Kottbusser Tor (Berlin U-Bahn)

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Kottbusser Tor ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on lines U1, U3, and U8. Many Berliners use the affectionate term Kotti ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; see Berlin dialect).

It is located in central Kreuzberg. The area has a bad reputation for the relatively high, mainly drug-related crime rate, instances of which have recentlyTemplate:When become quite rare in most other parts of the districtTemplate:Citation needed. The original Kottbusser Tor was a southern city gate of Berlin; the road through the gate led via the Neukölln suburb to the town of Cottbus.

History

The station on the first U-Bahn line from Potsdamer Platz to Stralauer Tor was opened on 18 February 1902 on a viaduct above Skalitzer Straße. When the U8 was built in 1926, a new two-level station was constructed Template:Convert westwards to allow both lines to meet in one location, and the original station was demolished.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The former site of the old side platform station is currently utilized by a pocket track.

On August 29, 1940, a bomb from a World War II raid struck the U8 subway tunnel but did not explode.