Train Station and Fürstenzimmer
The main train station is located northwest of the old town. Mecklenburg's first railway line was sealed through a state treaty on November 8, 1841, as part of the new Berlin-Hamburg construction between the five states of Prussia, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Denmark, Lübeck, and Hamburg. With Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II covering half the costs, the line was extended from today's Hagenow-Land past Ludwigslust and Grabow to Boitzenburg and later to Kiel. On March 10, 1846, the Mecklenburg Friedrich-Franz Railway received the concession to build the Hagenow-Schwerin line, securing the connection to the Berlin-Hamburg route. It remained under its own administration, like Prussia's lines, until 1945.
At that time
On May 1, 1847, the station at Luisenplatz was inaugurated. It featured an external tunnel with two entrance pavilions. These were replaced by today's reception hall in 1889-1890 and extended with the Fürstenzimmer (Royal Rooms) to the south. A separate tunnel with entrances towards the city and Paulstadt provided access south of the reception building. In 1927, the representative entrance hall below the tracks was expanded, and the external tunnel was filled in. The fountain with the bronze sculpture "Rescue from Distress at Sea," created by Hugo Berwald in 1910, was placed on Luisenplatz.
Style
According to Ernst Möller's plans, the reception building and tunnel entrances were designed in a historicist style. The central pavilion of the reception hall is connected to two lower intermediate sections with two corner pavilions. The Fürstenzimmer were equipped with a historicist interior for the reception of royal highnesses or their imperial guests.
Location
After a thorough renovation, the main train station Schwerin was reopened in 2005 and awarded as the Station of the Year (for cities under 100,000) in 2008. The station square was renamed Grunthalplatz in memory of Marianne Grunthal, who was hanged by SS thugs on a lamppost in the station square shortly before the end of World War II in 1945. 14,000 travelers use the main train station Schwerin daily.
Source: https://www.welterbe-schwerin.de
