Berlin Messe Nord/ICC station
Berlin Messe Nord/ICC (Witzleben) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Station building on Neue Kantstraße | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Berlin Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 52°30′28″N 13°17′01″E / 52.50778°N 13.28361°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | BMN | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | Berlin A | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Messe Nord/ICC (Witzleben) is a station in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. It is located on the Ringbahn circle line, served by the S-Bahn lines S 41/S 42 and S 46. It is linked to the U-Bahn station of Kaiserdamm (U2) via a short footpath.
Overview
It is located on the border with the Westend locality, very close to the Messe Berlin fairgrounds and the International Congress Centrum, which lend the station its name. Here the Ringbahn railway line runs in-between the carriageways of the parallel Bundesautobahn 100 (Stadtring) and can be reached from road and pedestrian bridges in the south and north.
Originally opened on 1 April 1916 as Witzleben, the station was named after a former Charlottenburg manor in the east, which had been purchased by the Prussian general and minister Job von Witzleben in 1823. It then comprised two parallel railway platforms, the eastern one served by Stadtbahn trains running to Westend station in the north. The rail connection to the east-west Stadtbahn line was demolished by Allied bombing in 1944 and not restored, whereafter the second platform fell into disuse.
After many years of declining passenger usage, the whole station went out of service when the Ringbahn route finally was closed down on 11 September 1980 by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn state railways. Not until German reunification, Witzleben Station was restored and then reopened along with the rest of the southern Ringbahn section and the Baumschulenweg–Neukölln link line between Westend and Baumschulenweg on 17 December 1993. It was given its current name in 2002, to assist visitors to the Messe institutions in their orientation.