Berlin Hermannstrasse train station
| Berlin Hermannstrasse | |
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 Reception building
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| Location in the network |
Intermediate station (S-Bahn) Separation station (long-distance train) |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (S-Bahn) |
| abbreviation | BHER |
| IBNR | 8089105 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | November 15, 1877 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hermannstrasse |
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| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Neukölln |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 28 '3 " N , 13 ° 25' 52" E |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Berlin Hermannstraße station is a transfer station for the Berlin S-Bahn and U-Bahn in the district and district of Neukölln . The on the circle line lying station also includes two for the transport of goods from the Mittenwalder Neukoelln railway used tracks . It is located at the intersection of the Ringbahn and Hermannstrasse , around one hundred meters north of the transition to Britzer Damm.
Ring stations
S-Bahn station
On November 15, 1877, the city put the first part of the Ringbahn into operation: the line ran from Moabit via Weissensee and what was then Rixdorf to Schöneberg . On the following January 1st, the first passenger trains ran on the new route . Especially during the four-track expansion between 1887 and 1910, further stops were added on the Ringbahn, including today's station on Rixdorfer Hermannstraße.
On February 1, 1899, the suburban station at Hermannstrasse was completed and was served by steam-powered trains for almost 30 years . At that time, access to the station was only possible at the Ostend, i.e. in the direction of Neukölln station. A small entrance house, clad with red bricks, received the passengers . In 1910 a second entrance was added from Siegfriedstrasse, which runs parallel to the Ringbahn. In the years that followed, there was relatively little change in the station structure. After the Reich Government decided " Great electrification " the red-yellow should be well on the circle line train - rail car ride. While the first S-Bahn line to Bernau was opened in 1924, it was not until November 6, 1928 that S-Bahn traffic was also started on the Ringbahn.
The Second World War had far-reaching consequences for the rail network in the capital . While the station complex itself was spared bomb hits , the entrance building was seriously damaged in the course of the final battle for Berlin . Operations at Hermannstrasse station ceased in April 1945. Steam trains were then occasionally on the line, and the first regular trains were running again on June 18, 1945.
The effects of the Berlin blockade on S-Bahn operations were initially minor. Cross-sector routes were shut down, but the S-Bahn itself continued to operate as usual. Because the S-Bahn was operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn even after the division of the city , there was also an adequate power supply during this time. After the wall was built, the operation of the western ring line was shortened to the section between Gesundbrunnen and Sonnenallee or Köllnische Heide . In the 1960s, the Reichsbahn had the destroyed station building rebuilt and in 1961 also reopened the entrance to Siegfriedstrasse. In 1971, however, the station building was demolished and replaced by a simple new building in the style of the 1970s. Access to Siegfriedstrasse was closed again in 1973 and even demolished in October 1976.
As a result of the Reichsbahn strike in September 1980 , the ring line to the Hermannstrasse S-Bahn station was shut down and was not resumed even after the S-Bahn was handed over to the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG). It was not until 1989, when the S-Bahn had become increasingly popular in West Berlin, that the first preparatory work began to reactivate the Ringbahn, in the course of which the historic S-Bahn platform was restored true to the original. It was planned to drive a stretch from Westend to Köllnische Heide first. The missing sections to Sonnenallee and to Gesundbrunnen should follow later. The events in November 1989 and German reunification made these S-Bahn plans void.
The start of the Ringbahn planned for 1992 was delayed by a year. The BVG extended the route in the southeast from Köllnischer Heide to Baumschulenweg station in the east of the city. The Hermannstraße S-Bahn station was completely rebuilt, the recently refurbished S-Bahn platform was torn down and placed under the Hermann Bridge, so that there are currently hardly any traces of the historic station. The two reception buildings, which open onto Hermannstrasse on both sides of the bridge, were equipped with escalators and an elevator and were given two colors: blue and green. This coloring, based on the colors of the U-Bahn and S-Bahn, was intended to symbolize that an important junction was created here, because the U-Bahn under Hermannstrasse was to be extended from the previous terminus at the Leinestrasse U-Bahn station to the Hermannstrasse S-Bahn station ( see below).
