Attilastraße station is on the

Berlin–Dresden railway The Berlin–Dresden railway is a double track, electrified main line railway in the States of Germany, German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony, which was originally built and operated by the ''Berlin-Dresden Railway Company'' (''Berlin- ...

in the district of

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in the

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borough of

Tempelhof-Schöneberg Tempelhof-Schöneberg () is the seventh borough of Berlin, formed in 2001 by merging the former boroughs of Tempelhof and Schöneberg. Situated in the south of the city it shares borders with the boroughs of Mitte and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in ...

. It is served by

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line S2. It was opened in 1895 under the name of ''Mariendorf'' and electrified in 1939. It was renamed ''Attilastraße'' in 1992.

Location

It was originally in the municipality of

Mariendorf Mariendorf () is a locality in the southern Tempelhof-Schöneberg borough of Berlin. Geography Mariendorf is situated between the localities of Tempelhof in the north and Marienfelde and Lichtenrade in the south. To the west it shares a border ...

and it is located almost two kilometres northwest of the centre of Mariendorf. In 1920, Mariendorf and the area around the station were incorporated into Berlin. The Südende locality to the west of the station became part of the district of

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. The boundary between the districts of Mariendorf and Steglitz ran immediately to the west of the station. Since 1938, the station has not been in Mariendorf, but instead in the locality of

in the district of the same name, which is now part of the district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg.

History

The station was built at the intersection of the Berlin–Dresden Railway with the road from

Lankwitz Lankwitz () is a German locality (''Ortsteil'') within the borough (''Bezirk'') of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin. Until 2001 it was part of the former borough of Steglitz. History The locality was first mentioned in 1239 with the name of ''Lancovi ...

to Tempelhof. It replaced the ''Südende B. D.'' station (the acronym stood for Berlin and Dresden and distinguished it from the

Südende station Südende station is on the Anhalt Suburban Line in the former villa estate (''Villenkolonie'') of Südende in the suburb of Steglitz in the Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. It is served by S-Bahn line S25 and S-Bahn line S26. Its entranc ...

on the Anhalt Railway), which was built in 1875. The original facilities were considered very basic. In the northern part of the station, there was a set of points connecting the single track from Berlin to the double-track line towards

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. At the same time the track of the

Prussian military railway The Royal Prussian Military Railway (German: ''Königlich Preußische Militär-Eisenbahn''), also called the ''Königliche Militär-Eisenbahn'' (Royal Military Railway, KME), was a Prussian state railway, operated by the army, between Schöneberg ...

ran past the station but did not connect with it. The station was rebuilt in its current layout in 1910–1914 after the raising of the track above ground level. The suburban tracks were electrified in 1939. The bridge over the

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was destroyed by German troops in 1945. After the war, the bridge was replaced by a temporary wooden bridge, which burned down in the summer of 1947. For several weeks, passengers had to stop at a temporary platform on the south bank of the canal and walk to Mariendorf station.

Infrastructure

The station is built in the style of early

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and consists of an island platform located on an embankment with an entrance at the south end of the platform. The ticket hall is built on the abutment of the bridge over Attilastraße (street). In the station area, a track that is used for freight runs to the east of the S-Bahn tracks. It connects with the S-Bahn track the south of the platform. The former facilities on the platform were replaced in 1979 by a new service area on the staircase. Work began in December 2013 to build a lift to provide the station with barrier-free access. It was scheduled to be opened in July 2014 but it actually opened in September 2014.

Connections

The station is served by S-Bahn line S2. There are interchanges with bus routes 184 and 282 operated by the

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