Olympia-Stadion (Berlin U-Bahn)

Metro Station Olympic Stadium is a station on the U2 line of the Berlin U -Bahn. It is located in the Westend of Berlin and also houses the Underground Museum; in its vicinity is the maintenance workshop Grunewald.

History

On the Metro Station Olympic Stadium could on 8 June 1913 the then name the stadium for the first time passengers are welcomed, as on this day, Kaiser Wilhelm II opened the nearby German stadium. The elevated railway company, which at that time operated the high - and underground lines in Berlin, but was operating the train station only irregularly in the coming months. Only at special events such as horse racing the trains on the Chancellor square. The station itself consisted of a simple middle platform with two tracks and a small, wooden entrance building, designed by the Swiss architect Sepp emperor.

First regular operation, it was from 1922, when the station Neu-Westend was opened between the stations stadium and Reichskanzlerplatz. He had been in 1913 construction technically prepared, the sparse population not yet justified the expansion. Seven years later, Berlin was the candidate city for the 1936 Olympic Games, so then Alfred Grenander was commissioned to conceptualize the new station. He designed a completely new entrance building, which was provided with red clinker bricks. This, in turn, is at right angles to the tracks, for the BVG in turn had built two platforms. At the same time a large, then still hand-operated signal box was put in service, with a total of 109 points and 99 signals were served. The signal box was at that time with its 616 possible adjusted roadways as the largest electro-mechanical interlocking of its type in Europe.

Since December 22, 1929, the station was no longer terminal, this now took over the 1200 meters distant station Ruhleben. The station stadium was named Reichssportfeld before the Olympic Games. During this Olympic Games, the subway line A coped together with the S -Bahn traffic, among other things to the Olympic Stadium. In three years later starting World War II occurred in considerable damage, and the Reich Sports Field Station was affected. On February 15, 1944 aerial mine met the entrance building and caused considerable damage. However, the portion of the underground line A towards Ruhleben belonged to until recently relatively intact subway lines. The operation was set at the latest on 25 April 1945.

Soon after the war could again take the first trains on the section, in question Ruhleben - Imperial Dam drove since May 17, again in the shuttle trains. This could be extended in the coming weeks and months, more and more, so that from September 15, 1946, a continuous operation without having to change between Pankow and Ruhleben was possible again. After the founding of the Federal Republic in 1949 the station was renamed Olympic Stadium on June 26, 1950.

In the following years and decades, relatively little changed at the station. While until 1961 still drove trains in the East Berlin district of Pankow, this changed due to the construction of the wall and a line designated as U1 went to Kreuzberg Metro Station Silesian Gate.

Since 1983, the local hand lever signal box is out of service and was replaced by a track interlocking plan on behalf of the SNB. Through the commitment of individual employees of transport companies that could actually get certain buildings to be demolished and a small, hitherto non-existent underground museum to be built. Much of the signal box can still be seen from the museum guests today. The museum also mentions numerous small exhibits as destination indicator, old photographs or network plans his own.

Since 1993 also goes by here again the U2 towards Pankow. A year earlier, the station was briefly the name of Olympic Stadium (East). This only lasted from 31 May 1992 to 31 May 1999 and since then the station is called back Olympic Stadium. The only difference to more than 500 meters distant same S-Bahn station is the hyphen between the words, the S- train station is the Olympic Stadium.

In preparation for the World Cup 2006, the BVG invested together with federal and state total 4.47 million euros in the renovation of the subway, which served as one of the two ground stations, a part of football fans as a focal point. He was together with the underground line U2 to the Transport concept of the World Cup, the game time the trains in continuous 2 - to 3 ½ - minute intervals. The preserving the architecture of the station, which lasted 20 months due to a severe winter, included, among other things, the refresh of the entrance building and the equipment with reactive control system. Furthermore, the station received two elevators for accessibility, which are connected by a bridge to the Rossiter Square, the square in front of the station. In addition, the SNB was at the request of the Olympic Stadium sporty -based football club Hertha BSC emphasize the blue columns in the club's color.

Connection

The underground station is mainly used to connect the Olympic Stadium at the Berlin transport. A direct transfer possibilities on the U2 line to other public transportation does not exist.

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