Stellwerk Fichtengrund
Structure
The Stellwerk operated a type GS II DR point control system and the structure was designed by the building department of the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The building consists of a block containing the control centre with radial viewing windows and a separate part containing the electrical relay rooms. The construction of all walls, floors and roofs is predominantly from pre-cast or in-situ cast steel reinforced concrete with a rendered outer coating on the walls; building materials and method which were fashionable during that period in the GDR.
Similar buildings
The Reichsbahn built several virtually identical buildings situated in Birkenwerder, Satzkorn, Hohen-Neuendorf-West and Schönfließ.
Protected building status
On 20 March 2012 the exterior of the building was awarded protected building status - added to the "Denkmalliste des Landes Brandenburg".