Schönefeld (bei Berlin) station

Schönefeld (bei Berlin) station (German: Bahnhof Schönefeld (bei Berlin)) (formerly named Berlin Schönefeld Airport station and BER Airport – Terminal 5 station)^[4] is a railway station in Schönefeld next to the former Berlin Schönefeld Airport (briefly renamed as Terminal 5 and now defunct), just outside Berlin. The station is on the Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport railway and is served by S-Bahn lines S9 and S45. It is also served by RB 24 and RB 32.

Schönefeld (bei Berlin)
Through station
General information
Location	Schönefeld, Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	52°23′29″N 13°30′46″E
Owned by	DB InfraGO
Line(s)	Berlin Outer Ring (KBS 207, 209.22) Grünauer Kreuz–Berlin Brandenburg Airport (KBS 200.45, 200.9)
Platforms	3 (long distance) 2 (S-Bahn)
Other information
Station code	1821
DS100 code	BTL [1]
IBNR	8010109
Category	3[2]
Fare zone	: Berlin C/5957[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	10 July 1951; 73 years ago (1951-07-10)
Electrified	27 February 1962; 62 years ago (1962-02-27), 750 V DC system (3rd rail) main line: 29 May 1983; 41 years ago (1983-05-29), 15 kV AC system (overhead)
Previous names	1951-1962 Schönefeld (b. Berlin) 1962 Zentralflughafen Schönefeld 1962–1976 Zentralflughafen Berlin-Schönefeld 1976–2020 Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen 2020 – December 2023 BER Airport – Terminal 5
Passengers
< 10,000 per day
Services Preceding station Berlin S-Bahn Following station Waßmannsdorf towards BER Airport S45 Grünbergallee towards Südkreuz S9 Grünbergallee towards Spandau Preceding station DB Regio Nordost Following station Terminus Flughafen-Express Limited service Berlin Ostkreuz towards Berlin-Charlottenburg Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof towards Potsdam Hbf RB 22 Limited service Königs Wusterhausen Terminus Terminus RB 24 Berlin-Schöneweide towards Eberswalde Hbf RB 32 Berlin-Schöneweide towards Oranienburg
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History

Schönefeld Airport

Berlin-Schönefeld railway station was built within 150 days and opened for the public on 10 July 1951 as part of the Berliner Außenring. On 26 February 1962, an additional platform was added and Schönefeld was connected to the Berlin S-Bahn.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport

From May to October 2020, Intercity 17 (Dresden-Berlin-Rostock/Warnemünde) stopped in Schönefeld.^[5] Since the opening of BER, it serves BER Airport station instead.^[6]

On 25 October 2020, the station was renamed to "Flughafen BER – Terminal 5"^[7] to reflect the re-development of Schönefeld Airport into an operational terminal of Berlin Brandenburg Airport. A few days later all train services except the S-Bahn switched to the new Terminal 1 station.

Despite the shutdown of Terminal 5 in early 2021, the station continues to be served to the same extent as during Terminal 5's existence as a part of BER, as the Terminal then hosted a vaccination center for the administration of Covid 19 vaccines.^[8]

Due to the indefinite closure of Terminal 5, this station was renamed Schönefeld (bei Berlin) station in December 2023, reflecting it is no longer an airport station.^[4]

Train services

The station is served by the following services S-Bahn and Regionalbahn services:^[9]

Line	Route	Interval
FEX	Schönefeld – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Friedrichstraße – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin-Charlottenburg	One nighttime service
RB 22	Königs Wusterhausen – Schönefeld – Ludwigsfelde-Struveshof – Saarmund – Potsdam – Pirschheide – Golm – Potsdam Park Sanssouci – Potsdam Charlottenhof – Potsdam Hbf	Some nighttime services
RB 24	Schönefeld – Berlin-Schöneweide – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin-Hohenschönhausen – Bernau – Rüdnitz – Biesenthal – Melchow – Eberswalde	60 min
RB 32	Schönefeld – Berlin-Schöneweide – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin-Hohenschönhausen – Oranienburg	60 min
S9	Flughafen BER – Schönefeld – Schöneweide – Warschauer Straße – Ostbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Friedrichstraße – Hauptbahnhof – Zoologischer Garten – Charlottenburg – Westkreuz – Spandau	20 min
S45	Flughafen BER – Schönefeld – Schöneweide – Neukölln – Hermannstraße – Tempelhof – Südkreuz	20 min

Gallery

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  Platform
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  View from western overpass

See also

• BER Airport station

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
3. "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
4. berliner-zeitung.de (German) 9 March 2023
5. "InterCity 17 timetable" (PDF). Deutsche Bahn. 1 May 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2020.
6. Unbenannt Archived 29 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine bahn.de (in German)
7. "Ab 26. Oktober fährt die S-Bahn zum BER". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). 17 October 2020.
8. "Terminal 5 vorübergehend geschlossen". rw. Archived from the original on 14 November 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
9. "Kursbuch der Deutschen Bahn". kursbuch.bahn.de.

• Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlins S-Bahnhöfe. Ein dreiviertel Jahrhundert. Berlin-Brandenburg 1999. ISBN 3-930863-60-X (in German)
• Bernd Kuhlmann: Eisenbahn-Größenwahn in Berlin. Die Planungen 1933 bis 1945 und deren Realisierung. GVE, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-89218-035-0 (in German)