Berlin Old Nordbahnhof

This article is about the old train station. For the modern train station, see Berlin Nordbahnhof.
Berlin Nordbahnhof
(Berlin Nordgüterbahnhof)

The area of the "Mauerpark".
The old Nordbahnhof was situated in the area on the left hand side behind the street.
Location Pankow, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
A GT6N tram in 2007 running in Bernauer Straße.[1] The area of the old Nordbahnhof was on the right hand side behind the small houses. The M10 is the only rail line working around the station area.

The old Berlin Nordbahnhof was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was situated in Prenzlauer Berg, close to the borders with Gesundbrunnen, in the area of the "Mauerpark".

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 July 10, 1877 as the southern terminus of the Prussian Northern Railway Berlin-Stralsund. The passenger traffic was performed from the nearby Stettiner Bahnhof, located at the western end 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 Stettiner Bahnhof during construction works there.

In 1950 the Stettiner Bahnhof took the name Nordbahnhof because the city of Stettin went to Poland 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, in 1961, only a small part of local freight traffic remaint. It was finally closed in 1985. After 2000 a large fraction of the are became part of the Mauerpark.[2]

Nowadays the ground where the station's tracks were located is the seat of the Mauerpark, 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 rests of the tracks, now removed, from the Ringbahn, between Gesundbrunnen and Schönhauser Allee station.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Line M10 between the stops "Wolliner Straße" and "Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark"
  2. ↑ (German) The Mauerpark and the Old Nordbahnhof on berlin.de

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Coordinates: 52°32′26.95″N 13°24′13.01″E / 52.5408194°N 13.4036139°E