Why were terminal train stations built in Germany?
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This is completely nonsense.
As @jjack mentioned in his answer in the mid 19th century the rail road net wasn't as large as today and connected few important cities, only. The advantage of such a terminal station was also that you can build it closer to the city. Terminal station today's disadvantage wasn't present in the past because of the usage of steam trains which must be replaced often. See:
You can see that the plan for the station exists before Prussia had the influence within the HRE to manipulate the states within the HRE. Prussia had not this supremacy before the battle of Königgrätz in 1866 against Austria which let to the "Lesser German solution" afterwards (Bismarcks plan to form a German state with Prussia as leadership and without Austria). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Question
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The Imperial German rail network, in the late 19 Century, was largely designed and financed to facilitate military mobilization. THus any terminal stations would have been designed as arrival stations for debarking troops, first in South Saxony and East Bavaria in preparation for the Austro-Prussian war of 1865, and then in the West Rhinelands in preparation for the 1870 and 1914 campaigns against France. The notion that any other consideration take precedence over military requirements would have struck von Moltke as absurd.
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Terminal train stations were built in continental Europe because many railroads connected only two cities in the early to mid 19th century. There were not many rail lines, and the stations built were terminal stations. As the railroad network increased, the terminal stations could not be converted to passthrough anymore.
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Your friend should look up "Anhalter Bahnhof", the grand terminus in Berlin. Berlin was at the time the capital of the German "Reich", and the idea the Kaiser would want to punish his own capital is a bit ludicrous. In fact the Anhalter Bahnhof, hailed as the "Gate to the South", was magnificent beyond compare and was used by Emporer Wilhelm II. for state receptions. Unfortunaltely very little is left (but should you ever come to Berlin, the Museum of Technology has a wonderful model of how Anhalter Bahnhof used to look like).
The German Wikipedia article on "Kopfbahnhöfe" suggests that they were build that way to emphasize the role of the city center (passengers could not simply pass through), which is more or less the opposite of what your friend claims.
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