Freie Universität underground station (Thielplatz)
The Freie Universität (Thielplatz) underground station is an above-ground station on the U3 line of the Berlin underground . It is located in the district of Dahlem in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district of Berlin between Löhlein and Brümmerstrasse . The neighboring Thielpark was called 'Thielplatz' until around 1945.
Together with the eight other stations of the new Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer Schnellbahn , the subway station was opened under the name Thielplatz on October 12, 1913 by the elevated railway company and was the southwest end point of the line until 1929. This underground station, like the two out of town stations in front of it, Podbielskiallee and Dahlem-Dorf , is also designed as an incision station with a central platform . That of Henry Straumer designed old station building at the north end stands together with forecourt and bridge as the entire system under monument protection .
When the timetable changed on December 11, 2016, the station was renamed Freie Universität (Thielplatz) .
History and structure
As part of the construction of the Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer subway between Wittenbergplatz and the Dahlem domain , the station was built in 1912/1913. Its main purpose was to connect the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Dahlem to the city center and the New West .
When designing the station building, the architect Straumer based himself on the Freudenberg House in Nikolassee, which Hermann Muthesius had planned four years earlier . The station building at the northeast end of the platform has a V-shaped floor plan with a gable-shaped central wing and two side wings extending at an obtuse angle, each with a rectangular window. The walls are made of Rathenow hand-painted bricks. The covered also with red tiles roof on the sides as a hipped roof , in the middle of a pitched roof executed. Access to the station is through a round arch in the middle , which spans a wrought iron grille. The name is written in golden letters above the entrance gate, and above it is a large wrought-iron clock.
The entrance hall, kept in the expressionist style, is tiled inside with red-brown ceramics , interrupted by black panels created by Richard Kuöhl with depictions of animals and plants. The former ticket offices and counters were also made of red-brown ceramic, but have now been bricked up. The ceiling is brightly plastered. Opposite the entrance, the red-brown tiled staircase leads to the platform. Following the example of the Podbielskiallee underground station , this is also covered by an inwardly sloping bitumen wood roof.
The completion of the line to Wilmersdorf was the last opening of a line in Berlin before the First World War . Until the extension to Krumme Lanke was commissioned in 1929, Thielplatz station was a terminus , which was joined to the southwest by a provisional wagon shed, which was also used as a workshop. When the newly built workshop in Krumme Lanke went into operation, the wagon shed on Thielplatz was given up.
The largest boulder in Berlin with a mass of 50 tons and a circumference of ten meters was found during the construction of the station . It took 14 days until it was brought out of the excavation pit by means of cable winches to a place in Thielpark around 40 meters northwest of the underground line, where it is still located today.
Originally, one had a clear view from the train station into the part of the Thielpark adjoining to the northwest. With the extension of the Löhleinstraße, which ran parallel to the cut of the subway, in 1970, however, the area was filled up and supported towards the station with a blue-painted sheet pile wall.
Between 1979 and 1981, a second reception hall in the style of the first was built at the southwest end of the platform and the platform roof was extended. From the original structure, a newly tiled operation building and two wooden benches have been preserved on the platform.
The station was renamed from Thielplatz to Freie Universität (Thielplatz) on December 11, 2016 .
A barrier-free expansion of the station was originally planned for 2017, the costs for this were estimated at 1.4 million euros. The elevator installed for this purpose finally went into operation in November 2018, and a pedestrian bridge was built over the incision to access it. Around two million euros have been invested.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U3 line to the 110 bus of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe . The night bus service is handled by the N3 line.
literature
- Sabine Bohle-Heintzenberg: Architecture of the Berlin elevated and subway , Verlag Willmuth Arenhövel, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-922912-00-1 , pp. 135-136.
- Biagia Bongiorno: Traffic monuments in Berlin - The stations of the Berlin elevated and underground railway , Michael Imhof Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-292-5 ; P. 120.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 37 kB)
- Description of the Dahlem section of the U3, including pictures of the station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
- ↑ a b New station names for old friends. (PDF) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe , December 9, 2016, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ^ Monument Preservation Association for Nahverkehr Berlin e. V. (Ed.): U1. Story (s) from the underground . Society for Transport Policy and Railways (GVE) e. V., Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89218-031-8 .
- ↑ Boulder in the underground construction 1912 moved ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years . be.bra verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 , p. 276 .
- ↑ Printed matter 18/10175. (PDF) Berlin House of Representatives, January 10, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Permanent construction site: elevators in underground stations are not finished. In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 3, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '4.4 " N , 13 ° 16" 55.5 " E