Upon its scheduled opening in 2006, Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Lehrter Bahnhof will be the largest rail transportation hub in Europe.

Berlin-Hauptbahnhof – Lehrter Bahnhof under construction

The new station occupies the site of several previous train stations called Lehrter Bahnhof or variants thereof. ImageMetadata File history File links Train_station_Berlin_Lehrter_Bahnhof_2. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Train_station_Berlin_Lehrter_Bahnhof_2. ...

The original Lehrter Bahnhof opened in 1871 as the terminus of a railway linking Berlin with Lehrte near Hanover. Services to and from Hamburg were also diverted to Lehrter Bahnhof with the closure of Hamburger Bahnhof. In 1882, with the completion of the Stadtbahn just to the north of the main station, a smaller interchange station called "Lehrter Stadtbahnhof" was opened to provide connections to local transportation systems. Hanover (German: Hannover []), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Germany. ... Hamburg is Germanys second largest city (after Berlin) and, with the Hamburg Harbour, its principal port. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Following heavy damage during the Second World War, limited services to the main station were resumed, but then suspended in 1951. In 1957 the entire structure was demolished. The location continued to serve as a stop on the city-wide transportation system. In 1987 the station was extensively renovated in preparation of Berlin's 750th Anniversary celebrations.

After German reunification it was decided to improve Berlin's railway network by constructing a new north-south main line, which supplements the existing east-west Stadtbahn. Therefore this became the logical - if not the most convenient - location for a new central station, named Hauptbahnhof – Lehrter Bahnhof.

Lehrter Bahnhof History

Between 1868 and 1871 a railway was built between Hanover and Berlin via Lehrte by the Magdeburg Halberstaedter railway company. 239km long, the railway ran from Hanover to its new terminal, Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin, located just adjacent to the former Hamburger Bahnhof. The new station, which was developed by Henri Lapierre was situated just outside of the city at Humbolthafen on the banks of the river Spree. The architects of the project were Alfred Lent, Bertold Scholz and Gottschütz. 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1871 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... River Spree in Berlin at the eastern harbour (Osthafen) with the Badeschiff bath The Spree (Slavic Å preva or Å preja, older form Sprevja, Sorbish Sprowja) is a river in Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany. ...

Lehrter Bahnhof in 1879, showing the arrival/departure hall

In contrast to earlier rail stations, built with brick facades, and in keeping with current trends, Lehrter Bahnhof was planned in the style of the French Neorenaissance. For cost reasons, pieces of polished tiles replaced the originally planned stone facade. With its novel architecture, the station was known as a "palace among stations." ImageMetadata File history File links Train_station_Berlin_Lehrter_Bahnhof_3. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Train_station_Berlin_Lehrter_Bahnhof_3. ...

The station hall had a length of 188 m and width of 38 m. Barrel vaults were implemented and covered with steel binders. Both the west and east branches followed with long, drawn-out casements. As was common for the period, the station was divided functionally into an arrival terminal in the west, and a departure terminal in the east. Originally there were five tracks, four of which ended at the side and the central platform, the fifth track was without platform and served as a turnaround for the locomotives. At the turn of the century a track was removed, in order to accommodate the widening of the central platform. Barrel vault In architecture, a barrel vault is an extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance. ...

The richly decorated front of the building, housing the main entrance, remained fairly insignificant, because at the eastern branch, where the courses drove off, a right of way for taxis existed and another entrance was situated.

In 1882 the metropolitan railway was opened, and long-distance traffic was scheduled to commence from 1884. Thus capacities were freed up, which allowed for the removal of the locking 300 meters, at which for invalid road possible lain Hamburg station starting from 15 October 1884. From there traffic heading towards Hamburg, northeast Germany and Scandinavia could be diverted to the Lehrter station. 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ...

1886 were put under state control those Berlin instruction hereditary ancestor and with it the Lehrter station and changed into the possession of the Prussian railway administration .

Already in the initial years the Lehrter station was well-known also because of the fast courses, which held there. Already 1872 drove express trains on the Lehrter course with a speed of 90 km/h. Starting from 19 December 1932 for the first time the well-known flying Hamburg one, operated a Diesel snapping rubbing car, with up to 160 km/h from the Lehrter station out to Hamburg . December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

In the Second World War the station was heavily damaged. After the war the burned out ruin was repaired for lack of other alternatives so far that a provisional traffic could be taken up again. But on 28 August 1951 the last course from the open already drove resounds to Wustermark and Nauen . On 9 July 1957 the work began the hauptportal for the demolition of the ruin , on 22 April 1958 was blown up and cleared away and served the production of brick ziegelsplitt for the reconstruction. Largest difficulty the dismantling was that the Lehrter following directly to the station hall in-town station and had to remain intact metropolitan railway viaduct. The outline work was therefore only locked in the summer 1959. [ work on ] August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lehrter Stadtbahnhof

On May 15th, 1882, the Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was opened. A four-track station on the East - West "Stadtbahn" connecting Charlottenburg and Schlesischer Bahnhof (later Ostbahnhof),used by local trains as an interchange to the Long distance station. May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Charlottenburg is an area in Berlin, formerly a borough now part of Charlottenburg_Wilmersdorf. ...

