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90-627: The station was completely reconstructed from 2006 to December 2018 while operations continued. In the past it was exclusively used as a Berlin S-Bahn station, but it is now also a stopping point for regional services. A railway crossing point in the area later called Ostkreuz was created in 1871 with the commissioning of the Ringbahn, which there crossed the tracks of the Lower Silesian–March Railway ( Niederschlesisch-Märkische Bahn , also called

180-678: A 300-meter circular track. Electrical power was supplied to a third rail from a nearby generating station. During the four months of the exhibition, it carried 90,000 passengers. The original locomotive is now displayed at the Deutsches Museum in Munich and a replica is shown at the German Museum of Technology (Berlin) . After the successful world fairs in London and Paris the Berlin press argued at large for

270-665: A German world fair to show off to the " Erbfeind " (hereditary enemy). Despite eager proposition around, the national chamber of commerce as well as the council of ministers rejected the idea multiple times due to the financial situation of the Reich. Even though the emperor Wilhelm II was well known for some grandstanding in his time, he was very opposed to the idea of a world fair . On 20 July 1892 he wrote to his chancellor Leo von Caprivi : Der Ruhm der Pariser läßt den Berliner nicht schlafen. Berlin ist Großstadt, also muss es auch eine Ausstellung haben. Das ist völlig falsch. Paris ist nunmal,

360-555: A book called "Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten" (literally "country of boundless possibilities", the German wording for the catch phrase of " the land of opportunity "). He knew quite well of the international benefits for the industry deriving from a world fair. With the Eiffel Tower showing the industrial strength on the world fair in Paris of 1889 the national press was nearly frantic about

450-705: A continuous rail link from Wrocław via Dresden , Leipzig , Magdeburg , Oschersleben , Wolfenbüttel and Brunswick to Hanover . Six weeks later, on 15 October 1847, the opening of the Hanover–Minden line and the Hamm–Minden line created a continuous link to Deutz on the banks of the Rhine opposite Cologne , which was linked to the Western European railway network via the Rhenish Railway ’s line to Aachen . With

540-848: A goods track to their north, while the long-distance traffic of the Eastern Railway ran over the VnK line to join the Silesian Railway further east. On the Silesian Railway the suburban tracks were separated from the long-distance tracks. The suburban tracks of the Stadtbahn were connected with those of Eastern Railway and the Silesian Railway in Stralau-Rummelsburg station. The associated platforms were put in operation on 1 October 1903 (Eastern Railway, platform D) and 18 April 1903 (Silesian Railway, platform E). The new platform F on

630-493: A market, a town hall and a theater. Otto Lilienthal was showing his steam engines - he was not allowed to demonstrate his airplanes but he gave a lecture on practical flight experiments on 16 June. Friedrich Wölfert showed his hydrogen-filled airship Deutschland . The large telescope was a major success despite only being completed in September. Due to the large public interest it was later moved to its own building, today

720-493: A new computer-based interlocking has controlled the S-Bahn tracks of the Stadtbahn level between Ostbahnhof and Rummelsburg or Nöldnerplatz, using the new Zugbeeinflussungssystem S-Bahn Berlin (Berlin S-Bahn Train Control System, ZBS) as standard. Assembly using the incremental launch method of the steel bridge for the south curve to the Ringbahn, which consists of 22 individual parts, began in early 2015, with

810-510: A number of through connections had become unavailable since, at the latest, the construction of the Berlin Wall . In addition, new large residential areas were developed in the east of the city, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, which were accessible by the S-Bahn. The outer platforms on the northern and southern connecting curve to the Ringbahn were closed in 1966 due to structural defects and were later demolished. Scheduled passenger services on

900-479: A platform (later platform A) between the two connecting curves, an "intermediate" platform (in Germany, a low island platform with one platform edge and sometimes accessed by passengers across a rail track) on each of the curves connecting in opposite directions and a side and intermediate platform on the tracks of the Silesian Railway. There was no platform on the tracks of the Eastern Railway, so its trains stopped at

