Zbąszynek

Zbąszynek station — known until 1945 as Neu Bentschen — was purpose-built in the 1920s as a direct consequence of the Treaty of Versailles. When the newly drawn German-Polish border cut across the Berlin–Warsaw rail corridor, the German Reich constructed an entirely new border station on its own territory, accompanied by a planned railway workers' settlement. The complex served as the principal inspection and transhipment point on what is today Pan-European Corridor II. The station remains operational for passenger and freight traffic, and its functionalist architecture and grid-planned settlement offer a legible trace of the geopolitical upheavals of the interwar period.