Reinickendorfer Strasse underground station

Platform of the Reinickendorfer Strasse underground station

Station sign

The Reinickendorfer Straße underground station is a Berlin underground station on the U6 line . It is located north of the Panke under Müllerstraße in the Berlin district of Wedding in the Mitte district and has the BVG abbreviation Ri . The station was put into operation on March 8, 1923 together with the other stations on the northern section of the north-south railway between Stettiner Bahnhof (today: Natural History Museum) and Seestrasse.

History and structure

The Reinickendorfer Straße underground station was built as part of the construction of the north-south railway from Wedding to Neukölln . The planning of this line goes back to a design from 1901, but construction did not begin until the end of 1912 and resumed in 1919 after the end of the First World War . Like the other stations on the northern north-south line, the design of the station followed the pre-war standard design by Heinrich Jennen , who in turn was based on the stations Senefelder Platz and Schönhauser Tor (today: Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz).

The underground station was laid out at a simple depth with a central platform 80 meters long and seven meters wide , steel supports and a reinforced concrete coffered ceiling . The entrances and exits are in the middle of Müllerstrasse and have no mezzanine floors. After Jennen's death in 1920, the design of the station was continued by Alfred Grenander and Alfred Fehse . Due to the poor economic situation in the 1920s, they had to do without the originally intended wall tiles . The walls were plastered white, the core color used for columns, steel girders, advertising and station signs was red.

After 1945, the underground station in the north-south direction was the last in West Berlin and was internally referred to as a “border station” within the BVG. From 1961 to 1989, when the Berlin Wall was divided , the section of the “ ghost stations ” began here . Until then , the underground trains to the Kochstraße underground station had only one stop at Friedrichstraße station .

From 1993 to 1996 the station was extensively renovated : the platform was extended to 105 meters in a northerly direction, the entrances were made barrier-free by installing a lift and escalators , and supports and signs were given the new core color green.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U6 line to the M27 and 120 bus lines operated by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe .

line

course

Alt-Tegel  - Borsigwerke  - Holzhauser Straße  - Otisstraße  - Scharnweberstraße  - Kurt-Schumacher-Platz  - African Straße  - Rehberge  - Seestraße  - Leopoldplatz  - Wedding  - Reinickendorfer Straße  - Schwartzkopffstraße  - Natural History Museum  - Oranienburger Tor  - Friedrichstraße  - Französische Straße  - Stadtmitte  - Kochstraße  - Hallesches Gate  - Mehringdamm  - Platz der Luftbrücke  - Paradestrasse  - Tempelhof  - Alt-Tempelhof  - Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse  - Ullsteinstrasse  - Westphalweg  - Alt-Mariendorf

literature

• Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and underground railway. Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , pp. 165-167.
• 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 , pp. 135-139.

Web links

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

• BVG map of the station (PDF; 42 kB)
• Brief description of the underground station on untergrundbahn.de
• Route description of the U6 and further photos of the station
• Description of the underground station at Luise Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and underground railway. Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , p. 166.
2. ^ Berlin district lexicon. Luise Berlin.

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 23.7 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 13.4"  E