990-841: A platform. Originally ramps ran from the Simplonstraße in the north and the Markgrafendamm in the south to the platform and the later entrance building. With the construction of the pedestrian bridge and the two entrance buildings in Sonntagstraße and Markgrafendamm, the platform was accessible from the bridge via branches off it. After the destruction of the bridges, the platform was accessible only by stairs from platforms D and E. Lower Silesian-M%C3%A4rkische Railway [REDACTED] The Berlin–Wrocław railway ( German : Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , roughly translating as "Lower Silesian-Marcher Railway", NME)

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1080-605: A second pair of tracks for suburban trains as far as Erkner . The Prussian railways, including the Lower Silesian-Mark railway became part of Deutsche Reichsbahn on its founding in 1920. The suburban line to Erkner was electrified in 1928 using a lateral-contact third-rail system. This and other Berlin lines were subsequently rebranded as the Berlin S-Bahn , while the long-distance services were still operated by steam. The Frankfurt (Oder)–Poznań line , which branches off

1170-405: A total of €21.4 million invested in the construction of the new south curve. Since 10 December 2017, line S9 has run again on the newly built curve, but without stopping at Ostkreuz station. At the same time platform Ru became operational for regional services on lines RE1, RE2, RE7 and RB14. Regional services also stopped serving Karlshorst station . The four-track infrastructure of

1260-422: A tunnel section under the tracks of the Stadtbahn for the planned extension of autobahn 100 (Berlin city ring, 17th construction phase). It is 130 metres (426 ft 6 in) long and consists of a 3,000 m (32,000 sq ft) reinforced concrete slab resting on 20 to 30 metres (65 ft 7 in to 98 ft 5 in) deep diaphragm walls . This allows an actual motorway tunnel to be built in

1350-460: A wording from the Berlin dialect. In a kind of defiance action the "Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists" (VBKI) took over the tasks and they founded an interest group to prepare the exhibition. Due to the political conflict the exposition could not be called world fair however - instead they related the project to the earlier industrial expositions in Berlin and the project was run under

1440-521: A world fair to be held in Berlin as well. Especially the "Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller" (Association of Merchants and Industrialists) was on the forefront - the association had been founded for the industrial exposition of 1879. Its chairman Max Ludwig Goldberger took it as a personal aim of life to make a world fair happen in Berlin. Goldberger had lived in the US for a time and he had written

1530-410: Is served by all trains running towards the city centre, while the southern platform is used by trains running in the opposite direction. The track from Erkner crosses the track to Lichtenberg on a bridge to the east of the platforms. The Ringbahn S-Bahn platform was rebuilt at the old location, but it is now much wider and has been given a train shed . There is now no platform at the connecting curve from

1620-730: The Anhalt Railway ) were built. More Prussian railway projects soon followed. Thus the Berlin-Frankfurt Railway Company ( Berlin-Frankfurter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ) built an 81 kilometre-long railway between Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) between 1840 and 1842 and opened it on 23 October 1842. It ran from the Frankfurter Bahnhof ( Frankfurt station ), later called the Schlesischer Bahnhof , ( Silesian Station ) in Berlin via Fürstenwalde to Frankfurt (Oder). In

1710-468: The Archenhold Observatory today. All the other buildings had to be torn down as the fair allowance included a requirement that the installations were only to be temporary. The Great telescope of the exhibition was noted as the most popular exhibit of the expo. At the time the biggest telescope in Germany was an 18 inch aperture refractor, while the exhibit telescope had a 27 inch lens. The tube

1800-595: The Berlin S-Bahn in 1930. A rectification plant was built on the Markgrafendamm south of the station. The platforms were raised to a height of 96 centimetres. On 15 March 1933, the station was renamed Ostkreuz , following the renaming of Westkreuz a few years earlier. According to the Germania plan of the Nazis for the reconstruction of Berlin as capital of the Third Reich , a major station would have been built at Ostkreuz as

1890-723: The Czech Republic , then in the Austrian Empire ), closing the gap between the Upper Silesian Railway and the Austrian Northern Railway , which had opened to Bohumín on 1 April 1847. This created a continuous rail link between Berlin and Vienna . On 15 May 1875, a 93 km double-track line was opened as a shorter route between Jasień (Gassen) and Legnica (Liegnitz) via Żagań (Sagan). The Prussian government had acquired shares worth 1.5 million thalers in

