Blankenfelde station
railway station in Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany
Blankenfelde station is on the Berlin–Dresden railway in the locality of Blankenfelde in the municipality of Blankenfelde-Mahlow in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the German state of Brandenburg. The station consists of two sections that are structurally separate from each other. One section is located just south of the Karl-Marx-Straße level crossing and consists of an island platform for regional and long-distance services. The other section lies north of Karl-Marx-Straße and is the southern terminus of Berlin S-Bahn line S2. On the official S-Bahn maps its name is styled Blankenfelde (Kr. Teltow-Fläming) to avoid possible confusion with Blankenfelde locality in the Pankow district in northern Berlin.
Location and infrastructure
The station is situated in the locality of Blankenfelde at kilometre 19.4 of the Berlin–Dresden railway. Curves connect the long-distance tracks to the northern branch of Glasower Damm Süd junction on the Berlin Outer Ring (Berliner Außenring, BAR). A long-distance track and the single track of the S-Bahn cross over the Outer Ring towards Berlin; both tracks merge before Mahlow station.
The long-distance platform is 229-meter long and 76 centimetres high and is covered for a length of about 30 metres.
“Blankenfelde station” enters the record as railway station in Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Blankenfelde, station and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Blankenfelde station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Blankenfelde, station and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q800539.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
- Historic place names
- Jurisdictional context
- Routes into maps and plans
Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Blankenfelde station”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Blankenfelde station primary sources, Blankenfelde station archive and Blankenfelde research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Blankenfelde station”?
- Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
- What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Blankenfelde station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.