Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof

Eberswalde Hauptbahnhof
Through station
Rear of the station (2010)
Location	Bahnhofsring 17, Eberswalde, Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	52°50′02″N 13°47′50″E / 52.833830°N 13.797092°E / 52.833830; 13.797092Coordinates: 52°50′02″N 13°47′50″E / 52.833830°N 13.797092°E / 52.833830; 13.797092
Line(s)	Berlin–Szczecin Eberswalde–Frankfurt (Oder)
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	1444
DS100 code	WE
IBNR	8010093
Category	3
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 August 1842
Traffic
Passengers	< 5,000/day

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.

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:

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.