Kurfürstendamm is an underground station on lines U1 and U9 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 opened on 28 August 1961, when the first section of the U9 between Spichernstraße and Leopoldplatz was inaugurated. As there had originally been no stop on the U1 where it now crossed the U9, the line received an additional station here. It lies in eastern

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 ...

at the intersection of

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 ...

and Joachimstaler Straße, south of the Berlin Zoological Garden and its adjoining railway station. At the intersection above the station is the

Café Kranzler Café Kranzler is a famous coffeehouse in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1834 on the Unter den Linden boulevard in the central Mitte district, its Western branch on Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg became an icon of West Berlin after World War II. ...

, successor of the ''Café des Westens'', a famous venue for artists and bohémiens of the pre–World War I era, as well as the

Swissôtel Berlin The Swissôtel Berlin was a luxury hotel in Berlin, Germany. The hotel overlooked the crossing of the ''Kurfürstendamm'' shopping avenue with ''Joachimstaler Straße'', in the city's Charlottenburg quarter. Both the Zoo railway station and Kur ...

. The well-known Kurfürstendamm (or Ku'damm) boulevard is the most important

upscale shopping In economics, a luxury good (or upmarket good) is a good for which demand increases more than what is proportional as income rises, so that expenditures on the good become a greater proportion of overall spending. Luxury goods are in contrast to n ...

district in Berlin. Next to the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche'' (

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (in German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, but mostly just known as Gedächtniskirche ) is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a reg ...

) on

Breitscheidplatz Breitscheidplatz () is a major public square in the inner city of Berlin, Germany. Together with the Kurfürstendamm boulevard, it marks the centre of former West Berlin and the present-day City West. It is named after Rudolf Breitscheid. Locat ...

, which was shattered during the air raids in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, a new church was built.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996)

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U1 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations U9 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Berlin U-Bahn stations located underground Buildings and structures in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Railway stations in Germany opened in 1961 {{Berlin-railstation-stub