Voltastraße (Berlin U-Bahn)

Metro Station Volta Street, is located under the fountain street near the Volta a road station of line U8 of the Berlin U -Bahn. It was opened on 18 April 1930 and bears in station list of the Berlin Transport Authority the name Vo. The station has stairs and since the end of 2011 an elevator to exit the platform and is therefore called a barrier-free.

Currently, the station is redeveloped. In this context, both inputs are successively renewed and installed an elevator.

History

Metro Station Voltastrasse was already 1914/1915 by the AEG- speed rail -AG built. Features for this early year of construction, the granite support columns and the low -down position, which require outputs to the road center. Was opened the station on 18 April 1930. Reopened after closure due to the war in April 1945, he was on 22 May 1945, shortly after the war.

After the wall was built, the U8 was severely impaired. To the north could be used for the West Berlin only the stations Voltastrasse and healthy well. A mini haul which was still limited by the Berliners in claim - a condition which so continued until October 5, 1977, when the U8 was extended up to the Oslo road.

Meanwhile, there is nothing more to the fact that this subway station was once coming from the north, the last station in the western sector. Vehicle is then further south, only to return to the West at the Moritz Platz Underground Station, you could be on the East Berlin stations Bernauer Strasse, Rosenthalerplatz, Weinmeisterstrasse, Alexanderplatz, Jannowitzbruecke and Heinrich -Heine-Straße only dimly lit " ghost Stations " see what usually caused when the passengers an oppressive feeling.

Connection

At the metro station is a transfer possibility from the U8 to bus line 247 to the Berlin public transport.