Gold-lettered signage reading “Brandenburger Tor” is set into a grid of dark, brushed metal panels on the platform wall of Berlin’s Brandenburger Tor station. The underground stop serves as an interchange between the U5 line and the north–south S‑Bahn in the city’s government quarter, steps from the Brandenburg Gate and Pariser Platz. The S‑Bahn station opened in 1936 as Unter den Linden, became a Cold War “ghost station” from 1961 to 1989, and was renamed Brandenburger Tor in 2009. The U‑Bahn platforms, opened in 2009 and fully integrated into the extended U5 in 2020, make the site a key public transit node for commuters and visitors to central Berlin.
Photo taken in September 2017. © 2026 Chad Davis
