Berlin Olympiastadion station

Olympiastadion
Bf
Location Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
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Station code 7731
DS100 codeBOLS
Category4

Olympiastadion is a railway station in the Westend district of Berlin. Located at the southern entrance of the Olympic Stadium, it is served by the S-Bahn line S5. The station consists of one island platform which is in regular use, as well as four further terminal island platforms which are only used for the extra trains during major events.

Olympiastadion station: platforms

The station opened in 1909 on the Westbahn suburban railway north of the Grunewald forest. It was then called Rennbahn after a horse racing circuit at the site of the today's stadium. Like the nearby U-Bahn station it received the name Stadion in 1913, when the Deutsches Stadion, projected for the 1916 Summer Olympics, was inaugurated. After Berlin was awarded the 1936 Summer Olympics the station was again renamed Reichssportfeld until it got its actual designation in 1960, spelled without a hyphen in contrast to the Olympia-Stadion U-Bahn station. Adjacent to the south is the Berlin Unité d'Habitation, erected in 1958 according to plans by Le Corbusier.

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Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
toward Spandau
S5

Coordinates: 52°30′42″N 13°14′33″E / 52.5117°N 13.2424°E / 52.5117; 13.2424


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