Samariterstraße underground station
The samariterstraße is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U5 . It is located below Frankfurter Allee at the intersection with Samariterstraße in the Friedrichshain district . The opening took place together with the former line E on December 21, 1930. When BVG he is under the symbol Sa out. As the last station on the U5 line, the station is still almost in its original state, and is now a listed building .
history
The underground station was built at the end of the 1920s when East Berlin was opened up by its own underground line. It opened on December 21, 1930.
The decoration of the individual stations of the then line E was done in a uniform style. The architect Alfred Grenander , who was commissioned with the construction of the stations and who had already helped design several Berlin underground stations, designed the buildings in the style of modernism . Therefore - and due to the tight budget - the train stations were kept relatively simple in design and limited to the essentials.
The normal type of station was the Memeler Straße underground station (later: Marchlewskistraße , today: Weberwiese), the Samariterstraße station was built almost identically to it. It has two exits at each end of the platform. The asphalt platform itself is one and a half times lower and has two rows of riveted columns. It is nine meters wide and 121 meters long, with the platform being slightly curved. The cladding was done with ceramic tiles in the format 30 cm × 15 cm, each offset by half a tile. Grenander used the principle of the color code, which means that each station on the line has its own color scheme for the tiles to make it easier for people with poor vision to find their way around. In the case of Samariterstraße train station, green was chosen as the color code. The station signs were contrasted in black with white lettering. Up until the 1970s, these corresponded to the signs still to be found on the U8 line today - for example in the Jannowitzbrücke underground station . In addition there were structures such as benches, bins or scales .
During the Second World War , the station was initially spared from Allied bombs . However, when the aerial warfare around Berlin intensified at the beginning of 1945, operations had to be stopped in the spring. On the night of April 9th to 10th, the station was finally hit by several bombs and the ceiling was torn open over almost its entire length. In addition to this damage that would entail the station to collapse can bring 1,945 bodies of water were added during the first days of May, which is reflected in the loss of the north-south tunnel of the train under the Landwehr Canal and the tunnel line A below the Spree on distributed the Alexanderplatz station on the line.
Shortly after the end of the war, the pumping out of the water began and the station was poorly restored. As early as June 16, 1945 provisional traffic with a shuttle train between Petersburger Strasse (today: Frankfurter Tor) and Friedrichsfelde was resumed. By June 23, the shuttle service to Alexanderplatz was resumed and, in order to condense the traffic, was divided in the Samariterstraße station. Circulation was only possible again from February 1, 1946. By then, the greatest damage to the station had been repaired.
It was not until 1986 that the station was completely renovated and the last war damage was removed. The station pillars were now presented in brick red, which was a strong contrast to the otherwise green tiles. The station signs were also changed and replaced with black lettering on a white background, most of which are still here today - in contrast to the other stations on the U5. The advertising space, which had not been used until then, was designed in a colorful way by Friedrichshain children. After the political change , the areas were covered with posters.
In 1992, the station gained greater fame when the anti-fascist Silvio Meier was murdered by several neo-Nazis in the lobby on November 21 . A memorial plaque was later placed on the site. This was stolen and replaced several times over the years. Since the murder, there has been a vigil in the subway station and a demonstration by Antifa groups every year on the day of death .
Another renovation along the U5 line took place in 2004. Since the station has been placed under monument protection in the meantime , it could not be completely redesigned like the other stations along the line, but was largely restored to its original state. This was essentially limited to repairs along the facade, the new construction of the asphalt floor and the repainting of the row of columns in their original green. As the last station on the U5, mostly original tiles from 1930 can still be found here. The exit areas as well as the lamps in the station hall were not redesigned in accordance with listed buildings. The work was completed at the end of 2004. In 2016, the green tone of the columns was adjusted again.
In May 2012 an elevator was put into operation, this connects the platform with the central island of Frankfurter Allee. This means that the underground station is barrier-free . The costs were around 760,000 euros.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U5 line to the N5 bus night line .
literature
- Peter Bock (Ed.): U5 Between Alex and Hönow. Story (s) from the underground. GVE e. V., Berlin 2003. ISBN 3892180792 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 37 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elevator commissioning at the Samariterstraße subway station, U5. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , May 24, 2012, accessed on June 5, 2012 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 53 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 52 ″ E