Oranienburger Tor 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 Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

located on the . It is located below the street. The station was designed 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 Gre ...

, built in 1915, and officially opened on 30 January 1923. Between April and June 1945, the station was closed because of war damage. It was also a ghost station during the

division of Berlin The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the governmen ...

. It was reopened on 1 July 1990, when the border crossings came down.

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Umgebungsplan der BVG

U6 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Berlin U-Bahn stations located underground Buildings and structures in Mitte Railway stations in Germany opened in 1923 {{Berlin-railstation-stub