Old Central Station (Düsseldorf)

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Old main station Düsseldorf at Wilhelmplatz
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The old main station in Düsseldorf was the predecessor of the Düsseldorf main station . It was opened as Düsseldorf central station on October 1, 1891 and demolished after four decades for the new building.

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The old station was technically related to Cologne Central Station, where a "combination of a through station and a double-sided terminal station with a narrow five-part front building and a generously dimensioned island building for the waiting rooms" was built. This was arranged in two parts: a wide staircase led from the main tunnel into an atrium. This courtyard then served as a public distributor. Four arched halls vaulted the wide track area. The hall was built without any connection to the front building. The hall construction and tracks framed the large island building that contained the waiting rooms.

Middle part of the forecourt building

The entrance building was architecturally and artistically related "in a very direct way [to] the treasure trove of motifs of Frankfurt Central Station" without, however, taking over the arched gable of the Frankfurt building. Like the Frankfurt building, it showed "in lush ornamentation (...) forms of the German Renaissance ". The main railway stations of Hanover and Frankfurt were the inspiration for the castle-like central structure of the Düsseldorf building with its three portal windows: “The triad of the portal windows of the central projection translated (...) the arched-style structures of the Hanover central station into the more modern Frankfurt forms, creating a contemporary variant of the castle type " originated.

The neo-baroque entrance building was originally planned to be higher. The facade was made of fine-grain sandstone from the Rhine Palatinate.

The draft for the station building came from Government and Building Councilor Rosskothen.

In the course of the new building, Wilhelmplatz was created as a forecourt to the main train station (today Konrad-Adenauer-Platz), Bismarckstraße, Immermannstraße and Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße (today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße).

Web links

Commons : Alter Hauptbahnhof in Düsseldorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City archive of the state capital Düsseldorf: A brief history of the city of Düsseldorf - The main train station . Retrieved August 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ulrich Krings: Buildings of the railway . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 63–97 , here p. 83 .
  3. ^ Architects and Engineers Association in Düsseldorf (ed.): Düsseldorf and its buildings. L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1904, p. 465
  4. ^ Boris Becker: Düsseldorf in early photographs 1855-1914. Schirmer and Mosel, Munich 1990, plate 138.
  5. ↑ Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, with historical photos from the Düsseldorf City Archives (Central-Personenbahnhof) , in Düsseldorfer Archive, volume 14/2018, on www.cl-historia.de, accessed on January 13, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 13 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 34"  E