Frankfurter Allee is a

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 li ...

station located on the line.

History

The U-Bahn station was opened on 21 December 1930 and called Frankfurter Allee (Ringbahn). This whole of the section of the U5 line that was opened that day was developed by

Alfred Grenander Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander (26 June 1863 – 14 March 1931) was a Swedish architect, who became one of the most prominent engineers during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the early twentieth century. Biography Gr ...

.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996) On 8 May 1944, it was hit directly into the ceiling. Originally the station was red, however it was changed to orange in the restoration of the station in the 1980s. After a second restoration in the 2004 the red colour was restored with a new wall tiles. A lift was added between the platform and the level immediately under the street (leaving one flight of stairs to be navigated) and there is direct access from this level to the neighbouring Ring-Centre shopping centre.

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U5 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Berlin U-Bahn stations located underground Buildings and structures in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1930 {{Berlin-UBahn-stub