Berlin-Schöneberg (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Schöneberg) is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in the district of

Schöneberg Schöneberg () is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Te ...

, in the city of

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

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. It is a two-level exchange station serving the Wannseebahn suburban and the Ringbahn circular lines of the

Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system that services the reigon in and around Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It has been in operation under the name since December 1930, having been previously called the special tariff are ...

, with the lower level serving the ''Wannseebahn'' and the upper level the ''Ringbahn''. The station lies just south of the ''Dominicusstraße'' and ''Sachsendamm'' streets, where local bus stops allow changing between S-Bahn and busses. The ''Schöneberg'' station was opened on 1 March 1933 as a two-level exchange station between the Wannseebahn suburban line and the

Berlin Ringbahn The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) is a long circle route around Berlin's inner city area, on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Its course is made up of a pair of tracks used by S-Bahn trains and another parallel pair of tracks used by various ...

circular railway, in the course of the electrification of the ''Wannseebahn'' suburban line. Its ''Ringbahn'' level replaced the older ''Ebersstraße'' station on the ''Ringbahn'', which was located slightly further west. The entry of the closed station was kept as entry to the western end of the ''Ringbahn'' platform of the new exchange station. The closure of the ''Ebersstraße'' station gave room for the building of the new

Berlin Innsbrucker Platz station Berlin Innsbrucker Platz is a railway station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin and located on the square of the same name. It is served by the Berlin Ringbahn, Ringbahn lines , and of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is also the terminus of the Ber ...

, opened on 1 July 1933, further west, on the ''Schloßstraße'' - ''Hauptstraße'' - ''Potsdamer Straße'' thoroughfare, with direct connection to the Schöneberg underground U-Bahn. With the opening of this new ''Schöneberg'' station, the old ''Schöneberg'' station which was located just north of the bridge which is now called ''Julius-Leber-Brücke'' was renamed to ''Kolonnenstraße''; close to the site of the Berlin Julius-Leber-Brücke station.

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Berlin S-Bahn stations Buildings and structures in Tempelhof-Schöneberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1933 {{Berlin-railstation-stub