Hohenzollernplatz underground station

This article deals with the train station in Berlin. The station of the same name in Munich can be found under the Hohenzollernplatz underground station (Munich)

West entrance to the underground station at Hohenzollerndamm at the corner of Uhlandstraße

The underground station Hohenzollernplatz is a landmarked underground station of U3 the subway in Berlin district of Wilmersdorf of the district Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf . With the laying of the foundation stone for this station on October 5, 1909, construction of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer Bahn began. Together with the other stations on this route, it was put into operation on October 12, 1913. The entrances to the train station, originally located on the edge of the eponymous Hohenzollernplatz , are now on the median of the Hohenzollerndamm .

History and structure

The station was created during the construction of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer subway between Wittenbergplatz and Thielplatz in the south of the Dahlem domain . The then independent municipality of Wilmersdorf wanted to consolidate the attractiveness of the surrounding new building area with an elaborate design of the train stations located in its area and at the same time underline its own standing. The station was built in the years 1909-1913 and designed by Wilhelm Leitgebel . It is considered one of the most complex on the U3 line.

Entrance hall, 2014

Platform, 2013

Historic station sign

For the two entrances in the middle of the then representative Hohenzollerplatz, Leitgebel designed, similar to the other Wilmersdorf underground stations he designed, stone pylons with lamp attachments and a stone wall made of shell limestone . In 1913, bronze eagle sculptures by the sculptor Robert Korn were placed above the lamps on both sides . For the wrought-iron access gates Leitgebel chose the decorative elements of oak and bay leaves, the Hohenzollern eagle, as well as weapons and armor motifs. The stairs lead into representative vestibules decorated with eagles and veneered with tiles.

The platform hall is designed as a central platform . The walls are divided into a dark brown ceramic base and gray-violet tiled wall fields, which in turn are closed off with brown capitals . In between there are alternating yellow fields with the station name and former billboards, which are now adorned with images of Hohenzollern Castle . The ceiling rests on rectangular granite columns in the middle of the platform. It is designed as a plastered coffered ceiling with gold-blue mosaic inlays, from the center of which spherical lamps “grow”. The platform, which was originally covered with dark asphalt floor slabs, was given a light granite surface with a guidance system for the blind in summer 2011 . An elevator was put into operation in April 2012. The basic repairs and restoration of the station was completed by September 2012. Among other things, the two stone eagles at the western entrance were returned to their original place. Large-format views of Hohenzollern Castle by Edgar Herbst serve as the wall design.

The massive foundation stone can be seen in the north wall. From the original equipment of the building, a metal hydrant cabinet , an operating house and a kiosk have been preserved.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from line U3 to bus line 249 of the Berlin transport company .

line

course

Warschauer Straße  - Silesian Gate  - Görlitzer Bahnhof  - Kottbusser Tor  - Prince Street  - Hallesches Tor  - Möckernbrücke  - Gleisdreieck  - Kurfürstenstraße  - Nollendorfplatz  - Wittenbergplatz  - Augsburgerstraße  - Spichernstraße  - Hohenzollernplatz  - Fehrbellinerplatz  - Heidelberger Platz  - Rüdesheimer Platz  - Breitenbachplatz  - Podbielskiallee  - Dahlem Dorf  - Free University (Thielplatz)  - Oskar-Helene-Heim  - Uncle Tom's Hut  - Krumme Lanke

literature

• Biagia Bongiorno: Traffic monuments in Berlin - The stations of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 ; P. 110 f.

Web links

Commons : Hohenzollernplatz U-Bahnhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• BVG map of the station (PDF; 34 kB)
• Detailed representation of the Hohenzollernplatz underground station, including station pictures
• More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
• Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bongiorno (2007), p. 110.
2. ↑ eagle at the subway entrance Hohenzollernplatz on www.bildhauerei-in-berlin.de ( Memento of 30 August 2015 Web archive archive.today ), accessed on August 1, 2016th
3. ↑ Elevator commissioning at the Hohenzollernplatz underground station, U3. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, April 4, 2012, accessed on April 16, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Then and now . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No.  10 , 2012, p. 188 .
5. ↑ Hohenzollern pictures decorate Berlin subway station - Hohenzollern Castle. Retrieved November 10, 2018 . 
6. ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Hohenzollern Castle: The castle in large format . In: swp.de . October 6, 2012 ( swp.de [accessed November 10, 2018]).

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 38.2 "  N , 13 ° 19 ′ 29.7"  E