page_title: Fürstenwalde (Spree) station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Fürstenwalde (Spree) station / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Bahnhof in Fürstenwalde/Spree, 1842 erbaut, in einer Lithographie etwa von 1845.
context_page_description: Fürstenwalde (Spree) station is the station of the city of Fürstenwalde/Spree in the German state of Brandenburg. It was opened on 23 October 1842 on the Berlin-Frankfurt railway. The station was then about one kilometre north of the town on Müncheberger Chaussee. The station building still exists and is one of the oldest in Germany.
context_section_description: The Berlin-Frankfurt Railway was opened for passenger services on 23 October 1842. Freight operations commenced on October 31 of that year. As of August 1845, the line was extended as part by the Lower Silesian-Markish Railway (Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) to Wrocław (then Breslau), completed in 1846.
  The station was established west of the Müncheberger Chaussee, which as a result was renamed Eisenbahnstraße (“railway street”) between the town and the station. It was about one kilometre north of the city. A major reason for the establishment of the station would have been the Fürstenwalder Spreemuhle opened in 1837. This water mill of American design required a large amount of grain, which would be transported by rail.
caption: The station about 1845
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