Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße underground station

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Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße underground station (2008, before renovation start)

The Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße underground station is a Berlin underground station on the U6 line . Located just south of City Hall Tempelhof under the Tempelhofer Damm in Berlin district of Tempelhof the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg and carries the BVG symbol Ka . It is 591 meters south of the Alt-Tempelhof underground station and 695 meters north of the Ullsteinstraße underground station . The station was put into operation on February 28, 1966 together with the other stations of the Mariendorfer U-Bahn between Tempelhof (Südring) and Alt-Mariendorf, which became the southern section of the independent line 6 . Named after the namesake he is - the temple Damm crossing - road that leads to the December 6, 1874 Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , the wife of Emperor I. Wilhelm was named.

History and structure

The Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße underground station was built as part of the southern extension of the Tempelhof branch of the north-south railway to Alt-Mariendorf . The planning for this goes back to the Weimar Republic , but construction of this section of the route did not begin until 1961. As one of the first underground stations in Berlin, this station was designed by Rainer G. Rümmler , just like most of the other stations on the southern north-south line and the U7 line that were built at the same time .

Rümmler was based on Bruno Grimmek's design for the Alt-Tempelhof underground station and designed a 110-meter-long and seven-meter-wide central platform with two entrances to Albrechtstrasse in the north and the eponymous Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse in the south. The walls behind the tracks were clad with small, dark green ceramic tiles, the supporting columns were tiled in white. The ground is paved. After the ceramic cladding of the back track walls had come off over time, the walls were painted dark green.

In 1991 the station was given direct access to the Karstadt department store above. An elevator system to Tempelhofer Damm in the northern area has ensured that the station has been barrier-free since March 18, 2011. The construction costs for the elevator amounted to around 900,000 euros. A major overhaul of the station is planned for 2013. The renovation work began in October 2013 and is ongoing. They were originally supposed to be completed in July 2016. The subway station was given a blue and white color scheme. Monochrome motifs alternate portraits of the namesake at different phases of life as well as the castles of Weimar , Koblenz , Berlin and Babelsberg , in which she resided at that time. According to the BVG , the construction work should be completed in April 2017.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from line U6 to bus line 184 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe .

line course
Berlin U6.svg Alt-Tegel  - Borsigwerke  - Holzhauser Straße  - Otisstraße  - Scharnweberstraße  - Kurt-Schumacher-Platz  - African Straße  - Rehberge  - Seestraße  - Leopoldplatz  - Wedding  - Reinickendorfer Straße  - Schwartzkopffstraße  - Natural History Museum  - Oranienburger Tor  - Friedrichstraße  - Französische Straße  - Stadtmitte  - Kochstraße  - Hallesches Gate  - Mehringdamm  - Platz der Luftbrücke  - Paradestrasse  - Tempelhof  - Alt-Tempelhof  - Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse  - Ullsteinstrasse  - Westphalweg  - Alt-Mariendorf

literature

  • Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. 2. corr. and exp. Edition. be.bra verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 , p. 136.

Web links

Commons : Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße U-Bahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News in brief: U-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 5 , 2011, p. 90 .
  2. ↑ News in brief: U-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 11 , 2012, p. 220 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '36.6 "  N , 13 ° 23' 4.5"  E