Paulsternstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)

Metro Station Paulsternstraße is a station of the Berlin U -Bahn line U7 in the district Haselhorst. It was opened after Rathaus Spandau on 1 October 1984 as part of the extension and is below the intersection Paulsternstraße / Nonnendammallee, which he received his name. The station, which is referred to in the station directory of LPP under the symbol P, though has an escalator, but no elevator, so it is referred to as non-accessible. The term Paul Stern, a former coaching inn Berlin is meant is said to have located there.

Metro Station Paulsternstraße was, like most of Berlin's underground post-war new buildings, designed by architect Rainer G. Rümmler. Since Rümmler at the time of the design on the surface was no incentive for a design of the subway, he took as his design in the history of the place. Here he found the great burst pipe, a lowland area at the former course of the River Spree, a pine forest, which once stretched from here to the Virgin heath, and the historic district designation star field. From this he filtered terms such as Stern, Luchlandschaft, forest, trees and lone butterfly. These, in turn, he converted into architecture. Thus, the central columns of the station to the base of the trees and walls with reeds and grass to a Luchlandschaft were. On a dark sky sat Rümmler stars and a "cold moon ", the shine on a moth.

The Paulsternstraße station shall, in comparison with other stations, but also on the 1980 and 1984 opened route Richard -Wagner-Platz - Rathaus Spandau as a striking example of Rümmlerschen architecture. The metro critic Jan Gympel complains when Paulsternstraße station especially the " counter -catching capitals [ ... ] to support knobbly skins". General holds Gympel the station for too colorful, too ornate and studded with " crude patterns ".

Currently, the station has neither a blind nor a lift control system. At least the latter is to be installed due to the relatively bedeutlungslosen situation and the short use only after 2016 as planned by the Berlin Senate. Since the opening of the station, passengers can only enter through an access with stone and escalators to the platform, the access is located in the central position. After the fire of German Opera Metro Station in 2000, the Senate could create a report for the Berlin subway stations, whether it was advisable to build more additions, to create more possibilities of escape from a smoke-filled station. The report also recommends completed in 2002 for the Paulsternstraße station installation of another access; However, stations are initially preferred to have only one end of the platform access, such as the underground stations Rudow, Uhland Street and Theodor -Heuss-Platz. In addition, the financing is unclear.

Connection

At the metro station is a transfer possibility of the U7 to bus line 139 to the Berlin public transport.