Frankfurter Tor underground station
The subway station Frankfurter Tor is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U5 in the district of Friedrichshain . It is located below the intersection of Karl-Marx-Allee / Frankfurter Allee and Petersburger Strasse / Warschauer Strasse . It went into operation on December 21, 1930 when line E opened under the name Petersburger Straße . The station was given its current name because of the towers at the intersection, which are supposed to be reminiscent of the former Berlin city gate , which, however, is located further west at the Weberwiese underground station found.
history
Since the construction of the Berlin subway, there have been plans for a line under Grosse Frankfurter Strasse , today's Karl-Marx-Allee, and Frankfurter Allee. The Hochbahngesellschaft , operator of the first subway lines, planned to thread a line from the Klosterstraße subway station on what was then Line A to Große Frankfurter Straße . However, this did not happen because of the First World War .
After 1918, the city of Berlin also had its own underground lines built - previously they were privately financed. After the completion of the lines C (now U6 ) and D (now U8 ), construction of a new line E began in May 1927 (now: U5), which is now under the Great Frankfurter Straße and Frankfurter Allee until after Friedrichsfelde built has been.
In the course of this route, the city of Berlin had ten new train stations built, including the Petersburger Strasse station . The architect of the station was Alfred Grenander , who designed the entire line to Friedrichsfelde. The stations are similar in structure, only the choice of color was different. Grenander chose a light blue as the color of the tiles for the Petersburger Strasse station , which was otherwise out of the ordinary, as the platforms here were much wider and a double row of columns completed the station. The reason for this was that the city of Berlin was planning to extend the elevated railway line from the Warschauer Brücke underground to this station. The entire line went into operation on December 21, 1930 as the last new line before the Second World War .
During the war, an aerial bomb hit the station during Allied air raids on December 21, 1940 , so that the station had to be shut down for the time being. Another bomb hit followed on February 3, 1945. By mid-April 1945 at the latest, traffic on Line E was stopped. But as early as June 16, 1945, despite some water damage caused by the blasting of the Landwehr Canal, a provisional shuttle service to Lichtenberg station could be started; on June 23, the entire line E was complete again.
On June 16, 1945, the first Soviet city commandant Nikolai Bersarin had an accident in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in a motorcycle accident; In 1946, in honor of his honor, Petersburger Strasse was renamed Bersarinstrasse , which also affected the name of the subway station. In 1957 the above-ground crossing was named Frankfurter Tor after the two towers that are supposed to look like a city gate. The actual Frankfurter Tor of the Berlin customs and excise wall , however, had stood about 800 meters further to the west. The East Berlin public transport company joined in the renaming of the intersection , so the station was initially called Bersarinstrasse (Frankfurter Tor) , but in the same year only Frankfurter Tor remained. In the 1980s, the walls were newly tiled in light blue.
Despite controversial discussions, the station was named in 1991 after the nearby Friedrichshain town hall in Rathaus Friedrichshain . This was justified with the likelihood of confusion with the Frankfurter Allee train station and with the fact that it was common to name train stations after the district council houses in the vicinity. After the Friedrichshain town hall had moved to a new building at the Samariterstraße subway station , the Senate Administration had the station renamed back to Frankfurter Tor in 1996 , and in the same year it was renamed to the original name Petersburger Straße . Since 1998 the station has had its current name again.
Since only the rear track walls had been modernized in the GDR era, a complete renovation of all U5 stations was urgently needed. During a full closure between September and December 2003, the station was given a new look. The BVG had the tile cladding replaced with vandal-resistant, light and dark blue enamel sheets . The asphalt pavement was replaced with granite slabs and equipped with guidance systems for the blind . The renovation is based on the original color scheme of the architect Alfred Grenander only for the back rail walls and columns.
Since the beginning of 2009, the station has had an elevator and a new access to the median of Warschauer Strasse with a tram stop island .
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U5 line to the M10 and 21 tram lines as well as the N5 night line .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 95 kB)
- Description of the route from Alexanderplatz to Frankfurter Allee including pictures of the train station
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 15 ″ E