Military railway station Schöneberg

The building of the Prussian military railway station in Schöneberg once stood here on the opposite side. Construction of the station began in 1873, shortly after the “Railway Battalion” was established, which was stationed in the newly built barracks at Fiskalstrasse, now Kesselsdorfstraße.

Next to the Wilhelminian-style station building were several sheds and workshop buildings as well as a wartime depot with field equipment for the Railway Battalion. The training ground for the railway troops was set up south of the station.

A few months after the Berlin-Dresden Railway was opened in 1875, the military railway running parallel to it began operating. The route led to the Kummersdorf firing range and to Jüterbog.

 

In 1888 the military railway became available to the general public. It was possible to travel from Schöneberg station to Jüterbog for relatively little money. After the First World War the Prussian Military Railway was transferred to civil management and the track system used for freight traffic. The station building at Kolonnenstrasse was severely damaged in World War II. The ruin was torn down in 1955.

Despite strong changes in the urban landscape a few remains of the military railway still exist: the earlier administrative building at Kolonnenstrasse where a technical library was housed (now Havelland School) and a storage building (now Wilhelm-Kabus-Strasse 39).