Klosterstrasse underground station
The Klosterstraße underground station is a station on the U2 line of the Berlin underground . It is located under Klosterstrasse in the Berlin district of Mitte near Alexanderplatz and went into operation on July 1, 1913. The station is a listed building .
history
The Klosterstraße underground station is roughly at the same level as Parochialstraße. The relatively large width of the platform and the offset row of columns are striking. Also striking are the two granite strips embedded in the floor, which stretch along the middle of the platform. In the real sense, these are two platforms that have been combined into one large one. The granite bands represent the formerly planned platform edges.
The station was built according to plans by Alfred Grenander and opened on July 1, 1913 as part of the extension of what was then the Centrums line. The plan was to build a line to Frankfurter Allee next to the elevated railway in Schönhauser Allee , which opened in the same year . This should branch off from the main line at Klosterstrasse station and then cross it in a tower station at Alexanderplatz station . The plans were later abandoned in favor of a large profile line (today's line U5 ).
A train station with two platforms and three platform edges was planned. The middle track was to accommodate trains coming from Frankfurter Allee ; these should then be threaded into the trunk line. The western platform was supposed to accommodate trains coming from Schönhauser Allee. The eastern platform, on which the row of pillars is located, should eventually accommodate all trains coming from Potsdamer Platz ; the lines would only have branched after the station. If the plans had been implemented, the eastern platform would have been the smaller of the two with a width of less than three meters.
In the access area, the station is decorated with stylized palm trees made of orange, blue and white glazed tiles . The representations were created with the help of bricks in the same way as for the Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum , because a few more tiles had been made during its construction.
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The station was added to the Berlin district monuments list in 1975. Between 1984 and 1986, the Karl-Marx-Stadt housing combination carried out an extensive renovation as part of the preparation for the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987. Significant damage from the days of the war was repaired and the station was transformed into a "tangible" museum. The billboards, which were not needed during the GDR era, offered space for a total of 22 enamel billboards from the Beutha sign factory , which show the development of local public transport in Berlin based on the respective vehicles. In addition, the front part of railcar 12 of the Schöneberg subway from 1910 was returned to its original state and placed in November 1985 at the northern end of the platform between the two stairs. The car was previously used for transfer trips (car number 710 008, formerly: 359) between the two East Berlin subway lines, was retired in 1982 after an accident and is intended to symbolize the entry of a small-profile train coming from Frankfurter Allee in its current position . Its future is uncertain, as an elevator is to be installed here by 2020.
At the southern end of the platform, a mechanical signal box for the initial equipment of the elevated railway was set up behind glass.
After the political change , relatively little changed at the station itself. The first noticeable changes were, among other things, new train destinations in the west of Berlin , since in 1993 the former line A was merged to form the new line U2. Since then, passengers from the Klosterstrasse train station have been able to reach the KaDeWe at Wittenbergplatz or the Zoological Garden directly by underground.
According to the priority list agreed between the BVG , Senate and associations for the disabled, the implementation of a previously non-existent barrier-free access was only planned for after 2016. A completely barrier-free expansion can be expected by the end of 2020.
Monastery tunnel
Immediately north of the subway station, a tunnel branches off to the east. This is the Klostertunnel , one of the two connecting tunnels between the large and small profile network of the Berlin subway . The tunnel was needed because after the split of the BVG in 1949 there was no more workshop available for the eastern small profile line A (today: line U2) - with the exception of the large profile workshop in Friedrichsfelde . In order to achieve this, the BVG-Ost built a tunnel between 1951 and 1952 from the Klosterstrasse station to the northeast. This is where the operating line meets the Waisentunnel , the connecting tunnel that already existed at the time between the large-profile lines U5 and U8 .
The tunnel was completed in time for the 50th anniversary of the subway on February 16, 1952, making it the first post-war subway construction in Berlin. The tunnel has in the middle part a power-rail on section which is necessary because the busbars of the two profiles a different polarity have and are painted from different sides.
In addition to the transfer trips from Line A to the Friedrichsfelde workshop, the tunnel was initially also used to transfer small-profile trains to Line E (today: U5), as the large-profile cars used on the line had to be given to the Moscow subway as a reparation .
After the U2 line became fully passable again at the end of 1993 as part of German reunification , the tunnel lost its importance, as the small-profile vehicles could now be serviced in the Grunewald workshop .
In February 1980, an East Berlin family about managed monastery and orphanage tunnel , the escape to West Berlin .
Connection
At the underground station there are no direct transfer options to other local public transport lines in Berlin . The next bus stops are in Grunerstrasse and at Molkenmarkt .
literature
- K. Lufsky: The groundwater sealing of the underground connection tunnel Klosterstrasse – Littenstrasse in Berlin. In: Bauplanung und Bautechnik , 6th year, issue 15 (December 1952), pp. 561–566.
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 37 kB)
- Description of the Spittelmarkt - Potsdamer Platz route including pictures of the train station
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- ↑ More than the subway architect . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 23, 2010, p. 27
- ↑ Two photos by Dieter Breitenborn from the Berliner Zeitung (undated; around 1981) with explanatory text
- ↑ Current list of priorities of the elevator program of the Berlin Senate 2011–2016 (PDF; 89 kB) Senate Department for Urban Development, December 9, 2008
- ↑ Printed matter 17/12158. (PDF; 156 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, June 25, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013 .
- ↑ 53 Berlin underground stations still don't have a lift. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 12, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 58 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 44 ″ E