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Hallesches Tor
View of the station from Hallesches-Tor-Brücke
General information
Location	Hallesches Ufer/Hallesches-Tor-Brücke Kreuzberg,Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°29′52″N13°23′28″E / 52.49778°N 13.39111°E /52.49778; 13.39111
Owned by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Operated by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Platforms	2side platforms (U1/U3) 1island platform (U6)
Tracks	4
Connections	: 248, N1, N42 : M41
Construction
Structure type	Elevated (U1/U3) Underground (U6)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	: Berlin A/5555[1]
History
Opened	18 February 1902; 123 years ago (1902-02-18) (U1/3 level) 30 January 1923; 102 years ago (1923-01-30) (U6 level)
Services
Preceding station Berlin U-Bahn Following station Möckernbrücke towardsUhlandstraße U1 Prinzenstraße towardsWarschauer Straße Möckernbrücke towardsKrumme Lanke U3 Kochstraße towardsAlt-Tegel U6 Mehringdamm towardsAlt-Mariendorf
Route map U1/U3 station Prinzenstraße Möckernbrücke U6 station Kochstraße Mehringdamm
Location Hallesches Tor Location within Berlin

Hallesches Tor is aBerlin U-Bahn station in the centralKreuzberg quarter, served by linesU1,U3, andU6. It is named after the historicHallsches Tor (Halle Gate) of theBerlin Customs Wall, erected in the 18th century.

The historic gate of the Customs Wall, laid out from 1737 onwards to replace the medieval city fortifications, marked the southern tip of theFriedrichstadt neighbourhood. It was located at the southern end ofFriedrichstraße and theRondell (renamedBelle-Alliance-Platz in 1815 andMehringplatz in 1946). Neighbouring gates were onPotsdamer Platz in the west and onWassertorplatz (Water Gate) in the east, where the present course of the U1 viaduct roughly corresponds to the former city wall. South of the gate, a wooden bridge led across theLandwehr Canal; from here the road ran viaTempelhof to the city of Halle, part ofBrandenburg-Prussia since 1680. The present-day stone bridge was built between 1874 and 1876.

The U1 and U3 platforms, on anelevated railway at the northern banks of the Landwehr Canal, opened on 18 February 1902 with Berlin's first U-Bahn line (Stammstrecke) fromStralauer Tor toPotsdamer Platz. The underground U6 (thenLinie C) platform was finished on 30 January 1923, linked by a pedestrian tunnel. Even today, changing from one platform to the other is (for Berlin) quite a long distance.^[2]

The station was severely damaged by thebombing of Berlin in World War II; both parts of the station had to be shut down due to numerous bombing hits and electricity shortage in April 1945. U-Bahn service at the underground platform already resumed on 4 July 1945; a provisional upper platform opened in October. The viaduct was rebuilt by 1949, and the lower platform was elongated and refurbished in 1976.

TheAmerika-Gedenkbibliothek on Blücherplatz and theJewish Museum Berlin with its 1999 extension designed byDaniel Libeskind are nearby.

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  U6 platform

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