African Street Underground Station

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View of the platform of the African Street subway station

The Afrikanische Straße is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn line 6 in the district Wedding of the district center . The BVG runs the station under the internal abbreviation Afr ; the train station is 631 meters from the Kurt-Schumacher-Platz underground station and 587 meters from the Rehberge underground station .

The underground station went into operation on May 3, 1956 as part of the extension of Line C (today: U6) from Seestrasse underground station to Kurt-Schumacher-Platz underground station. Originally, the station was not included in the plans for the expansion. But the post-war development and the Friedrich-Ebert-Siedlung built between 1929 and 1931 justified having its own train station. The settlement in question also received an appreciation as a subtitle for the station name.

The train station is relatively simple, sober and inconspicuous. The architect Bruno Grimmek designed a typical 110-meter-long and eight-meter-wide central platform with a row of columns clad with colorful glass mosaic stones in the middle. The ceiling slopes slightly towards the row of pillars on the platform.

In the course of a complete renovation, the station received new and larger wall tiles by 2016 , these are again light blue. The former advertising space on the back side walls now have Africa motifs framed in dark blue , as do the exits from the mezzanine floors. The previous addition to the name Friedrich-Ebert-Siedlung is no longer used.

An elevator was opened on November 30, 2017, and the underground station has been barrier-free since then . Around 650,000 euros were invested in this. In addition, the four exit stairs and the mezzanine floors were renovated.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U6 to the bus operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.

line course
Berlin U6.svg Alt-Tegel  - Borsigwerke  - Holzhauser Straße  - Otisstraße  - Scharnweberstraße  - Kurt-Schumacher-Platz  - African Straße  - Rehberge  - Seestraße  - Leopoldplatz  - Wedding  - Reinickendorfer Straße  - Schwartzkopffstraße  - Natural History Museum  - Oranienburger Tor  - Friedrichstraße  - Französische Straße  - Stadtmitte  - Kochstraße  - Hallesches Gate  - Mehringdamm  - Platz der Luftbrücke  - Paradestrasse  - Tempelhof  - Alt-Tempelhof  - Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse  - Ullsteinstrasse  - Westphalweg  - Alt-Mariendorf

Web links

Commons : African Street U-Bahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 14; ISBN 3-930863-16-2
  2. ↑ News in brief - U-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 7 , 2016, p. 135 .
  3. ↑ Staged is out. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , November 30, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '36.1 "  N , 13 ° 20' 4.7"  E