Rathaus (Hamburg U-Bahn station)

The Rathaus Underground Station is a station of Hamburg U -Bahn line U3. The metro station is located in Hamburg-Altstadt district below the town hall market, whose name he bore of his opening 1912 to 1958 with a break during the Nazi era.

History

The train station with its two slightly offset side platforms was designed by the architectural firm Raabe & Wöhlecke and built in the years 1908-1911. According to its close proximity to City Hall, he was intricately designed tiles, the input spaces are decorated with marble and majolica tiles Cadiner. Notwithstanding the platform hall, the two lobbies were designed by the Berlin office Hart & Lesser. On 15 February 1912, the first ride of the Hamburg U -Bahn was with invited guests from the town hall market ( so-called " Senator movement"), the opening to the public was on March 1 of that year. For nearly four months the town hall market station was the terminus of the partially still under construction ring line. A continuous ring operation took place from 29 June 1912.

In 1927, the extension of the platforms towards the east, so that could operate the station instead of four now six-car trains.

From 1934 to 1945, the station was known as Adolf- Hitler-Platz, after the Town Hall Square was renamed accordingly. After the war, the return notification was carried out in city hall market. However, the trains still rested to 11 March 1946.

In 1958, another reconstruction of the station. East of the station, another approach has been built, which connects to a connecting corridor to Jungfernstieg metro station KellJung line ( today's U1). The construction of the access hall coincided with the structural work on the U1 towards Messberg around 1956 / 57th Structurally these access hall was a big challenge because it had to be accommodated on knappstem space between road and tunnel ceiling of the subway, where the overground very dense tram traffic was not to be interrupted. To this end, the underground tunnel of Messberg tunnel was carefully removed, placed the tracks on temporary bridges, then built, which is only seven meters next to the tower of St. Peter's Church, then the U3 tunnel was rebuilt and then built the porch before the closed pit again and the tram rails were placed in the original position again. With the opening of this passage on October 1, 1958 it was renamed the two subway stations in the town hall. The station hall of the U1 was named back in 1973 Jungfernstieg, as the leadership of the U2 line took place on the newly built track and the lowest platform level of the station Jungfernstieg.

In 1965, the platform facilities the U3 station have been modernized. The old tiles were replaced by gray, larger tiles and adapted to the style of the 1960s. In the 1990s these were replaced again by white and sometimes red tiles. These white walls are interrupted several times by Hamburg's coat of arms. From the period of 1912 only two ceiling mosaics in the access areas are still preserved in the platform area. Opposite the entrance hall of the town hall access, ie behind the track body, there are still about a 10 meter long tunnel wall, which still bears the original tile from 1912.

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