Vienna Ottakring train station
| Vienna Ottakring train station | |
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 West facade of the station building
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| Operating point type | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | Ok ( ÖBB ), OT ( VOR ) |
| IBNR | 8100512 |
| opening | May 11, 1898 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Otto Wagner |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Vienna |
| Place / district | Ottakring |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 12 ′ 40 " N , 16 ° 18 ′ 40" E |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
| Ottakring | |
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| U3 platforms | |
| Basic data | |
| District : | Ottakring |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 12 ′ 40 " N , 16 ° 18 ′ 40" E |
| Opened: | May 11, 1998 |
| Tracks (platform): | 3 ( central platform , side platform ) |
| Station abbreviation: | OK |
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| Transfer options : |
 44 46 45A 46A 46B 48A N46 
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The Vienna Ottakring train station is a public transport hub on the suburban line in Ottakring , Vienna's 16th district . It is located in an elevated position between the east-west traffic routes Thaliastraße (with the tram line 46 the main axis of the district) and Hasnerstraße, between Paltaufgasse in the east and Huttengasse in the west. It is named after the former village of Ottakring , after which the entire district has been named since 1892. The station ( list entry ), like large sections of the suburb line, is a listed building .
history
Located in an originally rural area, which rapidly developed into a district after the incorporation into Vienna in 1890/1892, the train station was designed by Otto Wagner on behalf of the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna , completed in November 1896 and opened on May 11, 1898. In addition to the station, which was initially also used for goods traffic, a large tobacco factory of the Austrian Tobacco Directorate was built at the same time , which appeared on the city map in 1912 as a cigar factory .
The suburban line was part of the Vienna steam light rail , which was not taken over by the Vienna city administration after the First World War and was electrified until 1925 . The route was not run by the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna in a tariff community with the tram, which is why the number of passengers remained modest. In 1932, passenger traffic on the line was discontinued, as a result of which Ottakring station lost its original purpose and fell into disrepair in the decades that followed, when the tracks were only used by freight trains. Loading tracks for the tobacco factory and the Julius Meinl food company , which operated warehouses and jam production south of the station from 1912, were retained.
S-Bahn station
On April 30, 1979, the federal government and the state of Vienna decided to convert the suburban line into an S-Bahn . On May 31, 1987, after extensive renovation and electrification work on the entire suburb line, the station went into operation as the S45 station. The S-Bahn station has two side platforms (platform 1: 190 m, platform 2: 170 m).
Metro station
Since December 5, 1998, the western terminus of the U3 underground line has been located on the center side next to the historic train station, also in an elevated position . With the opening of the underground, the forecourt was also redesigned.
The station has a middle and a side platform. To the south of the station is the Ottakring storage and inspection hall on the U3 line.
Escalators and fixed stairs lead from the subway tracks to a reception hall located under the subway structure. The platforms of the S-Bahn can be reached via a passage. It is possible to change to tram lines 44 and 46 as well as to several bus routes. The HTL Ottakring and a park-and-ride facility are in the immediate vicinity .
gallery
Passenger tunnel in the form of a light rail arch
Platform view
U-Bahn turning system
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Design
The video sculpture U-Turn by artist Margot Pilz, inaugurated in 1998, is located in the reception building of the subway station . The 3.6 meter high sculpture made of stainless steel consists of a "U" in which three screens were originally integrated. These displayed traffic information about the Vienna transport network. In 2005 the screens were removed and the sculpture was inoperative. The 1.8 ton steel structure was erected on the station's construction site in 1996; only then was the hall of the reception building built above it.
Many Wiener Linien facilities and vehicles are affected by painting by anonymous sprayers. To the south of the Ottakring station (exit Koppstraße), four areas were built on a wall on Paltaufgasse, on which sprayers created four graffiti ("pieces") on behalf of Wiener Linien . The sprayers had previously come into conflict with the law because of vandalism and had to pay damages; half of their fees for the pieces in Ottakring were therefore withheld, although an acceptable fee was still left for the sprayers. The (anonymous) artists called themselves "Verein Graffiti Union" and the four pieces are called Styl's and Characters . The murals were weathered after a few years and were replaced by similar ones, which are now also eroding.
Graffiti wall
Styl's and Characters
Piece 1
Piece 2
Piece 3
Piece 4
Lines in the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region
| line | course |
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Vienna Handelskai - Vienna Heiligenstadt - Vienna Oberdöbling - Vienna Krottenbachstraße - Vienna Gersthof - Vienna Hernals - Vienna Ottakring - Vienna Breitensee - Vienna Penzing - Vienna Hütteldorf |
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Ottakring - Kendlerstraße - Hütteldorfer Straße - Johnstraße - Schweglerstraße - Westbahnhof - Zieglergasse - Neubaugasse - Volkstheater - Herrengasse - Stephansplatz - Stubentor - Landstraße - Rochusgasse - Kardinal-Nagl-Platz - Schlachthausgasse - Erdberg - Gasometer - Zippererstraße - Enkplatz - Simmering |
| 44 | Maroltingergasse - Ottakring - Johann-Nepomuk-Berger-Platz - Alser Straße - Schottentor |
| 46 | Joachimsthalerplatz - Ottakring - Feßtgasse - Thaliastraße, Lerchenfelder Straße - Ring, Volkstheater |
| 45A | Ottakring - Maroltingergasse - Ottakringer Friedhof - Funkengerngasse - Liebhartstal |
| 46A | Ottakring - Maroltingergasse - Sandleitengasse - Paulinensteig - Otto-Hötzl-Weg - Wilhelminenberg |
| 46B | Ottakring - Maroltingergasse - Ottakringer Friedhof - Ottakringer Bad - Hansl-Schmid-Weg - Fire station at Steinhof - Wilhelminenberg |
| 48A | Ring, Volkstheater - Kellermanngasse - Neustiftgasse - Koppstraße - Gutraterplatz - Ottakring - Joachimsthalerplatz - Otto Wagner Spital - Baumgartner Höhe |
| N46 | Opera, Karlsplatz - Ring, Volkstheater - Strozzigasse - Thaliastraße - Schuhmeierplatz - Ottakring - Maroltingergasse - Joachimsthalerplatz - Otto Wagner Spital |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kaiser: Tram in Austria: All current and former operations . First edition edition. GeraMond, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95613-016-8 , pp. 192 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Government gives 26 billion. New subways and suburban lines as S-Bahn through Vienna . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 1, 1979, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Ottakring
- ↑ Gunda Achleitner in Johann Hödl (ed.): Viennese subway art . Wiener Linien, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02173-0 , p. 81ff.
- ↑ Dieter Schrage in Johann Hödl (Ed.): Wiener U-Bahn-Kunst . Wiener Linien, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02173-0 , p. 86ff.
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Vienna Breitensee ← Vienna Hütteldorf |
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| final destination |
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Kendlerstrasse Simmering → |