Augsburger Straße (Berlin U-Bahn)

Augsburger Straße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the line. It is located in Charlottenburg under Nürnberger Straße where Augsburger Straße crosses it. Station and street are named after the city of Augsburg.

One of the entries to the station

Platform of the station

Augsburger Straße station was built in 1960/61 and opened on 8 May 1961, after the replacement of the Nürnberger Platz station by the new Spichernstraße interchange with the U9 line left too great a distance between stations for centre-city service. It is 491 m north of the Spichernstraße station and 615 m south of Wittenbergplatz.[1]

The station has 2 side platforms with exits at each end and a passenger tunnel under the tracks. The walls are tiled in dark orange or "red-brown".[2] As at Spichernstraße, there is a drop ceiling which causes a powerful draught.[1] There are only stairs at the exits, thus this station is inaccessible to the handicapped.

References

1. Augsburger Straße Archived 2010-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, Berliner-Untergrundbahn.de (in German)
2. Ernst Heinrich, F. Mielke, Klaus Konrad Weber, Berlin und seine Bauten, volume 10, part 2, p. 166 (in German)

External links

• Plan of station and surroundings, Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (pdf)