Rohrdamm is a station on the

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line U7 in the Siemensstadt district. Designed by architect Rümmler, the station was opened on 1 October 1980, as part of the line's extension from Richard-Wagner-Platz to Rohrdamm. Until the second extension of the line from Rohrdamm to Rathaus Spandau in 1984, it was the western terminus of the U7. The name literally means "pipe dam"; as the eponymous street was laid out along a

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which gets its water from the Tegeler See and fills the water works in Jungfernheide, from which about 250,000 people get drinking water. The station's machine-like decoration, featuring cog-wheels and pipes, points to this. The adjacent stations are Paulsternstraße and Siemensdamm.J. Meyer-Kronthaler: Berlins U-Bahnhöfe. be.bra Verlag (1996)

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U7 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations Buildings and structures in Spandau Railway stations in Germany opened in 1980 {{Berlin-UBahn-stub