Excelsior tunnel

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The Excelsior Tunnel , opened on March 15, 1928, was a pedestrian tunnel between the hotel and the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin-Kreuzberg , privately financed by the owner of the Hotel Excelsior Curt Elschner as part of a modernization of the hotel , which was also open to the public to cross under Königgrätzer Strasse ( from February 1930 and today Stresemannstraße , meanwhile 1935–1947 Saarlandstraße) was available. The tunnel was initially around 100 meters long, three meters wide and three meters high, before it was extended to 350 meters in 1936. It was considered the largest train station tunnel on the continent.

The construction costs of the tunnel, which was built using the cut-and-cover method, especially at night, amounted to 550,000 Reichsmarks (RM) in 1928, including credit financing, however, around 1 million RM. The Reichsbahn had to pay 10,000 RM a year usage fees, after long negotiations in 1935 only 2,500 RM / year. Counts of tunnel users on 5./6./7. July 1934 resulted in 82/130/129 travelers.

The tunnel was probably closed as early as 1945 - the train station and hotel were damaged by bombing during World War II . The traffic relation also lost importance, because in 1952 the rail traffic at the Anhalter Bahnhof was discontinued, in 1954 the ruins of the hotel were demolished, in 1968 the residential and commercial building Excelsiorhaus was built in its place. The tunnel was demolished in 1985 during road works.

literature

  • Ki .: connecting tunnel between the Anhalter Bahnhof - corner of Möckernstrasse, Askanischer Platz - and the Hotel Excelsior in Berlin . In: Die Bautechnik, 1928, Issue 3, pp. 43–44.
  • WM: Personnel tunnel from the Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin to the Hotel Excelsior . In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, 1928, No. 16, pp. 425–426.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner von Westhafen: Das Grand Hotel Excelsior kreuzberger-chronik.de, Aussenseiter-Verlag 2018, Berlin-Kreuzberg, issue 99, July 2008, accessed September 20, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 13.8 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 56.9"  E