Senefelderplatz underground station
The Senefelderplatz Underground Station is a station of the U2 line of Berlin underground . He is under the same name, parallel to the Schoenhauser Allee in the district of Prenzlauer Berg of Berlin Pankow district . The underground station was put into operation on July 27, 1913 in connection with the opening of the Alexanderplatz - Nordring line. It is referred to as Sz in the BVG station directory and is 595 meters from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz underground station and 1065 meters from the Eberswalder Straße underground station . The platform is 7.6 meters wide and 119.2 meters long, the hall is between 2.6 and 3.1 meters high and is referred to as a sub-paving station due to its shallow depth below the road surface of five meters . Since the station has had an elevator at the northern exit to leave the platform since April 26, 2010, this is referred to as barrier-free . Like the square, the station is named after the lithographer Alois Senefelder (1771–1834).
history
The basic goal of the first operator of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , the elevated railway company , was to develop the center of Berlin around Alexanderplatz in order to achieve its market economy goals. 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 the 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 route was not completely underground, but with a prominent elevated section with the stations Danziger Straße (today: Eberswalder Straße) and Nordring (today: Schönhauser Allee). Also still in Schönhauser Allee, but still underground, the Senefelderplatz train station was built roughly on the square of the same name. 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 .
The elevated railway company commissioned the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander , who had meanwhile advanced to be the in-house architect of the elevated railway company and designed almost all of the new stations, to design all of the new stations. Grenander chose the color code blue for the Senefelderplatz station and used this on the station signs, otherwise the Senefelderplatz station represents the typical standard through station with narrow metal supports and Prussian caps . In the literature it is stated that the station can be confused with the neighboring station Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is similar and differs from it only in the color of the tiles . There are three platform houses in the station, all of which are also tiled in blue. The station still has one special feature: Similar to the Kaiserdamm station , the ceiling of the station is not evenly high, due to the incline on Prenzlauer Berg , so that the platform hall is around 2.6 meters high in the southern area (small-profile standard) and in the northern platform area about 3.6 meters. There is also a substation in Senefelderplatz station that supplies the route between Spittelmarkt and Nordring with electricity.
During the Second World War , the station remained largely undamaged, so that the first shuttle service between Schönhauser Allee and Alexanderplatz was resumed on May 26, 1945. 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.
In the 1970s, the East Berlin transport company had the station redesigned. Rectangular blue and white tiles from the Boizenburg tile manufacturer have shaped the image of the station ever since. Black station signs with large white letters are reminiscent of the station signs of the 1920s.
After the reunification of Germany and Berlin, initially relatively little changed at Senefelderplatz station. Only after the year 2000 did the BVG begin to completely renew both entrances. The entrance portals were reconstructed according to the original standards. In addition, the SNB left the entrance halls with bright, white strappy tiles, so that the design of the two inputs are no longer corresponds to the rest of the station design. Senefelderplatz station is particularly well known to passengers because the trains usually end there when the elevated railway viaduct between Eberswalder Strasse and Schönhauser Allee is closed . In 2000, the rail replacement service with buses in the direction of Schönhauser Allee ended and began at Senefelderplatz station, while the viaduct was being completely renovated. The same procedure was used for similar road closures, including the renovation in 2008/2009.
Since Senefelderplatz station does not have a particularly high number of passengers compared to other stations on the U2 subway line, the BVG, in coordination with the disabled associations and the Berlin Senate, only planned to install an elevator after 2010, which has been criticized by various associations. Since the state of Berlin has more funds available for local public transport than planned due to train cancellations at the S-Bahn Berlin , these were invested in the construction of elevators. Construction work on the northern entrance began in autumn 2009 and was completed on April 25, 2010. The costs for this amounted to 750,000 euros.
Connection
At the underground station there are only options to change to the night line N2 of the BVG .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 30 kB)
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Description of the route Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz - Schönhauser Allee
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 251, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 .
- ↑ a b New elevator at Senefelderplatz underground station . Press release of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, April 26, 2010
- ↑ Senefelderplatz. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ a b U2 - story (s) from the underground. Berlin Heritage Preservation Association. 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 railways / plans - drafts - buildings , Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , p. 86
- ↑ Biagia Bongiorno: Traffic monuments in Berlin - The stations of the Berlin elevated and subway , Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 , p. 75.
- ↑ To the opening of the extension line over Alexanderplatz to Schönhauser Allee . Hochbahngesellschaft Berlin, July 1913, p. 3
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Peter Neumann: U2 redevelopment causes traffic jams . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 22, 2000
- ↑ Bernd Kammer: U2 should be faster . In: Neues Deutschland , April 11, 2007
- ↑ Stefan Strauss: We carry you up - we carry you down . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 15, 2006
- ↑ Individual measures up to 2009 ( Memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) Page 197, from: Local transport plan 2006–2009 , Senate Department for Urban Development, August 21, 2007
- ↑ Greens demand better conditions for trams . In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 14, 2006 (web link currently chargeable; changes occasionally)
- ↑ Berliner Verkehrsblätter , 06/2010, p. 115
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 24 ′ 45 ″ E