Because of steadily increasing traffic to the Lehrter station as well as its location on top of a bridge more or less behind the main entrance to the concourse, elaborate reconstructive changes were made to the track structure in 1912 and again in 1929. 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

On December 1st, 1930, the newly electric suburban trains were given the designation S-Bahn ("S-Train"), making the Lehrter Bahnhof an S-Bahnhof ("S-Train Station"). Even after the war the S-Bahnhof remained intact, but had lost its earlier pre-war significance due to the lack of connecting railways. It was the last remaining station in West Berlin’s metropolitan railway system; the next nearest train station (Berlin Friedrichstrasse) had been subsumed under the Soviet occupation. The 1961 construction of the Berlin Wall placed the Lehrter station in close proximity to it, stripping the station of almost all commercial significance. December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... (Translated from the German wikipedia article) The S-Bahn is a suburban metro railway network in Germany. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... The Friedrichstraße (pronounced fRi-dRIc-StRas-s@ as written in SAMPA form) (Frederick Street) is a major shopping street in (east) central Berlin. ... Soviet redirects here. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989 The Berlin Wall (German: Die Berliner Mauer) was a long barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and the surrounding territory of East Germany. ...

The city of Berlin’s 750-year anniversary celebration saw a partial restoration of the S-Bahn’s facilities, which had been neglected for years. Because it had been, to a large extent, preserved in its original condition, it was placed under monumental protection and renovated at a cost of about 10 million DM (Deutschmarks). // Basic Information Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... The Taj Mahal in Agra (Uttar Pradesh, India) Monuments are usually created for the dual function of commemorating an important event or person while also creating an artistic object that will improve the appearance of a city or location. ... A 10 Deutsche Mark banknote from Germany 1993 showing Carl Friedrich Gauss (http://www. ...

In the summer of 2002, the monumentally-protected Lehrter Stadtbahnhof was torn down. The S-Bahn currently resides on the site of the new, but not yet finalized main train station / Lehrter Bahnhof. Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July, and August, in the Northern hemisphere, and the whole months of December, January, and February, in the Southern hemisphere. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (Translated from the German wikipedia article) The S-Bahn is a suburban metro railway network in Germany. ...

Hauptbahnhof – Lehrter Bahnhof

Soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 city planners began work on a transport plan for a reunited Berlin. One element of this became the so-called "mushroom concept" (Pilzkonzept), in which a new north-south line intersecting the Stadtbahn was to be constructed. The concept's name derived from the shape formed by the new line and existing lines, which vaguely resembles a mushroom.

Ceiling structure of the underground part of the station. December 2001

In June 1992 the Federal Government decided the establishment of the new crossing station at the place of the old Lehrter of in-town station, 1993 a competition for the project Lehrter station was expenditure-praised, which that won Hamburg architect's offices Gerkan, Marg and partner (gmp). Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x750, 98 KB) Description: the ceiling structure of the station Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin taken December 11 2001 by El Dirko License: GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x750, 98 KB) Description: the ceiling structure of the station Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin taken December 11 2001 by El Dirko License: GFDL File links The following pages link to this file: Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof ...

Planning planned to lead traffic on five levels: The main levels should be two platforms of the metropolitan railway running on bridges at a value of 10 m over the road level, as well as four platforms in a depth of 15 m. The tracks reaching up to the Potsdamer Platz in the Tiergarten tunnel so mentioned under the realm day and the Spree are passed through and connected north the station with the north ring. Stations for the Transrapid and the planned underground line 5 ( chancellor underground ) were planned with.

The building takes place in several stages. 1995 were begun with the building of the Tiergarten tunnel, which will be locked 2005 with the completion of the last section under the Lehrter station. The tunnel proves four tubes for the far from and regional courses, two tubes for the underground , in addition a road tunnel, which are ventilated over 2004 finished, 60 m high tower. With the building of the tunnel the bed of the Spree had to be shifted from 1996 to 1998. Because of water break-downs in the tunnels it came too over one year's delays with the building.

one began 2001 with the building of the bridges for the new metropolitan railway route. These should span not only the entire station range, but also the following Humboldthafen and exhibit therefore a length of 450 m. According to the alignment of the metropolitan railway they are curved and far itself in the center up to 70 m up, in order to be able to take up the platforms. Such bridges were not built so far yet and represented a special challenge for engineers.

