Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin was a train station opened on 1 July 1841. Its network passed through the region of Anhalt (hence the name), to cities such as Leipzig, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Munich. The station was then expanded to become the biggest and greatest in Europe, with a new glamorous frontage and large platform areas. It handled more international train services, to Naples, Prague, Rome and Vienna. As war approached, the Anhalter was the station which Berlin’s artists and intellectuals used to escape – notably Albert Einstein, Heinrich Mann and Bertold Brecht. During the war, the station was heavily bombed. Although patched up after the war, the divide of East and West Berlin severed the tracks and trains no longer stopped here (apart from the underground station). Today only part of the station’s façade remains.