Potsdam Pirschheide station
The low level in 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Drewitz, Potsdam, Brandenburg Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°22′22″N 13°0′40″E / 52.37278°N 13.01111°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 (formerly 6) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Architect | Wolfgang Dreßler, Walter Mempel | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5011 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | BPDP | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8010279 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VBB: Berlin C and Potsdam B/5851 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 18 January 1958 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 28 May 1999 (upper station) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 500/day | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Potsdam Pirschheide station is a station on the Berlin outer ring. It was opened in 1958 as Potsdam Süd (south) station and was called Potsdam Hauptbahnhof (main station) from 1961 to 1993. In this period it was the most important station on the outer ring after Berlin Schönefeld Flughafen station.
Although the station is far from the centre of Potsdam on the Pirschheide (Pirsch heath) to the southwest of the town, in its heyday as the main station it had substantial passenger traffic and often reached its capacity limit. With the reunification, however, the station rapidly lost importance and was almost completely closed except for a single platform in the lower part of the station.
A renovation of the station was completed in April 2024. For the first time in 25 years, regional trains began stopping at the upper level of the Pirschheide station. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.