Weberwiese underground station
The Weberwiese is a station of the U5 of the Berlin subway . It is located under Karl-Marx-Allee and went into operation on December 21, 1930 under the name Memeler Straße - to the city of Memel (now: Klaipėda ). Although the next train station on the line is called Frankfurter Tor , the historic Berlin city gate was located where the Weberwiese train station is today.
history
The architect of the station was Alfred Grenander , who at the time of construction also designed the other stations on the former line E from Alexanderplatz to Friedrichsfelde . The Memeler Straße station is the standard type of station. It is located one and a half times lower and has a staircase to Karl-Marx-Allee at both ends. The platform received a simple middle row of columns. Apart from the length of the stairways, the result was an almost symmetrical shape, which the other stations were based on. The station's color code is yellow today. Originally, the back track walls were covered in 30 cm × 15 cm gray ceramic tiles and black, four-part ceramic station signs with white lettering.
During an Allied air raid on February 26, 1945, several bombs hit the station. About 200 people died. The station was destroyed.
When the Oder-Neisse line was recognized as the eastern border of the GDR , which was newly founded in 1949 , the name was changed to Marchlewskistraße in 1950 , after the politician Julian Marchlewski , co-founder of the Polish Socialist Party . After German reunification , another renaming took place in 1992, this time in today's name Weberwiese after the square of the same name south of Karl-Marx-Allee. In the mid-1990s, the wall tiles that were installed during the GDR era gradually fell from the walls, and the original name Memeler Straße became visible again. During the renovation, these last traces of memory were erased, and the wall installations on the history of Berlin that were attached during the GDR were also lost.
In 2003, the Alexanderplatz - Frankfurter Allee section was extensively renovated. In addition to the superstructure of the line, the stations were also extensively renovated and the old tiles replaced with new enamelled steel plates. The old asphalt surface on the platform was also replaced by granite slabs . The stairs were renovated two years later. When the line opened, the station was considered the standard type for the stations on what was then almost seven kilometers long. In the meantime, the station has moved away from this ideal as a result of the renovation measures, so that the Samariterstraße underground station is the only one along the route to have the original structure from 1930 and thus - in contrast to the Weberwiese station - is a listed building.
An elevator in the middle of the platform went into operation on November 4, 2011.
Connection
At the underground station you can change from the U5 line to the BVG bus line 347 . The stop is not located directly at the underground station, but in Hildegard-Jadamowitz-Straße , a street parallel to Karl-Marx-Allee.
Web links
- BVG map of the station (PDF; 88 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert Schwandl: U5 - from east to west . 2nd, slightly changed edition. Berlin, ISBN 978-3-936573-36-7 , pp. 90 .
- ↑ The subway in World War II ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Art should give way to advertising . ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Zeitung , May 12, 1995
- ^ New elevators in the Weberwiese underground station in the Bahn News Archive
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '0.5 " N , 13 ° 26' 42" E