
Krumme Lanke, literally “Crooked Lake“, is a
Berlin U-Bahn
The Berlin U-Bahn (; short for , "underground railway") is a rapid transit system in Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany, and a major part of the city's public transport system. Together with the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn, a network of ...
station
Station may refer to:
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on the . It is the line's southwestern terminus, located in the
Zehlendorf district of Berlin.
History
The station, named after a
nearby lake in the
Grunewald Grunewald is the name of both a locality and a forest in Germany:
* Grunewald (forest)
* Grunewald (locality)
Grünewald may refer to:
* Grünewald (surname)
* Grünewald, Germany, a municipality in Brandenburg, Germany
* Grünewald (Luxembourg), ...
forest, opened on 22 December 1929.
Alfred Grenander
Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander (26 June 1863 – 14 March 1931) was a Swedish architect, who became one of the most prominent engineers during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the early twentieth century.
Biography
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designed the entrance hall, which was demolished in 1986 because of its poor condition, but rebuilt in its original form and reopened in 1989.
On 24 May 1944, this station was directly hit by air raids five times.
Overview
Grenander's design of Krumme Lanke station was one of the influences that inspired
Charles Holden
Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 – 1 May 1960) was an English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadwa ...
in his buildings for a number of stations, notably Chiswick Park station, on the 1930-3 extension of the
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or as the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.
The Undergro ...
Piccadilly line
The Piccadilly line is a Deep level underground, deep-level London Underground line running between the west and the north of London. It has two western branches which split at Acton Town tube station, Acton Town and serves 53 stations. The li ...
.
The platform is below street level, though not underground. Plans to extend the U3 toward the
Berlin Mexikoplatz railway station, which is just away, have never been carried out.
References
U3 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations
Buildings and structures in Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1929
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