Berlin Westhafen station

Berlin Westhafen
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Westhafen S-Bahn station
General information
Other names	Westhafen ( only)
Location	An der Putlitzbrücke Moabit Moabit, Mitte, Berlin Germany
Line(s)	Ringbahn (Template:ÖPNV Berlin, Template:ÖPNV Berlin) Template:ÖPNV Berlin
Construction
Architect	: Bruno Grimmek
Other information
Station code	7760
DS100 code	BWF
Category	4
Fare zone	Berlin A
History
Opened	Ringbahn: 1 October 1898 (1898-10-01) : 28 August 1961 (1961-08-28) reopened: 19 December 1999 (1999-12-19)
Closed	strike: 18 September 1980, officially 28 September 1980 (1980-09-28)
Electrified	1 February 1929 (1929-02-01)
Previous names	1898-1992 Putlitzstraße
Location Berlin Westhafen Location within Berlin

Berlin Westhafen is a station in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines Template:SBB lines and Template:SBB lines and the U-Bahn line Template:BVG lines.

Overview

Westhafen U-Bahn station

The S-Bahn station was opened in 1898 under the name Putlitzstraße, which is the street on which the station lies. Despite sustaining damage during the Second World War, the station remained in service. The U-Bahn station was opened on 28 August 1961, soon after the building of the Berlin Wall and also with the name Putlitzstraße, although no direct interchange with the S-Bahn station existed. In 1980 the S-Bahn station lost its service owing to cessation of services on the Western part of the Ringbahn (circle line).

After the Wall fell, S-Bahn services were gradually reinstated. In 1992, the U-Bahn station was renamed Westhafen after a nearby port and on its reopening on 19 December 1999, the S-Bahn station also assumed this name. Once one of the least-frequented U-Bahn stations on the network, the whole complex has now won a significance as an interchange between S-Bahn and U-Bahn. In the year 2000, the station was redesigned by artists Françoise Schein and Barbara Reiter: they installed the 1948 text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, juxtaposed with quotes of Heinrich Heine in German and French language.

External links

• Westhafen station artist project