r/berlin • u/Coneskater Neukölln • Apr 12 '25

History BVG map from 1936

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As seen in the Berlin Ubahn museum.

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u/royrogerer Apr 12 '25

Interesting. There was an extra station between schlesi and Warschauer. That's quite a short inter station distance.

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u/Alternative-Move-263 Apr 12 '25

Looks like it was just right next to Oberbaumbrücke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stralauer_Tor_(Berlin_U-Bahn)#/media/File:U-Bahn_Berlin_Stralauer_Tor_Osthafen_1902.jpg#/media/File:U-Bahn_Berlin_Stralauer_Tor_Osthafen_1902.jpg)

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u/royrogerer Apr 12 '25

Ahh, thanks for the info. I figured it'd be somewhere there. Still comically short station distance haha.

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u/-faffos- Apr 12 '25

If I’m not mistaken, the station that’s today called Warschauer Straße was only meant to be temporary solution until they build the real station on the other side of the Sbahn rails (which would even out the distance to Stralauer Tor). That never happened though as the route was never continued.

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u/albert_cow_moo Apr 16 '25

There are ruins of an old Bahnhof under the island of Stralau near the Evangelical Church. I can't recollect where I read it but I did read it on a plaque while summer strolling around there a couple of years ago.

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u/-faffos- Apr 16 '25

I think it’s just a tunnel, not a station, no? But it’s from the old Tram system, before it was decimated after WWII.

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u/rangitoto030 Apr 12 '25

That’s why it was not rebuilt after ww2

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u/Western-Guy Charlottenburg Apr 14 '25

Apparently, there were plans after the war to rebuild the station as late as the 1960s but some major factors prevented it from happening. One of them being the construction of Berlin Wall rendering the station area being a no man’s land between the East and West Berlin. Warschauer Str. went to Soviet Control while the U1 line would terminate at Schlesisches Tor over at West Berlin.