Alt-Tempelhof (Berlin U-Bahn)

The extension of Line C of the Berlin U-Bahn (today called U6) through the centre of Tempelhof to Mariendorf was already planned before World War II, and was begun in the late 1930s.

[1][2] However, because of World War II, postwar money problems, and a serious fire in the turnaround in August 1945 which damaged the tunnel, the work suspended in 1941 was not resumed and construction of the stations did not begin until 1961.

[3] It was possible to make use of the tunnels dug some twenty years previously, but not without modifications, because the Alt-Tempelhof station had originally been planned to be further south, near the Tempelhof town hall.

[4][5] Like all the extension stations, it has a centre platform and exits at each end and is utilitarian in appearance.

The Alt-Tempelhof station has grey-green tiles on the walls and brick cladding on the platform columns.