Deutsche Bahn has no control over most of the almost 2900 station halls in Germany. After the group sold many buildings in the 2000s and 2010s, he no longer even belongs to a quarter of real estate. This shows an evaluation of the Allianz Interest Association Pro Schiene.
A little more than a fifth is therefore in municipal possession, more than half belong to private owners. The buildings are often left to decay – but there are also initiatives that are against it.
The private property of train stations is particularly widespread in East Germany. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the leader. More than 100 of the approximately 130 station buildings belong to private owners – a share of more than 80 percent. In Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg, the ownership is similar. The exception is Berlin: Here almost all of the 100 train stations of Deutsche Bahn or its owner, the federal government, are still part of it.
The train once sold the station halls on a large scale. Most passed into municipal hands. But private buyers also struck. In some cases, they bought train stations in entire packages, in order to then sell them individually, as the Allianz per rail determined. The association criticizes that there is therefore no overview of who the buildings belong in detail.
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Image: Allianz per rail
Source: Nachrichten
