page_title: Berlin-Staaken station
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin-Staaken station / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das so genannte Elefantentor in Staaken, Berlin, hier Blick durchs geschlossene Tor nordwärts, ehemals Teil der Sperranlagen zwischen dem Kontroll-Bahnhaltepunkt Staaken und der Mauer zwischen West- und Ost-Staaken. Der Bahnhof Staaken für den Personenverkehr war östlich, der Grenzkontrollbahnhof Staaken westlich dieses Punktes. Die Absperrung verlief wie eine Ausstülpung von der Mauer aus westwärts bis zum Kontrollhalt in Staaken. Im Verlauf der damaligen Neuen Straße (jetziger Name: Am alten Gaswerk, in die früher kurz vorm Bahnhübergang die inzwischen rückgebaute Staakener Feldstraße einmündete), südlich der Bahn, und dem Oberdorfer Steig, nördlich der Bahn, bestand ein Bahnübergang, der auch diese ausgestülpten Sperranlagen querte. Die Schiebetore in den Sperranlagen beiderseits der Gleise hießen im Volksmund Elefantentor. Das Elefantentor fungierte auch nach Abbau der Sperranlagen weiter wie ein beschrankter Bahnübergang. Nach 1996 wurden der Kontroll-Bahnhaltepunkt und der Übergang mit dem Elefantentor abgebrochen. Jetzt besteht an dieser Stelle nurmehr eine Fußgängerunterführung. English: The so-called Elefantentor (Elephants' Gate) in Staaken, Berlin, here closed, was once part of the barrier and fences which stretched along the rail tracks between the actual Berlin Wall between East and West Staaken and the East German border crossing control station of Staaken. From the point in the Berlin Wall were the tracks left West Berlin's Staaken into East German Staaken the barriers turned inwards East Germany along the tracks up to the control station of East German Staaken. However, in the course of the then Neue Straße (now: Am alten Gaswerk), south of the tracks, and the Oberdorfer Steig, north of the tracks, there was a railway crossing passing the tracks and the adjacent barrier fences. The two huge sliding gates in the course of barrier fences along both sides of the tracks were nicknamed Elephants' Gate by the Staakeners. After the removal of most of the barriers after 1989 the Elephants' Gate remained, since it also functioned as railway gate at this level crossing. After 1996 the level crossing and the control station were removed. Today there is only a pedestrain underpass at this place.
context_page_description: Berlin-Staaken is a railway station located in Staaken, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. It is one of only two Deutsche Bahn stations in Berlin not served by the S-Bahn; Albrechtshof station is the other.
context_section_description: The station is situated on the "Lehrter Bahn" Berlin-Wolfsburg-Hannover, between the stations of Berlin Spandau and Dallgow-Döberitz. The station has two platforms.
  The first station in Staaken was opened in 1900. That should change drastically after the Second World War. Staaken was divided by the Allies. The continuous train traffic was interrupted. On West Berlin side 1951 the rapid-transit railway of Spandau west was extended by a station to Staaken. Already in the 1930s an extension of the rapid-transit railway to the Brandenburg Wustermark had been aimed at. The S-Bahn station Berlin-Staaken was in West Berlin. On the other side of the Nennhauser dam was the station Staaken Kr. Nauen (at the former freight yard Staaken) in the GDR area, from where suburban trains in the direction of Wustermark and Nauen reversed. To change trains between S-Bahn and suburban trains, passengers had to change stations and pass a checkpoint. With the building of the Wall, another Staaken station was added far before the border: Staaken (GDR). He served the control of freight trains between West Berlin and the Federal territory or the GDR.
  When Staaken was also to be passed by transit trains of travel traffic between Berlin and Hamburg in 1976, a new control station Staaken (GDR) was built further west. Before, since 1961, the Hamburg long-distance trains had to take the detour via the Berlin outer ring and Griebnitzsee. The transit tracks were sealed off between border and control station on both sides by a high protective wall. The station Staaken Kr. Nauen for domestic traffic within the GDR was moved west to the Feldstraße. There the passenger trains from direction Wustermark ended at a separate head track south of the protective wall to the transit tracks.
  At the new station Staaken Kr. Nauen was for the transition of the field road on the transit tracks probably the safest railroad crossing in the world: Because here the protective wall had to be interrupted, instead of barriers massive roller shutters secured the sealed transit corridor in train traffic through Staaken.
  On West Berlin side of the S-Bahn operation ended after Staaken after not even 30 years as a result of the Berlin S-Bahn strike in 1980. After the takeover of the Berlin S-Bahn by the Berlin transport operations in 1984 was again a S-Bahn-development Staakens considered.
  With the reunification all Staaken became part of Berlin-Spandau again. In regional traffic drove from 1990 again through trains from Nauen on the Lehrter Bahn to Berlin-Spandau, from 1991 completely replaced the previous train offer. The trains could no longer approach the head track on Feldstraße, the stop in Staaken was dropped. On pressure of the population drove first weekdays still commuter trains between Dallgow (later Dallgow-Döberitz) and Staaken, before a makeshift stop on the main tracks was built, so again a connection from Staaken towards Spandau was created. As of 1996, the Lehrter Bahn was expanded as one of the transport projects German unit for a top speed of 250 km / h. The rail traffic was replaced by buses for two years. The old Staakener stations were demolished during the construction. In 1998, the newly built platform was inaugurated on the side of the ICE route in the amount of existing from 1951 to 1976 station.
  Also in the area of Staaken is the Berlin-Albrechtshof station.
caption: Formerly located in the death strip railway crossing "Elephant Gate", 1991
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