Boddinstrasse underground station
The Boddinstraße underground station is an underground station on Berlin's U8 line . It is located below Hermannstrasse at the intersection of Boddinstrasse in the Neukölln district . The station, which opened in 1927, is one of the oldest on the line and is operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) under the abbreviation Bo .
history
In 1912 there were the first plans for an underground line along the course of what is now the U8 line. After the first measures, which were interrupted by the First World War, the work progressed in the mid-1920s. The Boddinstraße underground station was part of the first section of the new line to be opened between Leinestraße and Gesundbrunnen .
The architects of the station were Alfred Grenander and Alfred Fehse . They designed the station in a simple low position with a central platform and exits to the middle of the street in Hermannstrasse. The southern exit was provided with an oriental -looking sign; There was an underground toilet facility at the northern exit. The basic structure of the station was based on the subway stations of the north-south railway that opened in 1923 (today's line U6 ). The wall tiles were made of light gray ceramic and are completed by a row of blue tiles above or below them. The clad central pillars are also kept in blue. As was common back then, asphalt was used as the platform surface . The station signs on the walls are in negative for better visibility.
To the south of the train station there is a double-track sweeping system .
The station was promoted by the Neukölln district office in 1925/1926. The opening took place on July 17, 1927 on the one-and-a-half kilometer stretch between Boddinstrasse, Hermannplatz and Schönleinstrasse . The southern extension to the Leinestraße underground station went into operation on August 4, 1929.
Operations finally came to a standstill on April 23, 1945 due to a bomb strike. Three weeks later, operations were resumed between Boddinstrasse and Schönleinstrasse on May 14, 1945, three days later it went over Boddinstrasse to Leinestrasse. The station was one of the first stations on the Berlin subway to be reopened after the war. Due to its location on the edge of the Teltow , it was not affected by the incoming water from the Landwehr Canal and was largely spared from bomb hits.
The toilet facility was closed in the 1960s and has since fallen into disrepair. Since neither the BVG nor the Berlin city cleaning companies nor the Neukölln district felt responsible for the system, modernization or demolition of the system were not feasible for a long time. It was only demolished in 2007.
At the beginning of 2012, the BVG announced a complete renovation of the station. The construction work, during which the station was also converted to make it barrier-free , began in autumn 2012. An elevator went into operation on November 29, 2013, so that the platform has been barrier-free ever since . The completion of the repair work was scheduled for August 25, 2014.
Due to extensive renovation work, the train service between Boddinstrasse and Hermannstrasse was interrupted from August 12, 2013 and August 25, 2014.
The station bears the name of Hermann Boddin , from 1874 to 1907 mayor and later mayor of Rixdorf, today's district of Neukölln .
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U8 line to the 104 and 166 bus lines of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
literature
- Berlin Heritage Preservation Association V. (Ed.): U8. Story (s) from the underground . GVE, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-89218-026-1 , pp. 60 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 90 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- André Loop: The stations of the U8. Boddinstrasse. Retrieved September 30, 2009 .
- Christoph Brachmann, Markus Hörsch: Light and color in the Berlin underground. Classic modern subway stations. Retrieved September 30, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Fuchs: Nobody wants the place. Abandoned eyesore at the Boddinstrasse underground station . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 30, 1995
- ↑ Klaus Wazlak: The pickaxe rules again in 2012. In: BVG plus_01. January 2012, accessed February 13, 2012 .
- ↑ U Boddinstraße - the elevator and exit opening are put into operation. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , November 29, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2013 .
- ^ Notice of BVG at the train station
- ↑ Honor on the 100th anniversary of Hermann Boddin's death . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. berlin.de, press release, Berlin June 27, 2007.
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 49 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 31 ″ E