Berlin Jannowitzbrücke station

Berlin Jannowitzbrücke
Hp
Location	Mitte, Berlin, Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°30′53″N 13°25′06″E / 52.514638°N 13.418389°E / 52.514638; 13.418389Coordinates: 52°30′53″N 13°25′06″E / 52.514638°N 13.418389°E / 52.514638; 13.418389
Line(s)	Stadtbahn
Other information
Station code	3032
DS100 code	BJB
Category	4
History
Opened	7 February 1882
Services
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station Alexanderplatz toward Spandau S5 Ostbahnhof toward Strausberg Nord Alexanderplatz toward Potsdam Hbf S5 (night) Ostbahnhof toward Strausberg Nord Alexanderplatz toward Potsdam Hbf S7 Ostbahnhof toward Ahrensfelde Alexanderplatz toward Spandau S75 Ostbahnhof toward Wartenberg Preceding station   Berlin U-Bahn   Following station Alexanderplatz towards Wittenau U8 Heinrich-Heine-Straße towards Hermannstraße

Berlin Jannowitzbrücke is a station in the Mitte district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S5, S7 and S75 and the U-Bahn line U8. It is located next to the Jannowitz Bridge (Jannowitzbrücke) and is a public transport interchange. South of the station is Brückenstraße (“bridge street”) and north of it are Holzmarkstrasse and Alexanderstraße. The station also serves as a stop for various private excursion and sightseeing boats, among others, those of the Stern und Kreisschiffahrt and Reederei Riedel companies.

When the Jannowitz Bridge was rebuilt (1881–1883), the suburban station of the same name was opened on the Berlin Stadtbahn (“city railway”) viaduct next to the Spree river. The opening date is officially stated to be 7 February 1882. Since the station was just an open platform with a canopy, passengers were exposed to the weather and the smoke of the locomotives. In 1885, the station was given its first weather protection in the form of a wall of glass, which was built between the suburban tracks and the long-distance tracks. A roof was built above the wall, which was connected to the existing platform canopy, creating a half-open concourse to the north.

The traffic on the Stadtbahn steadily increased and the narrow central platform on the suburban tracks at Jannowitzbrücke had to be widened. To obtain sufficient space, the tracks of the long-distance line were shifted slightly towards the south in 1906/1907, so it rested on a supporting structure built directly in the river. The structure was slightly modified in 1997 to increase its stability.

With the establishment of the S-Bahn network and the electrification of the Stadtbahn from 1928, the station was demolished and rebuilt in its present form between 1927 and 1932 to plans by the architect Hugo Röttcher. S-Bahn trains ran through the newly built station from 11 June 1928.

At the end of World War II, rail operations were forced to stop in April 1945. On 15 November 1945, S-Bahn operations restarted and traffic grew steadily because it was an interchange between the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn. This function as an interchange was removed with the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961; the signs to the U-Bahn were removed and Jannowitzbrücke station was now just an S-Bahn station. Already on 11 November 1989—a few days after Die Wende—it was again possible to change between the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn.

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