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The term "ghost station" is a calque of the German word Geisterbahnhof (plural Geisterbahnhöfe).The German term was coined to describe certain stations on Berlin's U-Bahn and S-Bahn metro networks that were closed during the period of Berlin's division during the Cold War because they were an integral part of a transit line mostly located on the other side of the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Wollankstraße station in November 1986 with the Berlin Wall at the right. The station opened as Bahnhof Prinzenallee on 10 July 1877 at the Nordbahn (Berlin–Stralsund Northern railway) from Berlin to Neubrandenburg. In 1893 it received the name Pankow (Nordbahn), while the former Pankow railway station was called Pankow-Schönhausen.
Zoologischer Garten Station/Friedrichstraße Station ČSSR, Poland, Scandinavia Furthermore, many train connections ended at the Ostbahnhof (east station). Very few passenger coaches passed through (e.g. Paris – Moscow), and in general one had to change trains at the Ostbahnhof (then the Berlin main station) or in the Berlin-Lichtenberg station.
Water tower at Löwenberg station The Berlin terminus of the railway, but only for freight, was the first freight yard at Eberswalder Straße, now the site of Mauerpark . Passenger services began at the original Nordbahnhof ( North Station ) in Pankow , today's Wollankstraße station , still evident in the design of the station and its forecourt.
A Deutsche Reichsbahn official inspects the escape tunnel beneath Berlin Wollankstraße station in January 1962.. Republikflucht (German pronunciation: [ʁepuˈbliːkˌflʊxt] ⓘ; German for "desertion from the republic") was the colloquial term in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) for illegal emigration to West Germany, West Berlin, and non-Warsaw Pact countries; the official ...
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Herb Baumeister, a thrift store owner, is believed to have killed at least 25 people from the 1980s to the 1990s and buried them throughout his $1 million, 18-acre property.