Alt-Tempelhof (Berlin U-Bahn)

Station of the Berlin U-Bahn

Alt-Tempelhof U-Bahn station

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]

Platform

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
Tempelhof towards Alt-Tegel		U6		Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße towards Alt-Mariendorf

v
t
e

Stations on the Berlin U-Bahn

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

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

52°27′57″N 13°23′08″E / 52.46583°N 13.38556°E / 52.46583; 13.38556

frontpage hit counter

Medium | Medium