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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Berlin-Südkreuz

Berlin Südkreuz station (German: Bahnhof Berlin Südkreuz, lit.'Berlin South Cross') is a railway station in the German capital Berlin. The station was originally opened in 1898 and is an interchange station. The Berlin Ringbahn line of the Berlin S-Bahn metro railway is situated on the upper level and connects to the east and west, whilst the Anhalter Bahn and Dresdner Bahn intercity railway routes reach the station on the lower, north-south level. The station was extensively rebuilt between the late 1990s and 2006, and was renamed Berlin Südkreuz on 28 May 2006.

History

Construction works in 2005

The station's original name (Berlin Papestraße) originates from the nearby General-Pape-Straße, which is named after the Prussian general Alexander August Wilhelm von Pape. The Ringbahn platform opened as an island platform on 1 December 1901.

The original Papestrasse station building, constructed from 1898 to 1901 was demolished, although a corner of the building, incorporating a clock tower, has been preserved as part of the new station.

Becoming Südkreuz

The station played a vital part in Deutsche Bahn's new concept for long-distance services in Berlin; it was deemed necessary to have a long-distance station in southern Berlin for the new north-south axis, so it was decided to rebuild Papestraße and rename the station to Südkreuz, giving the station a more intuitive name like the Ostkreuz (East Cross) and Westkreuz (West Cross) stations on the Berlin Stadtbahn. Construction, however, was severely delayed due to unexpected difficulties and NIMBY complaints of residents living near the long-disused north-south lines. Instead of opening in 2000 as scheduled, the station only opened on 28 May 2006, together with the new Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Main Station) in the center of Berlin. It is now used as a terminal station for ICE trains to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, and sees a number of north-south services heading to and from Leipzig Hauptbahnhof or Halle Hauptbahnhof plus EuroCity services to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia via Dresden Hauptbahnhof.

After upgrades on the Berlin Dresden railway, the airport express (FEX) is to run via Südkreuz.

Facial recognition trial

During 2017 Germany's Ministry of the Interior announced a pilot project to employ facial recognition technology at Berlin Südkreuz station. The six-month trial will overlay facial recognition software over the station's existing video surveillance system and will track a database of volunteers. The project is being jointly undertaken by the Ministry of the Interior, the Federal Police, the Federal Criminal Police Office and Deutsche Bahn. Announcing the pilot, the ministry said the technology would be able to detect people in need of help, as well as suspicious behaviour, and report it automatically.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

Long distance

Line Route Interval
ICE 8 Berlin GesundbrunnenBerlinBerlin SüdkreuzHalleErfurtNurembergMunich Every 2 hours
ICE 9 Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin – CologneBonn
ICE 11 Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin – Berlin SüdkreuzLeipzig – Erfurt – Frankfurt – MannheimStuttgart – Munich – Innsbruck Every 2 hours
ICE 15 (Rostock –) Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz Halle – Erfurt – Frankfurt (– Saarbrücken, Stuttgart or Darmstadt) Every 2 hours
ICE 18 (Kiel –) Hamburg – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt/Augsburg – Munich Every 2 hours
ICE 28 Hamburg – or (Binz – Stralsund –) Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz Leipzig – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt/Augsburg – Munich Every 2 hours
ICE 29 (Rostock –) Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Munich 5 train pairs
ICE 91 (Rostock –) Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – Halle – Erfurt – Nürnberg – RegensburgPassauLinzVienna One train pair
IC 17 Warnemünde – Rostock – Waren – Neustrelitz – Oranienburg – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 – Doberlug-Kirchhain – Elsterwerda – Dresden-Neustadt – Dresden Every 2 hours
EC 27 (Kiel or Westerland  –) Hamburg – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz Dresden – Prague (– Budapest) Every 2 hours
FLX 30 Leipzig – Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Spandau – Hannover – Bielefeld – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Aachen 1 train pair
Notes. 1 = one pair of trains each

2 = one train on line 11 to Kiel, one train on line 18 from Kiel
3 = train stops either in Ingolstadt, in Augsburg and Munich-Pasing or runs between Nuremberg and Munich without intermediate stops
4 = one train only towards Graz

Regional

Line Route
RE 3 Lutherstadt WittenbergJüterbog – Berlin SüdkreuzEberswalde – Angermünde – Schwedt (Oder)
Prenzlau – Greifswald – Stralsund
RE 4 Falkenberg (Elster) – Jüterbog – Ludwigsfelde – Berlin SüdkreuzBerlin-Spandau – Dallgow-Döberitz – Wustermark – Rathenow
RE 5 Berlin SüdkreuzBerlin Potsdamer Platz – Berlin Gesundbrunnen – Oranienburg – Neustrelitz – Güstrow – Rostock
Neubrandenburg – Stralsund
RE 8 Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Potsdamer Platz – Berlin Südkreuz – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt – Luckau-Uckro – Doberlug-Kirchhain – Elsterwerda
Finsterwalde (Niederlausitz)
RB 10 Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin Potsdamer Platz – Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Jungfernheide – Berlin-Spandau – Falkensee – Nauen
RB 14 Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin Potsdamer Platz – Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Jungfernheide – Berlin-Spandau – Falkensee – Nauen
As of 11 December 2022

S-Bahn

  • Berlin S-Bahn services S2 Bernau - Karow - Pankow - Gesundbrunnen - Friedrichstraße - Potsdamer Platz - Südkreuz - Blankenfelde
  • Berlin S-Bahn services S25 Hennigsdorf - Tegel - Gesundbrunnen - Friedrichstraße - Potsdamer Platz - Südkreuz - Lichterfelde - Teltow
  • Berlin S-Bahn services S26 Blankenburg - Pankow - Gesundbrunnen - Friedrichstraße - Potsdamer Platz - Südkreuz - Lichterfelde - Teltow
  • Berlin S-Bahn services S41 (Ring Clockwise) Südkreuz - Innsbrucker Platz - Westkreuz - Westend - Jungfernheide - Gesundbrunnen - Ostkreuz - Treptower Park - Hermannstraße - Südkreuz
  • Berlin S-Bahn services S42 (Ring Anti-clockwise) Südkreuz - Hermannstraße - Treptower Park - Ostkreuz - Gesundbrunnen - Jungfernheide - Westend - Westkreuz - Innsbrucker Platz - Südkreuz
  • Berlin S-Bahn services S45 Südkreuz - Neukölln - Schöneweide - Berlin-Brandenburg Airport (T1-T2)
  • Berlin S-Bahn services S46 Westend - Westkreuz - Innsbrucker Platz - Südkreuz - Neukölln - Schöneweide - Grünau - Königs Wusterhausen

References

  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  4. ^ Kuhlmann, B. Bahnknoten Berlin - Die Entwicklung des Berliner Eisenbahnnetzes seit 1838. Berlin, Verlag GVE, 2006.
  5. ^ Preuss, E. Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Stuttgart, Transpress, 2006.
  6. ^ Facial recognition technology to be trialled at Berlin railway station
  7. ^ Timetables for Berlin Südkreuz station (in German)