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The Potsdamer Platz is located in the district center and provides a transport hub between the districts of Mitte and Tiergarten. The square is in the form of a double Bay in the east on the Leipziger Platz. The Potsdamer Platz is located between the original East city center and the new West Berlin. the construction of the Berlin Customs Wall In the 18th century the Potsdam Gate was built, originated the Berlin-Potsdamer Chaussee as Prussian State Road. It was later renamed the Potsdamer Straße and the west of the Potsdamer Gate Park location in 1831 called Potsdamer Platz.<
Until after the Second World War was one of the Potsdamer Platz to the busiest squares in Europe. Here were the Potsdam train station, several tram and bus lines and the metro station. In 1924 one of the first traffic lights in Europe was built here, which can be found to this day there. The space provided at the beginning of the 20th century also a popular meeting place for the cultural and political scene in Berlin. It is the attraction of Berlin.
After the end of World War II bordered the place to the British, Soviet and American sectors, forming a triangle in divided Berlin. From 1961, the Berlin Wall ran well in the area of Potsdamer Platz, so that the area then remained until the fall of the wall virtually unused as urban brownfields. A few days after November 9, 1989 Here a piece of the Berlin Wall has been broken and a temporary border crossing point between East and West Berlin was.