Strausberger Platz underground station
The Metro Station Strausbergerplatz is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn - U5 in the district of Friedrichshain . It is located below Karl-Marx-Allee and east of the square of the same name . When BVG he is under the symbol Sr performed.
history
The station was built together with ten others at the end of the 1920s, when the new line E (today: U5) was opened on December 21, 1930 and, starting from Alexanderplatz , connected east Berlin to the underground rapid transit network. The architect was the Swede Alfred Grenander , who had previously made a name for himself with the construction of several other Berlin subway stations . The stations were designed uniformly in the modern style. The advantage was that this direction was current at the time, but also economical; she did without large decorations and thus met the tight budget at the time of the global economic crisis .
The stations - with the exception of the transfer stations - were designed largely uniformly. The neighboring station Memeler Straße (today: Weberwiese) served as a template , on which the others orientated themselves. Since this uniformity also entailed the risk of confusing the stations with one another, Grenander resorted to the principle of the "identification color", which gave each station a distinctive color scheme and was intended to make it easier for visually impaired people to find their way around. An initially green, later ivory and now gray-green tone was chosen for the Strausberger Platz train station.
The rest of the station structure looked as follows: The station had an asphalted central platform that was 121 meters long and 9 meters wide. At each end of the platform there were two exits, each of which led to the sidewalks via a mezzanine. The station itself was supported by a double row of columns, which was also painted in the station colors. There were also various structures such as information boxes, destination displays and benches.
During the Second World War there was a breakthrough in the ceiling in the western area of the station on May 7, 1944, caused by several bomb hits . Nevertheless, at least one shuttle service between Alexanderplatz and Strausberger Platz could be maintained. This was only discontinued on April 23, 1945 and was one of the last in Berlin. Just two months later, on June 20, the trains were commuting between Schillingstrasse and Friedrichsfelde . Three days later, operations were continued as far as Alexanderplatz and replaced by regular circulation operations on February 1, 1946.
In the 1950s, the Stalinallee (today: Karl-Marx-Allee) was created as a representative main road above the route . For this purpose, the cross-section of the street was enlarged and the stairs adjusted accordingly. Some of the southern staircases were integrated into the residential buildings, including on Strausberger Platz. In return, the north side remained almost untouched and even had the last original entrance portal from 1930 until 2003.
After the war-related damage had been repaired, the station was extensively renovated two more times. During the first renovation, the old original tiles were removed and replaced with ivory-colored new tiles arranged in the masonry . The original station signs in negative letters were replaced by the ones that are still used today, with a white background and black lettering. The station superstructures remained largely untouched. During the second renovation in 2003, the facade was clad again, this time in the form of large enamel panels that are gray with a green band at the height of the station name. The asphalt pavement of the platform was also removed and replaced with light granite slabs . Much of the original station furniture also disappeared and was replaced by new ones. As in most cases, only the remained scales and the info display cases received.
Monument protection
The entrances to the subway station are available as part of the architectural ensembles Karl-Marx-Allee under monument protection : the northwest entrance portal from the year 1930 by Alfred Grenander and the southeastern and southwestern input from the year 1952nd
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U5 line to the 142 bus line and the BVG night line N5 .
literature
- Johannes Bousset: The subway from Alexanderplatz through Frankfurter Allee to Friedrichsfelde (Line E) and the extension of Line C from Bergstraße station via the Ringbhf. Neukölln to Grenzallee station. At the opening on December 21, 1930.
- Günter Starke et al. : From Alex to Hellersdorf / The extension of the subway line E. transpress VEB publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00434-4 .
- Traffic history sheets e. V. (Ed.): U5. Story (s) from the underground. Between "Alex" and Hönow. Development stages of the subway in the east of Berlin. GVE e. V., Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89218-079-2 .
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 32 kB)
- More pictures at untergrundbahn.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ berliner-untergrundbahn.de: The U-Bahn in War ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ berliner-untergrundbahn.de: U-Bahnchronik - The 1940s ( Memento from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '5 " N , 13 ° 25' 51" E