Berlin Südkreuz

Berlin Südkreuz
Berlin Papestraße (1898-2006)
Berlin Südkreuz
Operations
Category	1
DS100 code	BPAP
Station code	4859
Construction and location
Opened	1898
Location	Berlin
State	Berlin
Country	Germany
Local authority	Tempelhof-Schöneberg
Home page	www.bahnhof.de
General-Pape-Straße 1 10829 Berlin
1990s-2006	Rebuilt as Südkreuz
Route information
North–South mainline (KBS 203, 204, 205) Anhalt Suburban Line (KBS 200.2, 200.25) Ringbahn (KBS 200.41, 200.42, 200.46)
List of railway stations in the Berlin area

Berlin Südkreuz (English: 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

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 platforms were opened on 1 January 1901, the Ringbahn platform opened as an island platform on 1 December 1901.

Becoming Südkreuz

Construction works in 2005

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 fair share of north-south services heading to and from Leipzig Hauptbahnhof.

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Berlin Hbf toward Stralsund Hbf		ICE 28		Bitterfeld toward München Hbf
Berlin Hbf toward Hamburg or Berlin		ICE 28		Lutherstadt Wittenberg toward München Hbf
Berlin Hbf toward Hamburg or Berlin		EuroCity 27		Elsterwerda toward Budapest Keleti
Berlin Hbf toward Hamburg or Berlin		EuroCity 27		Elsterwerda toward Villach or Vienna
Berlin Hbf toward Binz or Szczecin		EuroCity 27		Elsterwerda toward Brno or Prague
Berlin Hbf toward Westerland (Sylt)		EuroCity 27		Dresden Hbf Terminus
Berlin Hbf toward Innsbruck Hbf		IC/EC 32		Terminus
Berlin Hbf toward Ostseebad Binz		IC 50		Lutherstadt Wittenberg toward Frankfurt Flughafen
Berlin Potsdamer Platz toward Stralsund or Schwedt		RE 3		Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost toward Elsterwerda
Berlin Potsdamer Platz toward Rathenow		RE 4		Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost toward Jüterbog
Berlin Potsdamer Platz toward Rostock or Stralsund		RE 5		Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost toward Wittenberg or Falkenberg
Berlin Potsdamer Platz toward Berlin-Gesundbrunnen		RE		Magdeburg Hbf Terminus
Preceding station		Berlin S-Bahn		Following station
Priesterweg toward Blankenfelde		S2		Yorckstraße toward Bernau
Priesterweg toward Teltow Stadt		S25		Yorckstraße toward Hennigsdorf
Tempelhof One-way operation		S41		Schöneberg toward Ringbahn (clockwise)
Schöneberg One-way operation		S42		Tempelhof toward Ringbahn (counter-clockwise)
Schöneberg toward Hermannstraße		S45		Tempelhof toward Flughafen Schönefeld
Schöneberg toward Westend		S46		Tempelhof toward Königs Wusterhausen