Sarajevo train station
| Sarajevo train station | |
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 The reception building from above
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| opening | 1882 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Postmodern |
| architect | Bedřich Hacar Jahiel Finci Muhamed Kadić Emanuel Šamanek |
| location | |
| Place / district | Novo Sarajevo |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 51 '37 " N , 18 ° 23' 58" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 538.5 m. i. J. |
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The Sarajevo train station is the main station of Bosnia and Herzegovina capital Sarajevo and is part of Pan-European Transport Corridor 5c . With five platform tracks, the station forms an important transport hub within the canton of Sarajevo . Other important cantonal stations are those in the north ( Hadžići and Pazarić) and the train station in Podlugovi on the southern edge of the canton.
Urban classification
The Sarajevo train station is located in the Novo Sarajevo district west of the old town . The bus station is also to the west of the reception building. To the south of it runs the multi-lane Put života street , which is crossed by Halida Kajtaza street not far from the station square . A path branches off both routes and leads not only to the station buildings, but also directly to the bus and tram platforms. This junction also provides easy access to the visitor and taxi parking lots, which are not far from the station square ( Trg žrtava genocida u Srebrenici ). In addition, the following localities can be found on the station area:
- Ćevapčići - Snack Zmaj 2
- Branch of JP BH Pošta doo Sarajevo (Post Office)
- Branch of Loki doo (car insurance company)
- Office of the IPSA (political science professional association)
- Cafe called Coffee Time
- Branch of Raiffeisenbank Austria dd
Location in the network
From a traffic point of view, Sarajevo station is a terminus , as both lines from Šamac and to Ploče flow into the station from the west. There is only one depot to the north-east of the station . Since this can be reached from all platform tracks, Sarajevo station is technically a through station .
stretch
Sarajevo train station is the hub of the two most important railway lines in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The Sarajevo – Ploče railway via Konjic , Mostar and Čapljina is an electrified, single-track main route in national long-distance traffic, which has been developed for 70 km / h ( ŽFBH ) and 100 km / h ( HŽ ) and is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor 5c . In Sarajevo, long-distance passenger traffic is switched to the electrified and partly double-track railway line via Zenica to Doboj , which can be traveled at up to 70 km / h. Both passenger and freight trains run on these two routes in the direction of Šamac and Ploče . The Sarajevo-Šamac section is operated by the ŽFBH and the ŽRS . The Sarajevo-Ploče railway, however, the shares owned by the Federation located Aktiengesellschaft with the Croatian State Railways.
The following course book sections meet in Sarajevo :
- KBS 11 : Sarajevo - Konjic - Mostar - Čapljina - Metković G - Opuzen G - Ploče G
- KBS 12 : Sarajevo - Zenica - Zavidovići - Doboj - Modriča G - Šamac G
history
From the end of the 19th century, the predecessor of today's Sarajevo train station connected the narrow-gauge Bosnian Railway , the Narentabahn and the Bosnian Eastern Railway . After the Second World War, a new, standard-gauge station a few hundred meters east of the narrow-gauge station was built in connection with the conversion or the partial new construction of the line from Šamac to standard gauge. This was initially called Novo Sarajevo Station to distinguish it . Since the last narrow-gauge line was discontinued in the 1970s, the remaining, today's standard-gauge station is only called Sarajevo Station .
1939–1945: Function of the station in World War II
In September 1941, the deportation of the population classified as hostile was legitimized at national level by a decision of the Croatian Ustaša government . This primarily affected Jews , Serbs , Communists and Freemasons . They were all deported from Sarajevo in cattle wagons to Travnik to a resettlement camp and there is a high probability that they fell victim to the further terror of the NDH state .
1945–1953: Planning and construction of the reception building
After Sarajevo was liberated from the Great German siege on April 9, 1945 by the troops of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army , the government under Head of State Tito decided to start a new building to replace the station building that had been destroyed in World War II.
A few months later, a committee of architects from Czechoslovakia and the Soviet occupation zone came together in Germany . The Czechoslovak architect Bedřich Hacar took over the project management. Together they designed one of the few postmodern buildings that did not correspond to the preferred socialist realism .
The construction of the second reception building officially began in June 1947 and lasted until 1948. The work was interrupted by Tito's polito-ideological break with Stalin . The Soviet-Yugoslav relationship cooled down so much that the architects were forced to leave Yugoslavia. Despite these setbacks, it was already becoming apparent that the station building would be the largest in Yugoslavia.
In 1948 the government finally left the project to the Yugoslav Ministry of Construction , which tried to recruit suitable architects. When these were found with Jahiel Finci, Muhamed Kadić and Emanuel Šamanek, the decision was made to familiarize the local engineers Bogdan Stojkov and Lorenc Eichberger with the construction project. The work was done by German prisoners of war and former SS soldiers .
In the spring of 1953 the new station building was officially opened.
Transport offer
Rail transport
In inter-entity traffic between the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska , a pair of trains will run between Sarajevo and Banja Luka and between Sarajevo and Bihać (via Banja Luka) in 2019 . These trains are operated jointly by the ŽFBIH and the ŽRS .
In addition, several regional trains run daily within the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, e.g. B. to Čapljina via Mostar, to Zenica , Kakanj and Konjic.
International connections no longer exist. Until the 2010s, connections a. a. to Zagreb and Ploče in Croatia, to Belgrade and Budapest .
city traffic
On the station square ( Trg žrtava genocida u Srebrenici ) there is a stop that is served by two of the six Sarajevo tram lines of the KJKP "Gradski saobraćaj" doo Sarajevo . There are also several bus routes and a trolleybus network that runs not far from the train station.
Tram lines 1 and 4 run at Sarajevo train station (as of 2019).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ MN: Željeznička stanica u Sarajevu: Nekada najmonumentalnija građevina pretvorena u ruglo. InterSoft doo Sarajevo, April 7, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2019 (Bosnian).