Berlin Frankfurter Allee station

For the street, see Frankfurter Allee. For the Berlin U-Bahn station, see Frankfurter Allee (Berlin U-Bahn).

Berlin Frankfurter Allee
Entrance building
General information
Location	Berlin, Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°30′51″N13°28′29″E / 52.51417°N 13.47472°E / 52.51417; 13.47472
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Ringbahn (KBS 200.41, 200.42, 200.8, 200.85)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections
Other information
Station code	526
DS100 code	BFAL
Category	4
Fare zone	VBB: Berlin A/5555 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 May 1872;153 years ago (1872-05-01) 21 December 1930;94 years ago (1930-12-21)
Electrified	1 February 1929;96 years ago (1929-02-01)
Previous names	1872–1897 Friedrichsberg 1897–1949 Frankfurter Allee 1949–1961 Stalinallee
Key dates
1890/1891	current building erected
Services
Preceding station Berlin S-Bahn Following station Storkower Straße One-way operation S41 Ostkreuz Ringbahn (clockwise) Storkower Straße Ringbahn (counter-clockwise) S42 Ostkreuz One-way operation Storkower Straße towards Birkenwerder S8 Ostkreuz towards Wildau Storkower Straße towards Waidmannslust S85 Ostkreuz towards Grünau Preceding station Berlin U-Bahn Following station Samariterstraße towards Berlin Hbf U5 transfer at Frankfurter Allee Magdalenenstraße towards Hönow
Location

Berlin Frankfurter Allee is a railway station situated on Frankfurter Allee in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, close to the district's border with Lichtenberg. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S41, S42 (the ringbahn), S8, S85 and the U-Bahn line U5.

History

The station was first opened on 1 May 1872 as Friedrichsberg. In 1890-91 the current station Frankfurter Allee was erected, in addition to the platform between the tracks, the station had a brick entrance building. When the U5 was built at the end of the 1920s, the old Ringbahn bridge was torn down and replaced with a wider bridge. There was intended to be a direct connection between the underground U5 station and the above ground S-bahn station;- however, this was never developed. It is not practical to build such a connection now as the S-bahn platform would need to be on the bridge over the road. As the rails are not wide apart enough to fit a platform between them, the bridge would need to be entirely rebuilt. The station was named Stalinallee between 1949 and 1961.

References

1. "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.