Bad Kleinen station
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Bad Kleinen
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| Location |
Bad Kleinen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°46′0″N 11°28′0″E / 53.76667°N 11.46667°ECoordinates: 53°46′0″N 11°28′0″E / 53.76667°N 11.46667°E |
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| Platforms | 5 |
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| Station code | 289 |
| DS100 code | WK |
| IBNR | 8010018 |
| Category | 3 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1848 |
Bad Kleinen station is in the community of Bad Kleinen and is one of the oldest and most important railway stations in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It primarily operates as a transfer station for traffic to and from Wismar, Grevesmühlen / Lübeck, Schwerin and Bützow / Güstrow / .
The town of Kleinen (the prefix "Bad", meaning “Spa town”, was awarded in 1915) was connected to the rail network in 1848, one year after the opening of the Hagenow Land–Schwerin railway, with the extension to Wismar. In planning the extension of the line from Schwerin to Rostock it was subsequently decided not to build the line directly from Schwerin, which would have required a crossing of Lake Schwerin. As a result, Kleinen became, after Hagenow Land, the second railway hub of Mecklenburg. In 1870, a line to Lübeck was opened via Grevesmühlen.
The station was rebuilt around 1920. Before that the “home” platforms were located next to the entrance building and other platforms were reached by crossing the tracks. During the rebuilding, island platforms were built on either side of the station building, which are reached by a tunnel.
In the first half of the 20th century, the most important routes through the station were the east-west route, Hamburg–Lübeck–Bad Kleinen–Bützow and continuing to Stettin (now Szczecin) and the route to the ferries in Warnemünde and Sassnitz. After the Second World War and the division of Germany passenger and freight traffic from the south of East Germany via Magdeburg–Wittenberg to Rostock and Wismar became particularly important for the station.
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