Borsigwerke underground station

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Platform with incoming train

The Borsigwerke ( listen ? / I ) underground station is a station on the U6 line of the Berlin underground . It is located at the intersection Berliner Straße / Wittestraße / Egellstraße in Berlin 's Reinickendorf district . The underground station was put into operation on May 31, 1958 in connection with the opening of the Kurt-Schumacher-Platz - Tegel line. It is referred to as Bk in the BVG station directory and is 921 meters from Alt-Tegel underground station and 788 meters from Holzhauser Straße underground station . The platform is nine meters wide and 110 meters long and is 6.8 meters below the road surface. Since the station has no elevator and only stairs to exit the platform, it is not counted as barrier-free . The train station is just like the place after the - now no longer serves its original purpose - Borsig works named. Audio file / audio sample

history

Entrance to the Borsigwerke underground station on the right in the picture. Right next to it is the factory gate designed by the architects K. Reimer and F. Körte in 1898.

After the Second World War , the Berlin administration planned a massive expansion of the Berlin subway. The first new routes should also include line C (today: part of the U6 line), which until then ended up coming from Neuköllner Grenzallee on Seestrasse . The first ceremonial pile-driving for a stretch between Seestrasse and Tegel took place on October 26, 1953; the extension was to be implemented in two stages. First the Seestraße - Kurt-Schumacher-Platz section was under construction, followed by the partly above-ground section Kurt-Schumacher-Platz - Tegel. The second section also included the Borsigwerke station.

The Berlin architect Bruno Grimmek designed the stations along the entire route . He was guided by the color code system developed by Alfred Grenander . The station was given light yellow tiles and the pillars were given small, white stripes. The station name is attached directly to the tiles in black letters. Since the station is one and a half times that depth, the BVG was able to build two mezzanine floors. Both in the southern access area, which leads to Egellstrasse and Wittestrasse, as well as in the north, small tiles in the colors light blue, yellow, light gray and pink dominate the appearance. Incidentally, Grimmek had one of the two northern entrances integrated directly into the factory building, a simple clinker brick building - the representative factory gate is still right next to it. All other entrances are typically 1950s with simple lattice doors and railings. A similar design of the train station can be found several times in Berlin. For example, the stations on the U9 line between Spichernstrasse and Leopoldplatz were built in the same period, so that they often have similarities; this is particularly noteworthy, for example, at the Hansaplatz underground station .

The then governing mayor Willy Brandt officially opened the second section between Kurt-Schumacher-Platz and Tegel on May 31, 1958. Tegel itself developed into a new recreational area within the enclosed city, so that the number of passengers rose steadily. The Borsigwerke station, however, was mainly used by the employees of neighboring companies such as Borsig .

In the course of the following decades relatively little changed at the underground station. Only the line names changed, among other things, line 6 has been running since 1966, but the previously existing direct line connection to Neukölln and Britz was discontinued when the line names were rearranged, and a change in Mehringdamm was now necessary. Since 1984 the line has been called U6 to differentiate it from the S-Bahn lines.

In the 1980s, Borsig dismantled its factory buildings so that the integrated station access had to be given up. Since then, there has been an entrance as a glass-metal construction next to the well-known factory gate. Between 1998 and 1999, the BVG renovated the station as tiles had already fallen off in the meantime. Since then, the station has presented itself in a new form, including with guide strips for the blind . Nevertheless, the original seating of the station with filigree benches from the 1950s is still there today. Jan Gympel even describes the station as one of the most unadulterated stations on the line.

The station has not yet been equipped with an elevator due to the fact that the station is not very important; the barrier-free expansion is now planned for 2020.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U6 line to the BVG bus line 133.

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 : U-Bahnhof Borsigwerke  - 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, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 , p. 50
  2. ↑ 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. 153
  3. ^ Jan Gympel: U-Bahn Berlin - travel guide . GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-072-5 ; P. 202
  4. ↑ U-Bahn elevator program 2011–2016 (PDF; 89 kB), Senate Department for Urban Development, June 9, 2009
  5. ↑ Printed matter 18/12380. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, October 17, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 54.8 "  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 26.7"  E