Berlin Wriezener Bahnhof
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Berlin Wriezener Bahnhof was a passenger railway terminus
Train station
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 in Berlin
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, Germany
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. The station was situated close to the modern Ostbahnhof
Berlin Ostbahnhof
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, and its good station (Wriezener Güterbahnhof) was extended between it and Warschauer Straße station. From 1867 to 1882, nearby the Wriezener Bahnhof, it worked the Old Ostbahnhof
Berlin Old Ostbahnhof
The old Berlin Ostbahnhof, sometimes also named Küstriner Bahnhof, was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was situated in Friedrichshain, close to the current Ostbahnhof and to the former Wriezener Bahnhof.-History:...

.

History

The Wriezener Bahnhof was built in 1903 on a short terminal line from Lichtenberg station. It was the new dedicated terminus of the Wriezener Bahn (Berlin-Wriezen
Wriezen
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-Godków
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), opened in 1892.

Originally, from 1903 to 1924, it was a simple Bahnsteig (platform
Railway platform
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) part of the Schlesischer Bahnhof
Berlin Ostbahnhof
Berlin Ostbahnhof is a mainline railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is in Friedrichshain, now part of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, and has undergone several name changes in its history. It was known as Berlin Hauptbahnhof from 1987 to 1998, a name now applied to Berlin's new central station...

, named Schlesischer Bahnhof (Wriezener Bahnsteig). Only from 1924 it received the name "Wriezener Bahnhof". In 1949 the station was closed to passenger traffic and used as a good and mail station.

In 2005 the tracks were removed and, in late 2006, a Metro
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 supermarket and a Hellweg store took place in the area. Nowadays the zone, owned by Deutsche Bahn
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, is interested by some future estate projects. The old station building is the only survived structure and two roads (Am Wriezener Bahnhof and Wriezener Karree) still remind to the existence of the terminus.

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