Washingtonplatz

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Washingtonplatz before the final expansion, 2009

The Washington Square is a square in Berlin . It is located in the Moabit district ( Mitte district ) on the eastern edge of the ULAP site and was rebuilt to the south of it in the course of the new construction of Berlin's main train station . Its area is around 18,000 m². As early as 1932, the forecourt of the Lehrter station was named after George Washington .

The square is the station building to the north, from the Ella-Trebe -Straße the west, from the Rachel Hart Street and the River Spree in the south and from the Friedrich-List -Ufer and Humboldthafen framed in the East. Directly below him the newly created run Tunnel Tiergarten Spreebogen (TTS) of the federal highway 96 , the tunnel north-south mainline of the railway , and the tunnel for the subway line U5 , which in 2008 with a shuttle service between Central Station and the Brandenburg Gate when U55 was put into operation.

In the course of the redesign of the Lehrter district, the square is to be dominated by the Cube Berlin , a cube-shaped building. As the first building on the edge of the square, a low-budget hotel was opened in October 2009.

After the surface of the square for the opening of the station was provisionally made with asphalt in May 2006 , the final expansion began in November 2010. The basis was the result of an open space planning competition from 1999. In front of the entrance area of ​​the station there is a raised platform made of rectangular granite slabs of different lengths. The open space was designed based on traditional Berlin sidewalks with small stone paving and slabs in various dimensions made of Silesian granite and with benches made of natural stone. A grove of trees consisting of three green islands was created on Ella-Trebe-Straße, the northern part is planted with eleven Japanese pagoda trees. The work was completed in April 2012, the costs amounted to around 2.8 million euros.

Since the beginning of 2015, Berliners and Berlin visitors can marvel at an interactive Buddy Bear on Washingtonplatz. It glows and changes color as soon as you hug it.

The Europaplatz was newly created north of the main train station .

Web links

Commons : Washingtonplatz  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Senate Department for Urban Development presents plans to redesign Washingtonplatz together with Vivico. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, April 7, 2010, accessed April 18, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Work on expanding Washingtonplatz at Berlin Central Station has been completed. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, April 18, 2012, accessed on April 18, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Video: Interactive Buddy Bear at the main train station ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '26 "  N , 13 ° 22' 10"  E