Berlin Hermannstraße station
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Berlin Hermannstraße is a
S-Bahn station
Berlin Ringbahn
Hermannstraße was on the route of the first segment of the Berlin Ringbahn which opened on 15 November 1877 (with passenger service beginning on 1 January 1878). At that time the closest station was Rixdorf, which today is called Berlin-Neukölln because the locality changed its name in 1912. The Hermannstraße station opened on 1 February 1899,[4] as one of several suburban stations added during the enlargement of the ring line to 4 tracks.
Initially the only access was at the east end of the station, via a small building with a red-tiled roof. In 1910 a second entrance on Siegfriedstraße was added.
Rixdorf - Mittenwalde Railway
In 1895 a committee of residents of
The operating licence for the line was granted on 21 July 1899, and it opened on 28 September 1900. 4 years later it was extended southwards to Schöneiche Plan. When Rixdorf became Neukölln in 1912, the line became the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn (Neukölln - Mittenwalde Railway).
During and after World War II
During World War II the Mittenwalde line was heavily used for transporting both munitions and passengers, reaching a peak of over 1 million tonnes and 3 million passengers in 1942/43.
The Hermannstraße S-Bahn station was not damaged during the bombing of Berlin, but the entrance was severely damaged during the
The Mittenwalde line was closed until 17 May 1945, when the bridge over the
S-Bahn operation continued under the control of the Deutsche Reichsbahn during and after the blockade, but was boycotted in West Berlin in protest against this East German body operating in the Western sectors of the city. In 1961, the year Berlin wall was erected, the Siegfriedstraße entrance to the Hermannstraße station was closed. The destroyed main entrance was under restoration until 1968/69, but in 1971 was demolished and replaced with a modern building, which opened in June 1973; the Siegfriedstraße entrance, reopened during this work, was then closed and it was demolished 3 years later.[4] After the September 1980 strike of West Berlin S-Bahn workers, the Reichsbahn almost completely closed the S-Bahn in West Berlin, including the Ringbahn.
The Neukölln - Mittenwalde line, in contrast, profited from increased goods traffic after the West Berlin power company, Bewag, built a power plant at Rudow. Within the city, its passenger stations were demolished, while outside the city, in the GDR, the rails were taken up but the station buildings remained.[5]
Reopening after reunification
The Reichsbahn transferred the S-Bahn to Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (Berlin Transport) in 1984, and after public enthusiasm for it increased, preparations began in 1989 for gradually reopening the Ringbahn beginning in 1992.
The fall of the
Service on the western portion of the Ringbahn was ceremonially relaunched on 17 December 1993, over a stretch of line including the Hermannstraße station. The station is now served by three S-Bahn lines which originate to the southeast of the city:
Also since German reunification, the Mittenwalde line became the route by which the city's household waste is conveyed in containers from the Berliner Stadtreinigung (Berlin Sanitation) depot on the Teltow Canal to the Hermannstraße terminus of the line, now known as Güterbahnhof Neukölln, Neukölln Goods Station, where it is transferred to Deutsche Bahn goods trains. In December 2005, however, the district of Neukölln decided to convert unused track area in the goods station to industrial use; the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Eisenbahn is to wind up its operations there at some point in the future. It was supposed to be a regional railway station but plans were scrapped.
U-Bahn station
In 1927, seven years after Neukölln like many other surrounding towns became part of
In 1940, the unfinished station was used as an air raid shelter; because it is located under the S-Bahn cutting, it is unusually deep underground.[9] There are still signs on the wall from this period. After the construction of the Berlin wall in 1961, the West Berlin Senate did not pursue the plans for an extension, since West Berliners were boycotting the GDR-run S-Bahn and there was thus no longer demand for a transfer point between the U-Bahn and it. Berlin Transport laid rails in the tunnel and used it to store disused trains.[7]
The situation changed with
The opening of the station, the 168th in the Berlin U-Bahn system, was celebrated on 13 July 1996. Like almost all Berlin U-Bahn stations constructed in recent decades, the Hermannstraße station was designed by Rainer Rümmler. It was his last design before he retired. In this case he was strongly influenced by the stations to the north, designed by Alfred Grenander, which led to a very sparse station lined with turquoise tiles. The signs for the air raid shelter were retained behind glass as testaments to the past.[7]
2016 manhunt after crime at station
A video clip from October 2016 showed a woman being kicked down stairs; in December the clip was published by media before being authorized by the government to do so; thereafter police requested leads from the public to capture the perpetrator of the violence.[10] On 13 December an arrest warrant was issued.[11] On 17 December the suspect was arrested in Germany on a bus coming from another country.[12]
References
- ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Hermannstraße". Stadtschnellbahn-Berlin.de (in German). 4 December 2007.
- ^ Grab, Carsten; Kurth, Detlef; Radeck, Katharina (1992). Ein-Blicke in die Geschichte der Schillerpromenade in Berlin Neukölln: Stadtteilgeschichte als Grundlage behutsamer Stadterneuerung (in German). Berlin: Stadterneuerung Neukölln. p. 56 – via Google Books.
- ISBN 3-930863-25-1.
- ^ a b c d e "U8 Hermannstraßen-U-Bahn". Berliner Untergrundbahn (in German). Archived from the original on 2016-02-20.
- ISBN 3-930863-99-5– via Google Books.
- ISBN 3-933300-00-2.
- ^ Karlsen, Mina Liavik (9 December 2016). "Kvinne (26) var på vei til t-banen da hun ble sparket ned trappa: - Viser hvor lett alle kan bli voldsofre" [Woman (26) was on her way to the subway when she was kicked down the stairs: - Shows how easily everyone can be a victim of violence]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian).
- ^ Karlsen, Mina Liavik (16 December 2016). "Mann (27) skal ha stått bak trappesparket i Berlin. Politiet har ennå ikke funnet ham" [A man (27) is said to have been behind the stair kick in Berlin. Police have not yet found him]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian).
- ^ Cogorno, Ingrid (19 December 2016). "Mannen som sparket kvinnen ned trappa på undergrunnstasjonen i Berlin er arrestert" [The man who kicked the woman down the stairs at the underground station in Berlin has been arrested]. Dagbladet (in Norwegian).
External links
- Neukölln - Mittenwalder Eisenbahn - Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in Berlin (in German)
- Hermannstraße S-Bahn station satellite view on Google maps
- Hermannstraße S-Bahn station and "Kleinbahn-Bahnhof Neukölln-Mittenwalde" on a 1932 Berlin map
