Prinzenstraße is a

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 ...

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on lines U1 and U3.

Overview

The station is located roughly where the eponymous street crosses the

Landwehrkanal The Landwehr Canal (), is a canal parallel to the Spree river in Berlin, Germany, built between 1845 and 1850 to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné. It connects the upper part of the Spree at the eastern harbour () in Friedrichshain with its lowe ...

Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Berlin-Mitte, Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in ...

. The nearby ''Böcklerpark'', a small park with a hall where music events are often held, and the ''Sommerbad Kreuzberg'' swimming pool, colloquially called ''Prinzenbad'', are among the most popular venues in central

. The street and subsequently the station were named after Prince William I, the later German Emperor. The station on the first U-Bahn line from

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Stralauer Tor Stralauer Tor (''Osthafen'' as of 1924) was a Berlin U-Bahn station in Berlin-Friedrichshain. It operated between Warschauer Straße and Schlesisches Tor stations on today's U1. Following its destruction in World War II it was never rebuilt a ...

was opened on 18 February 1902. Because the station is on a

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above the junction of ''Prinzenstraße'' and ''Gitschiner Straße'', a street level entrance hall could only be erected on its south side on the grounds of a gas plant, while the stairs to the northern platform had to be included in the opposite residential building. Destroyed in

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on 28/29 January 1944 and 3 February 1945, the station was rebuilt in the 1950s. It later received new entrance halls in a hotly disputed

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style, in 1984J. Meyer-Kronthaler, ''Berlins U-Bahnhöfe'', Berlin: be.bra, 1996 for the north wing and 1991 for the south wing. Inside, a preserved detail of the old station is found at the northern platform, a small sculpture of a frog with a crown and a ball, alluding to the Frog Prince fairy tale.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Prinzenstrasse (Berlin U-Bahn) U1 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations U3 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Buildings and structures in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1902