Bernauer Strasse underground station
The Bernauer Straße underground station is a station on the U8 line of the Berlin underground in the Mitte district . It was opened on April 18, 1930 and bears the designation B in the station directory of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe . The station has an elevator and is therefore barrier-free .
The station is equipped with an eight meter wide and 130 meter long central platform and is about four to five meters below Brunnenstrasse (south of the intersection with Bernauer Strasse ). The exits lead directly onto the street, there is no intermediate level. North of the underground station there is a possibility to change to the Metrotram M10 .
At the time of the Berlin Wall , access to this station was closed (" Geisterbahnhof ").
history
As early as 1907, the AEG submitted plans to the Berlin magistrate to build an elevated and underground railway through Brunnenstrasse. After lengthy negotiations, an agreement was reached in 1912 on the construction of the line, which was started in the same year. In addition to tunneling under the Spree , AEG-Schnellbahn-AG, founded by AEG, began building the first sections along Brunnenstrasse and the two stations at Bernauer Strasse and Voltastrasse . After completion of the shell in 1914, the architect Peter Behrens was commissioned to design the two stations. At the time, Behrens was active as an artistic adviser at AEG and designed the two almost identical stations with a central platform in a simple low position, i.e. directly below the road surface. This should be supported by a row of black marble pillars . For the wall cladding, he planned to use square ceramic tiles . The First World War , however, prevented the construction project from continuing.
The project was not implemented until the late 1920s. As the in-house architect of the Hochbahngesellschaft , which was incorporated into the BVG in 1929, Alfred Grenander completed the facility so that the opening could take place on April 18, 1930.
After World War II , the metro station was located immediately south of the border between the Soviet and French sectors . As a result, the construction of the wall on August 13, 1961 closed the station, which, like five other stations along the line, became a “ghost station” where the trains passed. An opening only came about with the political turnaround , when on April 12, 1990 the northern access from West Berlin was opened again. Access on the East Berlin side was made possible a few weeks later with the monetary union of the two German states on July 1, 1990. Some time later the station was renovated, but it was again closed for a long time.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U8 line to the M10 tram line as well as to the 247 bus line operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
literature
- Berlin Heritage Preservation Association (Ed.): U8. Story (s) from the underground . Verlag GVE, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89218-026-1 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 88 kB)
- Description of the Jannowitzbrücke - Gesundbrunnen section at berliner-untergrundbahn.de
- The Bernauer Straße underground station at untergrundbahn.de
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '14.6 " N , 13 ° 23' 48.2" E