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Riding the Berlin U-Bahn U2 from Klosterstraße to Märkisches Museum. Germany | 10/11/24

Klosterstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U2 in the centrally located Mitte district. The eponymous street is named after the Graues Kloster, a medieval Franciscan abbey, which later housed the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster.

History
The station opened on 1 July 1913 in the course of the eastern continuation of Berlin's second U-Bahn line from Spittelmarkt to Alexanderplatz. Architect Alfred Grenander planned a station featuring three tracks serving a branch-off toward eastbound Große Frankfurter Straße that was never built and in 1930 was replaced by the U5 line. Today the broad platform between the two tracks with its asymmetric row of pillars is evidence of the original intention.

The station was added in 1975 to the Berlin District Monument List. Between 1984 and 1986, the Karl-Marx-Stadt housing construction complex carried out a complex renovation in preparation for the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987. This substantial damage, which was still from war days, eliminated and transformed the station into an "experiential" museum. The billboards, which were not needed in GDR times, provided space for a total of 22 enamel panels from the Schilderwerk Beutha, which depict the development of Berlin's public transport system on the basis of the respective vehicles. In addition, the front part of the railcar 12 of the Schoeneberg Underground from 1910 was restored to its original state and placed in November 1985 at the northern end of the platform between the two stairs. The car was previously used for transfer trips (car number 710 008 formerly 359) between the two East Berlin subway lines, was retired in 1982 after an accident and should symbolize in its current position the entrance of a small profile train coming from the Frankfurter Allee. In 2020 a lift was scheduled to be installed at the northern end of the platform, leaving the future of the car uncertain. However, as of 2024 the car remains in the station and has been resituated at the southern end of the platform.


Märkisches Museum is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U2 in the Mitte district. Since 1935 it has been named after the nearby Märkisches Museum, the municipal museum of the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg.

Design
In the course of the extension of the then so-called Spittelmarktlinie as a center line to Alexanderplatz was the station island bridge in the immediate vicinity of the bank in the subsequent route to crossing the Spree, which is why it was buried six and a half meters below the street level, unusually deep for that time.

Thanks to its deep location, Alfred Grenander, as an architect, was able to equip the station with a large and spacious hall and a wicker arch vault. Because of this unusual construction in Berlin, the station was often associated with those of the Paris Métro. In the Berlin subway network, only the subway stations Märkisches Museum and Platz der Luftbrücke. have such a columnless construction.

The central platform is 121.3 meters long and 7.6 meters wide; The hall is 5.2 meters high at its highest point.

For the station, as well as for the station Leipziger Platz, Grenander chose the color code green, because its color scheme for this distance provided for a regular repetition of the colors. The station, which has a small mezzanine floor at each end, received a 121.3 meters long and 7.6 meters wide central platform.

After lengthy construction work, the elevated railway company started operation on 1 July 1913 on the 1.7 kilometer Spittelmarkt - Alexanderplatz line.


U2 is a line of the Berlin U-Bahn. The U2 line starts at Pankow S-Bahn station, runs through the eastern city centre (Alexanderplatz) to Potsdamer Platz, the western city centre (Wittenbergplatz, Zoologischer Garten, Theodor-Heuss Platz) and finally to the Ruhleben terminal station.

The U2 has 29 stations and a length of 20.7 kilometers (12.9 mi). Together with the U1, U3, and U4 lines, it was part of the early Berlin U-Bahn network built before 1914. The line between Potsdamer Platz and Zoologischer Garten was the western section of the "stem line" (Stammstrecke), Berlin's first U-Bahn line opened in 1902.