Viktoria-Luise-Platz underground station

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South-western entrance to the station in the form of a pergola
Platform towards Nollendorfplatz

The Viktoria-Luise-Platz underground station is a station on the U4 line of the Berlin underground . It is located under the square of the same name or the Motzstraße crossing the square in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg . The underground station went into operation on December 1, 1910. He is in the station directory BVG as V designated and are each 865 meters from nollendorfplatz and the Bayerischer Platz station. The platform is 8.1 meters wide and 97.8 meters long, the hall is 2.6 meters high and, due to its shallow depth below the road surface of 4.2 meters, is referred to as an underground station. The station is now barrier-free with an elevator.

history

On September 7, 1908, the then still independent city of Schöneberg under Mayor Rudolph Wilde decided to commission Siemens & Halske AG with the construction of an underground railway based on the Berlin model between Nollendorfplatz and the main street on the Berlin Ringbahn (today's Innsbrucker Platz station ). After two years of construction, the 2.9-kilometer line with a total of five stations went into operation on December 1, 1910, and was taken over by the Hochbahngesellschaft , a subsidiary of Siemens & Halske AG .

Under Viktoria-Luise-Platz was one of the five underground stations that got the name of the square. The city of Schöneberg commissioned the architect Ernst Denicke with a splendid design, as the so-called "Schöneberger Bahn" was mainly built to attract wealthy citizens to the newly emerging Bavarian quarter . For the new station with the originally 45 meter long central platform, Denicke mainly used the colors green and gray and based the design of the station on the hexagonal square that was created ten years earlier . A north-eastern access on Geisbergstrasse was initially planned, but was not implemented. The south-western entrance on Motzstraße was given a semi-oval pergola mainly made of shell limestone , each end of which is crowned by a lantern. The large, blue illuminated banner with the station name hangs between the two pillars.

During the Second World War , bombing raids destroyed the entrance, which was rebuilt after the war in a simplified manner. From June 24, 1945, the first trains commuted between the Nollendorfplatz and Bayerischer Platz subway stations, and only from December 16, 1945 did the trains to the main street run through again, although it was necessary to change trains at Bayerischer Platz.

North-east entrance in Motzstrasse , view to the south-west

In 1995, the only access to the station was in danger of collapsing, so that the operating BVG had it completely rebuilt from a historical preservation point of view. After an accident in the Deutsche Oper underground station on July 8, 2000, the BVG had all stations with just one access supplemented with another. The Viktoria-Luise-Platz station received its access on Geisbergstrasse, which had been planned since the station was built in 2003.

Since January 22, 2020, the station has been barrier-free with an elevator ; the construction costs amounted to around 1.3 million euros.

Connection

At the underground station there are no direct transfer options to other local public transport lines in Berlin . The next bus stops are a few hundred meters away on Martin-Luther-Straße and Hohenstaufenstraße .

line course
Berlin U4.svg Nollendorfplatz  - Viktoria-Luise-Platz  - Bayerischer Platz  - Schöneberg Town Hall  - Innsbrucker Platz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlin's subway stations - the first hundred years. be.bra Verlag, Berlin 1996, p. 284, ISBN 3-930863-16-2 .
  2. ↑ 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. 127
  3. ^ Fire in the Deutsche Oper underground station ( memento from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at www.bestpractice-feuerwehr.de
  4. ↑ Press release of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, September 5, 2003
  5. ↑ A lift (ing) for the princess. In: bvg.de. Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, January 22, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 46.2 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 33.7"  E