Bülowstrasse underground station

Bülowstraße underground station (2011)

Bülowstrasse high station in 1903

The U-Bahn station Bülowstraße is a high station on the U2 line of the Berlin U-Bahn that opened on March 11, 1902 . In the station directory of the BVG it bears the designation Bs . The station is located on Bülowstrasse in the Schöneberg district, between Potsdamer Strasse and Steinmetzstrasse. Like the street, the underground station is named after the Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz . The entire length of the station is covered; it has two elevators to the side platforms and is therefore barrier-free .

history

Bruno Möhring designed this station in the elegant Bülowstrasse. The so-called “Pastor's Curve” was built east of the station to bypass the Luther Church . As part of the western trunk line, the Bülowstrasse elevated railway station , which is now a monument , was officially opened in March 1902.

Rudolf Möhring, the son of Bruno Möhring, planned to extend the hall in 1929. The station was badly damaged in the Second World War , but was later rebuilt - somewhat more simply.

Due to the construction of the Berlin Wall and the associated closure of Potsdamer Platz station , traffic on the elevated railway fell sharply. Since there was a parallel connection between Nollendorfplatz and Gleisdreieck with line 1 via Kurfürstenstraße station 230 m to the north , the BVG completely stopped traffic via Bülowstraße station in 1972. Shops were installed in the elevated station and decommissioned subway cars set up, which were used as the "Turkish Bazaar " from 1978 to 1991 . In June 1991 the shops were dismantled and the old subway cars were lifted down and scrapped.

In December 1993, through traffic between the Ruhleben and Vinetastraße stations was resumed and the Bülowstraße station was reopened for underground traffic. In 2000, the U2 line was extended to the Pankow transfer station on the S-Bahn line to Bernau .

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  Route towards Gleisdreieck with "Pastorenkurve" (1993)

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  Bridge over Potsdamer Strasse and the station hall

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  Platforms

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  Route towards Nollendorfplatz

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  Museum tram car type TM 33 at the Turkish Bazaar stop (1988)

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U2 line to the M19, M48, M85, 106 and 187 bus lines operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.

line

course

Pankow  - Vinetastraße  - Schoenhauser Allee  - Eberswalde road  - Senefelderplatz  - Pink-Luxembourg-Platz  - Alexanderplatz  - Abbey Road  - Märkisches Museum  - Spittelmarkt  - Hausvogteiplatz  - City Center  - Mohrenstrasse  - Potsdamer Platz  - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park  - Gleisdreieck  - Bülowstraße  - Nollendorfplatz  - Wittenbergplatz  - Zoological Garden  - Ernst-Reuter-Platz  - German Opera  - Bismarckstraße  - Sophie-Charlotte-Platz  - Kaiserdamm  - Theodor-Heuss-Platz  - Neu-Westend  - Olympic Stadium  - Ruhleben

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Bülowstraße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• BVG map of the station (PDF; 34 kB)
• The high-rise buildings of the electric elevated and underground railway in Berlin. In: Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk , 1903, plate 19

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ulrich Bücholdt: Bruno Möhring (1863-1929). From bridge man to urban planning. , accessed November 27, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Berlin's subway lines: The western trunk line ( Memento from February 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 27, 2019.
3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
4. ↑ Commemorative plaque 100 years of the Berlin U-Bahn - U-Bhf Bülowstraße. In: gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de , accessed on November 27, 2019.
5. ↑ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Closing the gap on the U2 is progressing . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 8/1991 . Self-published by the working group Berliner Nahverkehr e. V., Berlin 1991, p. 172 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 51.2 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 48.3 ″  E