Named after the Rathaus Schöneberg, West Berlin's town hall during the city's division.
Completed in 1914 as the town hall of the independent city of Schöneberg, it housed the Berlin parliament from 1949 to 1993 and the Governing Mayor from 1949 to 1991. In front of it John F. Kennedy declared ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ on 26 June 1963. The station opened in 1910 as Stadtpark and took its present name in 1951.