The inauguration took place on December 17, 1993 with a parallel run of two trains of the 485 series . Since then, two new S-Bahn lines, the S45 from Schönefeld Airport and the S46 from Königs Wusterhausen , have been using the new ring. For the S-Bahns coming from the south-east, the double-track sweeping system behind the Hermannstrasse station was rebuilt to enable trains coming from Schönefeld Airport and ending here to turn.
Neukölln-Mittenwald railway station
The Hermannstrasse station of the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Railway (NME) goes back to plans that originated in 1895. At that time there were the first ideas to build a small train connection between the Berlin suburb of Rixdorf and the Brandenburg town of Mittenwalde , which resulted in the founding of the Rixdorf-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn Aktiengesellschaft (RME) on February 23, 1899 . The RME engineers planned a 27-kilometer route with the nine stations of Mittenwalde Nord, Brusendorf, Groß Kienitz , Selchow , Schönefeld , Rudow , Buckow , Britz and the terminus at Hermannstrasse, which will act as a transfer point between the ring line of the later Deutsche Reichsbahn and the RME should. The line from Mittenwalde to Rixdorf was opened on September 28, 1900, and four years later an extension from Mittenwalde Nord to Schöneiche Plan took place . The renaming from Rixdorf to Neukölln in 1912 was also reflected in the name of the railway company, which has been called Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn (NME) since 1919 . The passenger platform of the NME was parallel to the platform of the Ringbahn, the freight station to the west of it.
The Neukölln-Mittenwalder Railway had a high level of utilization, especially during wartime, which peaked in 1942/1943 with goods transport of over one million tons and passenger numbers of over three million.
As a result of the Berlin blockade , NME traffic beyond the city limits was permanently interrupted. Passenger traffic in Berlin was discontinued in 1955, goods transport remained . From 1963 until it was shut down in 2003, this was important for supplying the Rudow thermal power station and, from 1997, at times for the disposal of rubble at the major construction site in Berlin to cover the Groß-Ziethen landfill . Furthermore, after the political change , the freight station played an important role in the disposal of household waste , which was brought from the BSR loading station on the Teltow Canal to the Hermannstraße freight station, where the garbage containers were taken over by DB Cargo for further rail transport. Due to a change in the Waste Disposal Act (more recycling instead of landfilling), waste traffic has also decreased rapidly from 2008 onwards. As a consequence, the Hermannstrasse freight yard was reduced from four to two tracks.
Subway station
In 1927, the city of Berlin, to which Neukölln had belonged for seven years, opened the first section of the then subway line D, today: Line 8 , between Schönleinstrasse and Boddinstrasse. The extension to the Gesundbrunnen - Leinestrasse route took place in stages over the next three years. Construction plans for a subway to the Hermannstrasse S-Bahn station had been in existence since 1910. In 1929, the first work towards the south began. At that time, completion was planned for March 1930, but the economic crisis prevented further execution. In 1931, the city of Berlin, as the client, finally stopped work. By this point in time, the tunnel to the Leinestrasse train station and around a fifth of the future platform at 23 meters had been completed.
The low location due to the crossing under the S-Bahn predestined the station, which is still under construction, to be expanded as an air raid shelter . This project was realized in 1940, and relics are still reminiscent of the bunker today. The plans to extend the U-Bahn to the Ringbahn, however, were not pursued by the Senate after 1961 because of the division of Berlin, as a transfer link with the S-Bahn operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn was not desired. The BVG used the tunnel that had already been built as a storage facility for trains that were no longer in use.
After German reunification, the old plans were realized with the merging of the U-Bahn and S-Bahn at Hermannstrasse station. The reopening of the S-Bahn-Ring, planned for December 17, 1993, put the Senate and the BVG under time pressure, because construction work on the underground station had to begin before the S-Bahn-Ring was reopened. The work included the renovation of the old tunnel and the existing platform, the construction of the rest of the platform and the construction of a 320-meter-long sweeping system . In addition, transitions to the S-Bahn platform above and possible stairs to a planned regional train station had to be taken into account.