The actual station hall spans a likewise curved, hose-like glass roof with a surface area of for instance 85 ×120 m, which developed in the year 2002. Into the glass area a Fotovoltaikanlage was integrated. The conversion of the steel glass construction was likewise a particularly difficult task for the implementing engineer's office, particularly since a change of the execution of construction shortened the glass roofs over approximately 100 m.

In the year 2003 the bridges were and mainresound so far finished that traffic could be swivelled on the new route. Thus the old Lehrter in-town station could be torn off, on the building site directly standing from the new building of the Lehrter of station in the way stood.

The main concourse is straddled by two bow frames that will offer roughly 44,000 m² of operating space. Construction of the frames began in 2005. The timely implementation of the bow frames required the construction of vertically erected bow bridges "into the heavens" (also known as bow towers). On two separate weekends in July and August of 2005, the bow frames were placed over the roof of the train station using a procedure unique among world construction techniques. The frames, each weighing in at 1,250 tonnes, were lowered by ropes at a rate of six meters per hour; the remaining two-centimeter gap between the bow frames upon completion of the lowering process was subsequently filled in. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cranes are essential in large construction projects, such as this skyscraper Construction on the North Bytown Bridge in Ottawa, Canada. ... July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street station in 1865. ...

In the summer of 2003 a survey headed by Peter Strieder, Berlin’s Senator for City Development and Traffic, and railway director Hartmut Mehdorn was conducted among Berlin’s citizens with the intention of selecting a new name for the Bahnhof. Of the three possibilities listed on the survey, the vast majority of participants opted for the retention of the name Lehrter Bahnhof; nevertheless, the Bahhof was renamed to "Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Lehrter Bahnhof" – an option that was not even listed. It was decided early in 2005 that the Bahnhof would be renamed to "Berlin Hauptbahnhof" on the date of its opening: May 28th, 2006. Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July, and August, in the Northern hemisphere, and the whole months of December, January, and February, in the Southern hemisphere. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // Basic Information Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... A senate is a deliberative body, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature. ... // Basic Information Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Bahnhof is a Swedish internet service provider, founded in 1994, and was the first independent ISP in Sweden. ... // Basic Information Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bahnhof is a Swedish internet service provider, founded in 1994, and was the first independent ISP in Sweden. ... // Basic Information Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... May 28 is the 148th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (149th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The 2006 FIFA World Cup has prompted the formulation of plans for the transfer of use to the Fernbahnhof, which encompasses inter-city and long-distance railways. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Football World Cup (official name: FIFA World Cup) is the most important competition in international football (soccer). ...

The architect Meinhard von Gerkan filed a complaint against the Deutsche Bahn AG in October of 2005 for copyright infringement after the DBAG altered the Bahnhof’s construction timeline without proper authority (16th Berlin Superior Court of Justice, AZ 16 O 240/05). The station’s structure may therefore be subject to larger construction projects in the future. Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railway Corporation; abbreviated DBAG or simply DB) is Germanys main railway operator, providing passenger and goods services over federally owned tracks. ... October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In addition, the Deutsche Bahn AG decided to further break with the "Pilzkonzept" by running train lines through the new Tiergartentunnel (Zoo Tunnel) rather than via the Stadtbahn. It is thus expected that the Lehrter Bahnhof would automatically be more frequently used, providing businesses the opportunity to establish successful operations in the train station’s complex. The Bahnhof Zoo (Train Station "Zoo") would consequently be downgraded to the status of Regionalbahnhof ("Regional Train Station"), a move viewed very critically by passengers and residents. Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railway Corporation; abbreviated DBAG or simply DB) is Germanys main railway operator, providing passenger and goods services over federally owned tracks. ... The Bahnhof Zoo in 2004 The Bahnhof Zoo around 1981 U-Bahn station (U9) The Bahnhof Zoo (the official name is Berlin Zoologischer Garten) was the central traffic point in West Berlin during the citys political division and is still a train station in Berlin. ...

External links

• Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Lehrter Bahnhof, Informationsseite der Deutschen Bahn
• Bilder vom Absenken der Bügelbrücken von Matthias Schlecker, 31.07.2005
• Fotostrecke, Tagesspiegel, 31.07.2005
• Fünf Fotoserien vom alten und neuen Bahnhof (2002)