CROOKED LINE: THE OPENING OF U-BHF MORTIZPLATZ

Today in Berlin: April 6, 1928

On this day in 1928 in Berlin a new underground railway station on the line Gesundbrunnen-Neukölln (G-N Linie renamed Linie D) opened under a busy junction known as Moritzplatz in Kreuzberg.

Moritzplatz in 1929 with the department store and the entrances to the underground station visible on the plazas three edges (fourth one behind the bottom right corner).

Even though the new halt was perfectly functional and even designed by Peter Behrens, chief architect of the AEG, the choice of location for the U-Bahnhof is said to have raised some eyebrows.