Kienberg underground station (Gardens of the World)

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Northern access structure of the Kienberg underground station (Gardens of the World)

The Kienberg (Gardens of the World) underground station is a station on the U5 line of the Berlin underground in the Hellersdorf district . At BVG it is used under the abbreviation GK . With a view to the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition , the station lost its previous name when the timetable changed in December 2016 and was renamed Neue Grottkauer Straße .

Location and structure

Platform after renovation, 2017

The underground station is in the cut east of Hellersdorfer Straße . It has a central platform that is roofed over by a single-leg reinforced concrete structure. The identification color of the station, which can be found on the roof supports and in the entrance area, is gray. There are exits at both ends; in the south over a pedestrian bridge to Hellersdorfer Strasse and Erich-Kästner-Strasse and in the north to Neue Grottkauer Strasse . The latter also has a ramp as barrier-free access, which was supplemented by an elevator in the course of the construction work on the occasion of the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition in December 2016.

The Garten der Welt - Berlin cable car , which crosses the exhibition grounds, starts in the immediate vicinity of the north exit of the train station.

At the underground station there is a coupling point to improve the traction power supply .

The distance to the neighboring underground stations Kaulsdorf-Nord and Cottbusser Platz is 865 and 755 meters respectively.

history

Northern access structure before renovation, 2011

The project planning of the building was incumbent on the design and surveying company of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , operating part Magdeburg.

The underground station was built as part of the extension of what was then line E to Hönow and has been served regularly since July 1, 1989. The station was initially to be named Kaulsdorf-Nordost , but was then called Heinz-Hoffmann-Straße (abbreviation: Hm ) when it opened . The Heinz-Hoffmann-Straße was after the army general and GDR Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann named. In this capacity, Hoffmann was subordinate to the border troops of the GDR , he was jointly responsible for the order to shoot at the GDR borders with the Federal Republic and West Berlin .

In 1991, the classified Berlin Senate , the Heinz-Hoffmann-Straße as one of the roads, which for "active opponents of democracy and at the same time intellectual and political pioneers of Stalinist tyranny , the GDR were named -Regimes and other communist regime of injustice" and sought a Inclusion of the street in the already existing Grottkauer Straße further east. In anticipation of this, the station was renamed Grottkauer Straße on October 2, 1991 - Grottkau is the German name for today's Polish city of Grodków . However, the planned renaming failed due to the resistance of the residents of Heinz-Hoffmann-Strasse , who successfully fought against renumbering the houses. That is why Heinz-Hoffmann-Strasse was renamed Neue Grottkauer Strasse in 1992. The station was named after a street that was 500 meters away. As a correction, the station was finally given the appropriate name on September 29, 1996.

The station was renovated in the course of the International Horticultural Exhibition 2017 in the neighboring Gardens of the World until April 11, 2017. a. an elevator, a new roof and new lighting. Part of the plan was the renaming of Neue Grottkauer Straße to Kienberg - Gardens of the World , which took place on December 9, 2016, two days before the timetable change. The costs for all measures were estimated at around 6.6 million euros. Of this, 3.3 million euros were financed by the BENE (Berlin Program for Sustainable Development) funding program, 500,000 euros for the barrier-free expansion were borne by the state of Berlin, the remaining costs were borne by the BVG . The cost of completion was 7.5 million euros.

Connection

The underground station has been served by the U5 line (until 1990: line E) of the Berlin subway since it opened. You can change to bus routes 197 and N5 (night line).

line course
Berlin U5.svg Alexanderplatz  - Schillingstraße  - Strausberger Platz  - Weberwiese  - Frankfurter Tor  - Samariterstraße  - Frankfurter Allee  - Magdalenenstraße  - Lichtenberg  - Friedrichsfelde  - Tierpark  - Biesdorf-Süd  - Elsterwerdaer Platz  - Wuhletal  - Kaulsdorf-Nord  - Kienberg (Gardens of the World)  - Cottbusser Platz  - Hellersdorf  - Louis-Lewin-Strasse  - Hönow

literature

  • Traffic history sheets e. V. (Ed.): U5. Story (s) from the underground. Between "Alex" and Hönow . Verlag GVE, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89218-079-2 .

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Kienberg (Gardens of the World)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BVG is rebuilding the U5 station up to the IGA 2017. In: BVG. February 10, 2016, accessed February 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ New station names for old friends. (PDF) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , January 9, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
  3. ^ Hans-Christian Kaiser, Bodo Nienerza: Buildings, systems and equipment (status: 1989) . In: U5. Story (s) from the underground. Between "Alex" and Hönow . 2003, p. 95 .
  4. ^ Elevator in operation at Kienberg train station. (PDF) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , December 20, 2016, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
  5. ^ Hans-Christian Kaiser, Bodo Nienerza: Buildings, systems and equipment (status 1989) . In: U5. Story (s) from the underground. Between "Alex" and Hönow . 2003, p. 101 .
  6. ^ Hans-Christian Kaiser, Bodo Nienerza: Buildings, systems and equipment (status: 1989) . In: U5. Story (s) from the underground. Between "Alex" and Hönow . 2003, p. 94 .
  7. ^ A b Hans-Christian Kaiser, Bodo Nienerza: U-Bahn connection for Hellersdorf . In: U5. Story (s) from the underground. Between "Alex" and Hönow . 2003, p. 87 ff .
  8. ^ A b André Loop: Neue Grottkauer Strasse. (No longer available online.) In: The Berlin U-Bahn Gallery. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 13, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / untergrundbahn.de  
  9. ↑ a b Uwe Poppel: From the village to the general and the city to the mountain . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 2 , 2017, p. 19th f .
  10. ↑ Herbert Mayer: In the jungle of street names . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 2, 1998, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 29–35, here p. 33 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  11. ↑ Neue Grottkauer Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  12. ↑ a b Thomas Fülling: Kienberg underground station ready in time for the IGA in Berlin . April 11, 2017 ( archive.org [accessed July 6, 2020]).
  13. ↑ Harald Ritter: BVG plans to redesign the station Neue Grottkauer Straße to IGA 2017. In: Berliner Woche . February 5, 2015, accessed February 10, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Printed matter 17/17587. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, December 21, 2015, accessed on January 13, 2016 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 43 "  N , 13 ° 35 ′ 26"  E