Heinrich-Heine-Straße underground station
The underground station Heinrich-Heine-Straße is a station of the line U8 of the Berlin subway . It is located under the street of the same name in the Mitte part of the district of the same name . It was put into operation on April 6, 1928. The underground station , which is referred to as He in the BVG station directory , does not have a lift and is therefore not barrier-free . The barrier-free expansion including the elevator should be completed by the end of 2020.
history
From 1912 AEG began to build its own subway between Schwedenstrasse and Hermannplatz . However, due to the First World War and the economically and politically difficult period that followed, the AEG Schnellbahn A.-G. do not complete the work. After the city of Berlin sued and won, the parts of the route that had already been built were transferred to the city. From 1926 work was again carried out on the so-called "GN-Bahn".
The design of the underground station was entrusted to Alfred Grenander , who again carried out the station in the New Objectivity style . Grenander chose a light purple as the color code for the station . The Heinrich-Heine-Strasse underground station went into operation on April 6, 1928 under the name Neanderstrasse . For the time being, it was the end of the line for trains coming from Boddinstrasse and Leinestrasse for two years. From April 18, 1930, the D trains continued to Gesundbrunnen .
The station has a northern and a southern exit. The northern one is integrated into a corner building on Köpenicker Straße , the upper floors of which contain offices and apartments. The entire building is a listed building .
As a result of the Second World War , traffic in the entire subway network had to be shut down at the end of April 1945. Operations in the station could be resumed on June 3, 1945. The southern exit, originally in a house on the corner of Schmidstrasse, was opened after the rubble had been removed in the form of free-standing staircases on the sidewalks of Neanderstrasse.
On August 31, 1960, the station was renamed Heinrich-Heine-Strasse, a year later the station fell into a deep slumber. Due to the construction of the Wall and the division of Berlin on August 13, 1961, the trains on Line D (now: U8) no longer stopped in East Berlin . The entrances were walled up, the stairs in Heinrich-Heine-Strasse leveled, they could no longer be seen. Only one drive through was allowed, the stations turned into “ ghost stations ”. The reopening did not take place until almost 30 years later: For the monetary, economic and social union on July 1, 1990, all “ghost stations” went back into operation. The access stairs first had to be rebuilt.
The installation of an elevator is planned for 2020.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U8 line to the bus lines 165 and 265 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- BVG area map of the station (PDF; 97 kB)
- Description of the Leinestraße - Heinrich-Heine-Straße section on berliner-untergrundbahn.de
- More pictures on untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gudrun Mallwitz: 53 Berlin subway stations still don't have a lift. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 12, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Underground station building, Köpenicker Straße 79
- ↑ Printed matter 18/10175 on the barrier-free expansion of S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations. (PDF; 200 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, January 10, 2017, accessed on April 5, 2017 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 57.3 ″ E