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Messe Nord/ZOB   | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Station building on Neue Kantstraße | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf,Berlin,Berlin Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°30′28″N13°17′01″E / 52.5077°N 13.2835°E /52.5077; 13.2835 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Line | Berlin Ringbahn | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 6840[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | BMN[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8089110 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 4[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone |  : Berlin A/5555[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Closed | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Messe Nord/ICC (Witzleben) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Messe Nord/ZOB is astation in theCharlottenburg district ofBerlin. It is located on theRingbahn circle line, served byS-Bahn linesS41/S42 andS46. It is linked to theKaiserdammU-Bahn station on lineU2 via a short footpath.
On 15 December 2024, the new name of the station was changed fromMesse Nord/ICC (Witzleben).[4][5]
The station is located on the border with theWestend locality, very close to theMesse Berlin exhibition grounds and theInternational Congress Centrum (ICC) and theZentraler Omnibusbahnhof Berlin (ZOB Berlin), which lend the station its name. Here the Ringbahn railway line runs in-between thecarriageways of the parallelBundesautobahn 100 (Stadtring) and can be reached from road and pedestrian bridges in the south and north.
The station is a listed monument of the State of Berlin. The monument protection covers the S-Bahn platform, built in its current form between 1913 and 1916, and the northern and southern entrance buildings.
TheCharlottenburg U-Bahn line toReichskanzlerplatz was extended in 1908 and passed under the Ringbahn at theKaiserdamm bridge. A station was built on the Ringbahn over three years to enable interchange between the U-Bahn and the Ringbahn and opened to traffic as Witzleben on 1 April 1916. It was named after a former Charlottenburg manor to its east, which had been purchased by thePrussian general and ministerJob von Witzleben in 1823. The station layout consisted of two symmetrically arranged island platforms, at the north and south end of which are two almost identical entrance buildings. The eastern platform was used for trains to and from the Stadtbahn, while the Ringbahn services stopped at the western one. The only track connecting the two lines was at the subsequentWestend station. In operational terms, Witzleben was considered aHaltepunkt (halt) on two parallel lines.
In 1944, operations on the connecting curve toCharlottenburg station and thus to the Stadtbahn were stopped due tobomb damage and did not restart after the Second World War. As a result, the Stadtbahn platform was no longer used and fell into disrepair. The Ringbahn platform, however, was still served. Due to the increasing separation of the city into two halves and ultimately the separation of the S-Bahn networks as well, the number of passengers decreased rapidly. The station was temporarily closed during theBerlin S-Bahn strike in 1980.
The station was reactivated when the Ringbahn reopened on 17 December 1993. The roof of the Ringbahn platform was repaired even before the plans for the recommissioning were finalised. It was also rebuilt to be more passenger-friendly and widened a little. Since then, thestructure gauge of the S-Bahn trains has extended almost to the old Stadtbahn platform. To prevent unfamiliar passengers from getting off on the wrong side, warning signs and fences were installed on the platform that is no longer used. The unused staircase was demolished in mid-2015.[6]
