Kurfürstenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)

Metro Station Kurfürstenstrasse is a railway station of today's Berlin U -Bahn line U1 and is located on the border between the Berlin districts of Tiergarten (district center) and Schöneberg ( Tempelhof- Schöneberg) under the eponymous Kurfürstenstrasse. In the station list of the BVG, he is listed as Kus.

The adjacent stations are 520 meters ( Nollendorfplatz ) and 885 meters (track triangle) away.

History and Structure

The station was opened on 24 October 1926 as part of the so-called relief route that should take its time traffic of the busy western main line track between triangle and square Wittenberg. Its central platform is only by means of staircases, that is not wheelchair accessible. Outputs are located at both ends. When building was also built a tunnel under the Potsdam road to this pass under safely can.

During the renovation in the 1980s, the original gray -violet wall paneling has been replaced by tiles in colorful pastel shades.

Special

At the eastern station exit includes a ramp that rises through the backyards of some apartment blocks and finally through the second floor of a residential building (52 ° 29 ' 59 " N, 13 ° 22' 12" O52.49961666666713.370113888889 ) merges into a housed Road bridge before she the former goods station Potsdamer crosses on other bridges. On the way to the neighboring station track triangle as 19 meters height difference to be overcome.

Connection

The underground station provides a transfer possibility of the U1 line to the bus lines of the BVG.