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1980-459: The Lehrte Station . The exhibition was not only a show of technological advancements but it was also created as an amusement park. One of the main attractions of the event was the first electric locomotive from Siemens & Halske . Originally built for use in a coal mine, it pulled three small cars fitted with wooden benches, each car being capable of carrying six passengers for a ride along

2070-607: The Ostbahnhof (east station). The planned nine mainline platforms would have been east of the Ringbahn. The S-Bahn services would have used three low-level platforms instead of two platforms and another new platform was intended as a replacement for platform A on the connecting curve from the city to the southern Ringbahn. In the Second World War, the station area was severely damaged by bombing. Nevertheless, from June 1945, operation gradually resumed. The southern Ringbahn curve

2160-675: The S3 S-Bahn service runs parallel with the mainline. Since 2002, the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) line has been upgraded for speeds of up to 160 km/h, at a cost of €167.5 million. 61.6% of these costs have been met by the European Regional Development Fund . Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin The Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin 1896 (German Große Berliner Gewerbeausstellung 1896 )

2250-520: The Schlesischer —"Silesian"—station, now the Ostbahnhof ). There was no station at the intersection of the lines at that time. A transfer station was instead built to the south at the junction with the connecting curve. It was initially called Niederschlesisch-Märkischer Anschluß ("Lower Silesian–March connection") and was renamed Stralau in April 1872. This provided connections between passenger trains on

2340-590: The Silesian station . In order for Joseph Stalin to travel to the Potsdam Conference a track to Potsdam was also changed to Russian broad gauge. The broad gauge tracks were returned to standard gauge by 20 September 1945 in order to increase rail capacity. Unlike most of the lines in the Soviet zone the mainline between Berlin and Frankfurt (Oder) did not have one of its two tracks removed to provide reparations for

2430-960: The USSR as it was required for the transport of the reparations. In the 1980s the German Democratic Republic electrified the line to Oderbrücke station on the 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC system and the line is today a major axis of international traffic again. The Guben–Zagan (Sagan) section of the Lower Silesian-Markish line runs over the Oder-Neisse line , the post-war boundary between Germany and Poland. Passenger services were closed and not resumed until 1972, but were then closed again in 1981 because of political developments in Poland. In 1996, Polish State Railways began operating three pairs of passenger trains between Gubinek and Guben again. Patronage

2520-425: The 20th century, the long-distance and suburban railways were separated by the Eastern Railway and the Silesian Railway. The lower platforms D and E on the routes to Lichtenberg and Erkner and the upper Ringbahn platform F date back to this time. The tracks of the upper platforms (A, B, C and F) were about 6 metres (19 ft 8 in) above the level of the lower platforms (D and E). The long-distance tracks of

2610-540: The Berlin S-Bahn. The work carried out to enable the extension of the A ;100, costing €16 million, was financed by the federal government. Ostkreuz Station includes several platforms, some of which are no longer in use or have been dismantled. The original Stralau-Rummelsburg station opened in 1882 mainly served suburban traffic on the connecting curves between the Stadtbahn and the Ringbahn. There were also platforms on

2700-485: The Lower Silesian-Mark line at Frankfurt (Oder) is part of an east–west link via Warsaw to Moscow . As Soviet troops advanced this line was rebuilt with ( 1,520 mm ( 4 ft  11 + 27 ⁄ 32  in ) Russian gauge ) for the supply of the Red Army , so that on 25 April 1945 the first Soviet military train could reach the Berlin city limits. On 28 June 1945, the first passenger train ran from Moscow to

2790-519: The NME when it was established, with the right to take it over under certain circumstances. Because the railway's earnings in 1848/49 fell short of expectations, this clause came into effect and at the instigation of the Prussian Minister of Commerce and Industry, August von der Heydt on 1 January 1850 the government took over the management of the company. Although results improved quickly, 18 months later

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2880-406: The Ringbahn in a tunnel to the south of the station. This platform was in operation from 1882 to 2009 with a few reconstructions. This triangular platform was on an embankment west of platforms D and E between the curved lines connecting the Stadtbahn with the Ringbahn. The platform canopy was supported by one-piece, riveted steel girders. Trains from the Stadtbahn to the northern Ringbahn stopped on

