Seestraße underground station

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Station sign on the wall behind platform 4

The Seestraße U-Bahn station is a station on the U6 line of the Berlin U-Bahn at the Seestraße / Müllerstraße intersection in the Berlin district of Wedding ( Mitte district ).

History and description

Central platform I (left) and side platform II, looking north
Access on Müllerstrasse
Top vehicle 4157 in front of the “U-Bahn-Cabrio-Tour” train on platform 3

The so-called “North-South Railway” should, according to the plans pursued from 1902, run under Friedrichstraße and Chausseestraße . In the north, the corner of Müllerstrasse / Seestrasse was intended as the end point. In the south, the route should extend beyond Hallesche Tor to the corner of Belle-Alliance-Strasse and Gneisenaustrasse .

Construction of the first sections began in December 1912 and it seemed possible to open the entire line in 1917/1918. The First World War prevented that. After the war, some train stations and tunnels were largely completed - including the Seestrasse train station - but others were missing. Construction work began again in 1921. On March 8, 1923, the section to the Seestrasse U-Bahn station was finally put into operation.

The Seestrasse U-Bahn station was initially the final stop; it received four tracks on two central platforms . The western tracks 2 and 4 were intended for continuous operation in the direction of the Kurt-Schumacher-Platz underground station (the planning name at the time: Scharnweberstraße or Reinickendorf-West underground station ). The eastern tracks 1 and 3 were to serve the trains to and from the workshop , which was built above ground. In order to be able to cross under the track coming from the workshop without crossing when the line is being extended in the direction of Tegel , the platforms were offset from one another by approx. 50 m in the longitudinal direction. They were built at a simple depth (4.4 m depth), were 81 m long and 7 m wide. In fact, only platform II and the two eastern tracks 1 and 2 on it were used for public transport. These tracks served as an entrance (track 1) and exit (track 2) as an extension of the workshop, with a double-track sweeping and installation system in between.

The two western tracks 3 and 4 did not have power rails . They were connected to the track in the direction of the center via a manual switch and probably served the railway maintenance service . It and platform I were separated from the public part by a longitudinal wall, so that the actual dimensions of the station remained hidden from the passengers. This area was only intended to be used for passenger traffic when the route was extended to the north. A change of train service was envisaged, in which short trains coming from the direction of Tegel would end in the Seestraße underground station and longer trains would start there. The passengers would have reached the connecting train across the platforms. Such a procedure was already practiced at the Fehrbelliner Platz underground station , although changing trains on only one platform had proven to be operationally unfavorable.

The station was designed by Johann Heinrich Jennen , who died in 1920. Alfred Grenander and Alfred Fehse took on the further development. The plastered walls were painted white and yellow, and the platform structures and pillars were also yellow. There were access stairs at both ends of platform II, platform I initially had no exits. In the Second World War , tracks 3 and 4 were removed, and platform I and its service rooms served as air raid shelters from then on . For this purpose, entrances from street level were built.

Starting in 1929, construction work for an extension of the line was prepared, but this was then stopped at short notice due to lack of money. It was not until 1953 that the line was extended to Tegel again. In this context, the Seestrasse station was completely rebuilt from 1955.

In October 1955, the partition wall between the platforms was removed and the western platform I was made accessible to the public after the installation of stairs. The two outer tracks of the four tracks were dismantled and traffic was handled via the two middle tracks. The track trough of track 1 was filled and slammed into platform II. Around 1959, the westernmost platform 4 was rebuilt and traffic in the direction of Leopoldplatz has been handled since then. As part of the renovation, the platforms were extended to 110 m (platform I) and 107 m (platform II), with platform I being extended to the south and platform II being moved to the north. The walls of the underground station were covered with vertical yellow tiles and the ceilings were suspended.

The Seestraße underground station was originally planned as a transfer station for the route to Zoologischer Garten station. For this, the areas south of the Wedding Town Hall (where today's town hall extension is located) and north-east of Augustenburger Platz , an area where the Beuth University extension buildings are today, were declared a restricted area. As a result of the decision to dismantle tram line 3 in Seestrasse, which has since been corrected in terms of traffic policy , the Leopoldplatz underground station was converted into a transfer station instead .

The subway station is to be expanded and repaired to be barrier-free by 2023 . In the course of the work, platform II out of town will have a second exit at the southern end. The platforms are being renovated at different times, so since May 7, 2018, all trains have initially stopped at platform I. For this purpose, a track connection was established north of the underground station and the signaling systems were adapted to the changed situation.

Connection

At the underground station you can change from line U6 to bus lines 106 and 120 as well as to tram lines M13 and 50 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG).

line course
Berlin U6.svg 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

  • Hans-Ulrich Stockhorst: Reconstruction on Seestrasse / Some details on structural situations in the Seestrasse underground station. In: Verkehrsgeschichtliche Blätter , Volume 39, Issue 3 (May / June 2012), pp. 63–65.

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Seestrasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Alexander Seefeldt: U6. The "North-South Railway" through Mitte . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-936573-34-3 , p. 76 ff .
  2. a b c d Complete repairs to the Seestraße underground station . In: Berliner Verkehrsblätter . June 2018, p. 113 .
  3. Signal box district Betriebswerkstatt Seestrasse at berliner-verkehrsseiten.de, accessed on June 2, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 9 ″  E