Hallesches Tor underground station
The hallesches tor is an interchange station of the U1 , U3 and U6 of the Berlin subway in the district Kreuzberg of the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . The name of the underground station is reminiscent of the Hallesche Tor of the Berlin customs and excise wall, which was originally located here . The elevated station of today's U1 / U3 went into operation on February 18, 1902, the underground station of today's U6 line on January 30, 1923.
history
The first trains of the Berlin subway started running here on February 18, 1902, making it one of the first subway stations in Berlin. At that time, the wagons drove east to the Warsaw Bridge , in the west it went to the Zoologischer Garten . Architects Hermann Solf and Franz Wichards designed the station itself, on the bank of the Landwehr Canal near the Belle Alliance Bridge, in a mixture of neo-renaissance and neo-baroque styles . What was striking was the use of a very light stone, the entrance portal of the elevated station was crowned by two turrets, each with an impeller , the hallmark of the elevated railway company .
On January 30, 1923, another station for the new C line was added to the existing station on the east-west line , but unlike the 1902 underground line, it belonged to the city of Berlin . In order to enable a transfer between the two competing routes, a long connecting tunnel was built because the city of Berlin refused to rebuild the Belle Alliance Bridge, which would have been necessary for a more transfer-friendly station on Line C. Until 1924 the trains from the direction of Weddinger Seestrasse ended there , from then on they continued south to Tempelhof and Neukölln .
The number of passengers rose steadily, so that the hall of the high station and its platform had to be expanded to 6 and 8 car trains in 1927 and 1935. Plans for a new construction of the station came up at this time, the side platforms should disappear. The city of Berlin did not pursue these intentions due to the dire economic situation.
The Second World War had serious consequences for the station: both parts of the station had to be shut down in April 1945 due to numerous bomb hits and a shortage of electricity. The first trains were able to run from the underground part of the station on July 4, 1945, at that time a shuttle service to the neighboring Belle-Alliance-Straße station . The elevated station, on the other hand, had suffered extremely severe damage; in October 1945, the BVG had a wooden platform built east of the previous stations for each train direction. This provisional arrangement lasted four years, only on October 2, 1949 was regular train operation possible again in the old station building, which had been rebuilt in a much simplified form.
In the years that followed, neither the Berlin blockade nor the division of Berlin directly affected Hallesches Tor station, even if the routing of individual lines changed.
In 1975/1976 the U6 station was fundamentally redesigned. In order to be able to use longer trains, the BVG had the platform extended from 80 to 110 meters. The formerly white walls were now clad in blue metal plates with red station signs. The supervisory house, on the other hand, was painted orange, creating a strong complementary contrast . The rest of the station design, which was kept in blue, was retained in its color. Behind the station, the tracks were redesigned so that there was space for an additional, single-track sweeping system that was only sufficient for one train . Since then, nothing significant has changed at the station on today's U1 and U6 lines .
The installation of elevator systems for barrier-free access was originally supposed to be completed by 2010. At the end of 2013, the BVG expected completion by 2015, with a total of around 7.3 million euros earmarked for this. In order to meet all passenger needs, three elevators had to be installed (platform U1 towards Uhlandstraße , platform U1 towards Warschauer Straße, platform U6). The two elevators from street level to U1 went into operation at the end of 2014, and 3.6 million euros were invested for this. A barrier-free renovation of the platform area was then planned. A barrier-free expansion of the U6 platform is planned for 2017, the costs for this are estimated at 1.7 million euros. First, on May 15, 2017, the elevator from the U6 platform to the surface went into operation. Together with the construction of a handicapped accessible ramp on Mehringplatz, 900,000 euros were invested. For the barrier-free access to the U6 platform, the installation of a guidance system for the blind and the leveling of the platform are still pending.
In the medium term, it is planned to equip the elevated platform with another entrance so that the distances to the underground station from the Willy-Brandt-Haus , Wilhelmstrasse and Mehringdamm areas will be shortened.
Connection
The underground station is a transfer point between lines U1 / U3 and line U6 as well as to various bus lines of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 47 kB)
- Description of the route Warschauer Straße - Gleisdreieck - Potsdamer Platz (main route; U1) including station pictures
- Description of the route Mehringdamm - Seestrasse (north-south subway; U6) including station pictures
- [1] [2] More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Kaddoura (Red.): Berliner U-Bahn-Chronik , GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89218-110-1 ; P. 91
- ↑ Individual measures up to 2009 ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , p. 197, from: Nahverkehrsplan 2006–2009 , Senate Department for Urban Development, August 21, 2007
- ↑ Printed matter 17/12893. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, December 19, 2013, accessed on January 14, 2014 .
- ↑ Accessibility for three more underground stations before Christmas. (PDF) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, December 19, 2014, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Printed matter 18/10175. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, January 10, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ All good things come in threes . (PDF) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, May 15, 2017, accessed on July 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Individual measures up to 2009 ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) , p. 195, from: Nahverkehrsplan 2006–2009 , Senate Department for Urban Development, August 21, 2007
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 52 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 28 ″ E