Mohrenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)
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Mohrenstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U2 line in the district Berlin-Mitte. It was originally called Kaiserhof and lay adjacent to the Wilhelmplatz ("William Square"). When East Berlin fell under communist administration after the Second World War the Wilhelmplatz, and the station, were renamed on 18 August 1950 to Thälmannplatz, for Ernst Thälmann. When Berlin was divided by the Berlin Wall, the station served as the terminus of the East Berlin section of the line; when the Thälmannplatz was built over in the 1980s, on 15 April 1986, the station was renamed Otto-Grotewohl-Straße for Otto Grotewohl.
The station was renamed Mohrenstraße on 3 October 1991, following German reunification. The line was reconnected to the West Berlin section in 1993, forming the present U2.
The marble interior of the station comes from stones that were once lined the interior of Adolf Hitler's Reich Chancellery, located nearby. Other marble stones from the Chancellery were used to construct the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park.
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