Berlin Wollankstrasse railway station

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Wollankstraße
Architectural information
Location	Berlin
State	Berlin
Country	Germany
Local authority	Berlin
Operations
DS100 code	BWOK
Station code	6871
Type	Hp
Category	4
Deutsche Bahn - Stations in Germany
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Berlin Wollankstraße (German: Bahnhof Wollankstraße) is a railway station in the Pankow district of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and several local buses.

The station opened as Bahnhof Prinzenallee on July 10, 1877 at the Nordbahn railway line from Berlin to Neubrandenburg. In 1893 it received the name Pankow (Nordbahn), while the former Pankow railway station was called Pankow-Schönhausen. The Nordbahn line was connected to the S-Bahn system on June 5, 1925 and the station was renamed Wollankstraße on October 3, 1937.

After World War II the train service was resumed on July 19, 1945. From 1949 the station was situated next to the border between East and West Berlin, on the east side, in Berlin's Pankow district. In 1961 the Berlin Wall was built just to the east of the station. The station remained in service within the West Berlin S-Bahn system, and could only be reached by passengers from the adjacent West Berlin borough of Wedding. The entrances to the east remained bricked up until 1989. Nevertheless, during this period, the station was staffed and controlled by East German railway officials, and while the West Berlin S-Bahn trains were passing between Wollankstrasse station and Friedrichstrasse station, they were driven by an East German State railway driver who returned home to East Berlin every day. This was at a time when only the select few were allowed to exit East Germany. Friedrichstrasse station was situated inside East Berlin proper, but the West Berlin S-Bahn service operating from that station was not accessible to East Berliners.

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• Station information (German)

Preceding station		Berlin S-Bahn		Following station
Schönholz toward Oranienburg		S1		Bornholmer Straße toward Wannsee
Schönholz toward Hennigsdorf		S25		Bornholmer Straße toward Teltow Stadt
Schönholz toward Waidmannslust		S85		Bornholmer Straße toward Grünau

Coordinates: 52°33′55″N 13°23′32″E / 52.56528, 13.39222