Praha-Vyšehrad railway station
| Praha-Vyšehrad | |
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 Praha-Vyšehrad, rail side (2008)
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| Operating point type | Alternative point with branch |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | - |
| opening | 1872 |
| Conveyance | 1960 (tourist traffic) |
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| City / municipality | Prague |
| Place / district | Vysehrad |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 4 '4 " N , 14 ° 25' 12" E |
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| List of train stations in the Czech Republic | |
Praha-Vyšehrad (until 1942: Vyšehrad ) is a former passenger station on the Prague connecting railway between Praha hlavní nádraží and Praha-Smíchov . It is located in the Vyšehrad district of Prague near the border with Prague New Town at Svobodova 86/2. Operationally, the station will be than today Ausweichstelle used (výhybna). The dilapidated high-rise buildings have been under state protection as a cultural monument since 2001 .
history
The Vyšehrad station existed since the opening of the Prague connecting line on August 15, 1872. In the original state there were at least three tracks accessible at ground level, through which train crossings on the originally single-track line were possible. The reception building was a simple plastered building with an enclosed signal box. Initially, only freight trains ran on the Prague connecting railway; passenger traffic began in 1888. Around 1900 the line was expanded to two tracks. Vyšehrad has been a part of Prague since 1883. A renaming of the station was not initially associated with this.
In 1900 a total of eight pairs of passenger trains on the Prague – Pilsen – Furth route stopped in Vyšehrad in the forest. In 1912 there were already 14, in 1937 and 1959 there were 16. Express trains never stopped in Vyšehrad (as in the neighboring Královské Vinohrady / Royal Vineyards) as scheduled.
In 1904 the kk state railways had a new, representative reception building built. Its author is no longer known today. It was probably the Prague architect Antonín Balšánek . At the end of the 1920s, the ČSD equipped the station with electrical contact line systems. Electric train operations - which were initially limited to the Prague hub - began on May 15, 1928.
During the time of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , the only change in the name of the company took place in 1942. Instead of Vyšehrad , Praha-Vyšehrad was now in effect . The official German name was Wischehrad since 1939 and Prag-Wischehrad from 1942 to 1945 .
In 1948 a passenger train collided with a shunting department in Vinohradský tunel, and several human lives were lost. In 1964 there was an accident at the station in which a train derailed and drove into the garden of the stonemason's workshop.
In 1960, the tourist traffic at the station Vyšehrad was discontinued in favor of urban transport and the operating agency for siding (výhybna) with branching point graded (odbočka).
The reception building was renovated in the 1980s. Part of the architectural elements on the facade were also renewed. However, after a short time there was new damage from penetrating water. In 2000, the damage already amounted to CZK 25 million.
In 2000, ČD negotiated the sale of the building with two serious buyers, but this did not materialize. The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic declared the reception building and the waiting hall on the island platform a cultural monument in 2001.
In 2007 the company TIP Estate acquired the reception building with the surrounding area. At the beginning of 2008, the new owner illegally demolished the listed waiting hall on the island platform.
In 2014, the station's two electromechanical signal boxes were abandoned and replaced by an electronic signal box.
As the reception building continues to fall into disrepair, the City of Prague would like to buy and renovate the building. It is intended to be used as a museum for the Slavic Epic (Slovanská Epopej) by the Czech painter Alfons Mucha, for which the city of Prague has not yet had a suitable exhibition building. The owner is asking for a purchase price of 117 million kroner for the property, while the city only wants to spend the local value of 67 million kroner. According to the will of the city, the purchase negotiations are to be concluded by summer 2020, although expropriation is also being considered.
description
- Tracks and systems
The siding is on the double-track line from Praha hlavní nádraží to Praha-Smíchov, where the single-track connecting curve to the Praha-Vršovice station branches off. The turnout has three main tracks. Between the first and third station track there was originally a passenger tunnel to the island platform that was still there. This tunnel was the first in a Prague train station. At both ends of the station there are (originally mechanical) signal boxes, above which the points and signals of the station are set.
- Reception building
The current three-wing reception building was built in 1904 in the historicist style. Architecturally, it is based on French Renaissance castles of the 16th century, but it also combines elements of the then modern Art Nouveau . In its tower-topped middle part were the waiting hall and ticket offices. The house platform is - as was common in old Austrian train stations in the past - covered. Today the building still houses the dispatcher's office, technical rooms and apartments. Until January 2008 there was a wooden waiting hall in half-timbered construction on the island platform, which also contained the exits to the platform tunnel.
literature
- Kateřina Bečková: Zmizelá Praha - Nádraží a železniční tratě , Schola ludus - Pragensia, Prague 2009, ISBN 80-902505-7-2 ; Pp. 100-101
Web links
- Praha-Vyšehrad , prahamhd.vhd.cz
- "Čekárna na Vyšehradě" photo gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timetables of the kkStB and ČSD - different years
- ↑ a b c d http://cestovani.idnes.cz/pomala-smrt-vzacne-pamatky-pod-taktovkou-cd-fze-/po-cesku.aspx?c=A061221_143150_igcechy_tom
- ↑ Timetables of the BMB-ČMD - years 1940, 1944
- ↑ a b c d Ivo Štecha: Nádraží Vyšehrad má novou naději týdeník Železničář, 13/2000
- ↑ Magda Hettnerová: Praha je chudší o jednu památku , MF Dnes, 28. února 2008, příloha Praha, str. C1
- ↑ "Praha Jedná o koupi nádraží Vyšehrad. Zvažuje umístění Slovanské epopeje ”on zdopravy.cz
- ↑ http://prahamhd.vhd.cz/Draha/vysehrad.htm