2970-410: The Ringbahn on the upper level of the station went into operation on 1 May 1903. At the same time, platform D also received a new entrance building on the west side of the platform giving access to the upper-level platforms A, B and C. Since the reconstruction, suburban trains have run directly from the Eastern Railway and the Silesian Railway to the suburban tracks of the Stadtbahn and

3060-543: The Ringbahn to the north and south. The construction of new connecting ramps in the area of the later Ostkreuz station, in a different location than the old ones, began on 1 September 1879 together with the reconstruction of the tracks in the Silesian station. During this work, passenger traffic was temporarily relocated to the old Ostbahnhof station. In July 1880, the Silesian station went back into service for passenger traffic, followed by further construction work to connect it with

3150-472: The S-Bahn between Ostbahnhof and Ostkreuz went into operation on 6 December 2017. It and four S-Bahn platform edges have been used in scheduled operations, using directional operation, since 9 December. The inauguration of the pedestrian bridge and platforms Rn1 and Rn2 on the Eastern Railway took place on 9 December 2018. Since then, RB26 services and some RB12 and RB25 services have started and stopped at these platforms. The reconstruction of

3240-552: The Silesian Railway were built south of the lower platforms, and were not provided with a platform in Ostkreuz. The long-distance tracks of the Ringbahn are located east of the S-Bahn platform. Before the rebuilding there were in addition to the two long-distance tracks still connections to the brake plant in Stralau and the Osthafen (East Harbour). The siding to the harbour crossed the tracks of

3330-564: The Silesian Railway), which was opened in 1842, and the Eastern Railway, which was extended to Berlin in 1867. This crossing was supplemented by two connecting curves from the Ringbahn to the tracks towards the city in 1872. Initially, they only served freight traffic, but on 1 January 1872 passenger traffic ran from the newly built Stralau station on the south curve to the Niederschlesisch-Märkisches station (later called just

3420-471: The Silesian station and subsequently the old terminus of the Eastern Railway, Old Ostbahnhof , served only goods traffic. Two lines connected the newly built shunting yards in Lichtenberg-Friedrichsfelde and Rummelsburg to the Ringbahn. Previously, freight trains from the lines from the east to the Ringbahn had to make an awkward reversal in the Silesian station. During the construction of

3510-548: The Stadtbahn and vice versa in the opposite direction. Stralau-Rummelsburg was also the end or starting point for some trains running on the Stadtbahn. The later platforms B and C were opened in 1896 on the outsides of the two connecting curves and replaced the existing intermediate platforms. They were built to serve increased traffic as a result of the Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin held in Treptow in 1896. At

3600-582: The area was completed it occupied over 900,000 square meters - larger than any other fair in the world before. The "New Lake" ("Neuer See") in the middle was created as an artificial water basin occupying 10,000 square meters (it was roughly situated where the central area of the Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park) is now). It required its own electrical tramway route to get around on the large fair ground. The 3,780 exhibition companies had areas in 23 different topic groups. The largest building with 13 groups

3690-429: The beginning of the 20th century, the station and the railway facilities adjoining to the east were rebuilt because the at-grade junctions of the Eastern Railway and the Silesian Railway at the station had become an obstacle to the growing traffic. East of the station, the tracks for the long-distance lines were separated from the suburban lines and elevated on both lines. The Eastern Railway received two suburban tracks and

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3780-486: The company's directors offered to sell the railway the state. The Minister of Commerce advocated the purchase, but there was considerable opposition from the Minister of Finance, Carl von Bodelschwingh, who pointed out the railway's significant debt. Ultimately, King Frederick William IV backed the Minister of Commerce on the grounds of the particular economic and military significance of the railway. Despite further protests

3870-401: The connecting curve and commuter trains to and from the Silesian station. Around 1880, the railway facilities in the area were completely rebuilt. While the Eastern Railway and the Silesian Railway formerly ran in parallel and ended at different stations, they were combined with the reconstruction of both lines east of the connecting curves to the Ringbahn. Passenger traffic of both lines ran to

3960-414: The demolition of old buildings and the removal of vegetation. The ground-breaking ceremony was scheduled for 16 January 2007 but had to be postponed. Construction started with the building of a bridge over the railway tracks for Kynaststraße, to the east of the station. In February 2008, a temporary pedestrian bridge was installed connecting the entrances of the station with platforms D and E. It replaced

