U Westhafen U-Bahn Underground railway station serves U9 Line, Moabit,Mitte, Berlin The subway station, on what was then the Line G
U Westhafen U-Bahn Underground railway station serves U9 Line, Moabit,Mitte, Berlin The subway station, on what was then the Line G, opened on August 28, 1961, a few weeks after the Wall was built. It was called Putlitzstraße and the architect, Bruno Grimmek, designed the 110-meter-long platform with no access to the S-Bahn station. The connection to the S-Bahn platform was created in 1975. The underground station was renamed Westhafen in 1992 and it was redesigned in 2000 by Françoise Schein and Barbara Reiter as part of the ‘INSCRIRE - writing human rights’ project. The white tiled walls display quotations from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The same concept was used for stations in Paris (Concorde station), Brussels, Stockholm and Lisbon. There are Heinrich Heine quotes in German and French in the entrance. Elevators were installed when the station was renovated.
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Location: U ,Mitte,Berlin,Germany
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