Rüdesheimer Platz underground station
The Metro Station Rüdesheimer Platz is a Berlin station of the underground line U3 in the district of Wilmersdorf of the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and is below the Rüdesheimer Straße in Rheingauviertel . The originally operating elevated railway company started operating the station together with the rest of the Wittenbergplatz - Thielplatz line on October 12, 1913.
history
The Rüdesheimer Platz underground station was built as part of the construction of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer subway between Wittenbergplatz and Thielplatz in the south of the Dahlem domain . As the community of Wilmersdorf attached great importance to a representative design of the stations for reasons of prestige, they commissioned the architect Wilhelm Leitgebel to take on this task.
Leitgebel, who also designed the neighboring train stations at Breitenbachplatz and Heidelberger Platz , primarily chose motifs from viticulture for the underground station; the neighboring street names of Rüdesheimer Platz are said to have inspired him. In the middle of the platform there are octagonal granite pillars with round supports that support the plastered, coffered ceiling . The light elements are each in a cassette, surrounded by mosaics . The platform walls each consist of niches, alternating between flat niches intended as advertising space and semicircular niches that carry the station signs made of mosaics. The platform walls are each closed by a dark green ceramic strip. The artist Martin Meyer-Pyritz was responsible for the small ceramic animal sculptures (vine leaves, grapes, insects and reptiles: everything about life in a vineyard ) that were also attached .
The two entrances, located on a central island in Rüdesheimer Straße, were designed by Wilhelm Leitgebel with stone stairways and two pylons each equipped with lamps . Leitgebel chose St. Andrew's crosses , rosettes and grapes as design features for the metal access gates .
At the same time as the construction of the station, the redesign of the above-ground square took place. The plans realized by Paul Jatzow between 1910 and 1914 moved the new train station to the center of the quarter lined with three and four-story buildings.
The station suffered destruction in the Second World War . Mainly the entrances were affected, which after 1945 - like the entire station - were rebuilt in a simplified manner. During a general renovation between 1987 and 1988, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) restored most of the station to its original condition. In addition, the exhibited pictures with viticulture motifs by the photographer Siegfried Sage were replaced by modern graffiti art . Another renovation took place in 2006/2007, the BVG replaced the asphalt slab floor with light-colored granite slabs - equipped with a guidance system for the blind - and renewed tiles, paint and plaster for around one million euros. In addition, the terminal building in the middle of the station was given enamel panels to protect it against vandalism . From the original furnishings, there are still three wooden double benches and the former ticket booth in the southern entrance area.
An elevator between street level and the platform was opened on June 20, 2019, and the station has been barrier-free since then . Work began in May 2018 and the construction costs amounted to around 1.2 million euros.
Platform of the subway station
Ornamental grille at the southern entrance to the station
Wall decor, detail
Lamp mount
Connection
At the underground station you can change from line U3 to bus line 186 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
Web links
- Description of the Wilmersdorfer route including station pictures
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 36 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Individual evidence
- ^ Monument Preservation Association Berlin Local Transport: U1 - History (s) from the underground . GVE, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89218-031-8 ; P. 79
- ↑ Biagia Bongiorno: Monuments of Transport in Berlin - The Stations of the Berlin high and subway , Michael Imhof, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 ; P. 116.
- ↑ Press release of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, March 1st, 2006
- ^ Frank Wecker: We are digging again at Rüdesheimer Platz. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Berliner Woche , December 19, 2007
- ↑ News in brief - U-Bahn . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . No. 8 , 2019, pp. 163 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 24 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 52 ″ E