Alt-Tegel (Berlin U-Bahn)
The underground station Alt -Tegel is a station of the Berlin U -Bahn line 6 in the Berlin district of Tegel district Reinickendorf. He is below the intersection Alt-Tegel/Karolinen-/Bernstoff-/Gorkistraße and was opened on 31 May 1958.
History
Already in the 1920s there were plans by the city of Berlin to extend the newly built north-south subway to the northern Wedding, even to Tegel. Initial construction work for an extension found in the year 1929 in the Miller Street instead. Due to the imminent global economic crisis and the resulting financial consequences for the city of Berlin, this had to stop work. There was an approximately 400 -meter-long tunnel shell.
After the Second World War, the Berlin administration was planning a massive expansion of the Berlin U -Bahn. One of the first new routes and the line C should include the time of his coming ended of the Neukölln Grenzallee on the lake road. The first solemn pile driven for a distance lake road - Tegel took place on 26 October 1953, the extension should be implemented in two stages. First there was the lake road section - Kurt -Schumacher-Platz in construction, then followed the partly aboveground section Kurt -Schumacher-Platz - Tegel. The second section included the stations Scharnweberstraße (overground), Seidel Road (now Otisstraße, overground), Holzhauser Straße (overground), Borsig works (underground) and the terminus Tegel, which was also underground.
Metro Station Tegel, designed as a terminal, designed by architect Bruno Grimmek. He designed the station simple and sober, the platform walls were light blue ceramic tiles. The standing on the paved, 110 -meter-long middle platform supports designed Grimmek with sand-colored, small mosaic tiles. Like all underground stations of the two new sections received a slant toward the middle butterfly ceiling and the subway station Tegel. Two porches, one in the north and one in the south, the distribution of passengers to serve the six outputs. In order to fulfill the duties of a high clock intercourse as a terminus, the station also received a subsequent four-track reversing facility.
During the opening of the first track section lake road - Kurt -Schumacher-Platz was celebrated on April 23, 1956, the inauguration of the second phase of construction, including the opening of the railway station Tegel by the then West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt took place on 31 May 1958. Since then existed in north Berlin now another Umsteigebeziehung between S- and U -Bahn, S-Bahn station Berlin- Tegel is located about 400 yards away.
Contrary to many expectations, the northern section of the lines developed passenger technically extremely positive. Especially the excursion traffic on the weekends steadily increased, particularly what the division of Berlin can be seen, since West Berlin now no longer able to get to the formerly also visited beach in the East Berlin district of Grunau.
In the subsequent history of the U -Bahn station Tegel hardly anything happened. As of 1984 no longer the transit traffic to the starting time operated by the BVG S-Bahn. Only in 1995 this was possible, the S-Bahn station Tegel was now the terminus. Shortly before this, however, 31 May 1992, the Tegel railway station was renamed Alt-Tegel under a renaming program several West Berlin subway stations. The exact reasons to give this name to the railway station, are unknown, probably this should be as a distinction for the same S-Bahn station, which was not then in operation.
In early 2006, commissioned the Berlin Transport Constructions with first works for the construction of an elevator. In October 2006, an elevator installation was completed directly from the platform to the Berlin street. This now also owns the northern terminus of the U6 as twelfth station of the North-South line a lift.
Connection
At the metro station is a direct transfer possibility for bus network of the BVG. In about 400 meters away guests will find the S-Bahn station Tegel on the line S25.