Südstern underground station
The Metro Station Südstern is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U7 in the district of Kreuzberg . The station is located under the square of the same name and was opened on December 14, 1924.
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The Südstern underground station went into operation under the name Hasenheide . The station was designed - like almost all Berlin subway stations back then - by Alfred Grenander . This gave the 13-meter-wide central platform the characteristic red color, on the walls he had tiles in cold glaze technique attach the station signs were given a red border.
For a good 15 months, the station was the terminus of the line, before it went three stops to what was then Bergstrasse station on April 11, 1926 . On June 3, 1933, the station was named Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz , a good five years later, on January 1, 1939, it was renamed Gardepionierplatz .
The Second World War , which began in the same year , also had consequences for the station: On May 24, 1944, two bombs hit the station directly during Allied air raids , causing severe damage to the track area. In mid-April 1945, another aerial bomb hit the station and destroyed a large part of the station ceiling. After the German surrender on May 8, 1945, the clean-up and restoration work began, which also affected the Gardepionierplatz station . The first shuttle train ran on June 11, 1945 between the Hermannplatz and Belle-Alliance-Strasse stations , in the next few weeks it became a circulating operation and, from December 5, 1945, there was a full service again on the former line C I between Seestrasse and Grenzallee . Two years later , the station name was " demilitarized " - now the station was called Südstern .
The next big event concerned the station in 1958. In order to be able to use longer trains on line C I , the BVG had all platforms on the western sections of the north-south subway extended from 80 to 110 meters, which was also the case with the Station Südstern happened. In addition, the staircase was completely redesigned. The entrances and exits located at the ends were combined into an area in the middle of the platform, over which an entrance house was built.
The station is very busy every year for the nearby Carnival of Cultures , and handlers were often used, although these have long been abolished since the mid-1990s. Due to damage to the ceiling, an “all-round renovation” of the station took place between 2007 and 2009. This was completed with the installation of the elevator, which went into operation on December 18, 2009.
Connection
The underground station is served exclusively by the U7 line and the BVG night bus line N7, which runs on this line . There is no direct transfer to other local public transport lines.
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 34 kB)
- Description of the Grenzallee - Gneisenaustrasse route including pictures of the station
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The underground is also building in 2007. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, February 19, 2007, accessed on March 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Barrier-free expansion of the Südstern underground station. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, December 18, 2009, accessed on March 28, 2011 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 21.5 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 28 ″ E