The underground station Kurfürstenstraße is part of the 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...

 network in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. It is on the U1. The station opened on October 24, 1926, and it is located in the borough Berlin Mitte

Mitte

Mitte is the first and most central borough of Berlin. It was created in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by the merger of the former districts of Mitte proper, Tiergarten and Wedding; the resulting borough retained the name Mitte. It is one of the two boroughs which comprises former West and...

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It lies a little north of Bülowstraße

Bülowstraße (Berlin U-Bahn)

Bülowstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the in the Schöneberg district. It opened in 1902 at the western branch of the Stammstrecke, Berlin's first U-Bahn line...

, the corresponding station on the U2, in the southeast corner of Tiergarten

Tiergarten

Tiergarten is a locality within the borough of Mitte, in central Berlin . Notable for the great and homonymous urban park, before German reunification, it was a part of West Berlin...

. The area has a rather seedy reputation, mainly due to prostitution. Potsdamer Straße is a major thoroughfare.