Kottbusser Tor is a Berlin U-Bahn

Berlin U-Bahn

The Berlin is a rapid transit railway in Berlin, the capital city of Germany, and is a major part of the public transport system of that city. Opened in 1902, the serves 173 stations spread across ten lines, with a total track length of , about 80% of which is underground...

 station located on the and . Many Berliners use the affectionate term Kotti.

It is located in central Kreuzberg

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. The area has a bad reputation for the relatively high, mainly drug-related crime

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 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

City gate

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 of Berlin

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; the road through the gate led via the Neukölln

Neukölln

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 suburb to the town of Cottbus

Cottbus

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.
The station on the first Berlin U-Bahn line from Potsdamer Platz

Berlin Potsdamer Platz railway station

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 to Stralauer Tor

Stralauer Tor (Berlin U-Bahn)

Stralauer Tor was a Berlin U-Bahn station in Berlin-Friedrichshain. As an elevated station built into the north-eastern part of the Oberbaumbrücke viaduct, it operated between Warschauer Straße and Schlesisches Tor stations on today's U1...

 was opened on February 18, 1902 on a viaduct

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above Skalitzer Straße. When in 1926 the U8 was built, the station was demolished and shifted about 100m westwards to make both lines meet within a new two-level station.