Gostenhof underground station

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Platform level
Station name on the platform walls
Historic emergency telephone

The Gostenhof underground station (abbreviation: GO ) is the 16th  underground station of the Nuremberg underground and was opened on September 20, 1980. It is 492 m from Bärenschanze underground station and 628 m from Plärrer underground station . A parking and sweeping system connects to the station in the direction of Fürth up to the station Bärenschanze and in the direction of Langwasser there is an x-shaped double track change. The underground station was named after the Nuremberg district of Gostenhof , which was incorporated in 1825 and in which it is located. It is used by around 14,700 passengers every day.

location

Map of the Gostenhof underground station

The station is located in the Nuremberg district Gostenhof and extends underground in east-west direction under the Fürther Straße between Dilherr- and Saldorferstraße. From the two platform heads, exits lead to a distribution floor and from there to the south and north side of Fürther Straße. There is also an elevator from the platform level to the pedestrian zone on the south side of Fürther Straße.

There is an administration building for DATEV and the Evangelical University of Nuremberg in the vicinity of the train station .

Building and architecture

The station structure is 168 m long, 17 m wide and 7 m deep (one and a half times the depth). The construction work for the station began on January 12, 1978 and was carried out in the open construction method with Berlin shoring . The two northern entrances at Saldorferstrasse and Dilherrstrasse. could only be built in 1981 after the tram tracks were dismantled.

The station's color code is yellow . The platform walls, tiled with ceramic tiles, are white from the top edge of the rails to the edge of the platform and then in yellow, interrupted by the white band with the station name in black. 18 skylights were built into the station ceiling in order to supply the station and the distribution floor with daylight.

  • Western access

  • Eastern access

  • Distribution floor

  • Ascent from the platform level to the distribution floor

  • Elevator shaft

  • Platform level

Lines

line course
U1 Langwasser Süd - Community House - Langwasser Mitte - Scharfreiterring - Langwasser Nord - Messe - Bauernfeindstrasse - Hasenbuck - Frankenstrasse - Maffeiplatz - Aufseßplatz - Central Station - Lorenzkirche - White Tower - Plärrer - Gostenhof - Bärenschanze - Maximilianstrasse - Eberhardshof - Muggenhof - city ​​limits - Jakobinenstrasse - Fürth Central Station - Fürth Rathaus - Fürth Stadthalle - Fuerth Hospital - Furth Hardhöhe

The station is served by the U1 underground line . At the ends of the station there are two stops for city ​​bus 34, Gostenhof Ost and Gostenhof West . The N9 night bus also runs on weekends .

Trivia

From the opening of the Gostenhof subway station on September 20, 1980 to the extension of the subway to Eberhardshof on June 20, 1981, the tram still ran parallel to the subway to Plärrer. The tram stop at the Gostenhof underground station, however, retained its previous name Willstraße and was not renamed Gostenhof .

literature

  • City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 7 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1980.
  • Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Gostenhof  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview: These are the most used underground stations in Nuremberg on nordbayern.de, from December 27, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 2 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 25 ″  E