Berlin Westhafen station

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Berlin Westhafen

Westhafen S-Bahn station
Operations
Category 4
Type Hp
DS100 code BWF
Station code 7760
Construction and location
Location Berlin
State Berlin
Country Germany
Local authority Mitte
An der Putlitzbrücke, Moabit
Route information
List of railway stations in the Berlin area

Berlin Westhafen is a station in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 and the U-Bahn line U9.

Overview

Westhafen U-Bahn station

The S-Bahn station was opened in 1897 under the name Putlitzstraße, which is the street on which the station lies. Despite sustaining damage during the Second World War, the station remained in service. The U-Bahn station was opened on 28 August 1961, soon after the building of the Berlin Wall and also with the name Putlitzstraße, although no direct interchange with the S-Bahn station existed. In 1980 the S-Bahn station lost its service owing to cessation of services on the Western part of the Ringbahn (circle line).

After the Wall fell, S-Bahn services were gradually reinstated. In 1992, the U-Bahn station was renamed Westhafen after a nearby port and on its reopening on 19 December 1999, the S-Bahn station also assumed this name. Once one of the least-frequented U-Bahn stations on the network, the whole complex has now won a significance as an interchange between S-Bahn and U-Bahn. In the year 2000, the station was redesigned by artists Françoise Schein and Barbara Reiter: they installed the 1948 text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, juxtaposed with quotes of Heinrich Heine in German and French language.

External links

Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
Beusselstraße
One-way operation
 S41
Wedding
toward Ringbahn (clockwise)
Wedding
One-way operation
 S42
Beusselstraße
toward Ringbahn (counter-clockwise)
Preceding station   Berlin U-Bahn   Following station
towards Rathaus Steglitz
 U9

Coordinates: 52°32′10″N 13°20′38″E / 52.536°N 13.344°E / 52.536; 13.344

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