Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station

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Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station

Today Richard-Wagner-Platz is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U7 in the district of Charlottenburg . The first station at this site was on 14 May 1906 under the name William place - named after King Frederick William I - in operation. The current station was opened on April 28, 1978. The station is listed in the BVG station directory under the abbreviation Rw . Entrances can be found directly on Richard-Wagner-Platz .

history

Connection tunnel to the U2 line

Wilhelmplatz station was initially the terminus of the extension from Knie (today: Ernst-Reuter-Platz ) via Bismarckstrasse (today: Deutsche Oper ). It was built by Alfred Grenander as a terminal station with three tracks. On February 1, 1935, it was renamed Richard-Wagner-Platz.

The station was decommissioned on May 2, 1970; in the previous years, only a short train commuted between Deutsche Oper and Richard-Wagner-Platz as an independent line, which was called Line 5 from 1966 . The underground station was demolished in 1974, but the small-profile tunnel under Richard-Wagner-Straße still exists today and is connected to the large-profile tunnel on the U7 line. It is mainly used for transfer trips. It is made available to interested visitors on special occasions. An entrance has also been retained and has been incorporated into the new train station.

On April 28, 1978 line 7 was extended from the previous terminus at Fehrbelliner Platz to Richard-Wagner-Platz. The new central platform was built according to the plans of Rainer G. Rümmler . In the northern distribution hall, scenes with characters from various operas by Richard Wagner are attached to the walls and pillars. Two of the pictures are in the southern distribution hall. The mosaics in the Byzantine style developed in 1903 by a still unknown artist and originally in the "Minstrel Hall" of the hotel Old Bavaria in the Potsdamer Straße attached.

An elevator was put into operation in June 2014. Since then, the station has been barrier-free . Around 1.6 million euros have been invested in this.

At the end of 2018, the station, along with twelve other stations, was placed under a preservation order as a witness to the West Berlin subway construction in the 1960s and 1970s .

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U7 line to the BVG bus line M45 and X9 .

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

literature

  • Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations. The first hundred years . be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-930863-07-3 .
  • Gerhard Rümmler: Redesign of the Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Berlin . Vol. 74, Issue 2, 1978, pp. 412-417 ( PDF; 14.9 MB ).

Web links

Commons : Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New elevator for Richard-Wagner-Platz underground station. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, June 3, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Architecture of the post-war period - These underground stations are now also a listed building. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '59.2 "  N , 13 ° 18'23.1"  E