Thielplatz (Berlin U-Bahn)

Metro Station Thielplatz is a Berlin U -Bahn station of the subway line U3 in the district of Dahlem of the borough of Steglitz -Zehlendorf. The station went as the other railway stations in the Wilmersdorf - Dahlem - speed railway on 12 October 1913 in operation. The metro station is named after the Prussian Secretary Hugo Thiel and presented for 15 years the endpoint of the segment dar. Curiously, there is no place called Thielplatz, but only the beginning there Thielpark, as well as the Thielallee, the further east the distance of the U- railway crossing. In the immediate vicinity of the campus Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin is located. Like the other stations of the Dahlem U3 is also the metro station created as a cut station with center platform.

History and Structure

The station was created as part of the construction of Wilmersdorf - Dahlem subway between Wittenberg Platz and Thielplatz in the south of Dahlem. He originally served the development of the Dahlem located in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. The station was built in the years 1912/1913 and designed by Henry Straumer.

Straumer oriented towards the construction of the station building located in the Nikolasee, four years earlier built house Freudenberg of Hermann Muthesius. Located at the northeastern end of the platform station building has a V-shaped floor plan with a gable-shaped center panel and two outgoing at an obtuse angle side wings, each with a rectangular window. The walls are made of bricks Rathenower hand line. This also covered with red tiles roof is designed on the sides as hipped roof, in the middle of a saddle roof. Access to the station is provided by a lying in the middle arch, which spans a wrought-iron lattice. Above the entrance gate of the name is placed in golden letters, also there is a large wrought iron clock.

Preserved in a expressionist style entrance hall is tiled inside with red- brown pottery, interrupted by created by Richard Kuöhl black plates with animal and plant representations. The original ticket office including desks were also executed in red- brown ceramic but are now bricked up. The ceiling is plastered bright. Opposite the entrance leads of the same red- brown tiled staircase to the platform. Using the model of the U -Bahn station Podbielskiallee even this is covered by an inwardly sloping bitumen wooden roof.

From the opening in 1912 until the start of the route extension to Krumme Lanke in 1922 the Thielplatz station was a terminus to the south-west followed by an temporary car shed, which was used as a maintenance workshop. With the commissioning of newly built workshop in Krumme Lanke the carriage house was abandoned on Thielplatz.

During the construction of the railway station of Berlin was the largest erratic boulder with a mass of 50 tons and a circumference of 10 meters have been found. It lasted 14 days, until he had been brought around 40 meters northwest of the underground line using winches from the pit to a place where he is today.

Originally, it had a clear view from the station in the adjacent to the northwest portion of the Thiel parks. With the extension of the incision parallel to the subway running Löhlein road in 1970, the site was, however, heaped up and supported from the train station to go with a blue-painted sheet piling.

Between 1979 and 1981, a second reception hall was built in the style of the first and extended the platform roof at the southwest end of the platform. From the original building is now a newly tiled operating cottage and two wooden benches have been preserved on the platform.

Connection

At the metro station is a transfer possibility of the U3 bus line 110 to the Berlin public transport. The night bus service takes over the line N3.