Berlin Schönhauser Allee train station
| Berlin Schönhauser Allee | |
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 S-Bahn platform
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BSAL |
| IBNR | 8089039 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | August 1, 1879 |
| Website URL | s-bahn-berlin.de |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Schönhauser Allee |
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| City / municipality | Berlin |
| Place / district | Prenzlauer Berg |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '57 " N , 13 ° 24' 58" E |
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| Railway stations in Berlin | |
The Berlin Schönhauser Allee station is an S-Bahn and U-Bahn station in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in the Pankow district . The S-Bahn station , located in the cut-out of the site, opened in 1879 and is located on the Berlin Ringbahn . The subway station is located on the Schönhauser Allee in an elevated position and was put into operation in 1913.
S-Bahn station
The first part of the Ringbahn in the north and east was opened on July 17, 1871, in 1877 the ring was complete. The stop at Schönhauser Allee was only opened on August 1, 1879, and in 1889 the station was given a small reception building designed in an academic style. With the growth of the population in the Prenzlauer Berg district, which is dominated by tenements , the station gained in importance. The electric tram was added after 1900, and from 1913 the Berlin elevated and underground railway also stopped here.
In 1913 the station received another station building on the east side of the platform with an exit to Greifenhagener Strasse. The Greifenhagen Bridge , which was built shortly before and is now a listed building, is also located here .
On June 27, 1922, a serious railway accident occurred in the run-up to the station (according to other sources more likely in the area of Gesundbrunnen station ) : numerous passengers who could no longer get into the overcrowded wagons and were riding on the running boards, fell from two moving trains the rails. At least 45 deaths were the result.
Until the electrification of the Berlin Ringbahn and the suburban railways, steam trains ran on the Ringbahn route . On February 1, 1929, the electrically powered red and yellow trains of the Berlin S-Bahn stopped at the station for the first time.
During the Second World War , the trains of the Berlin S-Bahn continued to run, only between March / April and June 1945 there was no electricity for operation. With the political split and the later building of the wall , the station gained further importance due to the changed traffic flows. In December 1952, the Deutsche Reichsbahn provided the freight tracks between Schönhauser Allee and Bornholmer Strasse with power rails so that S-Bahn trains could also run there. In 1961 the Berlin Ringbahn was divided and the S-Bahn now ran directly over the freight tracks, also known as the " Ulbricht curve", past Bornholmer Strasse station via Pankow to Buch and Bernau , and from 1962 also to Oranienburg . Shortly after the Wall was built, the Reichsbahn had a new, white-tiled reception building built in reinforced concrete in 1962. At the same time, a tunnel was created for changing between the U-Bahn and S-Bahn.
After German reunification , mfi Management für Immobilien AG planned to build a new shopping center on Schönhauser Allee directly above the S-Bahn platform. For this, the S-Bahn platform had to be completely renovated between 1995 and 1997. In the course of the platform renovation, the two reception buildings were also demolished. Construction work on the Schönhauser Allee Arcaden shopping center began in 1997 and was completed in 1999. Since then, the platform has been almost completely covered.
In spring 2017, the arches of the northern retaining wall were provided with historical photos of the station and its surroundings.
Contrary to the standard ZAT dispatching procedure, train dispatching at this station will initially continue to be carried out by local supervision . Due to the strong curvature and the platform structure, a special technical solution for ZAT-FM has to be developed.
Subway station
Planning and construction
The basic goal of the first operator of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , the elevated railway company , was to develop the center of Berlin around Alexanderplatz . In 1905, the Pankow municipal administration requested a connection to their municipality, and government approval for a route from Spittelmarkt via Alexanderplatz to Nordring station on the Ringbahn followed on December 22, 1907. Construction work began in March 1910.
Because of the considerable costs for the underground route at Spittelmarkt and because the sewage collection channels under Schönhauser Allee could not be laid, the route was not completely underground, but with an elevated railway section with the stations Danziger Straße (today: Eberswalder Straße ) and Nordring (today: Schönhauser Allee) executed. In 1913 the line between Spittelmarkt and Nordring was completed.
architecture
The design of the Nordring station, like almost all of Berlin's elevated and underground stations at the time, was designed by the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander . There are clear differences between the architecture of this station and the elevated stations of the first Berlin subway, such as Görlitzer Bahnhof .
