Schlesisches Tor (Berlin U-Bahn)

Schlesisches Tor
General information
Location	Schlesisches Tor Kreuzberg
Owned by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Operated by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Train operators	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Connections	Template:Bmti Template:Bmti Template:Bmti 165 265
Other information
Fare zone	VBB: Berlin A/5555
History
Opened	18 February 1902 (1902-02-18)
Services
Preceding station   BVG   Following station Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations   Arrangement 1961-1995   Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Terminus   Arrangement 1902-1945   Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations Template:BVG lines Template:BVG stations toward Template:BVG stations
Location Schlesisches Tor Location within Berlin

U-Bahn station Schlesisches Tor (February 2008)

U-Bahn station Schlesisches Tor, about 1911

Schlesisches Tor is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the Template:BVG lines and Template:BVG lines lines.

Overview

The platform level of the station, in 1984

It is located in eastern Kreuzberg, near Oberbaumbrücke, in the Bohemian quarter commonly known as SO36 (named after its former postal code). The station is named after one of the former city gates of Berlin built in the early 18th century; the road that ran through it led southeastward to the province of Silesia.

The exceptionally richly designed station opened on 18 February 1902, on the first Berlin U-Bahn line erected by the Siemens & Halske company (the Stammstrecke). On 11/12 March 1945, this station was directly hit, and the track area was severely damaged. During the division of Berlin after 13 August 1961, the station was the eastern terminus of the U1, as the final station, Warschauer Straße, was in East Berlin. The link was reopened in 1995. An intermediate station at the Spree river, Stralauer Tor, had been destroyed in 1945 and never reopened.

Schlesisches Tor was an atmospheric location in the 1966 espionage film The Quiller Memorandum starring George Segal and Alec Guinness.