Berlin Messe Nord/ICC station

Geschichte

Messe Nord/ICC is a station in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. It is located on the Ringbahn circle line, served by the S-Bahn lines / and. It is linked to the U-Bahn station of Kaiserdamm via a short footpath.OverviewIt is located on the border with the Westend locality, very close to the Messe Berlin fairgrounds and the International Congress Centrum, which lend the station its name. Here the Ringbahn railway line runs in-between the carriageways of the parallel Bundesautobahn 100 (Stadtring) and can be reached from road and pedestrian bridges in the south and north.Originally opened on 1 April 1916 as Witzleben, the station was named after a former Charlottenburg manor in the east, which had been purchased by the Prussian general and minister Job von Witzleben in 1823. It then comprised two parallel railway platforms, the eastern one served by Stadtbahn trains running to Westend station in the north. The rail connection to the east-west Stadtbahn line was demolished by Allied bombing in 1944 and not restored, whereafter the second platform fell into disuse.