Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn)

The metro station Hermann Platz is a railway junction of the lines U7 and U8 of the Berlin U -Bahn, which is located at the same place in the Berlin district of Neukölln, close to the border with the district of Friedrichshain- Kreuzberg. On April 11, 1926 was the station of the line U7 in operation on 17 July 1927 the U8. In the station list of the BVG he is called Hpu ( U7 platform ) and Hpo (platform U8 ). The station has both several escalators, and elevators to exit the platforms and therefore is considered to be barrier-free. There is a transitional way to several bus and metro bus lines; a tram ride is long-term planning. Due to its enormous scale of the subway station next to the underground station Rathaus Spandau is still considered one of the most impressive stations of Berlin subway.

History

The metro station Hermann course was laid out as a tower station, with the platform of the U8 is located immediately below the street level and the North-South Platform crosses this in nine meters deep. The platform of today U7 has been created as a great hall through which the U8 - through platform rises out of the cross bar. The ceiling of the two platforms is 7.25 meters above the lower platform of the U7. The central platform of the U7 has a length of 135 meters - instead of the usual large- profile is roughly 100 meters - and a width of up to 16.2 meters. The U8 - platform is designed much more modest compared to the lower platform, only the platform length of 130 meters is emphasized. The intersection of the two lines is located at the intersection of the streets Hasenheide - Karl -Marx-Straße (U7 ) and Hermann Square - Hermann (U8 ). At the opening of the railway station, the escalators were similar between the two platforms is another special feature: they were the first in the entire area of the Berlin U -Bahn. During construction, direct connections to the Karstadt department store were created. Architects of the station were Alfred Grenander Alfred and Fehse.

On April 11, 1926, the section hare heath mountain road (now Südstern - Karl Marx Street ) opened in the Neukölln branch of the North-South metro. The lower platform was also taken on that day in operation. The north-south runway was thus of lake road up mountain road in operation. ( - Neukölln GN for healthy well ) On 17 July 1927, the commissioning of the platform top of the GN -Bahn occurred. This was associated with the commissioning of the relatively short route section of Boddinstraße to Schönleinstraße ( well 1.5 km ), it marked the birth of the GN -Bahn, now the U8.

In 1993 the station was modernized. In this case, however, the color and texture of the tiles were not taken exactly. The grout color has been changed. The pillars with their capitals in the style of Art Deco, however, were not renewed, these tiles are still original from 1926.

Connection

On the surface possessed until 1930 on all leading- Hermann Square streets on tram tracks and the trains of 15 lines held in the square. Because of the numerous tram lines two outputs were built right next to the tram stops in the construction. Since the 1950s, however, took place in West Berlin, a gradual conversion operation on the bus. On 1 October 1964 the last line (line 27), which crossed the Hermann Square, set. On the axis Urbanstraße - Sun Alley tangierte until May 2, 1965, the line 95 the Hermann Square. Until the closure of the depot Britz (1966 ) but there was still operating trips on some sections. Since reunification, there is now again endeavors to extend the tram from the eastern part of Berlin (eg, Warschauer Straße ) to Hermann Square, where an implementation is not expected in the coming years.

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