Alt-Tempelhof (Berlin U-Bahn)
Alt-Tempelhof (Old Tempelhof) is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the U6. It is located under Tempelhofer Damm in the centre of the former village of Tempelhof, now a Berlin district within the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. The station opened on 28 February 1966.
Overview
The extension of Line C of the Berlin U-Bahn (today called U6) through the centre of Tempelhof to Mariendorf was already planned before World War II, and was begun in the late 1930s. A tunnel was dug south from the turnaround at Tempelhof station almost to the location of the Alt-Tempelhof station, and a somewhat longer tunnel section was also dug further south, between today's Alt-Tempelhof and Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße stations.[1][2] However, because of World War II, postwar money problems, and a serious fire in the turnaround in August 1945 which damaged the tunnel, the work suspended in 1941 was not resumed and construction of the stations did not begin until 1961.[3] It was possible to make use of the tunnels dug some twenty years previously, but not without modifications, because the Alt-Tempelhof station had originally been planned to be further south, near the Tempelhof town hall.[1]
Rough construction of the Alt-Tempelhof station was finished in 1962, while the other stations of the extension to Alt-Mariendorf were not built until the following year. They were all opened at once on 28 February 1966, at which time Line C was renamed Line 6; in 1984 it became U6.[1]
The Alt-Tempelhof station was finished to a design by Bruno Grimmek, who retired soon afterwards; his successor as architect with the Berlin U-Bahn, Rainer Rümmler, assisted with this station and was responsible for the others in the line extension.[4][5] Like all the extension stations, it has a centre platform and exits at each end and is utilitarian in appearance. The Alt-Tempelhof station has grey-green tiles on the walls and brick cladding on the platform columns.[6]
The station has exits at each end and in the middle by way of a mezzanine floor. It has escalators but is yet to be equipped with a lift.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Die Mariendorfer U-Bahn Archived 2010-12-29 at the Wayback Machine, Berliner Untergrundbahn.de (in German)
- ^ Ernst Heinrich, F. Mielke, Klaus Konrad Weber, Berlin und seine Bauten Volume 10, Part 2, p. 80 (in German)
- ^ Der Tempelhofer Zweig Archived 2011-01-07 at the Wayback Machine, Berliner Untergrundbahn.de (in German)
- ^ Robert Schwandl, Berlin U-Bahn Album, Berlin: metroPlanet, 2002, ISBN 3-936573-01-8, p. 80.
- ^ Berlin und seine Bauten, p. 150.
- ^ Schwandl
- ^ U-Bahnlinie U6 at Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (in German)
External links
- Plan of station location and entrances/exits at Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (pdf)
Preceding station | Berlin U-Bahn | Following station | ||
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Tempelhof towards Alt-Tegel | U6 | Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße towards Alt-Mariendorf |
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- Warschauer Straße
- Stralauer Tor (dismantled)
- Schlesisches Tor
- Görlitzer Bahnhof
- Kottbusser Tor
- Prinzenstraße
- Hallesches Tor
- Möckernbrücke
- Gleisdreieck
- Kurfürstenstraße
- Nollendorfplatz
- Wittenbergplatz
- Kurfürstendamm
- Uhlandstraße
- Pankow
- Vinetastraße
- Schönhauser Allee
- Eberswalder Straße
- Senefelderplatz
- Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
