Uster train station

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The reception building of the Uster train station

The Uster station was from the Wallisellen-Uster-Rapperswil railway line as a temporary terminus in Uster , Canton of Zurich , opened. It came into the holdings of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) via the United Swiss Railways ( VSB ). The Uster train station with two locomotive sheds is listed as a cultural asset of national importance ( KGS no .: 7698 ).

history

Aerial photo with the locomotive depot by Walter Mittelholzer (1919–37)
The Uster train station before the conversion to a central platform (photo taken in 1967)

The station was opened on August 1, 1856 together with the first stage of the Glatthalbahn, which ran from Dübendorf to Uster. Since the Dübendorf station belonged to another company - there the Glatthalbahn connected to the Swiss Northeast Railway - the depot facilities were built in Uster, although the station became a through station since the opening of the line to Wetzikon on November 9, 1857 .

The location of the train station was unclear for a long time during the planning phase, as a route via Wetzikon and Gossau was initially also under discussion. Only when the route via Wetzikon had been decided could the location of the station be determined. As a result, construction work on the high-rise buildings began relatively late.

Uster station building and Lokremise

The station was awarded in 1855 a single storey temporary reception building, which by Kaspar Wetli was planned, but already in 1856 replaced by a classical recording building a two-story, five-axis midsection with bilateral projections has. The building was classified as worthy of national protection by the SBB.

The Lokremise 1
View over the turntable to the circular shed or Lokremise 2

The Uster Lokremise consists of Remisen 1 and 2. These have been listed as an ensemble since 1985. It is the oldest depot facility in Switzerland, which has now largely been restored to its original state. The locomotive depot is now owned by the Canton of Zurich and is also used by the Zürcher Oberland Steam Railway Association for the overhauls of their locomotives.

Lokremise 1 is designed as a rectangular shed with two tracks and was built in 1856. Lokremise 2 is designed as a round shed with five tracks and was built in 1857.

The goods shed with the apartments above was designed by Max Vogt and built in 1984.

The old, demolished goods shed that stood next to the reception building on the Zurich side (in the area of ​​today's bus station)

traffic

The following four lines of the Zurich S-Bahn run via Uster. The individual lines run every half hour , so that there are eight trains per hour to Zurich and six trains to the Zurich Oberland:

At the Uster train station, passengers can use seven local and six regional bus routes operated by the Zürichsee and Oberland transport companies, which take care of the local distribution.

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Uster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A-Objects ZH 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2017 (PDF; 163 kB, 32 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
  2. ^ Walter Frei: On the history of the Glattalbahn. Third volume in the series of sheets on local history and history of Uster. Published by the Uster cultural community in 1956.
  3. ↑ SBB Historic, signature GD_BAUSBB 64; Inventory of historical train stations, Uster
  4. ↑ Stefan Hotz: The historic Uster train station is complete again. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 26, 2008, accessed on April 7, 2019 .
  5. ^ Ruedi Weidmann, Karl Holenstein: Max Vogt - Building for the Railway 1957-1989 . (Volume 1 of the series Architecture and Technical History of the Railways in Switzerland ), Verlag Scheideger & Spiess, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85881-185-1 , p. 103.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 ′ 3 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 5"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred ninety-six thousand six hundred and fifty-nine  /  245227