Hotel and Institute

The Berolina Airport Hotel (Address:  Radickestr. 76, D-12489 Berlin-Adlershof) is situated near the city train (S-) station "S Adlershof" (approx. 2 min. walk) and can be seen from the train platform (see the surrounding map).
To reach the Johann-von-Neumann-Haus (Address: Rudower Chaussee 25, D-12489 Berlin-Adlershof) you should walk under the bridge near the S-station and then along Rudower Chaussee (approx. 15 min). The Johann-von-Neumann-Haus is on the left side. Alternatively you can take the bus 164 till the stop "Magnusstr." The Johann-von-Neumann-Haus is then on the opposite side of the road.
To reach the guest house of the Humboldt-University (Address: Ziegelstr. 13, D-10117 Berlin-Mitte) you get off at the station "S+U Friedrichstr." (city trains and underground lines has a stop here), walk over the bridge and turn right at the first street after the bridge (it will be Ziegelstr.). The guest house is at the crossing Ziegelstr./Tucholskystr. at the right side. Use the surrounding map.
All the airports and stations are marked on the scheme of S- and U-Lines. (The scheme of S- and U-Lines changes very often, several times per year. If you use a printed version, make you sure that you use the actual one.) Below you will find some more detailed explanations.

Fig. 1. From the platform, use the exit "Adlergestell"


Fig. 2. The buidling of the Berolina Airport Hotel (the view from the exit of the station)
Fig. 3. Johann-von-Neumann-Haus (Institute of Mathematics and Institute of Informatics)

How to reach the station S Adlershof

... if you come by train

... to Berlin Zoologischer Garten or Berlin Ostbahnhof

... to Berlin Flughafen Schönefeld

... to Berlin Lichtenberg

Take the S-line S9, direction "Schönefeld Flughafen". It is the end station of the lines S45 and S9, take any of them. Take first any S-Line direction West (i.e. direction Ostkreuz, Warschauer str., Ostbahnhof, Alexanderplatz etc.) and change at the station "Ostkreuz" to the S-line S8 direction "Grunau" or "Zeuthen".

... if you come by plane

... to the Tegel airport (TXL)

... to the Schönefeld airport (SXF)

... to the Tempelehof airport (THF)
Take the bus line 128, go till the station "U Kurt-Schumacher-Platz", then change to the U-Line U6 direction "Alt-Mariendorf", at the station "Tempelhof" change to the S-Line S45 direction "Schoenefeld Flughafen" or S46 direction "Königs Wusterhausen".

Alternatively you can take the bus X9 or 109, then at the station "S Jungfernheide" change to the line S45 direction "Schönefeld Flughafen" or S46 direction Königs Wusterhausen".

 With a free shuttle bus or after 5 min. walking you reach the railway station "Berlin Flughafen Schönefeld". Use the corresponding information in the previous item. Take the U-Line U6 (the station U Platz der Luftbrücke is just before the main building) direction "Alt-Mariendorf", at the station "Tempelhof" change to the S-Line S45 direction "Schönefeld Flughafen" or S46 direction "Königs Wusterhausen".
Tegel airport surrounding map (PDF) Schönefeld airport surrounding map (PDF) Tempelhof Airport surrounding map (PDF)

... from the university guesthouse

From the station S Friedrichstrasse take the S-Line S9 direction "Schönefeld Flughafen"

Scheme of S- and U-Lines (PDF)

How to reach the station S+U Friedrichstrasse

... if you come by train

... to Berlin Zoologischer Garten

... to Berlin Ostbahnhof or Berlin Lichtenberg

... to Berlin Flughafen Schönefeld
Take any S-line direction East. Take any S-Line direction West. Use S-Line S9.

... if you come by plane

... to the Tegel airport (TXL)

... to the Schönefeld airport (SXF)

... to the Tempelehof airport (THF)
Take the bus line 128, go till the station "U Kurt-Schumacher-Platz", then change to the U-Line U6 direction "Alt-Mariendorf". With a free shuttle bus or after 5 min. walking you reach the railway station "Berlin Flughafen Schönefeld"; use the information of the previous item. Take the U-Line U6 (the station U Platz der Luftbrücke is just before the main building) direction "Alt-Tegel"
Tegel airport surrounding map (PDF) Schönefeld airport surrounding map (PDF) Tempelhof Airport surrounding map (PDF)

Scheme of S- and U-Lines (PDF)

Tickets for the public transport

Transport subareas

Berlin has a unified transport system, so buses, trams, U- and S-Lines, and even regional trains inside the city can be used with the same tickets. The area covered by the public transport is divided into subareas A, B, and C. The subareas A and B cover the whole city and contain all the stations and airports mentioned above. If you do not plan to leave the city, buy tickets marked AB (there are also BC and ABC tickets). Subarea C contains Potsdam and other cities closed to Berlin.
All the stops of the public transport are marked with following symbols: - city train lines (S-Bahn), - underground lines (U-Bahn), - trams (Tram/Strassenbahn), - busses.

Ticket types

  • Ticket for a short trip (Kurzstrecke, 1.20 euro for AB) This ticket is valid for one journey without changes. The journey must be not longer that 3 stations for S- or U-trains, or not longer than 6 stations for trams and buses. With this ticket you can come, for example, from the airport S Flughafen Schonefeld to S Adlershof.
  • Normal ticket (Einzelfahrschein/Einzelfahrt, 2.00 euro for AB) is valid 2 hours after punching for all kinds of transport; round trips are not permitted (you can reach any station only once).
  • Daily ticket (Tageskarte, 5.60 euro for AB) after punching is valid till 3 p.m. of the next day.

The tickets mentioned above can be bought in ticket vending machines (see Fig. 4) at all the stations, some bus stops, and in trams, counters at some U- and S-station (these counters called Fahrscheine und mehr, Fahrkarten, or Kundenzentrum) or wherever you see the abbreviation BVG, and directly by bus driver. Tickets bought in bus or tram are "ready to use", in all the other cases you should validate the ticket in punching machines (see Fig. 4). Most ticket vending machines can switch between several languages (usual variants are English, German, French, Spanish, Polish and Turkish).

  • There is also the weekly ticket (7-Tage-Karte, 24.30 euro for AB), which can be bought only in ticket vending machines at U- and S-stations and at counters.
There are other tickets for longer periods; to learn more please consult the public transport office.
Remark (for guests coming outside the area of euro). The ticjet vending machines usually accept payment with coins, banknotes and various cards, but the change can be given only up to some fixed quantity (15 euros). It is not possible to buy, say, a daily ticket with a banknote of 50 Euro. In situations of such a kind buy a ticket at a counter. There are curency exchange offices in all the airports, as well as at the stations Ostbahnhof and Zoologischer Garten. Near the station Lichtenberg there is an office of Deutsche Bank. At the station Schönefeld there is no currency exchange possibilities, you should walk to the airport building.
Fig. 4a. Ticket vending (left) and punching machines (right) installed on S-stations. These machines accept payment with banknotes, coins, EC-cards and credit cards.
  Fig. 4b. Ticket vending (left) and punching machines (right) installed on underground (U-) stations. These machines usually accept payment with banknotes, coins, EC-cards. Credit cards are not accepted.

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© 2003, 2004 Konstantin Pankrashkin, homepage: http://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~const/, e-mail: const@mathematik.hu-berlin.de