Kottbusser Tor (Berlin U-Bahn)

Kottbusser Tor is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on lines U1, U3, and U8. Many Berliners use the affectionate term Kotti.
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 recently become quite rare in most other parts of the district. 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 westwards to allow both lines to meet in one location, and the original station was demolished. 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.