Berlin Old Ostbahnhof

For the current train station, see Berlin Ostbahnhof.
Berlin Ostbahnhof
(Berlin Küstriner Bahnhof)

The former station building in 1928
Location Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Office building of Neues Deutschland, built on the site of the former station

The old Berlin Ostbahnhof, sometimes also named Küstriner Bahnhof,[1] was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was situated in Friedrichshain, close to the current Ostbahnhof and to the former Wriezener Bahnhof.

History

Locator map of the Old Ostbahnhof[2]

Opened in 1867 as a terminus of the Prussian Eastern Railway (Ostbahn) to Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), Its roof was projected by Adolf Lohse and Hermann Cuno. As a passenger station it worked until 1882 when the Stadtbahn was opened and the Ostbahn traffic moved to the Schlesischer Bahnhof.[3] Some years after the closure the Ostbahnhof was used as a shelter of the Red Cross.

In 1929 the building was converted to a variety theatre, named "Plaza",[4] used from 1938 by the Nazi leisure organization "Kraft durch Freude". The building was destroyed by bombings during the Second World War. Some years later, on the ground where the terminus was, it was built the office building of the newspaper Neues Deutschland.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ station to Kostrzyn
  2. ↑ The Frankfurter Bahnhof shown in the map is the modern Ostbahnhof
  3. ↑ The modern Berlin Ostbahnhof
  4. ↑ (German) History and pictures of the "Plaza"

External links

Media related to Berlin Old Ostbahnhof at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 52°30′42″N 13°26′25″E / 52.51167°N 13.44028°E