Berlin Bundesplatz station

• Berlin ring road (km 26.1 )

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The Berlin Federal Square Station is a Berlin city quick and underground train station on the border of the districts Wilmersdorf ( Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf) Friedenau ( Tempelhof- Schöneberg). It is located south of the eponymous square, right next to the city motorway at the junction of the ring road with the Federal Avenue and is served by the lines S41, S42, S45 and S46, the S- Bahn and the U9 of the Berlin U -Bahn.

S-Bahn station

With the construction of the viaduct of the ring road at the southern end of the former Strasbourg course also the first station Wilmersdorf Friedenau was built and opened with the commissioning of the western ring in November 1877. After the four-tracked expansion of the ring an eponymous new station was opened on 1 May 1892 which was a little east of the present location. With the electrification of the railway station was on November 6, 1928 stop of the S -Bahn; In 1938 he was renamed in Wilmersdorf. Following closure of the ring road as a result of the rapid-transit railway strikes in 1980, passenger services were not added to this station again.

During the resumption of train traffic on the ring road of the S-Bahn station was 1992/1993 moved to around 110 meters west to the federal court down to allow the passengers a faster transfer to the subway. At the same time new connection created stairs to the subway platforms. As the metro station was named federal court and the S-Bahn station. Today's S-Bahn station was put into operation on 17 December 1993.

Subway station

Metro Station Federal court went on 29 January 1971 in operation. He was born 1962-1968 in connection with the construction of the metro line 9 ( today: U9) and was designed by former Senate Building Director Rainer G. Rümmler. Similar to the Berlin underground station ( also U9 ) extend the two main lines in two separate tunnels, which are passed to the east and west of the road tunnel of the Federal Avenue under the ring and the highway. The two platforms each have a side platform and were connected together at both ends by a porch.

The walls on the platform were white, the walls tiled blue behind the tracks. The acquisition station was originally mounted in metal letters in a white, horizontally extending tile band. The design of the subway station so that resembled the same time also designed by Rümmler and opened on the same day subway stations Friedrich- Wilhelm-Platz and Berlin street.

In the years 2006-2008 the platform halls were renovated and redecorated. The walls were on the platform new, larger tiles, while the walls were newly covered by enamel plates in the track area. The Western Hall ( direction Rathaus Steglitz ) was in shades of blue, held the eastern hall (towards Oslo Road ) in shades of brown. The porches were tiled in blue, brown and white. Murals show earlier views of the federal center. The platforms were newly tiled with light gray granite and equipped with a blind control system.

Freight yard

On the mainline tracks, southeast of the current S- train station, is the former goods station Wilmersdorf. He was abandoned in the 1970s. In 1996, he served as the outdoor area for the InnoTrans trade fair. In 2010, the 60,000 square meter site was sold by Deutsche Bahn. In the future will be built on this a housing development and a commercial area.

Connection

The train station is S45 and S46 of the Berlin S -Bahn, line U9 served the metro and the bus line 248 of the Berlin Transport Company of the Ring Bahn lines S41 and S42 as well as the line.