Inner City Ring (Berlin)
The Berlin inner city ring is a largely existing road connection around the historic center of Berlin in the districts of Mitte , Pankow and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . The designation on “inside” results from the location within the originally planned Berlin city ring A 100 and the wide surrounding Berlin ring A 10 .
The inner city ring runs clockwise from the main station via Invalidenstrasse , Caroline-Michaelis-Strasse, Julie-Wolfthorn-Strasse, Bernauer Strasse , Eberswalder Strasse , Danziger Strasse , Petersburger Strasse , Warschauer Strasse , Am Oberbaum ( Oberbaumbrücke ), Oberbaumstrasse , Skalitzer Strasse , Gitschiner Street , Hallesches Ufer and Reichpietschufer (northern lane) or Waterloo-Ufer , Tempelhofer Ufer ,Schöneberger Ufer (southern lane) and the Tiergarten Spreebogen tunnel (TTS) back to the main station. This corresponds to a driving distance of 17.5 kilometers.
The course in the southern area between Hallescher Tor and Warschauer Brücke is congruent with the location of the Berlin customs and excise wall, which surrounded old Berlin until 1861. There were streets in front of and behind the customs wall so that there was enough space for a wide boulevard after the demolition . Until the construction of the Tiergarten tunnel , the western area was defined by the relief road , which led past the Brandenburg Gate and thus the Reichstag building just outside the old wall . In the northern and eastern areas, the inner city ring follows a ring road of the Hobrecht plan and partly runs significantly more north than the excise wall (compare with Torstrasse ). Historically, there was no continuous connection from Invalidenstrasse to Bernauer Strasse. The expansion of Bernauer Strasse to four lanes, including tram tracks flush with the street, was only possible after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, after older buildings on the south side of the street had previously been demolished in the course of its construction from 1961.
From June 2011 to August 2015, the section of Invalidenstrasse belonging to the inner city ring was expanded to four lanes and the tram was extended from the Nordbahnhof through Invalidenstrasse to the main station. Since this work was completed, the inner city ring has been completely closed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Start of construction: Berlin gets a new S-Bahn line . In: bz-berlin.de , June 4, 2011; Retrieved August 24, 2011
- ↑ Transport connection Nordbahnhof - Hauptbahnhof • The project at the Senate Department for Urban Development.