Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz underground station
The station Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz is a station of the Berlin subway at Rosa-Luxembourg-Platz in Berlin's district of Mitte . It is served by the U2 line. The station was put into operation on July 27, 1913 in connection with the opening of the Alexanderplatz - Nordring line and is listed under Lu in the BVG station directory. It is 813 meters from Alexanderplatz underground station and 595 meters from Senefelderplatz underground station . The central platform is 7.6 meters wide and 110.1 meters long, the hall is 2.7 meters high. Due to its shallow depth of four meters below the road surface, it is known as a paved station. Since the train station has no elevator and only stairs to leave the platform, it is not considered to be barrier-free . A barrier-free expansion is planned by the end of 2020.
history
Planning and construction
The elevated railway company, as the operator of the Berlin elevated and underground railway, had planned to open up the center of Berlin around Alexanderplatz in order to achieve its market economy goals . First, however, the elevated railway between Warschauer Brücke , Potsdamer Platz and Zoologischer Garten was opened in 1902 , a connection to Alexanderplatz was not yet given, at least there was an extension option from Potsdamer Platz. The elevated railway soon tackled this; construction work for the first section of the new “Centrumslinie” between Potsdamer Platz and Spittelmarkt began in November 1906 and was completed by 1908. The section between Spittelmarkt and Alexanderplatz was still missing .
The Pankow municipal administration had already requested a connection to their municipality in 1905, the state approval for a route from Spittelmarkt via Alexanderplatz to Nordring station of the Ringbahn followed on December 22, 1907. Construction work began in March 1910. Due to the considerable costs of the underground route At Spittelmarkt on the one hand and non-relocatable collecting canals in Schönhauser Allee on the other hand, the elevated railway company planned not to build the entire route underground - at least two stations were to be designed as elevated stations. A total of four stations were planned for the Alexanderplatz - Nordring route:
- Schönhauser Tor (now Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)
- Senefelderplatz
- Danziger Strasse (now: Eberswalder Strasse)
- Nordring (now: Schönhauser Allee)
By July 1, 1913, the line between Spittelmarkt and Alexanderplatz was completed. The second, 3.3 kilometer long section between Alexanderplatz and Nordring followed just a few weeks later . Behind the Alexanderplatz train station, the route initially follows Alexanderstraße, in order to come in further tight curves over Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße and Bülowplatz to what was then Hankestraße (now: northwestern part of Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße). Below this is the Schönhauser Tor station , the first of the new line. As part of the underground construction, parts of the former Scheunenviertel had to be demolished and rebuilt. In the further course, the route follows the straight course of Schönhauser Allee , approximately at the level of Franseckistraße (now: Sredzkistraße) the trains climb a ramp to get to the elevated railway. The route was provisionally terminated at the above-ground Nordring station, where it was easy to change to the Ringbahn .
Architecture and opening
The in-house architect of the elevated railway company, Alfred Grenander, was responsible for designing the stations . He designed the stations in its clear objectivity and was based strongly on the previous stations on the Potsdamer Platz - Spittelmarkt route. He also adopted the color sequence of the stations: just as the Hausvogteiplatz station was given the color yellow, the Schönhauser Tor station was also given a yellow color scheme. That means that the colors of the tile stripes as well as the supports were kept in yellow, the back track walls were given light gray, small tiles. The station, which was designed as a simple through station, is very similar in shape to the neighboring station Senefelderplatz . Both received almost the same forged entrance portals, which enabled access to the platform on small street islands.
After the opening of the line between Alexanderplatz and Nordring on July 27, 1913, the A trains ran from Schönhauser Tor station - named after the city gate of the same name, which was previously not far away - in the west to Charlottenburg Wilhelmplatz , in the north to the station North ring.
1933 to 1945
On May 1, 1934, the station and the neighboring Bülowplatz were given the name Horst-Wessel-Platz after Horst Wessel, who was stylized as a national hero by the National Socialists .
