page_title: Berlin Beusselstraße station
section_title: Berlin-Moabit freight yard
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin Beusselstraße station / Berlin-Moabit freight yard
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Fachwerk-Stellwerkturm "Moabiter Güterbahnhof" am S-Bahnhof Beusselstraße in Berlin English: Switch tower at commuter train station Berlin-Beusselstrasse
context_page_description: Beusselstraße is a Berlin S-Bahn station in the Moabit district in the Mitte borough of Berlin. It is located at the Beussel bridge, which carries the street of Beusselstrasse over the Berlin Ringbahn. It is served by the S-Bahn lines and. It is additionally served by the line on weekends.
context_section_description: South of the S-Bahn tracks between Beussel bridge and Putlitz bridge is the Berlin-Moabit freight yard. It extends to the east past Putlitz bridge. Its sidings and loading tracks formerly extended south to the streets of Siemensstraße and Quitzowstraße and are now largely dismantled.
  During Nazi Germany, about 30,000 Jews were deported from Moabit freight yard. Today this is commemorated by a memorial on the Putlitz bridge and a plaque in Quitzowstraße, where a memorial will be established during the redevelopment of the area.
  Large parts of the freight yard were abandoned after 1990. The southern part of the yard is being redeveloped for such uses as wholesale marketing. The street of Erna-Samuel-Straße has been constructed for the development of the site; it also relieves the southern residential areas of through traffic.
  The Moabiter Stadtgarten (“Moabit city garden”) was opened on 24 September 2012 on a 15,000 square metre section of this area; it consists of a playground, lawn areas, orchard and a citizens’ garden. €2 million was invested by the state of Berlin in this as part of the Stadtumbau West ("Urban Redevelopment West") project. Parts of a freight shed were incorporated in the park and they are intended for reuse.
  The remaining tracks of the Moabit freight yard are now used in particular to connect with the west harbour (Westhafen) and the Moabit power station via a headshunt at the former Hamburg-Lehrter freight yard.
  The Mwt signalbox, designed by Karl Cornelius and built in 1892 and 1893 along with its integrated water tower is now heritage listed.
caption: The former water tower with signalbox Mwt (Moabit west tower)
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