-Bahn platform

Plans for an access of Gesundbrunnen station to the Berlin U-Bahn network were already developed by the AEG electric company prior to World War I. Nevertheless, the present-day station, located on the U8, was not opened until 18 April 1930. Designed in a New Objectivity style according to plans by Alfred Grenander with a separate reception building, the U-Bahn platform crossed deep beneath the railway tracks and served as an air-raid shelter during the bombing of Berlin in World War II.

 
New entrance building

World War II and Cold War

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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

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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 Ostkreuz (East Cross), Südkreuz (South Cross) and Westkreuz (West Cross). Work on the railway hub was completed on 26 May 2006, with no development on the rename until 2016, when Nordkreuz was appended to Gesundbrunnen as an official alternative name.

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

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Long-distance services

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Gesundbrunnen station is served by the following services:

Line Route Frequency
ICE 8 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – BerlinHalleErfurtNurembergMunich 120 min
ICE 15 (Ostseebad Binz –) Stralsund – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Frankfurt (Main)
ICE 18 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Munich One train pair
ICE 20 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – BerlinLeipzigErfurtFuldaFrankfurtKarlsruheFreiburgBaselZürich 5 train pairs
ICE 21 Ostseebad Binz – Stralsund – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf every 4 hours
ICE 28 München – Nürnberg – Erfurt – Leipzig – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – (Stralsund – Ostseebad Binz) Some trains
ICE 29 Ostseebad Binz – Stralsund – Greifswald – PrenzlauEberswaldeBerlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – NurembergAugsburgMunich 3 train pairs
Ostseebad Binz – Stralsund – Greifswald – PrenzlauEberswaldeBerlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg (train split) AugsburgMunich 1 train pair
ICE 91 PassauLinzWien
IC 17 Rostock – Waren – Neustrelitz – Oranienburg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – Flughafen BER - Terminal 1-2 – Doberlug-Kirchhain – Elsterwerda – Dresden-Neustadt – Dresden Hbf (– Freiberg – Chemnitz) 120 min
IC 56 Rostock – Waren – Neustrelitz – Oranienburg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Potsdam – Brandenburg – Magdeburg One train towards Magdeburg
FLX 10 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Frankfurt (Main) – Heidelberg – Stuttgart One train pair

Regional services

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Gesundbrunnen station is served by the following services:

Line Route Frequency
FEX Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 30 min
RE 3 Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Jüterbog – Ludwigsfelde – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Eberswalde – Angermünde – Schwedt (Oder)
Prenzlau – Pasewalk – Greifswald – Stralsund
RE 5 Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin Potsdamer Platz – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Oranienburg – Neustrelitz – Güstrow – Rostock
Neubrandenburg – Stralsund
RB 10 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Jungfernheide – Berlin-Spandau – Albrechtshof – Seegefeld – Falkensee – Finkenkrug – Brieselang – Nauen Single train towards Nauen
RB 21 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Jungfernheide – Berlin-Spandau – Dallgow-Döberitz – Wustermark – Golm – Potsdam 60 min
RB 27 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Schönerlinde – Schönwalde – Basdorf – Klosterfelde Individual services
RB 54 Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Oranienburg – Löwenberg (Mark) – Herzberg (Mark) – Rheinsberg (Mark) Individual services

S-Bahn and U-Bahn services

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Gesundbrunnen is a station on Berlin S-Bahn and Berlin U-Bahn networks. The station is served by the following services:

References

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  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Bahnhofskategorieliste 2015" (PDF). DB Station&Service AG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-25.
  5. ^ "Grünes Licht für Bahnhof Gesundbrunnen". Deutsche Bahn. 2011-02-08. press release.
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