Rathaus Schöneberg underground station
The Rathaus Schöneberg underground station at the city hall of the same name is a station on the Berlin underground line U4 , which runs from Nollendorfplatz to Innsbrucker Platz . The station was built between 1908 and 1910 by the then still independent city of Schöneberg and opened on October 1, 1910 under the name Stadtpark . The architect was Johann Emil Schaudt . On May 15, 1951, the underground station was given its current name.
History and structure
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The station was built in a valley, in which the Schöneberg city park was created at the same time . The state of the art of construction technology at the time did not allow undercutting the damp subsoil. For this reason, the excavation resulting from the construction of the Schöneberg subway was used for backfilling, and the station itself was designed as a bridge-like above-ground structure, which is based on three 70-meter-long concrete pillars that reach down to the ground. The underground station has windows on both sides, through which one can look into the park. This type of construction - a mixture of underground and open station - is extremely rare (see also the Spittelmarkt underground station and the Nuremberg Opernhaus underground station ). A street was laid out above and next to the train station, which serves as a wide pedestrian zone with a bicycle path (part of the signposted Wannsee route RR1 ).
The station was lined with blue-green tiles , which - together with the typography used on the signs - gave the interior a design that was closely based on the Art Nouveau popular at the time .
Further development
During the Second World War , the station was damaged for the first time in 1940 by Allied air raids , then completely destroyed in 1945, but rebuilt in its old form by 1951. The blue tiles, if they still exist, were painted over in beige . The lobby of the station was completely redesigned at this time. In 1973, the entrances to the station that had remained until then were demolished and replaced by steel fencing with a roof.
When the U4 line was set up in 1981 as a test route for fully automatic operation (without handling staff on the platform), the BVG equipped the station with cameras for video surveillance from the Nollendorfplatz control center . In 1983, blinds were installed on the western windows of the platform hall because of the poor lighting conditions . These are no longer in use, the view from the station is possible again to both sides.
In 2002 the entire station was renovated. The entrance area was newly built. At the southern end of the platform, a small staircase was created as an additional emergency exit. The station is a listed building .
Connection
At the underground station there are no direct transfer options to other local public transport lines in Berlin . The next bus stop is around 250 meters away on Martin-Luther-Straße in front of Schöneberg Town Hall.
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Nollendorfplatz - Viktoria-Luise-Platz - Bayerischer Platz - Schöneberg Town Hall - Innsbrucker Platz |
literature
- Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , pp. 106–112.
- Biagia Bongiorno: Traffic monuments in Berlin - The stations of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 ; P. 129.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 37 kB)
- Photos of the subway station
Individual evidence
- ^ Brian Hardy: The Berlin U-Bahn . Capital Transport, Harrow Weald 1996, ISBN 1-85414-184-8 , pp. 86 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 59.2 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 30.9" E