Deutsche Oper is a
station of the
Berlin U-Bahn located in the
Charlottenburg district on the line. It is named after the
Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Overview
The station opened on May 14, 1906 under the name
Bismarckstraße in the course of the first western extension of the 1902
Stammstrecke route, which originally ran from
Warschauer Brücke (today
Warschauer Straße) to
Knie (today:
Ernst-Reuter-Platz). At the same time the station
Wilhelmplatz (today:
Richard-Wagner-Platz) was put in operation as the western terminus. The architect
Alfred Grenander had designed Germany's first U-Bahn station with four tracks, in consideration of the future branch-off to
Reichskanzlerplatz (today:
Theodor-Heuss-Platz) in
Westend that went into service on March 29, 1908.
The station was renamed
Städtische Oper on August 1, 1929,
Deutsches Opernhaus on August 16, 1934 and received its current name on September 22, 1961. The original section between
Deutsche Oper and
Richard-Wagner-Platz was finally closed on May 1, 1970 and replaced by the
U7 line at the new
Bismarckstraße station on April 28, 1978, leaving the two central tracks unused.
On July 8, 2000 during the
Love Parade a fire broke out at
Deutsche Oper, injuring 21, destroying an U-Bahn train and severely demolishing the station. As the only exits were at the western end of the platforms, passengers had to flee in the tunnel. In consequence the......
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