Onkel Toms Hütte underground station
Onkel Toms Hütte is an underground station in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district , on which the U3 line of the Berlin underground runs today . It opened on December 22, 1929.
history
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In the mid-1920s, the middle section of today's U3 line was not doing well. The route was in high deficit , from Breitenbachplatz even only a so-called “solo car” (a wagon) drove to the terminus at Thielplatz . The city of Berlin was very reluctant to take over this route from the Dahlem domain or the Prussian Ministry of Finance, which it was obliged to do. But in 1926 the situation improved considerably: the Prussian state wanted to hand over the route to Berlin free of charge and free of debt. At the same time, the Sommerfeld Group, which owned large areas still to be built on in the south of Berlin, offered free land and the assumption of construction costs for an extension to Krumme Lanke . Thus, Berlin was given three kilometers of the underground line.
In this context, the new Onkel Toms Hütte underground station was also built. The new line including this station was opened on December 22, 1929. Otto Rudolf Salvisberg supplemented the station designed by Alfred Grenander from 1931 to 1932 with single-storey shopping arcades on the long sides. Linking a subway station with a modern, urban shopping street was completely new at the time. The main purpose of the shopping mall was to supply the surrounding large housing estate. The concept of the mall went into crisis in the 1980s. Today Ansorge Immobilien manages the facility. These passages represent the center of the Onkel-Tom-Siedlung . In 2000 the train station was renovated by architects Peters and Wormuth, among others.
The name of this station is reminiscent of the novel Onkel Toms Hütte , which Harriet Beecher-Stowe wrote in 1853 in protest against slavery . A local pub built in 1885 was named after this novel. It was demolished in 1979. The landlord of this restaurant was then called Thomas; At that time he had built extra huts in his beer garden as protection from the weather. These were then called "Tom's huts". Since the name of Beecher-Stowes novel was on everyone's lips, the name Uncle Tom's Cabin came about. This is how the cinema in the shopping mall was later called Onkel Tom Kino , and the street that crosses the underground line from Grunewald to Zehlendorf-Mitte is still called Onkel-Tom-Straße today .
- → See also more details about the name Onkel Toms Hütte: Riemeisterfenn # Onkel-Toms-Hütte
An elevator was put into operation in June 2014. It was integrated into the southern vestibule in accordance with the monument. Since then, the station has been barrier-free . Around 1.4 million euros have been invested in this.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from line U3 to bus line 118 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe .
literature
- Brigitte Hausmann (ed.): New, big, green - 100 years of modern architecture in southwest Berlin. Greater Berlin and the consequences for Steglitz and Zehlendorf , Berlin: Gebrüder Mann 2020, ISBN 9783786128441 , pp. 70–75.
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 88 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- Description of the route Oskar-Helene-Heim - Krumme Lanke including station pictures
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred B. Gottwaldt: Trambahn Album . 2nd Edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-613-01296-0 , p. 216 f .
- ↑ New elevator for the Onkel-Toms-Hütte underground station. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, June 5, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2014 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 1 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 12 ″ E