- Alexanderplatz
- Klosterstraße
- Märkisches Museum
- Spittelmarkt
- Hausvogteiplatz
- Stadtmitte
- Mohrenstraße
- Potsdamer Platz
- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park
- Gleisdreieck
- Bülowstraße
- Nollendorfplatz
- Wittenbergplatz
- Zoologischer Garten
- Ernst-Reuter-Platz
- Deutsche Oper
- Bismarckstraße
- Sophie-Charlotte-Platz
- Kaiserdamm
- Theodor-Heuss-Platz
- Neu-Westend
- Olympia-Stadion
- Ruhleben
- Warschauer Straße
- Stralauer Tor (dismantled)
- Schlesisches Tor
- Görlitzer Bahnhof
- Kottbusser Tor
- Prinzenstraße
- Hallesches Tor
- Möckernbrücke
- Gleisdreieck
- Kurfürstenstraße
- Nollendorfplatz
- Wittenbergplatz
- Augsburger Straße
- Nürnberger Platz (dismantled)
- Spichernstraße
- Hohenzollernplatz
- Fehrbelliner Platz
- Heidelberger Platz
- Rüdesheimer Platz
- Breitenbachplatz
- Podbielskiallee
- Dahlem-Dorf
- Freie Universität (Thielplatz)
- Oskar-Helene-Heim
- Onkel Toms Hütte
- Krumme Lanke
- Nollendorfplatz
- Viktoria-Luise-Platz
- Bayerischer Platz
- Rathaus Schöneberg
- Innsbrucker Platz
- Hauptbahnhof
- Bundestag
- Brandenburger Tor
- Unter den Linden
- Museumsinsel
- Rotes Rathaus
- Alexanderplatz
- Schillingstraße
- Strausberger Platz
- Weberwiese
- Frankfurter Tor
- Samariterstraße
- Frankfurter Allee
- Magdalenenstraße
- Lichtenberg
- Friedrichsfelde
- Tierpark
- Biesdorf-Süd
- Elsterwerdaer Platz
- Wuhletal
- Kaulsdorf Nord
- Kienberg (Gärten der Welt)
- Cottbusser Platz
- Hellersdorf
- Louis-Lewin-Straße
- Hönow
- Alt-Tegel
- Borsigwerke
- Holzhauser Straße
- Otisstraße
- Scharnweberstraße
- Kurt-Schumacher-Platz
- Afrikanische Straße
- Rehberge
- Seestraße
- Leopoldplatz
- Wedding
- Reinickendorfer Straße
- Schwartzkopffstraße
- Naturkundemuseum
- Oranienburger Tor
- Friedrichstraße
- Unter den Linden
- Französische Straße (closed)
- Stadtmitte
- Kochstraße
- Hallesches Tor
- Mehringdamm
- Platz der Luftbrücke
- Paradestraße
- Tempelhof
- Alt Tempelhof
- Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße
- Ullsteinstraße
- Westphalweg
- Alt-Mariendorf
- Rathaus Spandau
- Altstadt Spandau
- Zitadelle
- Haselhorst
- Paulsternstraße
- Rohrdamm
- Siemensdamm
- Halemweg
- Jakob-Kaiser-Platz
- Jungfernheide
- Mierendorffplatz
- Richard-Wagner-Platz
- Bismarckstraße
- Wilmersdorfer Straße
- Adenauerplatz
- Konstanzer Straße
- Fehrbelliner Platz
- Blissestraße
- Berliner Straße
- Bayerischer Platz
- Eisenacher Straße
- Kleistpark
- Yorckstraße
- Möckernbrücke
- Mehringdamm
- Gneisenaustraße
- Südstern
- Hermannplatz
- Rathaus Neukölln
- Karl-Marx-Straße
- Neukölln
- Grenzallee
- Blaschkoallee
- Parchimer Allee
- Britz-Süd
- Johannisthaller Chaussee
- Lipschitzallee
- Wutzkyallee
- Zwickauer Damm
- Rudow
- Wittenau
- Rathaus Reinickendorf
- Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik
- Lindauer Allee
- Paracelsus-Bad
- Residenzstraße
- Franz-Neumann-Platz
- Osloer Straße
- Pankstraße
- Gesundbrunnen
- Voltastraße
- Bernauer Straße
- Rosenthaler Platz
- Weinmeisterstraße
- Alexanderplatz
- Jannowitzbrücke
- Heinrich-Heine-Straße
- Moritzplatz
- Kottbusser Tor
- Schönleinstraße
- Hermannplatz
- Boddinstraße
- Leinestraße
- Hermannstraße
- Osloer Straße
- Nauener Platz
- Leopoldplatz
- Amrumer Straße
- Westhafen
- Birkenstraße
- Turmstraße
- Hansaplatz
- Zoologischer Garten
- Kurfürstendamm
- Spichernstraße
- Güntzelstraße
- Berliner Straße
- Bundesplatz
- Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz
- Walther-Schreiber-Platz
- Schloßstraße
- Rathaus Steglitz
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