The underground station was designed by Rainer G. Rümmler , who was responsible for an underground station for the last time before his retirement. At the 168th Berlin U-Bahn station, Rümmler was largely based on the other U8 stations designed by Alfred Grenander . The station is designed as a 110 meter long central platform . The design of the station with turquoise tiles was kept unusually businesslike. At various recesses in the tiles, glass inserts allowed a view of the historical references to the bunker and thus reminded of the previous use of the building during the war.
When it opened on July 13, 1996, the 168th Berlin subway station was completed. After a construction freeze of over 60 years, the underground connection to the Ringbahn and thus to the S-Bahn network was completed.
In the course of minor renovations, the subway station was then given an elevator to the median of the Hermannbrücke and in November 2008 the fifth stairway access on the east side of the Hermannbrücke, which creates a direct connection to the HermannQuartier shopping center . The train station is therefore barrier-free .
Due to construction defects such as sloping tiles, where inferior adhesive was used or the tiles were glued too quickly to the concrete, and the fact that the tiles smeared with graffiti could no longer be cleaned, renovation work began on August 12, 2013 of the train station. The platform tiles were replaced by "vandalism-resistant" enamel panels in various shades of green. Work on the station was completed on time on August 25, 2014.
The subway station was redesigned by the Berlin illustrator Felix Scholz under the motto “urban jungle” . Since then, motifs from nature such as wild animals and jungle plants have adorned the pillars of the station. Wild animals such as elephants , monkeys , tapirs and leopards also include rare species such as the Bengal lorikeet or the elephant dog .
With the aim of removing the confusing corners, the staircase and room layout of the station were also optimized to make it more difficult for "uninvited guests" to stay. The northern entrance received tiles in different shades of green and white. The turquoise tiles have only been in the southern entrance since then.
The underground traffic between Boddinstrasse and Hermannstrasse was suspended between August 12, 2013 and August 25, 2014. The renovation of the three stations on the U8 line (Boddinstrasse, Leinestrasse and Hermannstrasse) cost a total of 13.5 million euros; around 1.5 million euros of this went to Hermannstrasse station.
Connection
In addition to the lines S41, S42, S45, S46, S47 and U8 is the station of a plurality of bus lines of the BVG operated, including by the Metro bus M44.
Others
The Hermannstrasse passenger station of the NME gained fame through the fact that Wilhelm Voigt, known as the captain of Köpenick , took off his uniform in the toilet there.
literature
- Udo Dittfurth: Line without end - The Berlin Ringbahn. GVE Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-074-1 .
- Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 , p. 119.
Web links
- BVG map of the train station (PDF; 118 kB)
- Hermannstraße station on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- Detailed description of the underground station on berliner-untergrundbahn.de
- More information and photos about the underground station at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Query of the course book route 200.41 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Query of the course book route 200.42 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ NME picture archive , accessed on January 28, 2014
- ↑ BVG presents its beautiful new station world . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 20, 2014
- ↑ a b c Lorenz Vossen: Hermannstraße underground station reveals old construction sins. In: Berliner Morgenpost. April 14, 2014, accessed February 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Hermannstraße underground station needs to be renovated. In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 4, 2014, accessed April 6, 2014 .
- ^ A b Uwe Aulich: BVG redevelopment: The U8 goes back to Hermannstraße. In: Berliner Zeitung. August 24, 2014, accessed February 28, 2015 .
- ^ A b Jan Ahrenberg: Neukölln's jungle. In: BVG PLUS customer magazine 03/15. BVG, March 2015, accessed on March 27, 2015 .
- ↑ BVG presents its beautiful new station world . In: Berliner Morgenpost , August 20, 2014
- ↑ BVG notices at the train stations
- ↑ Bodo Schulz / Michael Krolop: The private and industrial railways in Berlin (West) , p. 64