Dahlem-Dorf underground station
The Dahlem-Dorf is a Berlin subway station of the line U3 of the Berlin subway in the district of Dahlem the district Steglitz-Zehlendorf . Like the other stations of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer Schnellbahn, the station went into operation on October 12, 1913.
The underground station is on the Königin-Luise-Straße opposite the Dahlem Open-Air Museum . Some institutes of the Free University of Berlin and the Museum Center Berlin-Dahlem of the Berlin State Museums are in the immediate vicinity . The underground station is designed as an incision station with a central platform .
History and structure
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The station was built as part of the construction of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer subway between Wittenbergplatz and Thielplatz in the south of the Dahlem domain in order to open up the previously purely agricultural area for traffic. The station was built in 1912/1913 and designed by Friedrich and Wilhelm Hennings . Originally, only a small gate house was intended as the entrance to the subway. At the request of Kaiser Wilhelm II , the reception building was adapted to the rural character of the Dahlem domain and was designed in the style of a north German manor house as a thatched half-timbered house with a forecourt adorned with flowers and a picket fence as the property boundary.
The access building at the northeast end of the platform stands on a stone base. The facade is designed as a white half-timbered structure with dark wood and is divided by a hip. The main building is bordered by two pavilion-like side wings. Access to the station is through two wrought-iron wooden doors. Above these entrance doors there are five windows and a dormer window. The roof is designed as a cripple hipped roof , which is clad on the inside with a trapezoidal brown coffered ceiling in the style of a knight's hall. The walls are covered with blue ceramic tiles on the inside , the floor has a mosaic paving. Opposite the entrance, a dark green tiled staircase leads to the platform. As with the Podbielskiallee underground station , this is covered by an inwardly sloping bitumen wood roof. Two wooden seating groups designed as a group of figures by Berlin artist Wolf van Roy have been referring to the nearby ethnological museum since 1984 .
After a fire on December 27, 1980, the station was rebuilt according to historical plans. From the original structure, a blue-tiled operation building has been preserved on the platform. At the south-west Fabeckstrasse bridge there is another access to the station by elevator. The station is considered barrier-free .
In 1987, the Dahlem-Dorf metro station in Japan was named the most beautiful metro station in Europe.
On April 28, 2012 at around 2 a.m., the thatched roof of the entrance building burned again, which destroyed around 80 m² of the roof. As a result of the extinguishing and clearing work, the train traffic was interrupted for several days. The roof was restored in July 2013; for safety reasons, a plastic replica was used instead of thatch.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U3 line to the M11 and X83 bus lines operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe .
literature
- Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , p. 133/134.
- 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. 119.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 966 kB)
- Description of the Dahlem section of the U3, including pictures of the station
- More pictures on untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ News in brief - U-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 6 , 2012, p. 114 .
- ↑ The roof of the Dahlem-Dorf underground station catches fire . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 28, 2012.
- ↑ News in brief - U-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 9 , 2013, p. 180 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 25.5 ″ N , 13 ° 17 ′ 22 ″ E