Vienna Hernals train station
| Vienna Hernals train station | |
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 East facade of the station building
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | Hns |
| IBNR | 8100271 |
| opening | May 11, 1898 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Otto Wagner |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Vienna |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 13 '24 " N , 16 ° 18' 54" E |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
The Vienna Hernals Station is a transportation hub at the suburban line in Vienna . It is intersected by the district boundary between the 16th district of Vienna Ottakring and the 17th district of Hernals ; the station building itself is in the Dornbach cadastral community . Originally opened as a station for the Vienna City Railway, it is now used as a station on the S45 S-Bahn . Like large sections of the suburban line, the train station is a listed building ( list entry ).
history
The Hernals station was designed by the architect Otto Wagner and its construction was completed in June 1896. The official opening took place on May 11, 1898. After the end of the First World War , operations had to be reduced in 1918 due to a lack of coal. While the other lines of the Stadtbahn were taken over by the City of Vienna in the 1920s, the suburban line remained with the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna . Regular passenger traffic ceased in 1932. From then on, Hernals mainly served goods traffic, for which the station was an important transshipment point. Passenger traffic was only carried out sporadically.
In 1979 it was agreed to reactivate the suburban line. Hernals train station, which was damaged by bombs, was also subjected to extensive restoration. The station building and the platforms have largely been preserved in the original Otto Wagner architecture and are under monument protection . On May 31, 1987, the renovated suburban line was reopened and integrated into the S-Bahn network as line S45.
Hernals train station played an important role in the urbanization of the surrounding area (see Frauenfeld , Kongressplatz and Sandleiten ) after the western suburbs were incorporated into Vienna in 1890/2. Previously characterized by industry on the outskirts, a metropolitan suburb of mostly four to five-storey apartment buildings emerged here at the turn of the century. Many of the vacant lots were closed in the 1920s by building people's houses in perimeter blocks. Today - as it was then - the Hernals train station functions more as a traffic junction than as a Graetzl center for the outer districts of Hernals and the adjacent Ottakring . The station building including the forecourt (with the exception of a snack bar inside the station and a bakery below the railway bridge) is not used for commercial or cultural purposes, as is more the case with the neighboring Ottakring and Gersthof stations .
location
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The station is in an elevated position south of the Hernalser Hauptstrasse between Julius-Meinl-Gasse and Heigerleinstrasse. It has two side platforms, each around 150 m long, of which only 75 m on the eastern side of the station are open to passenger traffic, and each has an entrance from which one can get into the central reception building. The congress baths and the congress park are located southwest of the train station .
The S-Bahn trains run every 10 minutes during the day Monday to Friday, otherwise every 15 minutes in the direction of Hütteldorf and Handelskai .
Line 43 of the Viennese tram , which runs from Schottentor to Neuwaldegg and forms the main axis from the 17th district to the city center, stops at the forecourt of the train station . In addition, the urban bus routes 42A and 44A have their terminus here. Not far from the ÖBB train station is the Hernals tram depot of Wiener Linien .
Redesign of the station area
At the request of the Greens in Hernals, the area around the station will be redesigned by the district administration from 2014. The area between the station building and Heigerleinstrasse will be a barrier-free meeting area , including a “kiss and ride” short stopping zone, but without stationary individual traffic. The buses will have two well-lit, roofed bus terminals, while the taxis will now wait in Balderichgasse. In the Sauter- and Balderichgasse, pedestrian safety-enhancing pavements are also being made. On the outskirts of the city, the accessibility towards the congress pool is to be improved, while the small green area is to be better lit, made larger and safer. Finally, the park will be equipped with a monument to anti-fascist resistance fighters from Hernals.
Freight depot
The Hernals freight yard stretched south of the passenger platforms and extends to Seeböckgasse. It had nine platforms, a coal slide that was dismantled in 2010 and a siding to the Julius Meinl company . The station used to have other connecting lines , but these have already been removed. At the southeast end of the freight station is the SpDrS interlocking, which was built in 1985/86 and also includes the Ottakring area and the Heiligenstadt 3 transfer point. Today it is unoccupied and is controlled remotely from the Heiligenstadt signal box .
Lines in the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region
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Vienna Handelskai - Vienna Heiligenstadt - Vienna Oberdöbling - Vienna Krottenbachstraße - Vienna Gersthof - Vienna Hernals - Vienna Ottakring - Vienna Breitensee - Vienna Penzing - Vienna Hütteldorf
43 Schottentor - Lange Gasse - Alser Strasse - Elterleinplatz - Hernals - Dornbach, Güpferlingstrasse. - Neuwaldegg
42A Hernals - Gersthofer Friedhof - Schafberghöhe
44A Hernals - Dornbach, Güpferlingstr. - Heuberg - Mitterberg
N43 Schottentor - Lange Gasse - Alser Strasse - Elterleinplatz - Hernals - Dornbach, Güpferlingstrasse. - Neuwaldegg
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 )
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ↑ Redesign of the environment around the S45 .
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