Pankstrasse underground station

The platform

The Pankstraße underground station is a station on the U8 line of the Berlin underground in the Gesundbrunnen district . It bears the designation Pk in the station directory of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , has no elevator to street level and is therefore described as not barrier-free .

The station has wall cladding made of brown tiles , the supports are clad with aluminum sheets.

The station was opened on October 5, 1977 with the extension of underground line 8 from Gesundbrunnen to Osloer Straße . Construction on this section began in September 1973.

By 2016, the station was to be converted to make it barrier-free and an elevator installed.

particularities

Access to the shelter

The station was built as a multi-purpose facility so that the platform and adjacent rooms can also be used as a shelter in the event of war or disaster. For example, the station has sanitary rooms, an emergency kitchen and a fresh air supply with filters. In an emergency, 3339 people can find shelter here. The additional costs for the construction were paid by the Federal Ministry of Finance . The facilities can be visited as part of guided tours organized by the Berliner Unterwelten association. The facility itself is owned by BVG.

The underground station and the civil defense system have been a listed building since 2011 .

A small curiosity is that the station name on the side walls of the platform is Pankstrasse , which differs from the correct spelling of Pankstrasse .

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U8 line to the M27 bus line operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.

line

course

Wittenau (Wilhelmsruher Damm)  - Reinickendorf Town Hall  - Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik  - Lindauer Allee  - Paracelsus-Bad  - Residenzstraße  - Franz-Neumann-Platz (Am Schäfersee)  - Osloer Straße  - Pankstraße  - Gesundbrunnen  - Voltastraße  - Bernauer Straße  - Rosenthaler Platz  - Weinmeisterstraße  - Alexanderplatz  - Jannowitzbrücke  - Heinrich-Heine-Straße  - Moritzplatz  - Kottbusser Tor  - Schönleinstraße  - Hermannplatz  - Boddinstraße  - Leinestraße  - Hermannstraße

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Pankstraße  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• BVG map of the station (PDF; 43 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin's U-Bahn Lines - The Pankstrasse Line ( Memento from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Printed matter 17/11609. (PDF; 195 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, March 7, 2013, accessed on April 12, 2013 . 
3. ^ From Uta-Keseling: What Dietmar Arnold is looking for in Berlin . In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 23, 2009.
4. ↑ Tour 3 - U-Bahn, Bunker, Cold War of the Berlin Underworlds e. V. ( Memento from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Behind thick walls: Use of bunkers in Berlin. (PDF) Small question from MP Philipp Magalski (Pirates), printed matter 17/12984. Berlin House of Representatives, December 12, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 8.2 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 53.3"  E