Uhlandstraße is the western terminus station of line U1 of the

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 ...

. It is located on

Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially ''Ku'damm'', ; en, Prince Elector Embankment) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former ''Kurfürsten'' (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevar ...

in the central

Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Prussia, it is best known for Charlottenburg Palace, the ...

quarter of

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, among a mix of chain and high end shopping facilities.

History

The station opened on 12 October 1913 at the intersection of Kurfürstendamm and Uhlandstraße, named after the poet

Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist and literary historian. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, but also took an interest in ...

. Built according to plans designed by

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, it was meant to be the first section of a projected metro line connecting

Wittenbergplatz Wittenbergplatz is a square in the central Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany. One of the main plazas in the "City West" area, it is known for the large ''Kaufhaus des Westens'' (KaDeWe) department store on its southwestern side. It was la ...

with

Berlin-Halensee station Halensee is a station in the Halensee (former Wilmersdorf) district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , and . Position It is located at the prosaic western end of the Kurfürstendamm, one of Berlin's most famous and important bouleva ...

which was never built. Damaged by the

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, the station was closed briefly in 1945; it went out of service again for four years in 1957, because of the construction of the neighbouring

station. From 1970, trains only went to Wittenbergplatz station (, length) but since 1993 trains have run to Warschauer Straße station again.J. Meyer-Kronthaler, ''Berlins U-Bahnhöfe'', Berlin: be.bra, 1996 The second entrance at the eastern end of the station, at the junction of Kurfürstendamm and Fasanenstraße, was closed in 1964, but re-opened in 2005. Today, the area is somewhat reminiscent of the period of promoterism (''

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'') and the ''

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'' days of the 1950s. Quiet, green roads with mostly expensive flats make the area one of the most desirable but unaffordable in Berlin, comparable for instance to the area between

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and

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References

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