| Berlin Zoologischer Garten | |||||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | de | ||||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||||
| Symbol2: | s | ||||||||||
| Symbol3: | u | ||||||||||
| Symbol Location: | de | ||||||||||
| Symbol Location2: | berlin | ||||||||||
| Symbol Location3: | berlin | ||||||||||
| Type: | Bf | ||||||||||
| Address: | Hardenbergplatz 10623 Berlin | ||||||||||
| Borough: | Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin | ||||||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||||||
| Owned: | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||
| Operator: | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||
| Structure: | Elevated (S-Bahn, RE, RB) Underground (U-Bahn) | ||||||||||
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| Zone: | Berlin A/5555[1] | ||||||||||
| Opened: | 7 February 1882 | ||||||||||
| Passengers: | 100,000 per day[2] | ||||||||||
| Website: | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
| Map Type: | Berlin | ||||||||||
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| Services Collapsible: | yes | ||||||||||
Berlin Zoologischer Garten station (German: Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten, colloquially Bahnhof Zoo, pronounced as /de/) 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.
The station building overlooks the Hardenbergplatz square, Berlin's largest city bus terminal and night bus service centre, named after Prussian prime minister Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822). It is also used by long-distance buses/coaches; however, Berlin's central intercity bus terminal, the Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof Berlin (ZOB), is located on Messedamm in Westend, not far from the Funkturm.
Zoologischer Garten is also a Berlin U-Bahn station and S-Bahn station, serving U-Bahn lines U2 and U9, and S-Bahn lines S3, S5, S7, and S9.
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 underground. With a view to the 1936 Summer Olympics, the station was rebuilt and expanded between 1934 and 1940.
On the night of 23 and 24 November 1943, the track area was directly hit by bombs, and further damage accumulated during the Battle of Berlin.
After the final closure of the Anhalter Bahnhof in 1952, Bahnhof Zoo remained the only long-distance railway station operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany within West Berlin. On 28 August 1961, two weeks after the erection of the Berlin Wall, the new U-Bahn line U9 was opened below the U2, connecting the station with the transport network in the north-south direction.[3] 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 lost its importance following the launching of the new Berlin Hauptbahnhof on 28 May 2006, because long-distance services began passing through the station without stopping. An exception was the famous Sibirjak, which departed from Bahnhof Zoo for the Novosibirsk Trans-Siberian railway station until 2013.
The station is served by the following services:[4]
| Line | Route (main stops) | |
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| Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Spandau – Köln – Bonn | ||
| Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin-Wannsee – Potsdam – Magdeburg – Hannover – Gütersloh – Dortmund – Düsseldorf – Mainz – Stuttgart – Augsburg – München | ||
| Flughafen-ExpressBerlin-Charlottenburg – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Friedrichstraße – Berlin Alexanderplatz – Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Ostkreuz – Flughafen BER | ||
| Harz-Berlin-Express – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Potsdam – Magdeburg – (train split) – – Thale / Wernigerode – | ||
| Magdeburg – Brandenburg – Potsdam – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Erkner – Fürstenwalde – Frankfurt (Oder) (– Cottbus) | ||
| Wismar – Schwerin – Wittenberge – Nauen – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Königs Wusterhausen – Lübben – Cottbus | ||
| Dessau – Bad Belzig – Michendorf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Brandenburg Airport – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt – – | ||
| – Schwerin – – Nauen – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostkreuz – | ||
| – Potsdam – – Berlin-Wannsee – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport | ||
| Spandau – Westkreuz – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Karlshorst – Köpenick – Erkner | ||
| Westkreuz – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Lichtenberg – Strausberg Nord | ||
| Potsdam – Wannsee – Westkreuz – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Lichtenberg – Ahrensfelde | ||
| Spandau – Westkreuz – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Hauptbahnhof – Alexanderplatz – Ostbahnhof – Schöneweide – Berlin Brandenburg Airport |