Zurich Letten train station

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Zurich Latvians
Zurich Letten railway station (2005)
Zurich Letten railway station (2005)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 2
opening 1894
Conveyance 1989
location
City / municipality Zurich
Place / district Wipkingen
Canton Zurich
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 682.65 thousand  /  249060 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '14 "  N , 8 ° 32' 0"  O ; CH1903:  682 650  /  249060
Height ( SO ) 409  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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Railway lines in the city center

The station Zurich Letten is a disused railway station in Zurich district of Wipkingen , from the Limmat only by the same power plant shielded.

history

The train station in the Letten area was commissioned in 1894 as the Letten station. The station was on the Zurich-Meilen-Rapperswil railway line . The municipal power station (today ewz) built an additional transport track. In 1907 general cargo was added. After 1918, the Letten station offered a full service with ticket counters, reservations, group travel, baggage drop-off and an exchange office. However, the number of people remained disappointingly small because the station was on the edge of Wipkingen. Electrification in 1926 also brought little.

With the construction of the underground connection from Zurich Stadelhofen to Zurich main station through the Hirschengraben tunnel , the station, which was located on a loop between Stadelhofen and main station, became superfluous and closed on May 27, 1989.

The half-timbered bridge over the Limmat and the adjoining viaduct, which hugs the Aussersihl viaduct at a low height , is now used as a pedestrian and bicycle path over the Limmat and up to the Josefswiese in the industrial quarter . The Lettentunnel to Stadelhofen was filled in between October 2002 and spring 2004 due to the risk of collapse, but the western portal is still visible.

The SBB had to keep the route navigable until the Lettentunnel was backfilled (the drainage in the disused tunnel had to be flushed every three months). The barely traveled section was confiscated for around three years in the spring of 1992 by the drug addicts and traffickers who had been driven out of the Platzspitz and was known as the “Letten drug hell”. As of April 1995, five points and 300 m of track were removed, that is, the station system was reduced to a drive-through track and the area assigned to the free zone was redesigned by the City of Zurich. After the tunnel was backfilled, the remaining track was also removed.

The listed station building, erected in 1893, serves as the editorial office of the travel magazine Transhelvetica .

literature

  • Martin Bürlimann, Kurt Gammeter: Café Letten - A reading book. A journey through time through the Latvian. Wibichinga, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-9523149-3-7 .
  • Martin Bürlimann, Kurt Gammeter: Wipkingen: From the village to the quarter. Wibichinga, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-9523149-0-0 .
  • Ursina Jakob, Daniel Kurz: Habitat Wipkingen: History of a Zurich City Quarter 1893–1993. Chronos , Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-905311-19-4 .

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Transhelvetica.ch old Letten train station . Journal website, accessed May 2, 2016
  2. Cadastral information from the city of Zurich WP5081 . Retrieved May 2, 2016