Frankfurter Allee | |
Native Name Lang: | de |
Symbol: | s-bahn |
Symbol2: | u-bahn |
Symbol Location: | berlin |
Type: | Through station |
Borough: | Berlin, Berlin |
Country: | Germany |
Coordinates: | 52.5142°N 13.4747°W |
Line: | Ringbahn (KBS 200.41, 200.42, 200.8, 200.85) |
Owned: | DB Netz |
Operator: | DB Station&Service |
Platforms: | 1 island platform |
Tracks: | 2 |
Connections: | |
Zone: | VBB Berlin A/5555[1] |
Opened: | |
Former: | 1872-1897 Friedrichsberg 1897-1949 Frankfurter Allee 1949-1961 Stalinallee |
Years: | 1890/1891 |
Events: | current building erected |
Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
Map Type: | Berlin#Germany#Europe |
Berlin Frankfurter Allee is a railway station situated on Frankfurter Allee in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, close to the district's border with Lichtenberg. It is served by the S-Bahn lines, (the ringbahn),, and the U-Bahn line .
The station was first opened on 1 May 1872 as Friedrichsberg. In 1890-91 the current station Frankfurter Allee was erected, in addition to the platform between the tracks, the station had a brick entrance building. When the U5 was built at the end of the 1920s, the old Ringbahn bridge was torn down and replaced with a wider bridge. There was intended to be a direct connection between the underground U5 station and the above ground S-bahn station;- however, this was never developed. It is not practical to build such a connection now as the S-bahn platform would need to be on the bridge over the road. As the rails are not wide apart enough to fit a platform between them, the bridge would need to be entirely rebuilt. The station was named Stalinallee between 1949 and 1961.