Vienna Heiligenstadt train station
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| Operating point type | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | Ht ( ÖBB ), HS ( VOR ) |
| IBNR | 8100269 |
| opening | May 11, 1898 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Otto Wagner |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Vienna |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 14 '57 " N , 16 ° 21' 55" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 169 m above sea level A. |
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| Platforms 2 and 4 of the U4 | |
| Basic data | |
| District : | Dobling |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 14 '57 " N , 16 ° 21' 55" E |
| Opened: | May 8, 1976 |
| Tracks (platform): | 4 ( central platform ) |
| Station abbreviation: | HS |
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Heiligenstadt: REX 5B 10A 11A 38A 39A N36 regional buses   Heiligenstadt, February 12th Place: |
The Vienna Heiligenstadt train station is a train station , railway junction and former express train stop in the north of Vienna , which connects the Franz-Josefs-Bahn with the suburban line . Regional and express trains run to the Waldviertel , in the opposite direction there are only two stops to the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof . The S-Bahn lines S40 (direction Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof and Tulln , St. Pölten ) and S45 (direction Handelskai and Hütteldorf), the underground line U4 and regional and urban bus lines stop . Like large sections of the suburban line, the station is under monument protection ( list entry ).
Lines in the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region
ÖBB regional transport
| line | course |
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| REX | Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Vienna Heiligenstadt - Absdorf-Hippersdorf - Sigmundsherberg - Gmünd - České Velenice |
| REX | Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Vienna Heiligenstadt - Absdorf-Hippersdorf - Krems an der Donau |
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Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Vienna Spittelau - Vienna Heiligenstadt - Klosterneuburg-Kierling - Tulln - Tullnerfeld - Herzogenburg - St. Pölten Hbf |
city traffic
history
Opening for the steam light rail
When the Franz-Josefs-Bahn reached Vienna in 1870, there was no train station in Heiligenstadt . It was only in the course of the detailed planning for the Viennese steam light rail that the planners decided to link the suburban line, belt line and Danube Canal line with each other and with the state railway in the north of the capital . Until it was commissioned on May 11, 1898, a large railway junction was built with a house platform and four central platforms , which was operated as a community station by the transport authority responsible for the city railway in Vienna and the kk state railways .
Heiligenstadt was the only station in the narrow network of the Stadtbahn that was newly established on an existing route. Its construction was comparatively complex, as both the belt line and the suburban line in the entrance area on the so-called city railway arches initially bridge the Franz-Josefs-Bahn at no level. The large Heiligenstadt reception building was designed, like all other light rail stations, by the architect Otto Wagner , and construction was completed in October 1895.
Together with the Hütteldorf-Hacking station , Heiligenstadt was one of the two most important operational stations of the Stadtbahn. Among other things, there was a 19-hour roundhouse with an auxiliary workshop. The supply of steam locomotives with Danube canal water was carried out by the fountain of the imperial power stations. A wind motor system pumped the water 600 meters into a container 40 meters higher in the Hohe Warte area . There, thanks to the height of the fall , it received sufficient pressure to replenish the machine's water supply as quickly as possible.
Adaptation for the electric light rail
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While the suburban line operated as a steam light rail line until 1932, the belt line and the Danube Canal line were discontinued in 1918 due to a lack of coal. As a substitute, from July 22, 1925, the municipal-run Wiener Elektro Stadtbahn operated Heiligenstadt. In addition to the pure light rail lines, the combined tram and light rail line 18G , which was discontinued in 1945 and offered a direct connection to the southeast train station, also ended here from October 20, 1925 .
The Heiligenstadt station was extensively rebuilt for the electric light rail system operated by the municipality of Vienna - urban trams (WStB). The belt line and the Danube Canal line were separated from the tracks of the state railway at that time, the light rail received a generous turning loop with a radius of 22 meters. This had a passing track, was driven clockwise and had a 156.5 meter long arrival platform and a 184.5 meter long departure platform.
The loop circled the also new depot with the address Boschstraße 2. From the start, the electric light rail system had a total of nine hall tracks with a capacity for 102 two-axle vehicles, and there was also a butt track with a high-voltage connection for one of the two converter cars . The municipality of Vienna had its own reception building built on Boschstrasse for the light rail system. In addition, the construction of a five meter wide and an average of three meter high pedestrian tunnel was necessary, which directly connected the new light rail station, under the tracks of the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and the suburb line, with the new reception building. In retrospect, however, the Heiligenstadt tram counters turned out to be a bit too small when there was a lot of traffic, for example at soccer games. That is why the municipality of Vienna added six free-standing cashiers' huts in April 1926.
The Heiligenstadt depot remained permanently closed from March 13, 1945 due to the heavy bombing of the previous day, the area then served as an open-air parking facility from 1954. The light rail vehicles that remained there after the air raid on Heiligenstadt station were all more or less badly damaged.In autumn 1945 the United States Army carried them on scooters to the nearby Gunoldstraße tram stop - from where they could leave on their own - or directly in brought the main workshop.
As a result of the severe destruction in World War II, light rail trains to Heiligenstadt could not run again until September 18, 1954. In the course of the reconstruction, a flyover structure was created in the entrance area of the terminus , which allowed simultaneous arrivals from the direction of the Danube Canal line and departures towards the belt line. It replaced the operationally very cumbersome level track crossing there.
Adaptation for S-Bahn and U-Bahn
With the integration of the Franz-Josefs-Bahn into the rapid transit system, Heiligenstadt was also served by this means of transport, now known as the S-Bahn, from 1965. This connection was later assigned the line number S40. In 1987 the S45 was added when the suburban line was restarted. It initially ended in Heiligenstadt, but was extended to the Handelskai in 1993.
