Friedrichsfelde underground station
The underground station Friedrichsfelde is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U5 in the town district . It was the terminus of line E, which was opened in 1930, until 1973. It is operated under the abbreviation Fi at BVG . The Friedrichsfelde workshop is located south-east of the station .
history
At the end of the 1920s, the planning of an underground line to connect the eastern districts of Berlin was taken up again. This envisaged the routing of the line from Alexanderplatz below Frankfurter Allee to Lichtenberg station . Then the train should turn onto Prinzenallee (today: Einbecker Straße) and follow it to the village center of Friedrichsfeld . The underground station is right before the intersection of Einbecker and Rummelsburger, Zachert- and Alfred-Kowalke-Straße. The tracks continue from there in a south-westerly direction. Two tracks continued as dirt tracks in the tunnel and two more appeared afterwards. A separate workshop for the line was then built on an area that was still undeveloped at the time. The opening of the station took place on December 21, 1930.
The station largely corresponds to the normal type of the Memeler Straße underground station (today: Weberwiese). This and the other stations of the line were designed by the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander and are characterized by a uniform construction in the modern style . A special feature was a color code that assigned a different color to each subway station in order to make it easier for visually impaired people to find their way around during the journey. Light blue was planned for Friedrichsfelde.
Since the station was located in an area that was still very rural at the time, the simple low-lying position of the platform was sufficient here, so the exits are right at the end of the platform and do not have an intermediate level. The asphalt platform is 120 meters long and 8 meters wide. In addition, the station had the usual equipment at that time in the form of benches, destination displays or information showcases.
Shortly before the end of World War II , an Allied bomb hit on February 26, 1945 , in which the station was damaged. Only a few people were injured because operations in this section of the network were already inactive at the time. A poorly prepared shuttle service between Friedrichsfelde and Frankfurter Allee could only be started on June 13th . This was gradually extended to Alexanderplatz until June 26th and replaced by regular circulation from February 1st, 1946.
In 1955, the Berlin zoo opens its doors in the Friedrichsfelde Palace Park . Despite its distance of more than a kilometer, the underground station was the closest S-Bahn connection . That is why it received the addition of the zoo in 1958, at the instigation of Heinrich Dathe , the zoo director at the time . In the following years, Dathe tried to improve the connection between the site and the underground, which made it necessary to continue the line. Since the further construction was still waiting for its official decision, the first “secret” pile-driving took place on September 19, 1969 with the participation of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe and VEB Tiefbau, which was commissioned with the construction. The sweeping tracks were abandoned and the tunnel lengthened for the continuation. In 1970, the name was removed during the construction work. On June 25, 1973, the extension of line E to Tierpark underground station was opened.
An extensive renovation of the station took place in 2004, the most striking feature of which was to replace the light blue tiles with dark blue enamel panels , which are interrupted by a light blue band at the height of the station name. The asphalt floor was removed and replaced with granite slabs . On June 9, 2010, the station received an elevator at the southern exit, the costs for this amounted to 350,000 euros.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from line U5 to bus lines 194, 296 and 396 of the BVG .
literature
- Peter Bock (Ed.): U5 Between Alex and Hönow. Story (s) from the underground. GVE e. V., Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89218-079-2 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 34 kB)
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ^ BVG press archive
- ↑ Berliner Verkehrsblätter (07/2011), p. 136.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 22 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 46 ″ E