View from Bornholmer Straße station to the Berlin TV tower by Silva Wischeropp

About "View from Bornholmer Straße station to the Berlin TV tower"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

View from the Bösebrücke at the Bornholmer-Strasse S-Bahn station to the Berlin TV Tower across the rail area to Alexanderplatz.

Bornholmer Strasse station is an S-Bahn station in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin's Pankow district. It is located on the Berlin Northern Railway and the Szczecin Railway as well as a connecting line to the Schönhauser Allee station on the Berlin Ring Railway. Passengers enter it via both pavements of the Bösebrücke. The station is used by about 60,000 travellers daily.
The station was closed when the Berlin Wall was built on 13 August 1961. A wire mesh fence marked the sector border running directly along the western track. From then on, West Berlin train traffic in the direction of Frohnau and Heiligensee was only handled via the tracks on the western platform A, with trains not stopping. Originally, the idea was to keep the station open for West Berlin passengers, as was the case at Wollankstraße station, which was also located on East Berlin territory. This did not happen and the station was not used. In a broader sense, it is counted among the "ghost stations".
Train traffic from Schönhauser Allee in the direction of Bernau and, from 1961, Oranienburg, took place via the 1952 connecting curve, which had been relaid as a double track from August to December 1961 and separated from the mainline tracks; in the process, the two tracks in the immediate border area were accompanied by an additional wall in 1984.
The Berlin vernacular called this connection "Ulbrichtkurve".
At the eastern end of the Bösebrücke, the GDR had established the Bornholmer Straße border crossing, which became the site of the opening of the Wall on 9 November 1989. After German reunification, platform A was reopened on 22 December 1990.