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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 ...
station located in the district. Since 12 December 2004 it is served by the line.


History

The station, designed by Alfred Grenander, came into service on 22 December 1929 as the centre of the modernist '
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, built between 1926 and 1932 by architects
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, Hugo Häring, and others. Two
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s and a small cinema were added in 1932. The name of the area was influenced by ''
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'', the 1852 anti-slavery novel by
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, translated into German as ''Onkel Toms Hütte'' in the same year. In 1885 a local landlord named Thomas opened a public house at the southern rim of the forest and installed several small huts in his
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to shelter his guests from the rain. These huts, referred to as "Tom's Cabins", reminded many of the name of the famous book. Over the years the estate, the station, the cinema and the ' ("Uncle Tom Street") took on the name as well. The pub was demolished in 1979.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996)


In popular culture

* station is the location of some key scenes in the 2017
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''.


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U3 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Buildings and structures in Steglitz-Zehlendorf Railway stations in Germany opened in 1929 {{Berlin-UBahn-stub