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Mehringdamm (Berlin U-Bahn)
Mehringdamm is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the and the . History Opened in 1924 as Belle-Alliance Straße it was built by Grenander and later renovated by Rümmler. The station's ceiling collapsed during the Battle of Berlin. In 1946 the station was renamed Franz-Mehring-Straße, after the socialist politician. In 1947, the station received its current name Mehringdamm The Mehringdamm is a street in southern Kreuzberg, Berlin. In the north it starts at Mehringbrücke and ends - with its southernmost houses already belonging to Tempelhof locality - on Platz der Luftbrücke. It is the historical southbound Berlin- .... Following renovations in 1965, passengers could transfer from the U6 to the U7 on the same platform.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996) References External links U6 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations U7 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Berlin U-Bahn stations located underground Buildings and structures in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg R ...
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Kreuzberg
Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990 it has become more gentrified and known for its arts scene. The borough is known for its large percentage of immigrants and descendants of immigrants, many of whom are of Turkish ancestry. As of 2006, 31.6% of Kreuzberg's inhabitants did not have German citizenship. Kreuzberg is noted for its diverse cultural life and experimental alternative lifestyles, and is an attractive area for many, however, some parts of the district are still characterized by higher levels of unemployment. The counterculture tradition of Kreuzberg led to a plurality of votes for the Green Party, which is unique among all Berlin boroughs. Geography Layout Kreuzberg is bounded by the river Spree in the east. The Landwehrkanal flows through Kreuzberg from east to ...
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Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
The (German: 'Berlin Transport Company') is the main public transport company of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It manages the city's underground railway, tram, bus, replacement services (, EV) and ferry networks, but not the urban rail system. The generally used abbreviation, BVG, has been retained from the company's original name, (Berlin Transportation Stock Company). Subsequently, the company was renamed . During the division of Berlin, the BVG was split between BVG ( in West Berlin) and BVB ( in East Berlin, also known as the , BVB). After reunification, the current formal name was adopted. History The was formed in 1928, by the merger of the (the operator of the city's buses), the (the operator of the U-Bahn) and the (the operator of the city's trams). On 1 January 1938, the company was renamed , but the acronym BVG was retained. From 1 August 1949, the BVG networks in West Berlin and East Berlin were operated separately. The two operators were origina ...
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Island Platforms
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on twin-track routes due to pragmatic and cost reasons. They are also useful within larger stations where local and express services for the same direction of travel can be provided from opposite sides of the same platform thereby simplifying transfers between the two tracks. An alternative arrangement is to position side platforms on either side of the tracks. The historical use of island platforms depends greatly upon the location. In the United Kingdom the use of island platforms is relatively common when the railway line is in a cutting or raised on an embankment, as this makes it easier to provide access to the platform without walking across the tracks. Advantages and tradeoffs Island platforms are necessary for any station with many th ...
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Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg
The Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (VBB) is a transport association run by public transport providers in the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg. It is a private limited company owned jointly by the states of Berlin and Brandenburg (with one third each) and the 18 counties and cities of Brandenburg with 1.85% each. It was founded on 30 December 1996. VBB claims to be one of the largest transport associations in Europe based on the area covered of 30,367 km² with nearly 6 million inhabitants. Common ticketing was launched on 1 April 1999. The 2005 number of passengers transported was 1.23 billion, with 3.37 million passengers per day. Lines in the VBB Many lines are operated under the VBB fare structure. This includes all local traffic in Berlin, such as the Berlin S-Bahn and Berlin U-Bahn, as well as all regional train services, most of them RegionalExpress and RegionalBahn lines. There are also several trolleybus and ferry lines within the VBB area. The number o ...
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Berlin U-Bahn
The Berlin U-Bahn (; short for , "underground railway") is a rapid transit system in Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany, and a major part of the city's public transport system. Together with the S-Bahn, a network of suburban train lines, and a tram network that operates mostly in the eastern parts of the city, it serves as the main means of transport in the capital. Opened in 1902, the serves 175 stations spread across nine lines, with a total track length of , about 80% of which is underground. Trains run every two to five minutes during peak hours, every five minutes for the rest of the day and every ten minutes in the evening. Over the course of a year, U-Bahn trains travel , and carry over 400 million passengers. In 2017, 553.1 million passengers rode the U-Bahn. The entire system is maintained and operated by the , commonly known as the BVG. Designed to alleviate traffic flowing into and out of central Berlin, the U-Bahn was rapidly expanded until the city w ...
