Berlin Brandenburger Tor station

Not to be confused with the U-Bahn station Berlin Unter den Linden.
Berlin Brandenburger Tor
(Berlin Unter den Linden)
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Seats and sign with the new name Brandenburger Tor on the platform of the station of the S-Bahn note the old name on the wall
Location Mitte, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
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Station code 6340
DS100 codeBUDL
Category4

Berlin Brandenburger Tor (in German Bahnhof Berlin Brandenburger Tor) – formerly Berlin Unter den Linden – is an underground railway station in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, located on the Unter den Linden boulevard near Hotel Adlon, Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and U-Bahn, and local bus lines.

Overview

Historical station sign of 1936

The station opened on 27 July 1936 in the course of the building of the Nord-Süd Bahn tunnel. Train service discontinued on 21 April 1945 and could not be resumed until 2 December 1946 as the tunnel was flooded. The station was again closed with the construction of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 and for decades became one of Berlin's ghost stations, as both termini of the Nord-Süd railway line were located in West Berlin, the station itself however in the East. Unter den Linden reopened on 1 September 1990.

On completion of the new U55 line of the Berlin U-Bahn from Berlin Hauptbahnhof, the station started serving as its temporary southern terminus and as an interchange with the Nord Süd S-Bahn lines. Both the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn station have been renamed Brandenburger Tor in 2009 to distinguish them from a further planned U-Bahn station at the junction of Unter den Linden with the Friedrichstraße.[1]

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ PDF Map of Brandenburger Tor station (BVG official website)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to U-Bahnhof Brandenburger Tor (Berlin).

Media related to Berlin Unter den Linden station (Brandenburger Tor) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
toward Wannsee
S1
toward Oranienburg
toward Blankenfelde
S2
toward Bernau
toward Teltow Stadt
S25
toward Hennigsdorf
Preceding station   Berlin U-Bahn   Following station
towards Hauptbahnhof
U55Terminus

Coordinates: 52°30′59″N 13°22′51″E / 52.51639°N 13.38083°E