Line U5 at the underground station Brandenburger Tor

by Silva Wischeropp

This, urban, photographic architecture shot in the Berlin district Mitte at the underground station Brandenburger Tor was taken with my Nikon.

Brandenburger Tor station is a transfer station between the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn in the Mitte district of Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. It consists of a stop on the North-South S-Bahn (from 1936 to 2009: Unter den Linden), which opened in 1936, and the Brandenburg Gate underground station on the U5 underground line, which opened in 2009.

Between 13 August 1961 and 1 September 1990, no trains stopped at the platform, as it was assigned to the western subnetwork, like the entire North-South S-Bahn tunnel. In contrast to the other stops of the north-south S-Bahn, the entrances were filled in, covered with pavement slabs and thus removed almost without a trace. The north-western access was kept accessible and camouflaged with an aluminium post house. For the reopening of the access point, the entrances on the north side were uncovered by 1 September 1990, the south-western entrance four weeks later. The entrance in front of what is now the Russian Embassy remained closed until 1998.
Since the opening of the former underground line U55 on 8 August 2009, the station has been called Brandenburg Gate, like the neighbouring underground station, because the continuation of the underground line already provided for a new station Unter den Linden at a different location, thus avoiding confusion.
Initially, the old name was still visible on the walls and platform buildings for reasons of monument protection. In mid-December 2009, it was covered on the tunnel walls with signs bearing the new name.