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List Of Berlin U-Bahn Stations
This is an alphabetical list of Berlin U-Bahn stations. Currently, there are 175 active stations. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z References {{Public transport in Berlin Railway stations (U-Bahn) Berlin U-Bahn stations, List of Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
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U-Bahn Berlin Mehringdamm 2
Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and fourteen S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn (''underground railway'') are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while the S-Bahn or Stadtschnellbahn (''city rapid railway'') are commuter rail services, that may run underground in the city center and have metro-like characteristics in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin which they only have to a lesser extent in other cities. There are also over a dozen premetro or Stadtbahn systems that are rapid transit in the city center and light rail outside. There are four U-Bahn systems, namely in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Nuremberg; these are all run by the transit authorities in the city. Some cities call their Stadtbahn "U-Bahn" (like Frankfurt) or abbreviate their Stadtbahn with a U. The confusing term "U-Stadtbahn" is also used on occasion and as "U-Bahn" is often seen as the more desirable term, common parlance and ...
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Battle Of Berlin
The Battle of Berlin, designated as the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was one of the last major offensives of the European theatre of World War II. After the Vistula–Oder Offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line east of Berlin. On 9 March, Germany established its defence plan for the city with Operation Clausewitz. The first defensive preparations at the outskirts of Berlin were made on 20 March, under the newly appointed commander of Army Group Vistula, General Gotthard Heinrici. When the Soviet offensive resumed on 16 April, two Soviet fronts (army groups) attacked Berlin from the east and south, while a third overran German forces positioned north of Berlin. Before the main battle in Berlin commenced, the Red Army encircled the city after successful battles of the Seelow Heights and Halbe. On 20 April 1945, Hitler's birthday, the 1st Belorussian Front ...
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Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring (27 February 1846 – 28 January 1919) was a German communist historian, literary critic, philosopher, and revolutionary socialist politician who was a senior member of the Spartacus League during the German Revolution of 1918–1919. Biography Early years Mehring was born 27 February 1846 in Schlawe, Pomerania, the son of a retired military officer and senior tax official. He studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate in 1882 with the dissertation: "The German social democracy, their history and their teaching". Political career Mehring worked for various daily and weekly newspapers and over many years wrote lead articles for the weekly magazine . He was initially a supporter of bourgeois-democratic ideas however after being acquainted with working-class leaders such as August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht Mehring gradually moved towards socialism. In 1868, Mehring moved to Berlin to study and worked in the e ...
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Mehringdamm
The Mehringdamm is a street in southern Kreuzberg, Berlin. In the north it starts at Mehringbrücke and ends - with its southernmost houses already belonging to Tempelhof locality - on Platz der Luftbrücke. It is the historical southbound Berlin-Halle highway, now forming the federal route 96. The main junction of Mehringdamm is with the 19th-century ring road around Berlin's inner city, named Yorckstraße west, and Gneisenaustraße east of Mehringdamm. History The highway from Cölln (since 1710 a part of Berlin) to Halle upon Saale and Leipzig traverses the quarter of Tempelhofer Vorstadt (Bezirksregion II of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) from north to south on a length of .''Baedekers Berlin-Kreuzberg: Bezirksführer'' (11977), Ostfildern/Kemnat and Munich: Baedeker, 21988, p. 37. . Before it was paved, horses and coaches going up the highway to the level of the Teltow Plateau, rising between Bergmannstraße and Fidicinstraße by ,Klaus-Dieter Wille, ''Spaziergän ...
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U6 (Berlin U-Bahn) Stations
U6 or U-6 may refer to: * German submarine ''U-6'', one of several German submarines * U6, a railway line on several German underground railway systems: ** U6 U-Bahn line, a line on the Berlin U-Bahn ** U6, a line on the Frankfurt U-Bahn ** U6, a line on the Munich U-Bahn **U6 (Vienna U-Bahn), of the Vienna U-Bahn system. * The IATA airline designator code for Ural Airlines * British NVC community U6, ''Juncus squarrosus'' – ''Festuca ovina'' grassland, one of the calcifugous grassland communities of the British National Vegetation Classification * ''Ultima VI'', a computer role-playing game * U6, a U.S. unemployment statistic - see Unemployment#United States Bureau of Labor statistics * U6 promoter, a gene playing an important role in the synthesis of shRNA *Haplogroup U6 *U6 spliceosomal RNA, a small nuclear RNA component of the spliceosome * US military designation for the DHC-2 Beaver aircraft *Miss Madison, an Unlimited Hydroplane boat that carries the American Power Bo ...
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