Lichterfelde Süd station
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Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd
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Lichterfelde, Berlin Germany |
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| Coordinates | 52°24′36″N 13°18′31″E / 52.41000°N 13.30861°ECoordinates: 52°24′36″N 13°18′31″E / 52.41000°N 13.30861°E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 7730 | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | BLIS | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8089472 | ||||||||||
| Category | 5 | ||||||||||
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| Closed | 9 January 1984 | ||||||||||
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Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd station is a Berlin S-Bahn station on the Anhalt Suburban Line in Lichterfelde in the Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. The station was the southern terminus for S-Bahn trains on the Anhalt Suburban Line between 1943 and 1951, between 1961 and 1984 and between 1998 and 2005. From 1951 until the building of the Berlin Wall, services continued past the city limits to nearby Teltow. The station was closed between 1984 and 1998. Since 2005, the trains have run to Teltow Stadt.
Together with Osdorfer Straße station, this connects the Thermometersiedlung high-rise housing estate to the Berlin S-Bahn network.
Lichterfelde experienced a construction boom in the Gründerzeit (in the late 19th century) and new estates extended to Giesensdorf (now part of Lichterfelde Süd). At the beginning of the 1890s, it was proposed to build another Villenviertel (villa estate) next to the Berlin–Halle railway (Anhalt Railway). The Volksbau-Gesellschaft ("people's construction company") that acquired the required land in Giesensdorf succeeded in having a new station built on the line in 1893 to open up the land for the new estate. The original desire to extend suburban operations to Lichterfelde, however, was not met and traffic was limited to a few long-distance trains. As Giesensdorf and Lichterfelde had been merged in 1878 to form the rural municipality (Landgemeinde) of Groß-Lichterfelde ("Greater Lichterfelde"), the new station was called Groß-Lichterfelde Süd (south), the old Lichterfelde station was renamed Groß-Lichterfelde Ost (east) to distinguish it. The suburban railway constructed in 1901 and electrified in 1903 only reached as far as Groß-Lichterfelde Ost. Groß-Lichterfelde Süd remained a mainline station with two side platforms.
Under the Greater Berlin Act of 1920, the borders of the capital was moved to just south of Lichterfelde Süd. In 1925, the station was renamed as Lichterfelde Süd. It was also still classified as a long-distance station and therefore fares were significantly higher than they would have been if suburban fares had been applied. When suburban fares were extended to it in 1938, it was s one of the last parts of Greater Berlin to be included in the Berlin suburban fare zone.
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