Kaiserdamm underground station
The Kaiserdamm underground station is a station on the U2 line of the Berlin underground . It is located near the crossing Kaiserdamm / Königin-Elisabeth-Strasse in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district and was opened on March 29, 1908. The underground station is one of the official feeder stations to the Berlin exhibition center and the central bus station .
history
As part of the redevelopment of the Westend construction area , on June 23, 1906, the Territorialgesellschaft Westend, the then independent city of Charlottenburg and the Hochbahngesellschaft , which operated all underground lines at the time, agreed on a new branch of the elevated and underground railway from the Bismarckstraße underground station ( now: Deutsche Oper ) to the Reichskanzlerplatz . The area, which at that time was only loosely built up or not at all, was to be connected to the center in this way , and potential buyers were to be encouraged to settle there. The construction work for the 2.6 kilometer long route with the three stations Sophie-Charlotte-Platz , Kaiserdamm and Reichskanzlerplatz began shortly after the contract was signed.
As for all subway structures at the time, the in-house architect of the elevated railway company Alfred Grenander designed the three stations. As with other buildings, he designed the stations soberly and objectively. The Kaiserdamm station - named after the last German Emperor Wilhelm II - received two side platforms, each 109 meters long and 3.5 meters wide . Grenander designed the walls with white, small tiles. Already two weeks before the actual opening date, Wilhelm II drove the route to Reichskanzlerplatz , the journey was named "Kaiserfahrt". The new line officially went into operation on March 29, 1908.
The importance of the station soon increased with the opening of the new radio tower and the nearby exhibition center in 1926. The first Green Week took place there in 1926 and the first International Aviation Exhibition in 1928 . For this reason, the elevated railway company had three additional entrances, including a mezzanine, built on the western side of the station. The redesign was also carried out by Alfred Grenander. In 1936, the station received the annex Messedamm in order to place an additional reference to the exhibition center .
The station was hardly damaged in the Second World War , and it was not until April 25, 1945 that the BVG ceased operations here. Due to the minor damage, a shuttle service between Ruhleben and Knie (today: Ernst-Reuter-Platz ) could already be set up on May 17, 1945 , and since September 15, 1946, trains on line A I between Ruhleben and Pankow have been running again.
Shortly after Konrad Adenauer's death on April 19, 1967, the Berlin Senate Administration unceremoniously renamed Kaiserdamm, including the underground station, to Adenauerdamm on April 27, 1967 . This in turn sparked major protests among the population; the Rhinelander was not one of the West Berliners' favorite politicians . Due to these protests, the name change was reversed on January 15, 1968.
In 1986 the BVG had the train station renovated for the 750th anniversary of the city and equipped with light gray tiles . Nothing significant has changed at the station itself since then.
To create barrier-free access, two elevators are planned to be installed at the eastern ends of the platform. The work for this is to begin in 2019, the costs are estimated at around 2.8 million euros.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from line U2 to bus line 139 of the Berlin transport company. The S-Bahn station Messe Nord / ICC on the Ringbahn is around 200 meters away .
Web links
- BVG map of the train station (PDF; 246 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Description of the route Bismarckstraße - Ruhleben including pictures of the train station
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Printed matter 18/14039. Berlin House of Representatives, April 27, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 36 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 56 ″ E