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The Nordring station had a central platform so that the hall walls were completely covered because of the trains now moving sideways. In order not to make the station appear too dark, Grenander created narrow strips of light and skylights both on the side walls and on the station roof. In contrast to the first elevated railway stations, Grenander also dispensed with additional decorative design elements, as the width of Schönhauser Allee was insufficient for this.
Extension to Pankow (Vinetastraße)
In the years 1925/1926 the elevated railway company had an additional south exit built, this leads to Stargarder Straße and Gleimstraße .
The transfer traffic between S-Bahn and U-Bahn at Schönhauser Allee station was considerable. In the operating year of 1929, the station was fourth with nine million passengers per year behind the stations Potsdamer Platz (13 million), Alexanderplatz and Hallesches Tor (eleven million each). However, the 90-second cycle, which was necessary in the early morning peak, could often not be adhered to due to the inadequate parking facility behind the high station. Therefore the city of Berlin and the elevated railway company decided to extend the underground by one station to Vinetastraße. Construction work on the new line began in 1927. From June 29, 1930, the underground trains continued to Pankow station (Vinetastraße) , so that the dirt tracks behind Schönhauser Allee station could be dismantled.
On February 1, 1936, the names of the S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations were standardized and the Nordring U-Bahn station was renamed Schönhauser Allee .
Second World War and consequences
World War II began three years later . From September 1, 1939, all lights had to be darkened, which also affected the subway trains and especially the elevated stations. Schönhauser Allee station survived the Second World War with minor damage. At the end of April 1945, the train traffic was completely stopped because of the fighting in the capital .
On May 26, 1945, the underground station was put back into operation with a single-track traffic between Alexanderplatz and Schönhauser Allee, and on June 8, double-track operation was possible again. The line from Schönhauser Allee to Pankow (Vinetastraße) could not go back into operation until August 1, 1945. With the reopening of today 's Mohrenstrasse underground station on August 18, 1950, today's U2 was fully operational again.
In 1955/1956, BVG-Ost built another entrance on the north side of the station to supplement the southern and central exit. This is clad with sandstone and leads into a narrow entrance hall, which is equipped with yellow tiles.
With the construction of the Wall in 1961, the flow of passengers shifted considerably.
Since the underground S-Bahn station Potsdamer Platz in the border strip was closed, the escalators there were expanded and used for the Schönhauser Allee station. A direct transition between the S-Bahn and U-Bahn with a narrow tunnel between the two platforms was opened in 1962. On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987, the subway station, like some neighboring stations, was given a new coat of paint. However, there was no complete renovation.
After reunification
To extend the U2 underground line to Pankow station, the BVG renovated the entire elevated railway viaduct between Senefelderplatz and Vinetastraße, and the station was also repaired.
Since 2004, the BVG has been renovating the station in individual projects. Since then there has been an elevator between the platform and street level, in 2005/2006 the BVG renewed the central entrance to the S-Bahn, and in 2007 the southern entrance. In 2010 the station was renovated again.
Connection
The station is served by the S41, S42, S8 and S85 lines of the S-Bahn and the U2 line of the U-Bahn. It is possible to change to the M1 tram line and the BVG night bus line N2 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 31 kB)
- Entry in state monument list (see current PDF version)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List (Greifenhagener Bridge)
- S-Bahn station Schönhauser Allee on stadtschnellbahn-berlin.de
- More photos of the underground station on untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station price list 2020. In: Deutsche Bahn. Deutsche Bahn, January 1, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020 .
- ↑ This is how it used to look . In: point 3 . No. 9 , 2017, p. 6 ( online [accessed May 11, 2017]).
- ↑ Manuel Jacob: ZAT now regular handling of the S-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 6 , 2017, p. 112 f .
- ↑ a b U2 - story (s) from the underground. Berlin Heritage Preservation Association; GVE, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89218-032-6 , p. 28 f., P. 68, p. 90.
- ↑ Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and underground railway / planning - drafts - buildings . Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , p. 87
- ↑ Biagia Bongiorno: Traffic monuments in Berlin - The stations of the Berlin elevated and underground railway . Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 , p. 72.
- ^ Peter Neumann: U-2 redevelopment causes traffic jams . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 22, 2000