4050-399: The fair ground. The exhibition was not a simple trade fair but it was more cast as a piece of art. It was not only about showing industrial advancements but at the same time it showed the world to visitors of Berlin. The German food industry not only showed its products, but they were also sold in the many restaurants. Beer gardens as well as high class gastronomy were present all around. In

4140-521: The federal transport infrastructure plan ( Investitionsrahmenplan bis 2010 für die Verkehrsinfrastruktur des Bundes ) provided for the expenditure of €143.1 million on the project (2006 costs). By 2005, a total of €9.6 million had been spent on it. Between 2006 and 2010, federal funding of €75.2 million was to be invested in it. Beyond this period there was to be a financial contribution of €58.4 million (federal funding from 2011, DB funding and third-party contributions since 2006). The cost

4230-438: The first section between Wrocław and Legnica (Liegnitz) on 19 October 1844 before the full route of the line had been determined. A year later, on 1 October 1845, the section to Boleslawiec (Bunzlau) was opened. On 1 August 1845 the Berlin-Frankfurt Railway Company's shareholders agreed to merge with the NME. The continuation of the NME's line through Węgliniec (Kohlfurt), Żary (Sorau) and Guben to Frankfurt an der Oder

4320-413: The future without further interference with rail traffic. The tramway that now runs through Boxhagener Straße will in future run directly to Ostkreuz and stop in the northern area under the platform of the Ringbahn. The aim is to shorten transfer times and to provide direct access for feeder traffic from the surrounding residential areas. Pre-construction work began in the spring and summer of 2006 with

4410-517: The historic entrance building at the northern end of the pedestrian bridge and the layout of the forecourts had not yet begun at this time. The commissioning of the new tram line was originally planned for 2016. In autumn 2015, 2019 was mentioned as the opening date of the tram line. The project has aroused opposition among some residents; when comments were sought for planning approval in January 2018, more than 1000 objections were received, and construction

4500-457: The historic pedestrian bridge, which spans the western end of the lower platforms, began in summer 2016. In addition, the north curve embankment, including the bridge over the approach from Sonntagstraße, was demolished. Driver-only operation supported by driver's cab monitor (called Zugabfertigung durch den Triebfahrzeugführer mittels Führerraum-Monitor ; ZAT-FM) went into operation in August 2016 on

4590-604: The lake haven one could use Venetian gondolas to travel to the other side of the lake. A circus showed animals from the tropics and a large panorama showed north pole impressions. One could use a balloon to look at the place from above that had also a large water slide, the American Theatre and long series of other funfair rides. The German Colonial Exhibition (Deutsche Kolonial-Ausstellung) showed recreations of villages from East Africa, Togo, Cameroons and New Guinea complete with more than 100 natives that were brought to Berlin for

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4680-785: The largest and longest Great refractors up-to that time, and it was preserved after the exposition and survived to the 21st century. The first Berlin Industrial Exposition was initiated by the Prussian Minister Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth . The trade fair took place from 1 September to 15 October 1822, as an exhibition of regional trades in the House of Industries in the Klosterstraße . There were 182 exhibition companies showing 998 different products to 9514 visitors. The second trade fair took place in 1827 at

4770-411: The long-distance tracks of the Silesian Railway and the Eastern Railway, which separated to the east of the station. Presumably, there was an island platform on the northern track and an intermediate platform on the southern track. In addition, there was a freight track of the Eastern Railway to the north and a freight track of the Silesian Railway to the south of the remaining tracks. At the beginning of

4860-423: The name of "Industrial Exposition of Berlin 1896". The year 1896 was chosen as it was the 25th anniversary of Berlin as the capital of the Reich so that it could find support by authorities. The construction work started in 1894 with the intention to create a show room for the German industry - Germany was at the height of technological advancements and Berlin was at the center of science, industry and services. When

4950-416: The new Berlin Stadtbahn . Stralau-Rummelsburg station was opened with the commissioning of this work on 7 February 1882. The station was named after the nearby villages of Stralau and Rummelsburg , and replaced halts on the Ringbahn at Stralau on the Ringbahn and Rummelsburg on the Silesian Railway. The station was owned jointly by the Eastern Railway, the Silesian Railway and the Ringbahn. It had

