Berlin-Schöneberg (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Schöneberg) is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

in the district of

Schöneberg Schöneberg () is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempelh ...

, in the city 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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. It is a two-level exchange station serving the

Wannseebahn The Wannsee Railway (german: Wannseebahn) is a suburban railway in Berlin running from Potsdamer Platz via the Ring line station of Schöneberg to Wannsee station on Großer Wannsee, a lake after which it is named. Today it is a section of the B ...

suburban and the

Ringbahn The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) is a long circle route around Berlin's inner city area, on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Its course is made up of a double-tracked S-Bahn ring and a parallel freight ring. The S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 prov ...

circular lines of the

Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It has been in operation under this name since December 1930, having been previously called the special tariff area ''Berliner Stadt-, Ring ...

, with the lower level serving the ''Wannseebahn'' and the upper level the ''Ringbahn''. The station lies just south of the ''Dominicusstraße'' and ''Sachsendamm'' streets, where local bus stops allow changing between S-Bahn and busses. The ''Schöneberg'' station was opened on 1 March 1933 as a two-level exchange station between the

suburban line and the

Berlin Ringbahn The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) is a long circle route around Berlin's inner city area, on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Its course is made up of a double-tracked S-Bahn ring and a parallel freight ring. The S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 pro ...

circular railway, in the course of the electrification of the ''Wannseebahn'' suburban line. Its ''Ringbahn'' level replaced the older ''Ebersstraße'' station on the ''Ringbahn'', which was located slightly further west. The entry of the closed station was kept as entry to the western end of the ''Ringbahn'' platform of the new exchange station. The closure of the ''Ebersstraße'' station gave room for the building of the new

Berlin Innsbrucker Platz station Berlin Innsbrucker Platz is a railway station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin and located on the square of the same name. It is served by the Ringbahn lines , and of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is also the terminus of the U-Bahn line . Histo ...

, opened on 1 July 1933, further west, on the ''Schloßstraße'' - ''Hauptstraße'' - ''Potsdamer Straße'' thoroughfare, with direct connection to the Schöneberg underground U-Bahn. With the opening of this new ''Schöneberg'' station, the old ''Schöneberg'' station which was located just north of the bridge which is now called ''Julius-Leber-Brücke'' was renamed to ''Kolonnenstraße''; close to the site of the

Berlin Julius-Leber-Brücke station Julius-Leber-Brücke is a railway station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin. Located under a bridge over the cutting created for the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway. It was officially opened on 2 May 2008 and is served by the S-Bahn line . ...

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Berlin S-Bahn stations Buildings and structures in Tempelhof-Schöneberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1933 {{Berlin-railstation-stub