Grenzallee underground station

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Grenzallee underground station in Berlin-Britz

The Grenzallee is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - Line 7 in the north of Neukölln district in Britz . The station, which opened on December 21, 1930, was the end of line C I for a long time . The station, which is listed in the station directory of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) under the abbreviation Gz , has neither an escalator nor an elevator and is therefore not barrier-free . Originally, the barrier-free expansion of the station was supposed to take place by the end of 2019 . It is expected to be completed by the end of 2020.

history

opening

The BVG opened the Grenzallee station on December 21, 1930 in connection with the commissioning of the Bergstrasse (today: Karl-Marx-Strasse ) - Grenzallee line. Permission to build the line had already been granted in 1928. Thus, from 1930 on, Grenzallee acted as the terminus for all trains coming from Wedding that took the branch of line C to Neukölln (line C I ).

During the construction of the station, the construction of a further workshop was also planned to the south-east of the station at the junction of the Neukölln shipping canal and Teltow canal on the urban site. Especially for this purpose, the BVG had the tunnel structures prepared for the future four access tracks, but construction did not take place.

The BVG commissioned the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander to design the station , who had previously designed numerous stations and other line structures for Berlin's elevated and underground railways. The Grenzallee train station is one of Grenander's latest works; his designs in the New Objectivity style were almost perfected here. Basic feature of the station is its means between green and light green iridescent color that makes it clearly visible to passengers and thus follows the Grenanderschen color principle: Each station received its own characteristic color. For the design of the station, Grenander used large-format tiles on the back track walls and the supervisory buildings. Strong, riveted profile supports support the brightly plastered ceiling. At the opening time, the platform was also darkly asphalted . The central platform is 120 meters long, 13 meters wide and 6.3 meters below the road surface.

External use during the Second World War

A few years later, in 1939, the Second World War began , although this initially had no direct impact on events at the station. It was not until 1944 that the BVG shortened the operation of line C to Bergstrasse, as the tunnel south of the station, including the Neukölln and Grenzallee stations , was made available to the armaments company Henschel-Flugwerke for 40,000 marks per month  (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 153,100 euros) has been. However, this external use soon became superfluous due to the ongoing hostilities.

After the war

After the end of the war, operations were resumed on July 26, 1945 between Grenzallee, Neukölln (Südring) and Bergstrasse as shuttle service. On December 5, 1945, the shuttle traffic on line C I between Bergstrasse and Grenzallee was combined with the northern area. This meant that the line was once again fully and continuously accessible on two tracks. The route of the line ran from Grenzallee via Bergstrasse and Belle-Alliance-Strasse to Seestrasse .

With the division of the BVG between East and West Berlin on August 1, 1949, the operational sovereignty of the line C I was transferred to the BVG-Ost, which from now on provided the operating staff. The train traffic and the power supply were ensured by BVG-West. On August 17, 1953, the West Berlin BVG decided to extend line C I as C I -Süd via Buschkrugallee to Britz. In 1955 this was changed to a new line H, which was to lead from Rudow via Grenzallee, Mehringdamm to Siemensstadt . On May 3, 1956, the C-North line was opened. The Grenzallee station was connected to the new terminus at Kurt-Schumacher-Platz , on May 31, 1958 with the new terminus at Tegel (today: Alt-Tegel).

On November 2, 1959, construction work finally began on the line towards Britz, through which the Grenzallee station should lose its character as a terminus; The extension was opened on September 28, 1963. After two further extensions (1970 and 1972) it was now possible to reach Rudow with the new subway line H. On March 1, 1966, the BVG introduced new line names. Since then, underground line 7 has stopped at Grenzallee station. With the opening of the new, large Britz workshop near the Britz-Süd train station , the Berlin Senate shelved all previous plans to build a workshop on Grenzallee .

Refurbishment and planned elevator installation

In the 1990s, the BVG renovated the station by replacing the asphalt platform surface with dark green ceramic tiles . Since then, the station has also had guide strips for the blind and an improved lighting system. With regard to the installation of an elevator in order to make the station accessible for passengers with reduced mobility , the Grenzallee station does not have a high priority in the planning of the Berlin Senate . An elevator should be installed in 2017/2018, for which 1.4 million euros are earmarked. Originally, installation was planned together with the basic renovation, but this was not possible due to financial difficulties.

Connection

In addition to the U7 line and the N7 night bus that runs on the line, the underground station is also served by the 171 bus from Hermannplatz to Schönefeld Airport.

line course
Berlin U7.svg Spandau Town Hall  - Spandau Old Town  - Citadel  - Haselhorst  - Paulsternstraße  - Rohrdamm  - Siemensdamm  - Halemweg  - Jakob-Kaiser-Platz  - Jungfernheide  - Mierendorffplatz  - Richard-Wagner-Platz  - Bismarckstraße  - Wilmersdorfer Straße  - Adenauerplatz  - Konstanzer Straße  - Fehrbelliner Platz  - Blissestraße  - Berliner street  - Bayerischer Platz  - Eisenacherstraße  - Kleistpark  - Yorckstraße  - Möckernbrücke  - Mehringdamm  - Gneisenaustraße  - Südstern  - Hermannplatz  - Rathaus Neukölln  - Karl Marx street  - Neukölln  - Grenzallee  - Blaschkoallee  - Parchimer Allee  - Britz-Süd  - Johannisthaler Chaussee  - Lipschitzallee  - Wutzkyallee  - Zwickauer Damm  - Rudow

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Grenzallee (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Printed matter 17/12158. (PDF; 156 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, June 25, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013 .
  2. ↑ 53 Berlin underground stations still don't have a lift. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 12, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Documentation by André Loop for the structural preparation of the Grenzallee workshop ( memento of the original from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on untergrundbahn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.untergrundbahn.de
  4. ↑ Biagia Bongiorno: Monuments of Transport in Berlin - The Stations of the Berlin high and subway , Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 ; P. 155
  5. ^ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 98, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 .
  6. ↑ Dieter Kaddoura (Red.): Berliner U-Bahn-Chronik , GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89218-110-1 ; P. 34
  7. ↑ Printed matter 17/12893. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, December 19, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Written request from the Greens MP Michael Cramer regarding the elevator installation, list of priorities in the appendix (PDF; 166 kB), December 1, 2003, Senate Department for Urban Development

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '48.5 "  N , 13 ° 26' 37.8"  E