Französische Straße (Berlin U-Bahn)

Französische Straße was a Berlin U-Bahn underground station on the U6 line located under the street Friedrichstraße in central Berlin.

This station was built by Grenander/Fehse/Jennen and opened in 1923. In 1945 it closed for a few months; it was closed in 1961 at the start of the (1961–1990) Cold War, becoming a ghost station; the underground trains of the West Berlin BVG passed the island platform in East Berlin slowly without stopping. In 1990, after the Berlin Wall fell, the station reopened. In 1995, the platform had to be lengthened by 25 m (82 ft) to accommodate the longer six-car trains. It closed permanently in 2020, becoming the only former partition-related ghost station in Berlin to have closed a second time.