Westphalweg underground station

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Platform of the Westphalweg underground station

The Metro Station Westphalweg is opened on Feb. 28, 1966 Station of the Berlin U-Bahn line U6 in the district of Mariendorf the district Tempelhof-Schöneberg . The station is BVG -intern under the symbol Wl out.

The underground station is located on Mariendorfer Damm . It is located outside the S-Bahn ring and belongs to the Berlin tariff zone B of the Berlin-Brandenburg transport association . The Westphalweg was named after the first full-time mayor of Mariendorf Wilhelm Hugo Westphal (1859–1925). A special feature of the station are the two northern entrances integrated into residential buildings.

The station is to be made barrier-free by the end of 2020 .

history

Northwest entrance in house Mariendorfer Damm 64

In June 1961, the expansion of the former line C II to the south began. Starting from the Tempelhof station , the line under the Tempelhofer and Mariendorfer Damms was continued. The section on which the Westphalweg train station is located was opened on February 28, 1966. During the subsequent reorganization of the Berlin subway line numbering on March 1, 1966, line C II (Tempelhof - Mehringdamm) was renamed "Line 6" and received its final route from Tegel (since May 31, 1992: Alt-Tegel) to Alt-Mariendorf. At the beginning of 1984 - after the takeover of the S-Bahn in West Berlin by the BVG - line 6 was renamed "U6".

Design of the station

Westphalweg train station has a central platform and exits at both ends of the platform. There are superordinate vestibules at these, which are connected to the platform via stairs. The station has no barrier-free access, but four different accesses via stairs. For reasons of space, the two northern entrances are located in the opposite houses Mariendorfer Damm 61 and 64.

The colors white, yellow and various shades of green dominate the vestibules. In the platform hall, the walls are clad with vertical, large-format blue ceramic tiles. The central supports are encased in a reddish brick look.

In 2009, the BVG had the billboards in the train station dismantled and replaced in December 2009 with white wall tiles with different, large-format floral motifs.

At the end of 2018, the station, along with twelve other stations, was placed under a preservation order as a witness to the West Berlin subway construction in the 1960s and 1970s .

The station was designed by the architect Rainer G. Rümmler - like all the stations on the line between Tempelhof and Alt-Mariendorf, with the exception of Alt-Tempelhof station .

Connection

At the underground station you can change from the U6 line to the 282 bus line operated by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe .

line course
Berlin U6.svg Alt-Tegel  - Borsigwerke  - Holzhauser Straße  - Otisstraße  - Scharnweberstraße  - Kurt-Schumacher-Platz  - African Straße  - Rehberge  - Seestraße  - Leopoldplatz  - Wedding  - Reinickendorfer Straße  - Schwartzkopffstraße  - Natural History Museum  - Oranienburger Tor  - Friedrichstraße  - Französische Straße  - Stadtmitte  - Kochstraße  - Hallesches Gate  - Mehringdamm  - Platz der Luftbrücke  - Paradestrasse  - Tempelhof  - Alt-Tempelhof  - Kaiserin-Augusta-Strasse  - Ullsteinstrasse  - Westphalweg  - Alt-Mariendorf

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Westphalweg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Printed matter 17/12158. (PDF; 156 kB) Berlin House of Representatives, June 25, 2013, accessed on July 11, 2013 .
  2. ↑ 53 53 Berlin underground stations still don't have a lift. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 12, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Berliner Verkehrsblätter (02/2010), page 34
  4. ↑ Architecture of the post-war period - These underground stations are now also a listed building. In: Berliner Zeitung . November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '45.6 "  N , 13 ° 23' 9.6"  E