page_title: Berlin Messe Nord/ICC station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin Messe Nord/ICC station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Messe Nord/ICC railway station seen from the Berliner Funkturm. Deutsch: Bahnhof Messe Nord/ICC gesehen aus dem Berliner Funkturm
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: The  Charlottenburg U-Bahn line to Reichskanzlerplatz was extended in 1908 and passed under the Ringbahn at the Kaiserdamm bridge. A station was built on the Ringbahn over three years to enable interchange between the U-Bahn and the Ringbahn and opened to traffic as Witzleben on 1 April 1916. It was named after a former Charlottenburg manor to its east, which had been purchased by the Prussian general and minister Job von Witzleben in 1823. The station layout consisted of two symmetrically arranged island platforms, at the north and south end of which are two almost identical entrance buildings. The eastern platform was used for trains to and from the Stadtbahn, the Ringbahn services stopped at the western one. The only track connecting the two lines was at the subsequent Westend station. In operational terms, Witzleben was considered a Haltepunkt (halt) on two parallel lines.
  In 1944, operations on the connecting curve to Charlottenburg station and thus to the Stadtbahn was stopped due to bomb damage and did not restart after the Second World War. As a result, the Stadtbahn platform was no longer used and fell into disrepair. The Ringbahn platform however, was still served. Due to the increasing separation of the city into two halves and ultimately the separation of the S-Bahn networks as well, the number of passengers decreased rapidly. The station was temporarily closed during the Berlin S-Bahn strike in 1980.
  The station was reactivated when the Ringbahn reopened on 17 December 1993. The roof of the Ringbahn platform was repaired even before the plans for the recommissioning were finalised. It was also rebuilt to be more passenger-friendly and widened a little. Since then, the structure gauge of the S-Bahn trains has extended almost to the old Stadtbahn platform. To prevent unfamiliar passengers from getting off on the wrong side, warning signs and fences were installed on the platform that is no longer used. The unused staircase was demolished in mid-2015.
caption: Messe Nord/ICC station seen from the Funkturm
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