5040-422: The new platform D followed on 7 October 2014. S-Bahn trains running towards Lichtenberg initially stopped here on the northern edge of the platform. A reconstructed landmark supervisory building on the new platform as well as two historic roof pillars on the western platform are reminders of the old Ostkreuz. In this period, platform E went out of service and was subsequently rebuilt. The reconstruction of

5130-466: The new station differ in many ways from those of the old. Prior to the rebuilding, S-Bahn trains on the line to Erkner stopped at one platform and the trains on the lines to Strausberg , Ahrensfelde and Wartenberg via Lichtenberg stopped at another. Since the reconstruction, the two lower platforms have been served by train running in the same direction to allow easy interchange (known as Richtungsbetrieb —directional operation). The northern platform

5220-431: The northern Ringbahn curve ended in 1994. The northern curve was occasionally used for stock transfers and excursions until May 2006. The tracks were then removed gradually during the reconstruction of the station. The station was greatly in need of renovation for decades and was not capable of handling peak hour traffic, partly due to its narrow stairs. For a long time there were proposals to restructure it in order to make

5310-430: The northern side of the platform and trains from the southern Ringbahn to the Stadtbahn stopped on the southern side. Scheduled passenger traffic to the north ended in 1994, although until 2006 there were still occasional special and diverted services. Operations on the southern side of the platform ended on 28 August 2009. The curve to the southern Ringbahn was removed for the station reconstruction and later rebuilt without

5400-413: The old heritage-listed bridge, which had to be demolished for the construction, but was later faithfully recreated. The old platform F on the Ringbahn was partly taken out of service on 31 August 2009 and fully closed on 11 September. The tracks of the Ringbahn were pivoted towards the future regional platform. The concourse for the S-Bahn tracks of the Ringbahn was completed in late 2011 and

5490-652: The opening of a connecting line between the Wrocław stations on 3 February 1848 it was connected to the Upper Silesian Railway (completed on 18 October 1847) and the Kraków–Upper Silesian railway (completed on 13 October 1847), creating a continuous rail link from Deutz to Kraków . Less than a year later on 1 September 1848, the William's Railway ( Wilhelmsbahn ) was opened from Koźle (Cosel) to Bohumín (now in

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5580-472: The performance of the networks of the long-distance, regional and S-Bahn railways in Berlin and to improve urban transport significantly, was classified in the federal railway development act ( Bundesschienenwegeausbaugesetz ) as an "absolute priority". On 30 October 2006, the Federal Railway Authority gave planning approval for the first stage of the project. On 19 September 2012, planning approval

5670-486: The platform formerly used for services towards Lichtenberg (platform D). Major parts of the reconstruction project were completed by the end of 2017. Thus, with the commissioning of the rebuilt platform E on 21 August 2017, S-Bahn line S3—with trains now running in the same direction on the opposite sides of each platform, unlike in the previous lay out—again ran through to the city centre, where at first there were considerable operational problems. Since August 2017,

5760-404: The platforms of the Silesian Railway if necessary. There was a crossover east of the station and another crossover at the present Modersohn bridge to the west of the station. As there was no platform on the through Ringbahn tracks, no passenger trains stopped on it. The suburban trains of the Ringbahn coming from both the north and south ran via the connecting curves to Stralau-Rummelsburg station on

5850-467: The purchase was approved and completed on 1 January 1852. The NME thus became a part of the Prussian state railways and the newly created Royal Directorate of the Lower Silesian-Mark railway based in Berlin. The beginnings of industrialisation increased traffic, especially in and around Berlin. In the period up to the 1890s many additional stations were built along the route along with the gradually laying of

5940-573: The real authentic impression. In the "Kairo" section the small bazaar streets of the Cairo Old Town were recreated complete with an Arabic Café and a mosque. A pyramid was erected along with a small Egyptian peasant village. A lift ran alongside the pyramid to the top to be used as a high viewpoint. The Old Berlin Exhibition showed a Berlin impression as it had existed in the Middle Ages, complete with

6030-589: The reconstruction of Warschauer Straße station and the tracks to the Treptower Park station to the south. The reconstruction amounted to new construction, which was carried out while trains continued running and therefore took over ten years to complete. All essential facilities of the station, such as platforms, stairs, bridges and track systems were remodeled or rebuilt. Among other things, 12 lifts and 17 escalator were installed and new entrances from all four surrounding districts were built. The facilities of

