page_title: Karstädt station
section_title: Station and environment
hierarchical_section_title: Karstädt station / History / Station and environment
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof - Karstädt, Prignitz
context_page_description: Karstädt station is the station of Karstädt in the German state of Brandenburg. It lies on the Berlin–Hamburg Railway and was opened for freight in 1853 and for passengers in 1859. The Karstädt station of the former Westprignitz District Ring Railway was nearby and was served by passenger services from 1911 to 1975 and by freight traffic until the beginning of the 1990s. The state station's Neoclassical entrance building along with a second building, its goods shed and the paving of the forecourt have heritage protection.
context_section_description: The station building is on the east side of the tracks towards the town. It originally had four portals on its long side with a gabled roof and a central avant-corps with two portals on the platform side. It was similar to the station buildings that had been built earlier on the Berlin–Hamburg railway, such as those in Grabow and Bergedorf, although they were built with five portals from the beginning. The avant-corps on the town side was only hinted at. The building was expanded considerably in 1877/78. Another five portals were built to the south and the southern two also were part of an avant-corps, so that the building appears from the track side to be approximately symmetrical.
  Adjoining the station building to the north, there is a small outbuilding with a half-timbered facade in its roof area. Because this building was already shown on a map dating from around 1860, it is believed that it is one of the oldest parts of the station and possibly dates back to the time before the construction of the entrance building. Still further north is the former goods shed. Next to the station building to the south there was a separate toilet block built out of brick in a "romantic style". It was demolished to make room for an extension to the platform tunnel during the renovation of the station.
  In the early 2000s, the building was one of the few station buildings that had survived from the early years of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway that was not yet a heritage-listed building. Since then, the ensemble of the station, "consisting of the main station buildings, the outbuilding, the goods shed and the paving", have been given heritage protection. After the building had long stood empty for the most part, the last remaining tenant, a restaurant, left the station in early 2013.
caption: Station from the street side: entrance building, additional building and pavement are heritage-listed.
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