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| 4. | subway-history | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 6. | subway-literature | ||||||||||||||||||
| 7. | ONLINE time-table / schedule | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Hallesches Tor, 20.10.2002 |
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| 4. history (C) http://de.geocities.com/u_bln/berlin.htm | |
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- The first U-Bahn line opened in 1902 between Warschauer Brücke (now Warschauer Straße) and Knie (now Ernst-Reuter-Platz), with a branch to Potsdamer Platz. This first line was mainly elevated. In the following years the network grew steadily towards the west (today's U2 west) and branches were built to the south (today's U1 south, U3 and U4). The original line was also extended into the city centre from Potsdamer Platz as far as Spittelmarkt (U2). At the beginning of World War I in 1914, Berlin's U-Bahn network already had a total length of 37.8 km. The older lines belong to the small profile network (2.3m wide cars, 8-car-trains). |
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- In 1923 the first section of a new north-south line opened (former Line C, now U6) between Seestraße and Hallesches Tor right through the city along Friedrichstraße. This was the first of the large profile lines (2.6m wide cars). From then on Berlin's U-Bahn grew again very fast until 1930 began. By then U1, U2, U3, and U4 existed as we know them today (then operated as Line A and B), U5 from Alexanderplatz to Friedrichsfelde (Line E), U6 Seestr.-Tempelhof, U7 (as a branch of U6) from Mehringdamm to Grenzallee, U8 Gesundbrunnen-Leinestraße (Line D). |
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- After the war, the U-Bahn and S-Bahn kept running from one side of Berlin to the other until the Wall was built in 1961. Today's U2 was split into two lines, U1 was cut off at Schlesisches Tor and U6 and U8 began travelling through East Berlin skipping all stations on GDR territory (ghost stations). An exception was Friedrichstraße (U6) which was a border crossing for pedestrians and a transfer point to the S-Bahn. |
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- While Berlin was a divided city, on the eastern side only U5 was extended, mainly on the surface, towards the east to new residential areas (1973 Tierpark, 1989 Hönow). In the west a new line was added, a north-south link avoiding the historic centre: U9 (opened between 1961 and 1976). U7 turned out to be an important link between the southeast and the west. It reached its southern terminus at Rudow in 1972 and Rathaus Spandau in the west in 1984. |
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- After the Berlin Wall was torn down in Nov. 1989, all ghost stations were reopened as soon as possible, U2 was restored though partly rebuilt and reopened in 1993, and two years later, in 1995, also U1 returned to its original terminus at Warschauer Straße, across the traditional Oberbaum-Bridge. |
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- In the meantime U8 was extended towards the north to Wittenau (1994) and south to Hermannstraße (S-Bahn-Ring, 1996). In October 1998, a new station, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park, was added to line U2 between Gleisdreieck and Potsdamer Platz to improve access to the new Potsdamer Platz area. After some years of construction a short extension from Vinetastraße to Pankow was eventually opened on 16 Sept. 2000. The new terminus station is situated right under the S-Bahn station. |
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- After 9 years of existence, line U15 disappeared from the
map, instead the number U3 was reintroduced on 12 Dec 2004, now serving the
Nollendorfplatz - Krumme Lanke stretch. |
