Osthafen underground station
The Osthafen underground station , which was Stralauer T (h) or until 1924 , was a high station in the Berlin district of Friedrichshain . He was at the northeastern end of the over the Spree leading Oberbaumbruecke of one of the first stations Berlin subway built and was 320 meters from today's Warschauer Straße (until 1995 Warsaw bridge ) and 470 meters from the station Silesian Gate Station. During the Allied air raids in World War II , the Osthafen underground station was completely destroyed and not rebuilt. Today only the pillars on the elevated railway viaduct of Warschauer Strasse can be seen .
history
The history of the Berlin subway is closely linked to the Stralauer Thor station. After the first groundbreaking on September 10, 1896, the work progressed relatively quickly, so that the eastern section between Stralauer Thor and Potsdamer Platz of the new "Electric Elevated and Underground Railway" could be opened on February 18, 1902. Thus, the station represents one of the starting points of Berlin's underground history.
The station was directly behind the Oberbaumbrücke; the erection of the two structures took place one after the other. After the bridge designed by Otto Stahn was completed in 1896, the station was built between 1898 and 1900 on behalf of Siemens & Halske under the direction of Paul Wittig . A specific architect can no longer be identified for the design of the building; the design came from the construction office of Siemens & Halske and roughly corresponds to a combination of the Prinzenstrasse and Görlitzer Bahnhof stations . When it opened, the station had two side platforms, each 3.5 meters wide and 73 meters long, which were initially sufficient for six-car trains. The southern staircase for the train station, which was 7.5 meters above street level, was arranged on the side. Due to the limited space, this had to be built on a single traffic island; a covered bridge - similar to the Prinzenstrasse train station - led to the platform. Architecturally, however, the station only partially matched the neighboring Oberbaumbrücke.
After the Orthographic Conference of 1901 , the "h" disappeared from the station name. On September 15, 1924, the station was named after the " Osthafen " of the same name, also at the eastern end of the Oberbaum Bridge .
In an air raid on March 10, 1945, a bomb hit almost completely destroyed the Osthafen high station, which had not been damaged up to now . While the elevated railway line between Warschauer Brücke (today: Warschauer Strasse) and Schlesisches Tor was able to reopen as a single track on October 14, 1945, the BVG decided not to rebuild the Osthafen station due to its proximity to the terminus at Warschauer Brücke. She had all the remains removed, today only the retaining walls can be seen. Osthafen station was the only underground station in Berlin that was not rebuilt.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 269, ISBN 3-930863-16-2
- ^ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 197, ISBN 3-930863-16-2
- ↑ Chronicle of the Berlin U-Bahn, 1940s at berliner-untergrundbahn.de ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '8.8 " N , 13 ° 26" 48.3 " E