Uhlandstraße is the western terminus station of line U1 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 is located on

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 ...

in the central

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quarter of

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, among a mix of chain and high end shopping facilities.

History

The station opened on 12 October 1913 at the intersection of Kurfürstendamm and Uhlandstraße, named after the poet

Ludwig Uhland Johann Ludwig Uhland (26 April 1787 – 13 November 1862) was a German poet, philologist, literary historian, lawyer and politician. Biography He was born in Tübingen, Württemberg, and studied jurisprudence at the university there, b ...

. Built according to plans designed by Alfred Grenander, it was meant to be the first section of a projected metro line connecting

Wittenbergplatz Wittenbergplatz is a square in the central Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany. One of the main plazas in the " City West" area, it is known for the large '' Kaufhaus des Westens'' (KaDeWe) department store on its southwestern side. It was l ...

with

Berlin-Halensee station Halensee is a railway station, station on the Berlin Ringbahn in the Halensee (former Wilmersdorf) district of Berlin. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn lines , and . Position It is located at the prosaic western end of the Kurfürstend ...

which was never built. Damaged by the

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, the station was closed briefly in 1945; it went out of service again for four years in 1957, because of the construction of the neighbouring

station. From 1970, trains only went to Wittenbergplatz station (, length) but since 1993 trains have run to Warschauer Straße station again.J. Meyer-Kronthaler, ''Berlins U-Bahnhöfe'', Berlin: be.bra, 1996 The second entrance at the eastern end of the station, at the junction of Kurfürstendamm and Fasanenstraße, was closed in 1964, but re-opened in 2005. Today, the area is somewhat reminiscent of the period of promoterism (''

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'') and the ''

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'' days of the 1950s. Quiet, green roads with mostly expensive flats make the area one of the most desirable but unaffordable in Berlin, comparable for instance to the area between

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and

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References

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