Nollendorfplatz (Berlin U-Bahn)

Nollendorfplatz is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the Template:BVG lines, the Template:BVG lines, the Template:BVG lines, and the Template:BVG lines. It opened in 1902 and today is the only station in Berlin that is served by four metro lines (also the only one where all Kleinprofil (small profile) lines stop).

Nollendorfplatz
Cross-platform interchange
U-Bahn station Nollendorfplatz
General information
Coordinates	52°29′57″N 13°21′14″E
Owned by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Operated by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Platforms	6 (2 elevated, 4 underground)
Tracks	6 (2 elevated, 4 underground)
Train operators	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Connections	Template:Bmti Template:Bmti Template:Bmti Template:Bmti Template:Bmti
Construction
Structure type	Elevated (U2), Underground (U1, U3-4)
Platform levels	2
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	Nm (eastbound), No (elevated), Nu (westbound)
Fare zone	VBB zone A
History
Opened	11 March 1902 (elevated), 26 October 1926 (underground)
Services
Preceding station   BVG   Following station Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Terminus
Location Nollendorfplatz Location within Berlin

Station Nollendorfplatz c. 1903

Overview

The station and the eponymous square named after Nakléřov in the Czech Republic lie in the north of Schöneberg at the junction of Motzstraße, Kleiststraße and Bülowstraße. The area is an important centre of gay culture and the nearby Winterfeldtplatz is home to a widely known market. The quarter, that used to be a fairly unstable center of heroin addicts, punks, and squatters twenty years ago has seen a remarkable comeback into the (somewhat intellectual) mainstream culture with high rents and upscale restaurants and bookshops. In this it resembles (and indeed was a role model) for the western part of Kreuzberg. The subway station itself recently received an art nouveau glass dome which resembles the one, designed by Cremer & Wolffenstein, it carried before the war.

History

During the Second World War, the station was badly damaged on 28/29 January 1944, and flooding of the station facilities, caused by a water pipe break, where the constructive damage is limited on 19 July 1944. Air pressure was damaged on 24 February 1945 and the ceiling collapsed before the surrender of Germany. The construction of the Wall interrupted before the subway station Potsdamer Platz the route in the eastern sector direction Pankow (Vinetastraße).

The underground tracks were completely rebuilt in 1971. The direct connection between the tracks in the direction of Innsbrucker Platz (U4) and Warschauer Brücke (U1) was interrupted, instead set up a parking and sweeping system north of the station. At the same time, a bunker system existing since 1940 on the lower platform was dismantled and the exposed tracks used for the first time for the trains of the U4.

In 1972, the BVG at the station Nollendorfplatz together with the route along the Bülowstraße to Gleisdreieck operation, as the low passenger volume made a profitable operation no longer possible. Instead, moved to the elevated platforms of the flea market "Berlin flea market" in the discarded subway cars served as a sales area. Since a Turkish bazaar was built in the neighboring and also unused Bülowstraße station, the BVG commuted a TM 36 tram medium entry car on the elevated railway line between the two stations. For the northern track railway received a single-line, outside the station halls was on the other ever set up a short platform. It was the last tram route in West Berlin for the time being.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the flea market had to give way to the reopened U2 line to Pankow, and the tram system was dismantled in October 1991. The line was reopened in 1993.

Gallery

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  U1 platform
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  U2 platforms
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  U3 platform
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  U4 platform