The shadow man at the S-Bahn station in East Berlin by Silva Wischeropp

About "The shadow man at the S-Bahn station in East Berlin"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This urban cityscape was taken on 3 July 2014 in the late evening hours with the NIKON D90 camera (lens: SIGMA 18.0-50.0 mm f/2.8).
Berlin Storkower Straße station is a station on the Ringbahn railway line in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S41, S42, S8 and S85. The station was opened under the name Zentralviehhof (initially spelt Central-Viehhof). It is equipped with lifts and is therefore considered barrier-free.
The station was opened on 4 May 1881. Prior to this, the ring railway had been extended to four tracks on the site of the newly built central cattle and abattoir from 1876. With the first conversion in 1903, a subway and side platforms were built, which were replaced by a centre platform in 1929. It is still the only ring station without a roof. The S-Bahn has been running here since 1 February 1929.

The centre platform was originally connected to the slaughterhouse site to the south by a tunnel.
In 1937, work began on the construction of Berlin's longest pedestrian bridge, which was to connect the residential area in Eldenaer Straße in Friedrichshain with the S-Bahn. The bridge was completed in 1939 and was initially 420 metres long; it was also popularly nicknamed the "Langer Jammer". The footpath ran seven metres above the abattoir site. The personnel tunnel was only used for official purposes by the slaughterhouse employees.
The cattle yard was partially decommissioned as early as 1976 and completely decommissioned after 1990. Residential buildings were later built on the site. In 2002, a 300 metre long section of the bridge was demolished after a new public access to the bridge was built on the former abattoir site on the south-west side of the station. The southernmost end of the bridge on Eldenaer Straße, which had become obsolete, remained standing for several years for reasons of monument protection and was demolished in 2006.