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 rebuilt 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.
Urban Legend tell that the red marble used in the 1950 redesign of the station are re-used marble cladding from the interior of Adolf Hitler's Reich Chancellery. No proof of this can be presented. In the 19th of August 1950, Neues Deutschland and Berliner Zeitung reported that the marble was delivered from Thüringen. [1]
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- ^ Hans-Ernst Mittig: Marmor der Reichskanzlei. In: Dieter Bingen / Hans-Martin Hinz (Hrsg.): Die Schleifung / Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau historischer Bauten in Deutschland und Polen. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05096-9.
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toward Ruhleben
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toward Pankow
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