Berlin Brandenburger Tor (in German ''Bahnhof Berlin Brandenburger Tor'') – formerly Berlin Unter den Linden (1936-2009) – is an underground

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 Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

in the central

Mitte Mitte () is the first and most central borough of Berlin. The borough consists of six sub-entities: Mitte proper, Gesundbrunnen, Hansaviertel, Moabit, Tiergarten and Wedding. It is one of the two boroughs (the other being Friedrichshain-Kre ...

district 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 constitu ...

, Germany, located on the

Unter den Linden Unter den Linden (, "under the linden trees") is a boulevard in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Running from the City Palace to Brandenburg Gate, it is named after the linden (lime in England and Ireland, not rela ...

boulevard near

Hotel Adlon The Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin is a luxury hotel in Berlin, Germany. It is on Unter den Linden, the main boulevard in the central Mitte district, at the corner with Pariser Platz, directly opposite the Brandenburg Gate. The original Hotel Adlo ...

Pariser Platz Pariser Platz ( en, Paris Square) is a square in the historic center of Berlin, Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of the Unter den Linden. The square is named after the French capital of Paris to commemorate the anti-Napoleon A ...

and

Brandenburg Gate The Brandenburg Gate (german: Brandenburger Tor ) is an 18th-century Neoclassical architecture, neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the orders of Prussian king Frederick William II of Prussia, Frederick William II after Prussian invasion ...

. It is served by 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-, Ri ...

and

U-Bahn Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and fourteen S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn commonly understood to stand for Untergrundbahn (''underground railway'') are conventional rapid transit systems that run mostly underground, while ...

, as well as local bus lines.

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The station opened on 27 July 1936 in the course of the building of the ''Nord-Süd Bahn'' tunnel. Train service discontinued on 21 April 1945 and could not be resumed until 2 December 1946 as the tunnel was flooded. The station was again closed with the construction of the

Berlin Wall 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 gover ...

on 13 August 1961 and for decades became one of Berlin's

ghost station A ghost station is a disused train station through which revenue-service passenger trains (especially rapid transit trains) pass but at which they do not stop. The term is also sometimes used for any unused underground station or any unused ...

s, as while both terminals of the ''Nord-Süd'' railway line were located in

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

, the station itself was located in the

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. Unter den Linden later reopened on 1 September 1990, following the

German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

. On completion of the new U55 line 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 tra ...

from

Berlin Hauptbahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof () (English: Berlin Central Station) is the main railway station in Berlin, Germany. It came into full operation two days after a ceremonial opening on 26 May 2006. It is located on the site of the historic Lehrter Bahnhof, ...

, the U-bahn station started operations as its temporary southern terminus and as an interchange with the ''Nord Süd'' S-Bahn lines. Both the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn station were renamed ''Brandenburger Tor'' in 2009 to distinguish them from

U-Bahn station at the junction of Unter den Linden with the

Friedrichstraße The Friedrichstraße () (lit. ''Frederick Street'') is a major culture and shopping street in central Berlin, forming the core of the Friedrichstadt neighborhood and giving the name to Berlin Friedrichstraße station. It runs from the northern pa ...

.PDF Map of Brandenburger Tor station
( BVG official website) The U5 line through the station to the east opened on 4 December 2020.

Gallery

File:Berlin Brandenburger Tor (Unter den Linden) SBahn.jpg, ''Unter den Linden'' station sign in 2007 File:Bahnhof Berlin-Brandenburger Tor.jpg, View of the S-Bahn station File:U55 Brandenburger Tor 2009-08-10 1.jpg, Platform of the U-Bahn station (U5) File:Brandenburger Tor U-bahn - empty track.JPG, U-Bahn station - empty track to Alexanderplatz (December 2011) File:Flickr - IngolfBLN - Berlin - S-Bahnhof Brandenburger Tor (43).jpg, Signboards with new and old station names (S-Bahn)

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Station information
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandenburger Tor Berlin S-Bahn stations U5 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Railway stations located underground in Berlin Berlin U-Bahn stations located underground Buildings and structures in Mitte Berlin Brandenburger Tor

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