6120-399: The reconstruction. The Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe has also considered extending U-Bahn line U1 to Ostkreuz station. The U1 would thus connect large parts of Kreuzberg to the eastern Ringbahn. This project would be realised after 2020. The project included, in addition to Ostkreuz station, the tracks between Ostbahnhof in the west and Nöldnerplatz and Rummelsburg in the east, including

6210-637: The rest of the Prussian state railways . Around 1840 all the major countries of the German Confederation began to build main-line railways. From 1837 to 1839, the first German long-distance railway was built in Saxony, the Leipzig–Dresden railway . In 1837 Austria began building its Northern Railway . From 1838 to 1840 the first railways crossing state boundaries (the Magdeburg–Leipzig railway and

6300-410: The same place. In 1844 the General German Industrial Exhibition (in German Allgemeine Deutsche Gewerbe-Ausstellung ) took place in the old arsenal house, the Zeughaus of Berlin. Among 3040 exhibition companies there were 685 Berlin companies showing a large variety of German industrial goods - the exhibition saw 260,000 visitors. In 1879 a large exhibition was set in an exhibition park created near

6390-399: The same year the Lower Silesian-Mark Railway Company ( Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , NME), which was partly owned by the Prussian government, was established to build a railway from Berlin to Breslau (Wrocław), then the second largest city in Prussia, where construction of the Upper Silesian Railway ( Oberschlesische Eisenbahn ) had already started. The NME completed

6480-530: The southern Ringbahn to Stadtbahn, which is used by line S9 from Berlin Brandenburg Airport . Regional platforms were built on the low-level part of the station on both the Silesian Railway (south of the S-Bahn) for trains running east–west and the Eastern Railway (north of the S-Bahn). In addition, a regional platform was built on the Ringbahn in the high-level part of the station. Provision has been made for

6570-472: The stairs and passages more usable. In the mid-1950s, the Berliner Zeitung surveyed its readers for ideas to improve the situation. As a result, Deutsche Reichsbahn announced in early 1956 that the stairs from the Ringbahn platform to the low-level platform D would be widened by 1 metre (3 ft 3 in). However, a complete renovation of the station would be necessary after this "small solution"

6660-442: The station for decades and it was referred to ironically as Rostkreuz ("rust cross"). It is now partially protected as a monument, so that the redevelopment of the station complex in the 21st century required compromises to preserve the historic buildings. Concrete plans for rebuilding Ostkreuz station were included in a project for "improving the Berlin railway node" after German reunification . Thus project, which aimed to improve

6750-460: The station shell was commissioned on 16 April 2012. All regional trains on the Stadtbahn now stop at the new lower regional platform on the Silesian Railway. The regional platform on the upper level was originally scheduled to go into operation in 2014. After delays in construction, it was put into operation on 13 December 2015. The newly constructed platform Rn1 was put into operation in May 2013. It

6840-519: The station's entrance hall and the broad steps down from the lower platforms. Provision was made for the construction of escalators. The work was expected to cost 7.5 million marks . In 1986, Erich Honecker announced the beginning of the "complex reconstruction" of the Ostkreuz S-Bahn junction for the period up to 1990. The Reichsbahn ultimately failed to implement this scheme because of its complexity and high cost. No major changes occurred at

6930-499: The suburban tracks of the Ringbahn have run through the upper platform of the station. The design of the core of the station remained essentially unchanged for more than a century. Some alterations took place from 1923 to designs by Richard Brademann. A pedestrian bridge was built over platforms D and E with exits to Hauptstraße and Sonntagstraße and ticket offices at each end. Electrical operations gradually commenced on all suburban lines in 1928 and 1929, and they were rebranded as

7020-409: The tracks at the Silesian station, the passenger tracks running from there to the east were also rebuilt. The southern pair of tracks served traffic to the Eastern Railway and the Silesian Railway, which branched in the area where the Ringbahn crosses. The northern track pair was built in a slightly different position than the earlier connecting curves. It served only the suburban traffic and connected to

