Paulsternstrasse underground station

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Paulsternstrasse underground station
Track back wall design
Pillar design

The Metro Station Paulsternstraße is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U7 in the district Haselhorst . It was opened on October 1, 1984 as part of the extension to Spandau Town Hall and is located at the intersection of Paulsternstrasse / Nonnendammallee , which is where it got its name. The train station, which is listed in the BVG train station directory under the abbreviation P , has an escalator but no elevator, so it is described as "not barrier-free ". The term Paulstern means a former Berlin Post Inn that is said to have been located there.

The Paulsternstraße underground station, like most of Berlin's new post-war underground stations, was designed by the architect Rainer G. Rümmler . Since Rümmler found no incentives to design the underground station on the surface at the time of the design, he based his design on the history of the location. Here he found the Große Rohrbruch , a lowland area on the former course of the Spree , a pine forest that once stretched from here to the Jungfernheide , and the historical district designation Sternfelde . From this he filtered out terms such as star, lynx landscape , forest, trees and lone butterfly . This in turn he implemented in architecture. The central supports of the station became trees and the bases of the walls with reeds and grass became a lynx landscape. In a dark sky, Rümmler placed stars and a "cold moon" that illuminate a moth .

The Paulsternstraße train station is considered, in comparison with other train stations, but also on the Richard-Wagner-Platz - Rathaus Spandau line, opened in 1980 and 1984, as a prominent example of Rümmler's architecture. The subway critic Jan Gympel particularly complained of the " capitals jumping towards the Paulsternstrasse station [...] on knobbly supporting panels". In general, Gympel thinks the station is too colorful, too ostentatious and littered with "crude patterns".

The station currently has neither a guidance system for the blind nor an elevator. According to the current local transport plan, its installation has been postponed indefinitely after 2021. Since the station opened, passengers have only been able to access the platform using stone and escalators ; the access is in the middle. After the fire in the Deutsche Oper underground station in 2000, the Senate had an expert opinion drawn up for the Berlin underground stations as to whether it was advisable to build additional entrances in order to create more escape routes from a smoky station. The report, completed in 2002, recommends the installation of a further entrance also for the Paulsternstrasse station; however, train stations that only have access at one end of the platform are preferred, for example the Rudow , Uhlandstraße and Theodor-Heuss-Platz subway stations . In addition, the financing is unclear.

In March 2017, it was announced that the underground station - along with six others on the northern U7 - would be listed as a historical monument .

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U7 line to the BVG bus line 139 .

line course
Berlin U7.svg Spandau Town Hall  - Spandau Old Town  - Citadel  - Haselhorst  - Paulsternstraße  - Rohrdamm  - Siemensdamm  - Halemweg  - Jakob-Kaiser-Platz  - Jungfernheide  - Mierendorffplatz  - Richard-Wagner-Platz  - Bismarckstraße  - Wilmersdorfer Straße  - Adenauerplatz  - Konstanzer Straße  - Fehrbelliner Platz  - Blissestraße  - Berliner street  - Bayerischer Platz  - Eisenacherstraße  - Kleistpark  - Yorckstraße  - Möckernbrücke  - Mehringdamm  - Gneisenaustraße  - Südstern  - Hermannplatz  - Rathaus Neukölln  - Karl Marx street  - Neukölln  - Grenzallee  - Blaschkoallee  - Parchimer Allee  - Britz-Süd  - Johannisthaler Chaussee  - Lipschitzallee  - Wutzkyallee  - Zwickauer Damm  - Rudow

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Paulsternstraße (Berlin)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer G. Rümmler: Design of five train stations on Line 7 / Incentives to develop a design for the unmistakable "U-Bahnhof" location . In: Berliner Bauwirtschaft , issue 18, 2nd September issue 1984.
  2. ^ Jan Gympel: U-Bahn Berlin - Travel Guide , GVE-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89218-072-5 ; P. 237
  3. ↑ Local transport plan Berlin 2019-2023 (PDF; 89 kB), Senate Department for Urban Development, June 9, 2009
  4. ^ Fire in the Deutsche Oper underground station ( memento from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at www.bestpractice-feuerwehr.de
  5. ↑ Security concept for local public transport in Berlin or expert opinion on the installation of further access points in Berlin underground stations (PDF; 202 kB), January 28, 2002, Senate Department for Urban Development
  6. ↑ U7 stations under monument protection. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 28, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 16.6 "  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 52"  E