Bayerischer Platz underground station
The Bayerischer Platz U-Bahn (underground) station is an underground station on the U4 and U7 lines of the U-Bahn in the Schöneberg district of Berlin . The station, located under the square of the same name in the Bavarian Quarter , went into operation on December 1, 1910, like the other stations of the Schöneberg subway - today's U4; The U7 line has been crossing here since 1970. Both underground stations are designed as underground central platforms . The preserved structures of the Schöneberg subway are under monument protection .
History and structure
The station was built as part of the construction of the Schöneberg subway between Nollendorfplatz and Innsbrucker Platz (today: Line U4), which was supposed to connect western Schöneberg to the then New West of Berlin and open up the Bavarian quarter. The station was built in 1909/1910 and designed by Johannes Kraaz .
Kraaz designed the southern entrance as a pergola , which was integrated into the ornamentation of the Bayerischer Platz designed by Fritz Encke . Because the Bayerischer Platz subway station was the only one of the Schöneberg subway stations to be built with 95-meter-long platforms from the start, the station was given a second, pergola-like northern entrance, the stone pillars and wrought-iron grids of which have been modified to this day . The southern access, however, had to give way to Grunewaldstrasse in 1956/1957, which was now led across the square. According to plans by Rainer G. Rümmler , a new entrance building was built from 1968 to 1970, when the U7 line was also built. This was demolished in July 2013.
The northern vestibule has largely been preserved in its original architecture. The walls are tiled in blue , the stairs are covered with limestone . The platform walls of today's U4 are tiled in white and blue, interrupted by advertising signs. The original ceramics have largely been preserved here as well. Two platform houses, one of them with tiles dating back to the time of construction, have also been preserved from the original structure.
During an air raid on February 3, 1945, several bombs hit the station. At the time there were two trains there. 63 people were killed in the incident.
The station on today's U7 line was built by Rainer G. Rümmler between 1968 and 1970 and opened on January 29, 1971. With this line, the residents of Neukölln received the underground connection to the West Berlin center . Structural provisions for such a crossing had already been made in 1909/1910: The U4 station was designed as a bridge in 1910, under which the route of the U7 line could pass around 60 years later. The U7 station also picks up on the Bavarian colors - the walls are clad with blue Eternit panels, the supports are tiled in white. The design is thus similar to the subway stations Eisenacher Straße and Walther-Schreiber-Platz ( line U9 ), which were also designed by Rümmler .
A wall frieze completed in spring 2013 shows the history of the Bavarian Quarter before and after the Second World War.
Renovation / renovation 2013
In May 2013, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe began the basic repairs to the southern entrance building. This had to be almost completely demolished due to its dilapidated structure. The former free-standing toilet facility and a kiosk were also dismantled. A significantly enlarged new building was built on the site, which takes up the shape of the previous building. A second entrance allows access from the direction of Innsbrucker Straße. Furthermore, there is a bistro and a disabled toilet facility on the ground floor. The new upper floor houses the “Café Haberland” as well as a roof terrace on three sides. A permanent multimedia exhibition in the café recalls Jewish life in the neighborhood. The converted station was officially opened on September 17, 2014. The BVG invested 2.2 million euros in the conversion, the exhibition space on the upper floor was financed with funds from the Lotto Foundation Berlin .
Two months after opening, the redesigned train station received the “Green Buddy Award” in the ecological building category . The award went to u. a. the use of the tunnel air as a heat source and thus the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
The station should be equipped with two additional elevators barrier-free by 2016 , but so far (as of 2018) they are not in operation. New construction should start in May 2019, with the completion of an elevator in the third quarter of 2020.
Connection
The underground station is served by the U4 and U7 lines. You can only change to other local public transport lines in Berlin at night with the N7 night bus. This then runs as a replacement for the U7 line.
literature
- Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and subway , Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , pp. 106-107.
- 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. 128 .
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 109 kB)
- Description of the Schöneberg subway with historical photos
- Description of the Schöneberg-Wilmersdorfer route including station pictures
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de (U4 and U7)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The subway in World War II. ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. At berliner-untergrundbahn.de
- ↑ Railway station and meeting place . In: plus - the customer magazine . No. 10 , 2013, p. 5 ( online, PDF [accessed October 15, 2013]).
- ↑ More than just an underground station. Old and new center of the neighborhood on Bayerischer Platz. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, September 17, 2014, accessed on January 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Environmental award for Bayerischer Platz station . In: plus . December 2014, p. 6 ( online [accessed January 12, 2015]).
- ↑ Printed matter 17/11609. (PDF; 195 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, March 7, 2013, accessed on April 12, 2013 .
- ^ The BVG on lengthy work on Bayerischer Platz and the still missing elevator. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 14, 2017
- ↑ Gudrun Mallwitz: Seven underground stations are getting an elevator. January 12, 2019, accessed on November 24, 2019 (German).
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 18.3 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 25.1 ″ E