7110-438: Was Berlin hoffentlich nie wird, das große Hurenhaus der Welt. Paris's fame keeps Berliners from sleeping. Berlin is a major city, and as such it must have an exhibition. This is completely false. Paris is simply what Berlin will hopefully never become: the biggest whorehouse in the world." On every occasion thereon that the topic was brought up he came to be used to say "Ausstellung isnich" ("Exposition isn't happening"), taking up

7200-664: Was a German private railway that connected Berlin (then capital of the March of Brandenburg , Mark Brandenburg ) and Wrocław (in Lower Silesia , then part of Prussia , and called Breslau in German, now in Poland ). It is one of the oldest lines in Germany , opened between 1842 and 1847 and acquired by the Prussian government in 1852. In 1920, it became part of the German national railways along with

7290-483: Was a large exposition that has also been dubbed "the impeded world fair" (in German "Die verhinderte Weltausstellung"). Under the official name of a Berlin Industrial Exposition (German "Berliner Gewerbeausstellung") - borrowing the name from earlier exhibitions - the Universal Exposition of Berlin took place between 1 May and 15 October 1896 in the Treptow borough of Berlin . The exposition featured one of

7380-416: Was carried out. Planning for more extensive remodelling continued. In 1957, the construction of a second Ringbahn platform west of the existing platform to relieve congestion was considered. In 1959, it was announced that the reconstruction of the station would begin in 1962 or 1963. This would involve the construction of a 6-metre (19 ft 8 in)-wide tunnel below the lower platforms to connect with both

7470-470: Was completed on 1 September 1846, so that the railway extended from Wrocław to Berlin, a total distance of 357 km. The Upper Silesian Railway' s network at that time already extended from Wroclaw to Racibórz (Ratibor). On 1 September 1847 the NME's branch from Węgliniec to Görlitz and the eastern section of the Saxon-Silesian line between Reichenbach and Görlitz were both opened. This formed

7560-421: Was estimated to be €411 million in 2006. In 2013 the planned cost of the overall project (including the reconstruction of Warschauer Straße station) was set at €411 million, including an additional €6 million for new work at Ostbahnhof . The roof of the upper regional platform is being funded by the government of Berlin with €1.5 million from funds for overcoming the operational constraints of

7650-457: Was issued for the second stage, which mainly comprised improvements to the railway infrastructure along Hauptstraße to Schlichtallee including the southern overpass over Karlshorster Straße. The reconstruction of the railway facilities at Ostkreuz went into full operation in December 2018, at which time transport planners expected the station to be used by over 123,000 passengers a day as a result of

7740-410: Was out of service from February/March 1945 and was only usable again from August 1946. The two S-Bahn tracks of the Silesian Railway were dismantled for war reparations , so with the reconstruction of the S-Bahn line (initially as a single track) in January 1948, trains stopped at a temporary platform on the mainline tracks. With the division of Berlin, the traffic importance of the station grew because

7830-568: Was the "Haupt-Industrie-Gebäude" (Main Industry Building) at one end of the New Lake while others were run in pavilions along the lake sides. The electrification of the area required a dedicated power plant on the fair ground - the electric illumination of the complete area was a sensation of its own at the time. The exhibition was marketed worldwide - although it was rainy on 120 of the 168 exhibition days there were seven million visitors coming to

7920-411: Was therefore delayed. In early 2021 it was further delayed to allow for additional public comment, with the projected completion date being deferred from the end of 2023 to 2025. The planned costs amounted to 726 million marks in 1998. According to Deutsche Bahn 's medium-term planning in April 2007, €62.6 million would be invested in the project by 2010. The investment proposed for 2010 in

8010-429: Was used by S-Bahn services during the early years of the construction and now serves as a regional platform for services on the Eastern Railway. Platform D was taken out of service at the same time and rebuilt. The regional train platform Ru on the Stadtbahn level went into operation on 30 June 2014 and was initially used during construction work on S-Bahn platform E of S-Bahn line S3. The commissioning of

8100-399: Was very low, so that on 6 October 2002 services were terminated. Freight traffic was mainly channelled through other routes, and the last freight train to use the route ran in 1994. Today, Deutsche Bahn operates Regional-Express line RE1 ( Magdeburg – Berlin – Frankfurt (Oder) – Eisenhüttenstadt ) and RE11 (Frankfurt (Oder)–Eisenhüttenstadt– Guben – Cottbus ) on the line. In Berlin section

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