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 Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn, a network of ...

. 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 Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a German town law, town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Kingdom ...

at the intersection of

Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially , ; ) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevard can be considered the of Berlin and is lined with s ...

and Joachimsthaler Straße, south of the

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and its adjoining railway station. At the intersection above the station is the Café Kranzler, 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 well-known Kurfürstendamm (or Ku'damm) boulevard is the most important upscale shopping district in Berlin. Next to the ''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche'' ( Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) 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. ...

, which was shattered during the air raids in

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, a new church was built.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996) A scene of the film " Christiane F." was filmed at the station. It was then still called "Kurfürstendamm (Joachimstaler Straße)". The station bore that name until the end of the 1980s. The street Joachimsthaler Straße itself is named after the

Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German ''Joachimsthalsches'' or ''Joachimsthaler Gymnasium''), was a princely high school (German ''Fürstenschule'') for gifted boys, founded in 1607 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' Wa ...

and ultimately after the city of Joachimsthal. The street was named "Joachimsthaler Straße" until the end of the 1920s. From then until 2014, it was written without the "h", because of a spelling reform in 1901 after which the word "Tal" (valley; dale) was not written with an "h" anymore. Since the reform, however, did not affect place names, the city of Joachimsthal asked for renaming the street again in 2013.

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