Senefelderplatz (Berlin U-Bahn)
The subway station is a railway station Senefelderplatz the U2 line of the Berlin U -Bahn. It is located at the same place parallel to Nice Allee in the Berlin district of Pankow. The subway station was put into operation on 27 July 1913 in the context of the track opening Alexanderplatz - North ring. He is referred to in the station list of the BVG as Sz and is 595 meters from Rosa- Luxembourg -Platz Underground Station and 1065 meters from the Eberswalde Underground Station. The platform is 7.6 meters wide and 119.2 meters long, the hall is 2.6 to 3.1 meters high and is called because of its small depth below the pavement of five meters as a paving train station. Since the station has a lift at the northern exit to exit the platform since 26 April 2010 as this is " barrier-free" counted. The station is named the same as the square after the lithographer Alois Senefelder ( 1771-1834 ).
History
The basic objective of the first operator of the Berlin elevated and subway, the elevated railway company, was the center of Berlin to tap around Alexanderplatz, to achieve their market objectives. The Pankow local government had already in 1905 requested a connection to their community, state approval for a route from Spittelmarkt followed via Alexanderplatz to the North Ring station on the circle line already on December 22, 1907. Construction began in March 1910. Due to the significant cost of the underground distance Berlin City on the one hand and non- deployable collecting ducts in the beautiful Allee other hand, the track is not completely underground, but with a striking high- track section with the stations Danziger Straße (today Eberswalde road ) and North ring (now Nice Allee ) executed. Also still in the nice Allee, but still the Senefelderplatz underground station was built at about the same place. Until 1 July 1913, the distance between Spittelmarkt and Alexanderplatz was completed. Only a few weeks later, the second, 3.3 km long section between Alexanderplatz and Northern ring.
For the design of all new stations, the elevated railway company commissioned the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander, who by now had become the house architect of the elevated railway company and almost all new stations designed. Grenander voted for the Senefelderplatz station which is colored blue and used it to the station signs, otherwise provides Senefelderplatz the typical standard through station with narrow metal supports and Prussian caps dar. Bohle Heintzenberg even provides is that the station with the neighboring station Rosa - Luxembourg -Platz confusingly was similar and differed from it only by the color of the tiles. Three platform cottages are at the station, all of which were also tiled in blue. A special feature has the station still continues: Similar to the Emperor dam station is the ceiling of the station is not uniformly high, due to the slope of the Prenzlauer Berg district, so that the platform area in the southern area is about 2.6 meters high (Klein Profile standard) and in the northern platform area about 3.6 meters. Also located in Senefelderplatz station a substation that supplies the route between North and Spittelmarkt ring with electricity.
During the Second World War, the station remained largely undamaged, so already on May 26, 1945, the first shuttle between Nice Allee - Alexanderplatz could be resumed. As from 1 August 1945, a circulating operation between Pankow ( Vinetastraße ) and Alexanderplatz was possible again. In the coming weeks and months, numerous railway stations could be re-opened, so on 15 September 1946, a complete train service between Ruhleben and Pankow was possible, although individual stations such as the Kaiserhof station only in 1950 again went into operation.
In the 1970s, the East Berlin transport company could remodel the station. Rectangular blue and white tiles from the Tile Factory Boizenburg shape since the image of the station. Black station signs with large white letters are vaguely reminiscent of the station signs of the 1920s.
After the reunification of Germany and Berlin changed at first relatively little on Senefelderplatz station. Only after 2000, the BVG first began to completely replace the two approaches. The entrance gates were reconstructed according to the original scales. In addition, the SNB left the entrance halls with bright, white strappy tiles, so that the design of the two inputs no longer corresponds with the remaining station design. Passengers is the Senefelderplatz station particularly by known that there is often the trains end at a road block of the elevated railway viaduct between Eberswalde road and the Beautiful Allee. In 2000 ended and began on Senefelderplatz station of the rail replacement bus service with buses towards Nice Allee, while a complete renovation of the viaduct decency. The same procedure is applied to similar road closures, including at the next renovation 2008/2009.
Since the Senefelderplatz station compared to other stations of the subway line U2 has no particularly high ridership, planned the BVG in consultation with disability organizations and the Berlin Senate to install a lift until after 2010, which was criticized by various associations. Since the state of Berlin are by cancellations in the S- Bahn Berlin more funding for public transport than planned available, these were invested in the construction of elevators. In the fall of 2009, construction began at the northern entrance, which was completed on April 25, 2010. The costs amounted to 750,000 euros.
Connection
At the subway station, there is no direct transit traffic to other lines of the Berlin transport.