Spittelmarkt
Spittelmarkt in 2011
General information
Location	Spittelmarkt Mitte,Berlin Germany
Coordinates	52°30′40″N13°24′13″E / 52.51111°N 13.40361°E /52.51111; 13.40361
Owned by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Operated by	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	: 200, 248, 265, N2, N42
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Bicycle facilities	Yes (Call a Bike, bicycle parking)
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	: Berlin A/5555[1]
History
Opened	1 October 1908; 117 years ago (1908-10-01)
Services
Preceding station Berlin U-Bahn Following station Hausvogteiplatz towardsRuhleben U2 Märkisches Museum towardsPankow
Route map Märkisches Museum Hausvogteiplatz
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Spittelmarkt is aBerlin U-Bahnstation on lineU2, located inMitte at the eastern end ofLeipziger Straße. Opened on October 1, 1908 as the end of a new section extending fromPotsdamer Platz, the underground station has a single island platform.

The station was opened on 1 October 1908, and was then the terminus of Berlin's second U-Bahn line, connecting it withPotsdamer Platz on the initialStammstrecke route. It is named after theSpittelmarkt square, former site of theSaint Gertrude hospital established about 1400. The nameSpittelmarkt is formed from a contraction of "hospital" (as also inSpitalfields, London) and the German word for "market". The station, designed byAlfred Grenander, was lavishly erected right beneath the banks of theSpree river, with daylight windows above the water's surface.

Spittelmarkt became a through station with the extension of the line toAlexanderplatz on 1 July 1913. In 1940 the windows were walled up as anair raid precaution. There was a direct bomb hit on the platform area on 3 February 1945. It was only by chance that the northern station wall was not destroyed. Since this wall is also the sea wall of the Spree, the inner-city tunnel system would have been flooded and would have disrupted the underground traffic in the long term.

In 1990, a major accident occurred when a train crashed into another stopped train. Fourteen people were injured. Spilled oil had covered the tracks, preventing the train from braking.^[2]

The station did not reopen until extensive reconstruction works started in 2003.

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