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Newly renovated Berlin U-Bahn station Schillingstraße, along the line U5. (WikiPhoto Credit: Jcornelius)
Largest Berlin subway project proceeding
Published: Tue, 2015-01-20 10:07-
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Provides further interchange
U5 line is closing the gap between stations Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor. The line U5 is the largest project underway in German capital at the moment.
One hundred and seventy-three underground stations dot the cityscape, and building work is always going on somewhere.
U5 is a line on the Berlin U-Bahn.
It runs from Alexanderplatz in Mitte eastwards through Friedrichshain, Lichtenberg and Friedrichsfelde, surfaces in Biesdorf-Süd to pass Kaulsdorf and Hellersdorf above ground and finally reaches city limits at Hönow.
U5 at present only connects to other U-bahn lines at its Alexanderplatz terminus, although work is ongoing to extend it across central Berlin to Berlin Hauptbahnhof, providing further U-Bahn and S-Bahn interchanges.
Alongside improvement work at many locations, closing the gap between Alexanderplatz and Brandenburger Tor on the U5 is currently the largest project underway. The history of Berlin’s underground is marked by three major stages of development, each of which expanded the network.
the three stages of development on the underground
The “founding line” was built during the first stage from 1902 until the start of the First World War in 1914. To the present day, most of this line actually runs over ground on an elevated railway.
Between the wars, work focused on building the inner-city sections of the wide gauge network on today’s U5 and U9 lines.
The third restoration stage began in earnest in 1953. In the west part of Berlin, work continued at both ends of lines U7 and U9, while the U6 was extended to the north. In the east, the U5 was extended towards Hönow.
An array of prestigious architects was involved in the design and construction of Berlin’s underground stations.
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