Berlin Zoologischer Garten station explained

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)
Platforms:
  • 3 island platforms (Stadtbahn)
  • 2 side platforms (U2)
  • 1 island platform (U9)
Tracks:
  • 6 (Stadtbahn)
  • 4 (U-Bahn, 2 on each level)
Zone:

Berlin A/5555[1]

Opened:7 February 1882
Passengers:100,000 per day[2]
Website:www.bahnhof.de
Map Type:Berlin
Embedded:
Stroke-Colour:
  1. C60C30
Stroke-Width:3
Marker:rail-underground
Marker-Colour:
  1. 009D58
Zoom:15
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.

Overview

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.

History

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.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:[4]

LineRoute (main stops)
Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-SpandauKölnBonn
Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin-WannseePotsdamMagdeburgHannoverGüterslohDortmundDüsseldorfMainzStuttgartAugsburg – München
Flughafen-ExpressBerlin-CharlottenburgBerlin Zoologischer GartenBerlin HbfBerlin FriedrichstraßeBerlin AlexanderplatzBerlin OstbahnhofBerlin OstkreuzFlughafen BER
Harz-Berlin-Express
 – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Potsdam – Magdeburg –  (train split) –  – Thale / Wernigerode –
MagdeburgBrandenburgPotsdamBerlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – ErknerFürstenwaldeFrankfurt (Oder) (– Cottbus)
WismarSchwerinWittenbergeNauenBerlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Königs WusterhausenLübben – Cottbus
DessauBad BelzigMichendorfBerlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Brandenburg AirportWünsdorf-Waldstadt –  –
 – Schwerin –  – Nauen – Berlin-Spandau – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostkreuz –
 – Potsdam –  – Berlin-Wannsee – Berlin Zoologischer Garten – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Ostkreuz – BER Airport
SpandauWestkreuzBerlin Zoologischer Garten – HauptbahnhofAlexanderplatzOstbahnhofKarlshorstKöpenickErkner
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

In popular culture

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alle Zielorte . . 5 May 2021 . 61 . 1 January 2021 . 18 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210118201651/https://www.vbb.de/media/download/9983 . dead .
  2. News: Hauptbahnhof bewährt sich . . 24 December 2006 . de.
  3. J. Meyer-Kronthaler, Berlins U-Bahnhöfe, Berlin: be.bra, 1996
  4. http://kursbuch.bahn.de/hafas/kbview.exe/dn?st_name=Berlin+Zoologischer+Garten&st_filter=&cat_name=&searchmode=station&mainframe=result&orig=sS&dosearch=1&oblig_st=1&submitButton=Suche+starten Timetables for Berlin Zoologischer Garten station