Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz underground station
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The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn line 9 in the district of Friedenau the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg . The BVG runs the station under the internal abbreviation Fw ; the station is 640 meters from the Bundesplatz S-Bahn and U-Bahn station and 677 meters from the Walther-Schreiber-Platz U-Bahn station .
History and structure
The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz underground station went into operation on January 29, 1971, it was part of the newly opened Spichernstrasse - Walther-Schreiber-Platz line 9 (today: U9). The station is located below the square of the same name , east of the foundations of the Church of the Good Shepherd, built in 1893 .
The then Senate Building Director Rainer Gerhard Rümmler designed the station . Rümmler designed a typical Berlin subway station in the style of the 1960s with a ten meter wide and 110 meter long central platform and a row of columns in the middle. The platform has a slight curve to bypass the church in the middle of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz. At each end, stairs lead to the mezzanine, and from there with individual exits to the side streets. The back track walls are tiled olive green , with a white tile strip at eye level on which the station name is affixed in black letters. The design of the underground station is thus similar to the underground stations on the southern U6 line to Mariendorf, which were also designed by Rümmler at the same time and opened in 1966 .
The ceiling, which used to be green, is now painted white for reasons of brightness. The earlier lighting system at the train station was intended to be a reminder of the gas lamps widespread in Berlin. In the 1980s, however, the lighting system was replaced with simpler lamps after one lamp fell off.
For 2013, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe planned the basic overhaul of the underground station including a barrier-free expansion. The renovation was originally supposed to be completed by mid-2017. The elevator finally went into operation in February 2019, it leads from a center island on the street to the platform level. Together with a guidance system for the blind , around 1.7 million euros have been invested in the barrier-free expansion. The work on the complete renovation of the station is still ongoing, in addition to the tiles, the ceilings and back track walls as well as the exits are being renewed. The new design concept made of gray and orange tiles is enhanced by historical motifs of the district, the square and its namesake Crown Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm of Prussia, later Emperor Friedrich III. added.
Connection
At the underground station you can change to bus lines 186 and 246 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
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Osloer Straße - Nauener Platz - Leopoldplatz - Amrumer Straße - Westhafen - Birkenstraße - Turmstraße - Hansaplatz - Zoological Garden - Kurfürstendamm - Spichernstraße - Güntzelstraße - Berliner Straße - Bundesplatz - Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz - Walther-Schreiber-Platz - Schloßstraße - Rathaus Steglitz |
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 37 kB)
- Brief description of the station on www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
- More photos at www.untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 87; ISBN 3-930863-16-2
- ↑ Photos and description of the station at untergrundbahn.de ( 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.
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Underground - On the reconstruction work of the BVG at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz underground station. In: Schöneberg district newspaper. November 25, 2015, accessed November 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Let's put Friedrich-Wilhelm underneath. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , February 25, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 20.5 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 41.6 ″ E