Gdańsk Brama Nizinna railway station

Gdańsk Brama Nizinna
Railway station
The station's main building
General information
Location	Stare Przedmieście, Śródmieście, Gdańsk Poland
Coordinates	54°20′23″N 18°38′53″E / 54.33967°N 18.64807°E / 54.33967; 18.64807
Construction
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
History
Opened	5 August 1852 (1852-08-05)
Closed	1995 (1995)
Location

Gdańsk Brama Nizinna (German: Danzig Leeges Tor) was the first railway station in Gdańsk. It was opened in 1852 and was found in Stare Przedmieście.

In 1852, the first railway line arrived in Danzig (as Gdańsk was then known), then found in the Kingdom of Prussia. It came from Dirschau and was a branch of the Prussian Eastern Railway from Berlin to Königsberg. Danzig Leeges Tor, a terminus station, was found at the end of the line. Its name came from the nearby Brama Nizinna, a 17th-century city gate. The station was in the vicinity of the Opływ Motławy and Motława. Trains accessed the station via the Railway Gate, a gap in the city's fortifications.^[1]

As the route between Danzig and Dirschau had only a single track, passengers were inconvenienced by having to change trains at Dirschau station, which resulted in the need for a second track, completed between 1909 and 1911.^[2]

Because of its positioning near water bodies and city fortifications, it became apparent that the station's development was limited. Thus, in 1870, a new railway station, Danzig Hohetor Bahnhof, was constructed. Danzig Leeges Tor stopped being a terminus for passenger trains in 1896, and in 1900, the new Danzig Hauptbahnhof became the central passenger station for the city of Danzig, reducing Danzig Leeges Tor to a freight station. The Gothic Revival station building burnt down in March 1945, during the siege of Danzig.^[3]

In the 1990s, the station, which had been transformed into a point for transfer of goods after the 1945, had its remaining buildings rented out by the Polish State Railways for commercial activity, such as the construction of a hostel. In 2014, those buildings were sold to Invest Komfort, a private company, for 26 million zł, which demolished them in 2015.^[4] The company now promises the construction of a new complex of apartment buildings.^[5]