BER Airport – Terminal 5 station () (formerly named Berlin Schönefeld Airport station and to be named Schönefeld (bei Berlin) station from December 2023) is a railway station in Schönefeld next to the formerly independent Berlin Schönefeld Airport, which has now been re-branded as Terminal 5 of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, 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.
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. Since the opening of BER, it serves BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 station instead.
On 25 October 2020, the station was renamed to "Flughafen BER – Terminal 5" 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.
Due to the indefinite closure of Terminal 5, this station will be renamed Schönefeld (bei Berlin) station in December 2023, reflecting it is no longer an airport station.
Train services
The station is served by the following services S-Bahn and Regionalbahn services:
Berlin S-Bahn services BER Airport – Terminal 1–2 – BER Airport – Terminal 5 – Schöneweide – Neukölln – Südkreuz Berlin S-Bahn services Spandau – Westkreuz – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Schöneweide – BER Airport – Terminal 5 – BER Airport – Terminal 1–2 Regional-Express BER Airport – Terminal 5 – Berlin-Schöneweide – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin-Hohenschönhausen – Bernau – Rüdnitz – Eberswalde Regionalbahn BER Airport – Terminal 5 – Berlin-Schöneweide – Berlin Ostkreuz – Berlin-Lichtenberg – Berlin-Hohenschönhausen –
Gallery
See also
BER Airport – Terminal 1-2 station
References
Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler, Wolfgang Kramer: Berlins S-Bahnhöfe. Ein dreiviertel Jahrhundert. Berlin-Brandenburg 1999. Bernd Kuhlmann: Eisenbahn-Größenwahn in Berlin. Die Planungen 1933 bis 1945 und deren Realisierung. GVE, Berlin 1996.