Vinetastraße

Vinetastraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station in the Pankow district, located on the . It was opened in 1930, and for decades was the northern terminus of the U2, until the line was extended to the Pankow S-Bahn station in 2000.

In 1913, the Hochbahngesellschaft, the private operating company of the Berlin Hoch- und Untergrundbahn, extended the section of the so-called "Centrum Line" from the Spittelmarkt on 1 July 1913 to Alexanderplatz and shortly thereafter to the Nordring station, today Schönhauser Allee, Although there was a connection to the tram in the direction of Pankow at Nordring station, the town of Pankow was not satisfied with it. Already in 1905, shortly after the opening of the elevated and underground railway, between Warsaw Bridge, Potsdamer Platz and Zoologischer Garten, it demanded a route to the center of Pankow. Nordring station itself was constructed above ground on a viaduct to compensate for the costs of the underground route at the Spittelmarkt and for the Spree tunnel near the Klosterstraße station. Passenger numbers at the intersection with the Ringbahn developed positively, so that in the timetable year 1929 the station was already with about nine million passengers in fifth place of the most visited Berlin underground stations. However, this became more and more of a problem, as the also above-ground sweeping system behind the Nordring station reached its capacity limit at a two-minute cycle. In addition, there was no possibility of weakening, i.e. extending and shortening the subways from eight to six cars or vice versa.

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