Wandsbek Markt underground station
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 Platform of the subway station |
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| Basic data | |
| District | Wandsbek |
| Opened | 10/28/1962 |
| Newly designed | 2003 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 tracks 1 platform |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 34 '19 " N , 10 ° 4' 7" E |
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 8, 9, 10, 11, 23, 28, X11, X22, X32, 116, 160, 162, 213, 260, 261, 263, 600, 608, 8700
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| Passengers | 54,000 / day (Mon-Fri, 2017) |
The Wandsbek Markt is a tunnel station of the Hamburg subway - U1 in the district of Wandsbek and below the Wandsbeker marketplace . The station abbreviation of the operating company Hamburger Hochbahn is "WM". Together with the bus station above it, it is one of the busiest transport hubs in Hamburg.
history
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An extension of the KellJung line ( Kellinghusenstrasse - Jungfernstieg ) was planned as the first network expansion of the Hamburg subway after the Second World War . This should lead from Jungfernstieg via Messberg and the main station to Wandsbek and Farmsen , where it should connect to the Walddörferbahn . Deviating from the initial plan, it was decided on February 18, 1959 to have the new route end in Wandsbek-Gartenstadt . In addition to significant savings in construction costs, the densely populated Dulsberg district to the north of Wandsbek could be connected.
The Wandsbek Markt underground station was built below the Wandsbek market square , where previously there was a small park and an area for a weekly market. Like the entire route, it was built using the cut-and-cover method, for which purpose the direct tram service in the direction of downtown Hamburg was completely discontinued in 1960 and replaced by a very dense bus service. The opening took place on October 28, 1962. Until August 4, 1963, when the last section of the route to Wandsbek-Gartenstadt was opened, Wandsbek Markt was the end of the line.
The station, designed by Jürgen Elingius and Gottfried Schramm , was considered the most modern transfer facility between the underground and bus in Europe when it opened and was the model for the underground stations Burgstrasse (opened in 1967) and Billstedt (opened in 1969). The lying above the subway station bus station of Heinz Graaf was designed for each hour 60 buses and 30,000 passengers a day, especially as a central point of the bus from the eastern districts Jenfeld , Tonndorf and Rahlstedt ( Broken traffic ). To date, the number has grown to 110 buses per hour and 50,000 passengers, which made it the largest local bus station in Germany. The underground station is used by 54,000 people every day, making it one of the busiest underground stations in Hamburg.
modification
The strong increase in passenger numbers made it necessary to convert the facility from 2000 to 2003, which also affected the underground station to a lesser extent. Some little-used entrances were closed, parts of the platform were raised and an elevator was installed so that the station is now considered barrier-free. The elevator connects the platform and the eastern mezzanine level with the new square above , from where the bus station can be reached. A HVV customer service office and a restaurant belonging to the McDonald’s chain have been added on the mezzanine level . When the bus station was redesigned by the architects Friedhelm Grundmann and Mathias Hein, the exits to the subway were also redesigned: among other things, the painter Gisela Grundmann designed cloud-like ceiling suspensions above the escalators.
investment
The station with central platform is at the end of a long tunnel stretch from the main station in a northeast direction from Steindamm to Wandsbeker Marktstrasse , before it bends in a 90 ° curve to the north-northwest under Wandsbeker Allee ( Hamburger Ring 2 ). There is a sweeping system with two sweeping tracks lying one behind the other in the middle.
For the station access, but also for crossing the busy streets for pedestrians, there is an intermediate level each at the west and east end of the station. While the mezzanine level in the west is quite small and mainly serves as access to the station with four staircases, on the east side there is a much larger complex with shops and in the shape of a cross, from which numerous stairs lead to the bus system and the streets around the station Walk to the “ Wandsbek Quarree ” shopping center . Originally there was still a corridor that followed the curve of the subway directly above the tunnel and led to stairs on the northeast corner of the Wandsbeker market. Since this corridor was rarely used and was difficult to monitor, it was closed in 2000.
Designed by the architecture office Schramm and Jürgen Elingius , rectangular tiles dominate the station. While the floor tiles on the mezzanine floor and on the platform are light and dark gray, the walls in the platform hall are covered with glazed and therefore reflective tiles in various gray, blue and turquoise tones. The ceilings are painted white.
It is 600 meters to the Wandsbeker Chaussee stop and 1270 meters to Straßburger Strasse .
Connection
The Wandsbek Markt underground station is served by the U1 line every 5 minutes between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. (Saturday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), and every 10 to 20 minutes at other times. There are additional reinforcement trips during rush hour . There is also a connection to six Metrobus and numerous other bus routes in the direction of Bramfeld, Rahlstedt, Jenfeld, Tonndorf, Barsbüttel and Billbrook at the Wandsbeker bus station above.
According to a list by the Hamburg Senate from 2014, the bus station U Wandsbek Markt is the bus stop most used in Hamburg with around 31,000 boarding passengers per day. The underground station recorded an average of 54,000 people entering and leaving the station every day in 2017.
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Norderstedt Mitte - Richtweg - Garstedt - Ochsenzolle - Kiwittsmoor - Langenhorn Nord - Langenhorn market - Fuhlsbüttel Nord - Fuhlsbüttel - Klein Borstel - Ohlsdorf - Sengelmannstraße - Alsterdorf - Lattenkamp - Hudtwalckerstraße - Kellinghusenstraße - Klosterstern - Hallerstraße - Stephansplatz - Jungfernstieg - Meßberg - Stone Street - Hauptbahnhof South - Lohmühlenstraße - Lübecker Straße - Wartenau - Ritterstraße - Wandsbeker Chaussee - Wandsbek Markt - Straßburger Straße - Alter Teichweg - Wandsbek-Gartenstadt - Trabrennbahn - Farmsen - Oldenfelde - Berne - Meiendorfer Weg - Volksdorf | - Buckhorn - Hoisbüttel - Ohlstedt | - Buchenkamp - Ahrensburg West - Ahrensburg East - Schmalenbeck - Kiekut - Großhansdorf |
literature
- Olaf Bartels: Extended: The Wandsbeker Markt as a hub in the northeast . In: stations in Hamburg architecture . Hamburger Hochbahn AG, Hamburg 2008, p. 109-123 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Answer of the Hamburger Hochbahn from December 17, 2018 to an inquiry about the Hamburg Transparency Act at https://fragdenstaat.de/en/question/haltestellennutzer-2017/ , accessed on January 3, 2019
- ↑ a b Wandsbek Markt on hamburger-untergrundbahn.de ( Memento from April 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Press release from Hamburger Hochbahn on the modernization of the bus system
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, February 9, 2000
- ↑ Berkemann, Karin, "This chaos of stairs". With the subway to Friedhelm Grundmann, in: moderneREGIONAL 14/3 [1] .
- ↑ Track plan on hamburger-untergrundbahn.de ( Memento of the original from July 28, 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.
- ↑ Former tunnel of the Wandsbek Markt train station on hamburger-untergrundbahn.de ( memento of the original from February 1, 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. (with photos)
- ↑ Printed matter 20/13664 of the Hamburg citizenship, page 5.
