Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station

Berlin Zoologischer Garten
Deutsche Bahn
Bf
Location Hardenbergplatz
10623 Berlin
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin
Germany
Coordinates 52°30′26″N 13°19′57″E / 52.50722°N 13.33250°E / 52.50722; 13.33250Coordinates: 52°30′26″N 13°19′57″E / 52.50722°N 13.33250°E / 52.50722; 13.33250
Line(s)
Platforms 6
Other information
Station code 0533
DS100 codeBZOO
Category2[1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 7 February 1882
Traffic
Passengers 100,000 per day[2]

Berlin Zoologischer Garten Station (German: Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten, colloquially Bahnhof Zoo) is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Berlin Stadtbahn railway line in the Charlottenburg district, adjacent to the Berlin Zoo.

During the division of the city, the station was the central transport facility of West Berlin, and thereafter for the western central area of reunified Berlin until the opening of Berlin Hauptbahnhof in 2006. It is also an interchange with the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn, which uses the Stadtbahn viaduct along with RegionalExpress and RegionalBahn trains.

Overview

The station building overlooks the Hardenbergplatz square, named after Prussian prime minister Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822), Berlin's largest city bus terminal and night bus service centre. It is also used by long-distance buses/coaches, however the "ZOB", Berlin's central intercity bus terminal, is located on Messedamm in Westend, not far from the Funkturm.

Zoologischer Garten is also a Berlin U-Bahn station and S-Bahn station located at the Berlin Zoologischer Garten terminal, serving the U-Bahn lines U2 and U9, as well as by the S-Bahn lines S5, S7, and S75.

History

Bahnhof Zoo about 1900

The original station served by Berlin Stadtbahn commuter trains opened on 7 February 1882. On 11 March 1902 the first Berlin U-Bahn line, today the U2, was opened under ground. With a view to the 1936 Summer Olympics, the station was rebuilt from 1934 to 1940, and the track installations were expanded. After the final closure of the Anhalter Bahnhof in 1952, Bahnhof Zoo remained the only long-distance train station within West Berlin, operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany. On 28 August 1961, two weeks after the erection of the Berlin Wall, the new U-Bahn Line 9 was opened below the U2, connecting the station with the transportation network in the north-south direction.[3]

A DR Class 01.5 leaves with a train for the West, 1973

The fact that with only two platforms and four tracks for long-distance trains the station was still the most important in West Berlin was another unnatural phenomenon of the divided city. After reunification, despite the outcry from nearby Kurfürstendamm retailers and local politicians, the station dramatically lost its importance following the launching of the new Berlin Hauptbahnhof on 28 May 2006, with long-distance services now passing through the station without stopping. An exception is the famous Sibirjak departing from Bahnhof Zoo for the Novosibirsk Trans-Siberian railway station. Periodically the EuroNight Paris-Berlin stops here.

Zoo Station in popular culture

U-Bahn Station (U2 platform)
U-Bahn station (U9 platform)

References

4.)(Hardenberg-Platz)-(Berlin-Charlottenburg)(translation in English maybe:(hardenberg-place) or.(hardenberg-squer), 5.)(busstop-centeal-station from (berlin-bus-(lines)-(bvg).

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "Hauptbahnhof bewährt sich". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 24 December 2006.
  3. J. Meyer-Kronthaler, Berlins U-Bahnhöfe, Berlin: be.bra, 1996

External links

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Wismar
RE 2
toward Cottbus
Preceding station   Berlin S-Bahn   Following station
toward Spandau
S5
toward Potsdam Hbf
S7
toward Ahrensfelde
toward Spandau
S75
toward Wartenberg
Preceding station   Berlin U-Bahn   Following station
towards Ruhleben
U2
towards Pankow
U9
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