The train station was also damaged in the Second World War . In a blackout campaign, the headlights of the elevated trains had to be darkened and the station lighting reduced. As a result of the numerous bombing raids , which particularly hit Line A between Ruhleben and Pankow, train operations often had to be stopped or shortened. The station itself was hit on April 16, 1945, and aerial bombs caused considerable damage. By mid-April at the latest, the train service had stopped because there was no longer any traction current. Due to the slight increase between the Alexanderplatz and Horst-Wessel-Platz stations , the water from the Landwehr Canal , which came to line A via the north-south tunnel of the S-Bahn, the Friedrichstrasse and Stadtmitte stations, could not reach the station and flood him.
post war period
The first underground trains were already running on lines C and D around Hermannplatz on May 14, 1945 . On May 26, 1945, the first shuttle service between Schönhauser Allee and Alexanderplatz began. When operations began, the Horst-Wessel-Platz station was given its original name Schönhauser Tor back; the old name could still be seen under the screwed-on station signs. From August 1, 1945, circulation was again possible between Pankow (Vinetastraße) and Alexanderplatz. In the next few weeks and months, numerous train stations were reopened, so that on September 15, 1946, full train traffic between Ruhleben and Pankow was possible, even if individual train stations such as Kaiserhof did not go back into operation until 1950.
The train station during the division of Germany
On May 1, 1950, the station was renamed "Luxemburgplatz".
Since August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall also separated the cross-sector subway line between Pankow and Ruhleben. Since then, the trains on Line A in the west no longer run to the zoo , Ruhleben or Dahlem , but only to the East Berlin subway station Thälmannplatz .
In the 1960s, the station received a new design. Yellow, large-format tiles over the whole area, such as those at the Senefelderplatz or Spittelmarkt train stations, now adorned the back track walls. The station name was recognizable in white letters on a black background. In 1972, the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe built a single-track sweeping system and a maintenance pit behind the station, separated from the actual tracks , so that a small workshop was built there. In-house it was given the name Bw Lu . By installing this small workshop, it was possible to at least limit the time-consuming transfer trips of the small-profile trains over the large-profile section of Line E to the Friedrichsfelde workshop.
On May 1, 1978, the previous station name Luxemburgplatz was changed to Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . The name of the adjacent square had already contained the first name of the namesake since 1969.
Since 1987, the year of the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin , numerous GDR works of art have adorned the station.
Time after 1990
After the political change and German reunification , the renaming of the station was initially discussed. Conservative politicians in particular demanded a renaming to the original name of Schönhauser Tor , but the Senate Transport Administration was unable to accept this. The Senate's argument was the name , which has been around for a long time and which has been impressed by the population.
First, however, a restoration of the underground line between Ruhleben and Pankow was necessary. The state, federal government and the European Union invested a total of DM 215 million (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 161 million euros) in the reconstruction of the line between the Wittenbergplatz and Mohrenstrasse stations . Since November 13, 1993, the trains have been running continuously between Vinetastraße and Ruhleben under the name "U2".
After the trains had a direct connection to a small-profile workshop at the Olympia-Stadion station , the small workshop behind the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz station was no longer needed. It was then dismantled, but a dirt track for intermittent trains was left.
Nevertheless, the station is still waiting to be completely renovated. The entrance portals were renewed in the 1990s. The station is currently not barrier-free either , according to the list of priorities agreed between the BVG, Senate Department for Urban Development and the associations for the disabled, in 2018. It is now planned that the elevator will be installed by the end of 2020.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U2 line to the M8 tram line as well as to the 142 bus of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe.
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 39 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Description of the route Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Schönhauser Allee
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 123, p. 166, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 , p. 232
- ↑ a b Gudrun Mallwitz: 53 Berlin subway stations still don't have a lift. In: Berliner Morgenpost. October 12, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
- ^ Hochbahngesellschaft Berlin: For the opening of the extension line via Alexanderplatz to Schönhauser Allee. July 1913, p. 3
- ↑ a b c d Monument Preservation Association for Local Transport Berlin: U2 - history (s) from the underground. GVE, Berlin 1995, p. 28 f., P. 68., p. 90, ISBN 3-89218-032-6
- ↑ Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and underground railway / planning - drafts - buildings . Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , p. 86.
- ↑ Documentation of the war events ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Documentation of the underground events of the 1940s ( memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ From May 1st, Luxemburgplatz . In: Neues Deutschland , May 3, 1950, p. 6
- ^ Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (underground station) . In: District lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ Documentation of the underground events of the 1970s ( memento of the original from September 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ^ A small question from the Greens MP Sibyll-Anka Klotz on the name of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz subway station. (PDF; 599 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, October 17, 1991
- ↑ Current list of priorities of the Berlin Senate's elevator program 2017–2020. (PDF; 89 kB) Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, June 11, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 42 " N , 13 ° 24 ′ 37" E