Neue Grottkauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn)
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Neue Grottkauer Straße is an underground railway station in the German capital city of Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

. This 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 is located on the .

The station opened in July 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...

. The eastern extension of (what is now) line U5 was one of the last major construction projects of the former German Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

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Planned name of the station was Kaulsdorf-Nordost, when it opened the station's name was however Heinz-Hoffmann-Str. (general of the GDR army). 1991 it got the name Grottkauer Strasse, then in 1996 it got the actual name.
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