Märkisches Museum underground station

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Eastern entrance to the Märkisches Museum underground station

The subway station Märkisches Museum is a station of the Berlin underground -line U2 in Berlin district of Mitte . It is 600 meters from Klosterstraße underground station and 465 meters from Spittelmarkt underground station . It is listed as Mk in the BVG station directory (until 1935: I ).

The station was opened in 1913 under the name Inselbrücke and was given its current name in 1935 at the request of the management of the nearby Märkisches Museum .

History and structure

Planning and first decades

Cross section of the train station, 1913
Excavation in the river bed of the Spree , around 1910

In the course of the extension of what was then known as the Spittelmarkt line as the central line to Alexanderplatz , the Inselbrücke station was built in the immediate vicinity of the Spree to be crossed in the subsequent course , which is why it was a special structural feature of that time with a very deep six and a half meters below street level for the time.

Thanks to its low location, Alfred Grenander, the architect, was able to equip the station with a large and spacious hall and a basket-arch vault . Because of this construction method, which is unusual in Berlin, the station was often associated with that of the Paris Métro . In the Berlin subway network, only the Platz der Luftbrücke subway station has such a column-free structure.

The central platform is 121.3 meters long and 7.6 meters wide; the hall is 5.2 meters high at its largest point.

Grenander chose the color code green for the station, as well as for the Leipziger Platz station, because his color scheme for this route provided for a regular repetition of the colors. The station, which has a small middle storey in both east and west directions, was given a central platform 121.3 meters long and 7.6 meters wide.

Inselbrücke underground station in 1913 (since 1935: Märkisches Museum)

After lengthy construction work, the elevated railway company began operations on July 1, 1913 on the 1.7 kilometer long Spittelmarkt - Alexanderplatz line.

Since 1928, the underground lines that ran through Inselbrücke station had been designated A I and A II .

Second World War

On May 24, 1944, the vaulted ceiling of the station was slightly damaged by an aerial bomb. At the beginning of April 1945, an Allied air raid damaged the seal of the underground tunnel under the Spree between the Klosterstrasse and Märkisches Museum stations. As a result, the tunnel was slowly filling up.

post war period

On July 31, 1945, the Märkisches Museum station was put back into operation. It initially served as the terminus of a shuttle service to the Stadtmitte train station. By November 1, 1945, the Spree underpass to the Klosterstrasse underground station could also be restored on a single track for the time being. On September 15, 1946, circulation between Pankow and Ruhleben was complete again, at least until the line was interrupted due to the construction of the Wall.

GDR time

Stucco reliefs by Karl-Heinz Schäfer and Ulrich Jörke have been decorating the station since 1987/1988

The GDR postponed the maintenance of the station for a long time in favor of an expansion of the transport connections in the emerging Berlin development areas. A renovation program was not decided until the 750th anniversary of Berlin . In this context, the artists Jo Doese ( material collages ) as well as Karl-Heinz Schäfer and Ulrich Jörke (24 stucco reliefs ) made reference to the neighboring and eponymous museum. The author Ingrid Bartmann-Kompa underlined this with appropriate quotes. In addition, a new lighting system consisting of spherical pendant lights was installed.

During this redesign, the actual ceiling structure could (and had to) be determined, as there was no load-bearing concrete for attaching the lamps. According to these findings, the basket arch vault consists of a rectangular ceiling with several broken edges, with the gaps filled with plaster. At the two exits, the city of Berlin built new entrance portals based on historical models.

In the period 1999–2002, among other things, the BVG renewed the lighting system, the tiles and the asphalt platform slab

Post-turnaround time

All this work did not change the need for a thorough renovation, which also included the vaulted ceiling itself. When this began in 1998, all tiles were knocked off without the approval of the monument protection authority . After the transport companies had subsequently reached an agreement with the Senate Culture Administration on a renovation in accordance with the requirements of a monument, the BVG invested twelve million marks in the construction work together with the state and federal government .

Among other things

  • all tiles are fired true to the original,
  • installed a new lighting system,
  • the platform plate renewed and
  • the wall collages refreshed.

In addition, the BVG installed a lift from the middle of the platform to the above-ground traffic island on Wallstrasse. The work was completed in 2002.

The renovation of this station formed a starting point for the “history line concept” planned by the BVG, according to which all stations between Alexanderplatz and the city center will be returned to their original state.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U2 line to the bus lines 147, 165 and 265 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.

line course
Berlin U2.svg Pankow  - Vinetastraße  - Schoenhauser Allee  - Eberswalde road  - Senefelderplatz  - Pink-Luxembourg-Platz  - Alexanderplatz  - Abbey Road  - Märkisches Museum  - Spittelmarkt  - Hausvogteiplatz  - City Center  - Mohrenstrasse  - Potsdamer Platz  - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park  - Gleisdreieck  - Bülowstraße  - Nollendorfplatz  - Wittenbergplatz  - Zoological Garden  - Ernst-Reuter-Platz  - German Opera  - Bismarckstraße  - Sophie-Charlotte-Platz  - Kaiserdamm  - Theodor-Heuss-Platz  - Neu-Westend  - Olympic Stadium  - Ruhleben

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Märkisches Museum (Berlin)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Stengel : Chronicle of the Märkisches Museum der Stadt Berlin . In: Eckart Hennig, Werner Vogel (Ed.): Yearbook for Brandenburg State History . 30th volume. Berlin 1979, p. 32.
  2. ^ A b c d Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years . be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 , pp. 125, 167.
  3. To the opening of the extension line over Alexanderplatz to Schönhauser Allee . Hochbahngesellschaft Berlin, July 1913, pp. 3, 4
  4. Underground events in the 1920s ( memento of the original from September 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
  5. Underground events in the 1930s ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
  6. Documentation of the war events at the Berlin subway ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  7. Underground events in the 1940s ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
  8. ^ Märkisches Museum (underground station) . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  9. Description of the underground station ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at berliner-untergrundbahn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
  10. ^ Monument Preservation Association for Local Transport Berlin: U2 - history (s) from the underground , GVE, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89218-032-6 , pp. 84 f., 30 f., 86
  11. Underground events in the 1910s ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berliner-untergrundbahn.de
  12. Chipped tiles are burned afterwards. Agreement on the renovation of the Märkisches Museum station. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 22, 1999, accessed May 10, 2016 .
  13. Uwe Aulich: There are still scaffolding in the subway station . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 9, 1999
  14. Thomas Fülling: With the U2 through history. ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 14, 2005

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 43 ″  N , 13 ° 24 ′ 32 ″  E