History Heinrich-Heine-Straße (Berlin U-Bahn)
köpenicker straße entrance , landmark building
the station lies @ 1 , half depth because under buildings. many berlin u-bahn stations, has island platform , entrances @ both ends, north , south. stairways; station has no lift. 1 of 2 northern entrances incorporated building on corner of köpenicker straße, offices , flats above. building protected architectural landmark. other northern entrance , southern entrance, @ corner of schmidstraße, formerly incorporated buildings, 1 of models being entrances london underground stations; neanderstraße unusually narrow , line first use in berlin of entrances set buildings. other buildings destroyed in world war ii , stairs have since led directly street.
following fall of berlin, u-bahn closed @ end of april 1945. service resumed @ neanderstraße on 3 june year. mitte within soviet zone became east berlin; station renamed heinrich-heine-straße on 31 august 1960 following decision berlin magistrat on 22 july rename street. after construction of berlin wall year later, on 13 august 1961, u-bahn trains on lines c , d (u6 , u8) no longer stopped in east berlin , heinrich-heine-straße became 1 of ghost stations. entrances blocked , stairwell enclosures removed no longer visible. use did not resume until german reunification 30 years later, on 1 july 1990. east berlin u-bahn stairway enclosures built in 1990 entrances street. because of long closure, station retains of original appearance: 3 platform kiosks, direction indicators, nameplates (black white lettering on line; grenander believed made them easier read), wooden poster frames, , wrought iron exit gates.
the sage club, berlin dance club, has operated since 1997 in disused station mezzanine level in köpenicker straße building.
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