Johannes Vollmer drew the first station, built in 1878 as part of the Berlin Stadtbahn, which was officially opened on February 7, 1882. The 1919 to 1925 steel-truss, double-arched train shed has large glass fronts, and the article names no architect for it. The northern entry halls are in an expressionist style, faced in dark tiles.
The U-Bahn station was finished in 1923, and the underground S-Bahn station opened on July 27, 1936. The middle wooden roof section was replaced with glass from 1985 to 1987. A renovation from 1995 to 1999 cost 220 million Deutschmarks.
During the Cold War the station was in East Berlin but served West Berlin trains and worked as a border crossing, with the Tränenpalast building handling westbound crossings. Deutsche Bahn owns it, and it is open around the clock.
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