Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station is a station on the

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located in the east of the

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

district of Drewitz near

Babelsberg Babelsberg () is the largest quarter (''Stadtteil'') of Potsdam, the capital city of the German state of Brandenburg. The affluent neighbourhood named after a small hill on the Havel river is famous for Babelsberg Palace and Park, part of the Palac ...

, the historic center of the German film industry, and the former

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Steinstücken Steinstücken (, literally "Stone Pieces"), a small settlement with approximately 200 inhabitants, is the southernmost territory of the Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, belonging to Wannsee. From the division of Germany in 1949 until a conn ...

. The station's DS-100 code is BDW and its station’s numerical code is 5013. It is classified by

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

as a category 5 station. Bahnhof Medienstadt Babelsberg exDrewitz 071021

The station was opened on 15 May 1879 with the name of Drewitz. It was a freight border crossing point from

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from 1949 to 1990. Numerous safety devices were installed for this purpose such as special points that would prevent an unauthorized movement of a locomotive towards

Berlin-Wannsee Wannsee () is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger ''Großer Wannsee'' (Greater Wannsee, "See" means lake) and the ...

in the American sector of Berlin. This meant that some sets of points would cause trains making unauthorized movements to derail. After the reunification of Germany, an ICE connecting train ran from

Berlin Zoologischer Garten The Berlin Zoological Garden (german: link=no, Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,2 ...

through Drewitz station to

Michendorf Michendorf is a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. Geography Michendorf lies in a vast wooded area about nine kilometers south of Potsdam. The civil parishes ("Ortsteile") Fresdorf, Stücken and Wildenbruch l ...

as electrification had not been completed on any line from the west to Berlin. On 28 May 2000, the station’s name was changed to the current name in order to emphasize its proximity to the Babelsberg Media City (''Medienstadt''), including

Babelsberg Studio Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...

. The entire building is under heritage protection.

Rail services

The following services stop at the station:

References

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