Rathaus underground station (Hamburg)
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| District | Old town |
| Opened | 1912 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 33 '1 " N , 9 ° 59' 37" E |
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| Stretch) | Ring line |
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| Switching options |
 4, 5, 36, 109, 602-606, 640, 688
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| Passengers | 17,900 / day (Mon-Fri, 2017) |
The Rathaus Underground Station is a station of the Hamburg subway - U3 . The metro station is located in the district of Hamburg-Altstadt below the town hall market there , whose name he until 1958 with an interruption during the carrying out of its opening in 1912 Nazi era.
history
The station with its two slightly offset side platforms was designed by the architects Raabe & Wöhlecke and built between 1908 and 1911. In accordance with its location in the immediate vicinity of the Hamburg City Hall, it received elaborately designed tiles, the entrance areas were designed with marble and majolica from Cadin tiles. Unlike the platform hall, the two vestibules were designed by the Berlin firm Hart & Lesser . On February 15, 1912, the first journey of the Hamburg subway with invited guests took place from Rathausmarkt (so-called "Senator's Tour"); the opening to the public was on March 1 of the same year. For almost four months, Rathausmarkt station was the terminus of the ring line, which was still partially under construction. A continuous ring operation took place from June 29, 1912.
In 1927 the platforms were extended to the east so that instead of four-car trains, six-car trains could serve the station.
From 1934 to 1945 the station was called Adolf-Hitler-Platz after the Rathausmarkt was renamed accordingly. After the war it was renamed Rathausmarkt . However, train traffic was still inactive until March 11, 1946.
In 1958 the station was rebuilt again. To the east of the station, another entrance was built, which connects to a connecting passage to the Jungfernstieg underground station on the KellJung line (today's U1). The construction of this entrance hall took place at the same time as the structural work on the U1 towards Messberg around 1956/57. From a structural point of view, this access hall was a great challenge, as it had to be housed in the tightest space between the street and the tunnel ceiling of the subway, whereby the very dense tram traffic above ground could not be interrupted. For this purpose, the underground tunnel was carefully removed, the tracks placed on auxiliary bridges, then the Messberg tunnel was built, which is only seven meters from the tower of the Petrikirche, then the U3 tunnel was rebuilt and then the vestibule was built before the The excavation pit was closed again and the tram tracks could be returned to their original position. When this passage opened on October 1, 1958, the two underground stations were renamed City Hall . The Rathaus station on the U1 was renamed Jungfernstieg in 1973 when the U2 line was routed over the newly built route and the lowest platform level at Jungfernstieg station.
In 1965 the platform facilities of the U3 station were modernized. The old tiles were replaced by gray, larger tiles and adapted to the style of the 1960s. In the 1990s these were again replaced by white and sometimes red tiles. These white wall surfaces are interrupted several times by Hamburg's city arms. From the time of 1912, only two ceiling mosaics in the access areas in the platform area have survived to this day. Opposite the entrance hall of the town hall entrance, i.e. behind the track structure, there is still an approximately 10 meter long tunnel wall that still bears the original tiles from 1912.
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Barmbek - Saarlandstrasse - Borgweg - Sierichstrasse - Kellinghusenstrasse - Eppendorfer Baum - Hoheluftbrücke - Schlump - Sternschanze - Feldstrasse - St. Pauli - Landungsbrücken - Baumwall - Rödingsmarkt - City Hall - Mönckebergstrasse - Central Station South - Berliner Tor - Lübecker Strasse - Uhlandstrasse - Mundsburg - Hamburger Strasse - Dehnhaide - Barmbek - Habichtstrasse - Wandsbek-Gartenstadt |
Web links
- Plan of the Rathaus and Jungfernstieg train stations with the connecting passage (PDF file; 437 kB)
- Description on hamburger-untergrundbahn.de ( Memento from June 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rathaus stop: hvv.de, accessed on February 2, 2019.
- ↑ Answer of the Hamburger Hochbahn of December 17, 2018 to an inquiry about the Hamburg Transparency Act. In: fragdenstaat.de, accessed on February 2, 2019.