Nürnberger Platz was a

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station on what is now the , located under the square of the same name in

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on the border with

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. The station opened on 12 October 1913 and was permanently closed on 1 June 1959. Hochbahn1914

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Nürnberger Platz was the first station south of

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 ...

on the Wilmersdorf-Dahlem U-Bahn, which was built branching off the original U-Bahn line, the ''Stammstrecke''. The stretch of line to Nürnberger Platz, and that station, fell within the borders of Charlottenburg and was paid for by the ''Hochbahngesellschaft'', the operators of the existing U-Bahn; the remainder of the line was paid for by Wilmersdorf, then a developing settlement independent of Berlin.Die Wilmersdorf-Dahlemer Schnellbahn Teil 1: Die Wilmersdorfer U-Bahn
, Berliner-Untergrundbahn.de The station was therefore designed by

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and resembled that at Uhlandstraße, built at about the same time. It had a centre platform with entrances at each end, oval station name plaques with green borders, and steel columns supporting the roof over the platform. However, the north entrance, like the rest of the extension, was designed by the Wilmersdorf architect Wilhelm Leitgebel, who gave it a stone enclosure in keeping with the prestige blocks of flats around the square. By the 1920s this had already been replaced by a simple steel structure. The area around the station was so severely damaged by World War II bombing that it was completely cleared on the 23/24 August 1943 and 28/29 January 1944. The station was repaired and returned to service, but when the G Line (today U9) was built in the 1950s, an interchange station was built at Spichernstraße, using the shunting and turnaround area of Nürnberger Platz, and the Nürnberger Platz station, only one or two hundred metres to the north,At Berliner-Untergrundbahn.de, Die Wilmersdorfer U-Bahn states "100 metres away"; however
U3 Spichernstraße
states "around 200 metres". closed the day before it opened on 2 June 1959. However, the 1100 m between Spichernstraße and Wittenbergplatz was judged to be too great a distance for city centre stations, so a new station, Augsburger Straße, was opened between them in 1961. Nothing remains of the Nürnberger Platz station; the site is now itself used for a shunting and turnaround area.

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Nürnberger Platz and surroundings on a 1932 Berlin street plan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nurnberger Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Disused Berlin U-Bahn stations Buildings and structures in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Railway stations in Germany opened in 1913 Railway stations closed in 1959