Potsdam Park Sanssouci railway station
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Potsdam Park Sanssouci
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The Kaiserbahnhof hall and the platforms
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| Location | Am Neues Palais, 14401 Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°23′40″N 13°0′50″E / 52.39444°N 13.01389°ECoordinates: 52°23′40″N 13°0′50″E / 52.39444°N 13.01389°E |
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| Station code | 5011 |
| DS100 code | BWP |
| IBNR | 8010377 |
| Category | 4 |
Potsdam Park Sanssouci is a German railway station located in Potsdam, the Brandenburger capital city on the Berlin–Magdeburg railway. Named Potsdam Wildpark until 1999, it serves the Sanssouci Park and is famous for the Kaiserbahnhof building.
The Wildpark station was built in 1868 on the new line linking Berlin to Magdeburg. At the beginning of the 20th century, after the opening of the bypass lines to Nauen (1902) and Jüterbog (1904), it was built a small rail hub. In 1909 the Kaiserbahnof (see the section below) was inaugurated for the private usage of the Kaiser Wilhelm II. From 1950, after the division of Germany, the station functioned in the Berlin outer ring (Berliner Außenring), and for some years was served by an holyday express train from Saxony to the Baltic Sea. After the completion of the Golm-Potsdam Pirschheide bypass of the Außerring, the station remained part of a short line (however linked to Magdeburg and to the ring) to Potsdam Hauptbahnhof (in that period Potsdam Stadt) and Potsdam Babelsberg, interrupted to West Berlin due to the construction of The Wall.
In the middle of the 1990s, some years after German reunification and the opening of the line Potsdam-Wannsee, the station was rebuilt and renewed. The old platforms and the little rail hub, built in early 20th Century, were demolished. The new name "Park Sanssouci", initially applied for tourist traffic only in 1999, took place of "Wildpark" about one year later.
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