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![]() Hallesches Tor, 20.10.2002 |
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| 5. chronological table | |
| date | track |
| 15.02.1902 | Ministerfahrt Stralauer Tor - Potsdamer Platz |
| 18.02.1902 | opening Stralauer Tor - Potsdamer Platz |
| 11.03.1902 | opening Potsdamer Platz - Zoo |
| 25.03.1902 | opening Stralauer Tor - Zoo |
| 17.08.1902 | opening Stralauer Tor - Warschauer Brücke |
| 14.12.1902 | opening Zoo - E-Reuter-Pl. |
| 14.05.1906 | opening E-Reuter-Pl. - R-Wagner-Pl. |
| 29.03.1908 | opening Deutsche Oper - T-Heuss-Pl. |
| 01.10.1908 | opening Potsdamer Platz - Spittelmarkt |
| 01.12.1910 | opening Nollendorfpl. - Innsbrucker Pl. |
| 03.11.1912 | opening Bf. Gleisdreieck; T-Heuss-Pl. - Bw Grunewald, nur für Fahrten ins Bw |
| 08.06.1913 | opening Olympiastadion (Ost), nur bei Veranstaltungen |
| 01.07.1913 | opening Spittelmarkt - Alex |
| 27.07.1913 | opening Alex - Schönhauser Allee |
| 12.10.1913 | opening Wittenbergpl. - Uhlandstr., Wittenbergpl. - Thielpl. |
| 20.05.1922 | opening Bf. Neu-Westend |
| 30.01.1923 | opening Zinnowitzer Str. - Hallesches Tor |
| 08.03.1923 | opening Seestr. - Zinnowitzer Str. |
| 19.04.1924 | opening Hallesches Tor - Gneisenaustr. |
| 14.12.1924 | opening Gneisenaustr. - Südstern |
| 14.02.1926 | opening Mehringdamm - Pl. der Luftbrücke |
| 11.04.1926 | opening Südstern - K-Marx-Str. |
| 24.10.1926 | opening Gleisdreieck - Kurfürstenstr. - Wittenbergpl. |
| 17.07.1927 | opening Boddinstr. - Schönleinstr. |
| 10.09.1927 | opening Pl. der Luftbrücke - Paradestr. |
| 12.02.1928 | opening Schönleinstr. - Kottbusser Tor |
| 06.04.1928 | opening Kottbusser Tor - H-Heine-Str. |
| 04.08.1929 | opening Boddinstr. - Leinestr. |
| 22.12.1929 | opening Paradestr. - Tempelhof; Olympiastadion (Ost) - Ruhleben; Thielpl. - Krumme Lanke |
| 18.04.1930 | opening H-Heine-Str. - Gesundbrunnen |
| 29.06.1930 | opening Schönhauser Allee - Vinetastr. |
| 21.12.1930 | opening K-Marx-Str. - Grenzallee; Alex - Friedrichsfelde |
| 10.03.1945 | Bf. Osthafen geschlossen |
| 1952 | opening Tunnel U2 / U5 |
| 03.05.1956 | opening Seestr. - K-Schumacher-Pl. |
| 31.05.1958 | opening K-Schumacher-Pl. - Tegel |
| 01.06.1959 | Bf. Nürnberger Pl. geschlossen |
| 02.06.1959 | opening Bf. Spichernstr. |
| 08.05.1961 | opening Bf. Augsburger Str. |
| 13.08.1961 | Unterbrechung der Ost-West-Linien |
| 28.08.1961 | opening Leopoldpl. - Spichernstr. |
| 02.09.1961 | opening Bf. Kurfürstendamm U15 |
| 28.09.1963 | opening Grenzallee - Britz Süd |
| 28.02.1966 | opening Mehringdamm - Möckernbrücke |
| 02.01.1970 | opening Britz Süd - Zwickauer Damm |
| 02.05.1970 | Einstellung Deutsche Oper - R-Wagner-Pl. |
| 29.01.1971 | opening Möckernbrüe - Fehrbelliner Pl.; Spichernstr. - W-Schreiber-Pl. |
| 01.01.1972 | Einstellung Nollendorfpl. - Bülowstr. - Gleisdreieck |
| 01.07.1972 | opening Zwickauer Damm - Rudow |
| 25.06.1973 | opening Friedrichsfelde - Tierpark |
| 30.09.1974 | opening W-Schreiber-Pl. - Rathaus Steglitz |
| 05.10.1977 | opening Gesundbrunnen - Osloer Str. |
| 13.12.1977 | automat. Zugverkehr auf der U9 |
| 28.04.1978 | opening Fehrbelliner Pl. - R-Wagner-Pl.; Bf. Bismarckstr. U2 |
| 01.10.1980 | opening R-Wagner-Pl. - Rohrdamm |
| 04.05.1981 | automat. Zugbetrieb auf der U4 |
| 01.10.1984 | opening Rohrdamm - Rathaus Spandau |
| 27.04.1987 | opening Osloer Str. - Paracelsusbad |
| 01.07.1988 | opening Friedrichsfelde - Elsterwerdaer Pl. |
| 01.07.1989 | opening Elsterwerdaer Pl. - Hönow |
| 24.09.1994 | opening Paracelsusbad - Wittenau |
| 13.07.1996 | opening Leinestr. - Hermannstr. |
| 01.10.1998 | opening station Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park |
| 16.09.2000 | opening Vinetastr. - Pankow |
![]() Berlin Friedrichsfelde 1997 |
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