Pankstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)

The subway station is a railway station Pankstraße line U8 of the Berlin U- Bahn in the district health fountain. He wears in station list of the Berlin Transport Authority the name and Pk has no elevator to exit the platform and is therefore referred to as non-accessible.

The station has wallcoverings of brown tiles, the pillars are covered with aluminum sheets.

With the extension of the subway line 8 of healthy well after the Oslo road station was opened on 5 October 1977. Construction of this section was in September 1973.

By 2016, the station is accessible rebuilt and an elevator will be installed.

Special

The station was built as a multi-purpose facility, so that the platform and adjacent rooms can also be used as a shelter in war and disaster. So with the station, for example, sanitary rooms, a emergency kitchen and a fresh air supply filters. In an emergency, can exactly 3339 people protection here. The additional costs were paid by the Federal Ministry of Finance. The facilities can be visited on guided tours, which are organized by the Association of Berlin Underworlds. The facility itself is owned by the SNB. Metro Station as well as the civil defense system are under monument protection since 2011.

Another oddity is that the attached silver letter letters form the word Pankstrasse and not like the German spelling according Pankstraße.

Connection

At the metro station is a transfer possibility from the U8 to bus line M27 of the Berlin Transport Authority.