Magdalenenstrasse underground station
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The Magdalenenstraße is a station of the Berlin underground - U5 in Berlin district of Lichtenberg . It is one and a half times the depth below Frankfurter Allee and is listed by the BVG under the abbreviation Md .
History and structure
The station, together with the other stations on the line, also opened on December 21, 1930, was one of the last architectural works of the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander .
The station, initially planned under the title Alfredstraße , was built together with the new line E (today: Line U5) in the late 1920s in the modern style . True to Grenander's principle of the “color code”, he was given gray wall tiles . The 121 meter long and nine meter wide platform was equipped with a double row of riveted pillars, also gray, and has two exits at each end. The station equipment also included informative showcases, destination displays , clocks, benches with waste paper baskets, vending machines and kiosks, fire protection equipment and personal scales .
During the Second World War , the station was spared despite several Allied bomb hits along the route. However, operations were stopped in the spring of 1945 and could only be resumed after the end of the war, on June 16, 1945. This was initially done in pendulum operation, and from February 1, 1946, finally in normal circulation.
The original tiles were later replaced by a slightly different color and laid out in the masonry bond. In 1986 the former billboards in preparation for the 750th anniversary of Berlin were replaced by 20 wall paintings by Wolfgang Frankenstein and Hartmut Hornung , which illustrate the history of the German labor movement from the March Revolution to the founding of the GDR .
During the second renovation in 2003, the older tiles were again removed and replaced with green enamel panels . The originally paved floor was covered with granite slabs , the wall paintings on the side with their respective titles.
From October 2008 to April 2009, the exits of the station were renovated during ongoing operations - one staircase was closed on each side of the street - and they were given their uniform appearance today. In some cases, guidance systems for the blind were also installed. In addition, the subway station received an elevator that went into operation in December 2013.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U5 line to the 240 bus line and to the N5, N50, N56 and N94 night lines .
literature
- Peter Bock (Ed.): U5 Between Alex and Hönow. Story (s) from the underground. GVE e. V., Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89218-079-2 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 36 kB)
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pictures of all 20 wall paintings
- ↑ Klaus Kurpjuweit: The U5 is the first barrier-free underground line . In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 20, 2013 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed December 21, 2013]).
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 45 ″ N , 13 ° 29 ′ 11 ″ E