Kraków Główny Railway Station
| Kraków Główny | |
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_Travelarz.jpg) underground reception hall of the new train station
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| Data | |
| Design | Tunnel station, formerly: riding station |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| IBNR | 5100028 |
| opening | 1847 |
| Website URL | krakownowyglowny.pl |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | P. Rosenbaum |
| location | |
| Voivodeship | Lesser Poland |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '6 " N , 19 ° 56' 52" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Poland | |
Kraków Główny (also: Kraków Hauptbahnhof ) is the central train station of the Polish city of Kraków . The station is an important hub for connections within Poland and abroad. There are international connections to Berlin , Budapest , Hamburg , Lviv , Odessa , Prague and Vienna . Almost every major city in Poland can be reached without having to change trains - both during the day and sometimes overnight in sleeper and couchette cars. The station was opened in 1847 and expanded and modernized several times. Since February 2014, the station building with ticket offices etc. has been under the tracks.
location
The train station is located on the outskirts of Kraków's inner city, between the districts of Kleparz in the west and Wesoła in the southeast, only a few 100 meters northeast of the city center.
history
The Kraków train station was built in 1847 as the terminus of the Kraków-Upper Silesian Railway , which connected Kraków with the border town of Myslowitz , 67 km away . Myslowitz belonged to Prussia at that time and was located directly on the eastern border of Silesia. Within Prussia, the Upper Silesian Railway opened its 196 km long route from Myslowitz to Breslau almost simultaneously , from where trains to Berlin had been running since 1846. Already in 1848 the railway from Myslowitz to Vienna and Warsaw was reached, so that this short “feeder route” for Krakow meant the connection to the north, west and south.
For a long time after it opened, the station was called like the German station . In Polish, the names "dwór", "dwór kolejowy" and "przystań" were proposed, but the current name dworzec was finally established .
The entire route from Krakow to the Prussian border at Myslowitz was then part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . A direct connection from Krakow to the north in the direction of Warsaw did not take place until 1885, because Warsaw had belonged to Russia since the dissolution of Congress Poland in 1867. Since the resurrection of the Polish state in 1918 , Warsaw and Krakow have again belonged to Poland and with them Kraków's main train station.
Recently, an underground station building was built under the tracks of Kraków's main train station, which was officially opened on February 14, 2014. As a result, the historic above-ground station building became obsolete and other uses. The new station is the first Polish station building to be completely underground, including all technical facilities (unlike Warszawa Centralna or the lower Łódź Fabryczna station , which was inaugurated in 2016 , where all the tracks are underground, parts of the station building are located but are above ground). During the construction, the platforms and ticket sales points were adapted to modern standards. All platforms can be reached by escalator and elevator. The construction of the new station cost a total of 130 million zlotys , 70% of the costs were financed from the EU budget.
The construction of this new underground station had been planned for 40 years and was relocated repeatedly. The original plan was to finish the station by the European Football Championship in 2012 , but construction was delayed.
Facility and station area
The station area covers a total area of 10,000 m². Since large parts of the historic station building had not been used since the underground station building went into operation, an increasing number of restaurants and retail stores are to be located there. The PKP, on the other hand, favors setting up a cinema in the old building. On the station forecourt is the newly built Galeria Krakowska , a popular shopping center that is used not only by the Krakow population, but also by many waiting passengers. In the Galeria Krakowska are over 50 shops, including branches of H & M , Deichmann , Saturn and Douglas . Galeria Krakowska is known as “Nowe Miasto” (“New City”). It is also the largest shopping center ever built by the commercial real estate company ECE . The new underground train station is located in the basement of the shopping center and is barrier-free connected to it.
The old reception building is used as a history museum. Previously, the use as a modern art museum was considered; however, the art museum moved instead to the halls of Oskar Schindler's factory . The station building is a listed building.
The above-ground part of the station with five platforms and a total of twelve tracks (two of which are purely through and shunting tracks without a platform) is designed as a riding station , with an extensive parking deck for vehicles above the platforms. Immediately to the east of the train station is the central bus station, where the buses also depart from under the premises for ticket purchase, information and waiting. Below the main train station is the comparatively small station of an express tram line ( Krakow city railway ), which runs on part of the tunnel.
A few hundred meters northwest of the main passenger station ( Dworzec Główny Osobowy ), on the railway line to Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice , is the main freight station ( Dworzec Główny Towarowy ).
Transport links
The station can be reached by many tram and bus lines operated by MPK Kraków (Krakow Public Transport Company). An express tram line has been running in the tunnel under the station since 2014 for better connections. The central bus station is in the immediate vicinity . National and international long-distance buses start at the bus station, which has 32 departure platforms and a large waiting building.
Trains run from the train station to Krakow Airport in Balice, about 11 km away . The journey time is around 18 minutes and the ticket currently costs around EUR 2 (as of autumn 2017). The Kraków Airport train station opened in 2006 and was initially served by PKP Przewozy Regionalne diesel multiple units. Since 2015, it has been operated by electric multiple units from Koleje Małopolskie . The route from the airport to the main train station was extended to Wieliczka .
Most of the major cities abroad can be reached within a maximum of 13 hours, mostly via direct connections or connections with a few changes. Only passengers from Switzerland sometimes have to change trains several times. Direct connections exist mainly to Warsaw, Vienna, Prague and Bucharest. Here the EuroCity is on the road for seven to nine hours. There are two direct IC bus connections to Berlin per day, there are also (as of 2019) train connections with transfers in Poznan.
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Arrival in Krakow Hbf , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ↑ a b eisenbahn.wikia: Line openings in Poland , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ↑ Nasza Historia. 168 lat temu z Krakowa odjechał pierwszy pociąg
- ↑ a b c d New long-distance train station Krakow , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ↑ a b c d Shopping center with siding - Krakow's new train station ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ↑ Kraków Glówny Station Concourse opened , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ↑ a b Information on Krakow Central Station , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ^ Galeria Krakowska in Cracow - a sign of Poland's new-found prosperity , last accessed on August 30, 2015
- ↑ Ruszyło połączenie do Międzynarodowego Portu Lotniczego im. Jana Pawła II w Balicach. Koleje Małopolskie website, September 28, 2015, accessed on November 15, 2015.
