Eberswalde Central Station

Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof
Rear of the station (2010)
Operations
Category	3 [1]
Type	Through station
Platforms in use	5
Daily entry/exit	< 5,000/day[2]
DS100 code	WE
Station code	1444
Construction and location
Opened	1 August 1842
Location	Eberswalde
State	Brandenburg
Country	Germany
Home page	www.bahnhof.de
Route information
Berlin–Szczecin Eberswalde–Frankfurt (Oder)
List of railway stations in Brandenburg

Eberswalde Central Station (German: Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof) is historically the most important and now the only remaining station in the city of Eberswalde in the German state of Brandenburg. It was opened in the summer of 1842 outside the then city limits on the Berlin–Szczecin railway. The city fathers of Eberswalde did not want a modern railway in their city, so the station was built three kilometres west of the city centre in a wooded area where the Westend district is today.

Contents 1 Station 2 Train services 3 Notes 4 References

Station

Eberswalde was one of the first cities in Germany to be connected by rail. Seven years after the first German railway line was opened between Nuremberg and Fürth, it was then still unusual for German cities to be connected to the very new railway networks. It soon became clear that the development of the railway line was important for the supply of the city. In the following years the city grew mainly to the west towards the station, whose buildings were designed by F. Neuhaus. In 1867, a wooden bridge was built over the tracks.

On 1 May 1844 the following buildings and facilities were present at Eberswalde station:^[3]

• entrance building, including four official residences
• a two stall engine shed
• facility for supplying water and coke to locomotives
• carriage and freight sheds
• coke and salt shed
• stables
• restaurant

Eberswalde has been a junction since 1866, when a line to Wriezen was opened; it was extended to Frankfurt (Oder) in 1876/77. The station was extended between 1866 and 1867. In 1873, a roundhouse was built with eight stalls and the old two-stall engine shed was demolished. On 7 January 1878, the repair shop of the Berlin-Stettin Railway Company (German: Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) (now the Deutsche Bahn maintenance depot), was opened. Near the station, a line towards Joachimsthal and Templin was opened in 1898, starting from a junction at the nearby station of Britz on the Berlin–Szczecin line. Between 1906 and 1910, the station was remodelled extensively for the first time. It received several platforms, a pedestrian tunnel, a large lobby and several restaurants. In the following decades Eberswalde was a popular destination for Berliners and the station restaurants were especially well attended.

Because of the construction of the Westend district in 1904, a railway bridge was built in 1910 to replace the old wooden bridge. A trolley bus line (Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde) operated for a few months in 1901. From 1910 to 1940 an electric tramway (Straßenbahn Eberswalde) operated from Eberswalde Marktplatz (market place) to the station forecourt. In 1940 the tramway was converted into a trolley bus line, which is now the oldest existing trolley bus line in Germany.

Until about 2004, Eberswalde Station remained largely in its 1910 state, few improvements had taken place. The station facilities were mostly in a poor condition, so a complete reconstruction was then carried out, which involved the was moving of the tunnel to the north and the platforms to the south. The Eberswalde railway station bridge was demolished and replaced by a new structure. Only the main building of the former station is preserved. An old mechanical destination indicator, which is protected as a monument, has been returned to the platform.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

• intercity-express service (ICE 28) Stralsund - Eberswalde - Berlin - Halle - Jena - Nuremberg - Munich
• intercity service (EC 27) Binz - Stralsund - Eberswalde - Berlin - Dresden - Prague - Brno
• intercity service (EC 27) Szczecin - Eberswalde - Berlin - Dresden - Prague
• intercity service (IC 50) Frankfurt (Main) - Erfurt - Halle - Berlin - Eberswalde - Stralsund - Binz
• regional express (RE 3) Stralsund - Greifswald - Pasewalk - Angermünde - Berlin - Elsterwerda
• regional express (RE 3) Schwedt - Angermünde - Berlin - Wünsdorf-Waldstadt

Service	Train Type	Route	Material	Frequency
RE	Regional Express	(Belzig - Potsdam -) Berlin Zoologischer Garten - Berlin Hbf - Berlin Ostbf - Biesenthal - Eberswalde Hbf - Angermünde - Tantow - Szczecin Gumieńce – Szczecin Główny
RE	Regional Express	Berlin Gesundbrunnen - Biesenthal - Eberswalde Hbf - Angermünde - Passow - Schönow - Casekow - Petershagen - Tantow - Szczecin Gumieńce – Szczecin Główny
OE60	OE	Berlin-Lichtenberg – Bernau (b Berlin) – Eberswalde – Wriezen – Frankfurt (Oder)
OE63	OE	Eberswalde – Alt Hüttendorf – Joachimsthal
OE63V	Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn	Eberswalde Hbf – Angermünde – Prenzlau		1x per day

Preceding station		DB AG		Following station
Angermünde toward Stralsund Hbf		ICE 28		Berlin-Gesundbrunnen toward München Hbf
Angermünde toward Binz or Szczecin		EuroCity 27		Bernau bei Berlin toward Brno or Prague
Angermünde toward Ostseebad Binz		IC 50		Bernau bei Berlin toward Frankfurt Flughafen
Britz toward Stralsund or Schwedt		RE 3		Bernau bei Berlin toward Elsterwerda
Terminus		RE		Angermünde toward Prenzlau

Notes

References

• Krüger, Ronald; Pofahl, Ulrich; Schindler, Mattis (2000) (in German). Stadtverkehr Eberswalde. "Gleislose Bahn" – Straßenbahn – Obus. Berlin: GVE. ISBN 3-89218-058-X. 
• Grusenick, Dieter; Morlok, Erich; Regling, Horst (1996) (in German). Die Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn. transpress. ISBN 3-344-71046-X.