Frankfurter Tor is a station on

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line in

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. It is situated under

Frankfurter Tor The Frankfurter Tor ("Frankfurt Gate") is a large square in the inner-city Friedrichshain locality of Berlin. It is situated in the centre of the district, at the intersection of Karl-Marx-Allee and Frankfurter Allee (the eastbound federal highwa ...

, a large square.

History

Built in 1930 and designed by the architect

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 Gre ...

and originally named Petersburger Straße. The Allied forces bombed the station on 21 December 1940, and on the 3 February 1945, destroying the station's interior fixtures. From April to June 1945, Line E was disrupted. On 16 June 1945,

Nikolai Berzarin Nikolai Erastovich Berzarin (Russian: Никола́й Эра́стович Берза́рин; 1 April 1904 – 16 June 1945) was a Soviet officer in the Red Army during the Stalinist era and the Second World War. In 1945 he became the first tow ...

was the first Russian commander of Berlin, so the station was renamed to Bersarinstraße in 1946, and in 1958, it was later renamed to Bersarinstraße (Frankfurter Tor), and then just renamed to Frankfurter Tor. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and Communism, it was renamed to Rathaus Friedrichshain in 1991. In 1996, it was originally thought to be named Frankfurter Tor for their plans, but in the end, it was renamed to Petersburger Straße. To repair the damage inflicted by the World War II, it was closed from September to December 2003, and all the bullet holes were removed. Finally, on 20 February 2006, it was renamed to Frankfurter Tor. In future, there are plans for U1 to be extended to Frankfurter Tor, but because it duplicates the tram route M10, there is also a possibility of extending U1 to Ostkreuz after the refurbishment in 2015.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996)

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