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Bismarckstraße  | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Bismarckstraße/Wilmersdorfer Straße Charlottenburg,Berlin Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°30′41″N13°18′17″E / 52.51139°N 13.30472°E /52.51139; 13.30472 | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe | |||||||||||||||
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| Tracks | 4 (2 on each level) | |||||||||||||||
| Connections |  : N2, N7 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone |  : Berlin A/5555[1] | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 28 April 1978; 47 years ago (1978-04-28) | |||||||||||||||
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Bismarckstraße is aBerlin U-Bahnstation on linesU2 andU7, located in theCharlottenburg district. It was opened in 1978 on the eponymous street, a majorarterial road named afterOtto von Bismarck.
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At the time when the first U-Bahn line (Stammstrecke) opened in 1902, the road was laid out in a lavishboulevard style as the western continuation of Charlottenburger Chaussee (nowStraße des 17. Juni) and part of a direct connection between the Berlin city centre atBrandenburg Gate to the western suburbs of Charlottenburg andSpandau alongKaiserdamm andHeerstraße. On 14 December 1902,Knie station opened at present-dayErnst-Reuter-Platz; the western extension to Bismarckstraße (nowDeutsche Oper) and the Wilhelmplatz (nowRichard-Wagner-Platz) terminus nearCharlottenburg Town Hall was inaugurated on 14 May 1906.
On 29 March 1908, the western continuation of the present-day U2 to Reichskanzlerplatz (nowTheodor-Heuss-Platz) inWestend was opened. It branched off atBismarckstraße, which remained the original name of present-day Deutsche Oper station until 1929. Today's Bismarckstraße station, located about 380 m (1,250 ft) to the west, was not built along the U2 until the 1970s, when the construction of the new U7 line fromFehrbelliner Platz to Richard-Wagner-Platz (formerly Wilhelmplatz) required a two-level station at the intersection.
The old tunnel at the site was completely rebuilt as areinforced concrete construction, with the new U7 tunnel running under it in a north-south direction. The station was opened with the new U7 section on 28 April 1978.
Bismarckstraße station is currently undergoing an overall refurbishment.
