Berlin Jannowitzbrücke Station

Berlin Jannowitzbrücke is a station in the Mitte district of Berlin. It is served by several S-Bahn lines and and the U-Bahn line 8. It is located next to the Jannowitz Bridge (Jannowitzbrücke) and is a public transport interchange. South of the station is Brückenstraße (“bridge street”) and north of it are Holzmarkstrasse and Alexanderstraße. The station also serves as a stop for various private excursion and sightseeing boats, among others, those of the Stern und Kreisschiffahrt and Reederei Riedel companies.

S-Bahn station

When the Jannowitz Bridge was rebuilt (1881–1883), the suburban station of the same name was opened on the Berlin Stadtbahn (“city railway”) viaduct next to the Spree river. The opening date is officially stated to be 7 February 1882. Since the station was just an open platform with a canopy, passengers were exposed to the weather and the smoke of the locomotives. In 1885, the station was given ist first weather protection in the form of a wall of glass, which was built between the suburban tracks and the long-distance tracks. A roof was built above the wall, which was connected to the existing platform canopy, creating a half-open concourse to the north.

S-Bahn platforms, class 481/482 train on the left Station and bridge in the evening

The traffic on the Stadtbahn steadily increased and the narrow central platform on the suburban tracks at Jannowitzbrücke had to be widened. To obtain sufficient space, the tracks of the long-distance line were shifted slightly towards the south in 1906/1907, so it rested on a supporting structure built directly in the river. The structure was slightly modified in 1997 to increase ist stability.

With the establishment of the S-Bahn network and the electrification of the Stadtbahn from 1928, the station was demolished and rebuilt in ist present form between 1927 and 1932 to plans by the architect Hugo Röttcher. S-Bahn trains ran through the newly built station from 11 June 1928.

At the end of World War II, rail operations were forced to stop in April 1945. On 15 November 1945, S-Bahn operations restarted and traffic grew steadily because it was an interchange between the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn. This function as an interchange was removed with the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961; the signs to the U-Bahn were removed and Jannowitzbrücke station was now just an S-Bahn station. Already on 11 November 1989—a few days after Die Wende—it was again possible to change between the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn.

Subsequently, there was a thorough renovation of the Stadtbahn. The S-Bahn trains were diverted to run over the disused long-distance tracks outside the train shed, so they could not stop at the station. This made it possible to rehabilitate the S-Bahn station completely between 15 November 1994 and 21 October 1996. Since then the station has included a lift, several escalators and shops.

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