Heiligenstadt has also been served by the U4 since May 8, 1976, and next to the Friedensbrücke , Heiligenstadt was one of the first two underground stations in Vienna. At that time, the Stadtbahn lost its turning loop, and the remaining line G ended bluntly at the previous arrival platform. On October 7, 1990, the G line was renamed U6 , which ended light rail operations. With the commissioning of the new line to Floridsdorf and the Vienna Spittelau traffic station , the U6 operation in Heiligenstadt ended, the last train of which reached Heiligenstadt on April 30, 1996, and the last section of the belt line was completely shut down. Then the platforms of the U6 were converted for the operation of the U4 and a turning system with the possibility of driverless sweeping was set up.
Station concourse
In the station hall there are some shops and the ÖBB ticket offices. There is a bakery at the exit of the U4 line. There are also ticket machines .
Platforms
The station has five platforms , but only four of them are normally used. The Franz-Josefs-Bahn trains stop at platforms 1 and 2, and the S45 line at platforms 3 and 4. Head platform 5 is only used for special trains. The U4 line has four of its own platforms.
modification
As part of the station offensive, the station was modernized between December 2006 and July 2008 and made accessible for the disabled.
ÖBB Infrastruktur Bau AG was able to complete the renovation by May 2008. The renovated station was officially reopened on July 18, 2008, exactly 110 years after it was first put into operation.
Below is a table of the platform lengths of the ÖBB platforms after the renovation:
| platform | length |
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| 1 | 202 m |
| 2 | 330 m |
| 3 | 270 m |
| 4th | 383 m |
| 5 | 160 m |
The Heiligenstadt underground station was renovated from July 2, 2018 to August 26, 2018. The U4 line only ran from Spittelau to Hütteldorf at this time .
Trivia
In 1962, some scenes from the film Escape of the White Stallions were shot at Heiligenstadt train station.
gallery
Station forecourt with bus stops
Station concourse
Passenger tunnel with escalator after completed renovation measures
View of the people tunnel
U4 train on platform 2
Platform 4b during the renovation work.
Platform 4b after the renovation work.
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literature
- Wolfgang Kos, Günter Dinhobl (Ed.): Large station. Vienna and the wide world. Czernin, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7076-0212-5 ( special exhibition of the Vienna Museum 332), (exhibition catalog, Vienna, Vienna Museum, September 28, 2006 to February 25, 2007).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ City of Vienna and ÖBB start noise protection pilot project on a listed suburb line ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ The Vienna light rail. In: The water supply as well as the systems of the municipal electricity works, the Vienna river regulation, the main collecting canals, the light rail and the regulation of the Danube canal in Vienna. On behalf of Mayor Dr. Karl Lueger worked on from the city building authority. Vienna 1901. Self-published by the Vienna City Council. Printed by Paul Gerin, Vienna. Chapter IV, pp. 227-243.
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ^ A b Hans Peter Pawlik, Josef Otto Slezak: Wagner's work for Vienna. Total work of art Stadtbahn (= International Archive for Locomotive History. Volume 44). Slezak, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85416-185-9 , p. 30
- ^ Alfred Horn: 75 years of the Vienna light rail. "Between the 30s Bock and the Silver Arrow". Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7002-0415-9 , p. 70.
- ↑ a b Chapter Stadtbahn in: Städtewerk: Das neue Wien , Elbemühl, Vienna, 1928, pp. 98–115.
- ^ The Viennese electric Stadtbahn by engineer Ludwig Spängler, director of the Viennese urban trams, special print from the Elektrotechnische Zeitschrift, issue 39, 1927, Julius Springer, Berlin ( digitized on Commons ).
- ^ Hans Peter Pawlik, Josef Otto Slezak: Wagner's work for Vienna. Total work of art Stadtbahn (= International Archive for Locomotive History. Volume 44). Slezak, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85416-185-9 , p. 31
- ^ Walter Krobot, Josef Otto Slezak, Hans Sternhart: Tram in Vienna - the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow . 2nd, revised edition, Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1983. ISBN 3-85416-076-3 , p. 341.
- ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , p. 155.
- ↑ Harald Marincig: 60 Years of the Vienna Electric City Railways 1925–1985 , Wiener Stadtwerke - Verkehrsbetriebe, Vienna 1985, p. 17
- ↑ Heiligenstadt – Friedensbrücke: The underground has been running since Saturday . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 9, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Heiligenstadt station has been renovated
- ↑ U4 temporarily ends in Spittelau . July 2, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 30, 2018]).
- ↑ NEW4: Heiligenstadt station is being renovated . July 8, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed July 30, 2018]).
- ↑ U4 goes back to Heiligenstadt . August 27, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed August 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Movie trailer of Miracle of the White Stallions from second 25
| Previous station | Franz-Josefs-Bahn | Next station | ||
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Tulln on the Danube ← České Velenice |
REX |
Vienna Spittelau Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof → |
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Tulln on the Danube ← Krems on the Danube |
REX |
Vienna Spittelau Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof → |
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| Previous station | S-Bahn Vienna | Next station | ||
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Vienna Nussdorf ← St. Pölten Hbf |
S40 |
Vienna Spittelau Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof → |
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Vienna Oberdöbling ← Vienna Hütteldorf |
S45 |
Vienna Handelskai Vienna Handelskai → |
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| Previous station | Vienna subway | Next station |
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Spittelau ← Hütteldorf |
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