Innsbruck Bergisel train station
| Bergisel train station | |
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 The Bergisel train station from the Bergisel
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | End station (until 1900), then through station |
| opening | 1891 |
| Conveyance | 1981 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | innsbruck |
| state | Tyrol |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 15 '11 " N , 11 ° 23' 59" E |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
The Bergisel train station was the starting point for the Innsbruck – Hall i. Tyrol at the foot of the Bergisel in Innsbruck . It was the third station (after the Südbahnhof and Staatsbahnhof ) in the greater Innsbruck area. Later it was used as the depot of the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe , today it is the terminus of line 1 of the Innsbruck tram and the Innsbruck low mountain railway .
history
Bergiselbahnhof was built in 1891 for the Innsbruck – Hall i. Tyrol . It was the starting point for the local train of the same name, which was then still steam-powered. The administration of the local railway company was located in the station. To the south of the main building there were further depots, workshop buildings and a goods depot. In 1900 the remise facilities were extended by a component east of the Klostergasse to accommodate the vehicles of the newly built Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn . Due to the reputation of Igls as a climatic health resort , the station gained national importance as a transfer point between the local railway and the low mountain railway. With the opening of the Stubai Valley Railway in 1904, the station gained further importance, as its endpoint on the city side at that time, the Stubai Valley Railway Station , was very close; furthermore, general inspections of the Stubaital Railway vehicles were carried out in the workshops of the Local Railway in the Bergisel Railway Station. In 1905 the station was expanded again to accommodate the vehicles of the Innsbruck tram . The tram depot was roughly where the line 6 stop is today. A feeder track to the tram terminus at the state train station, today's Westbahnhof , was built. A few years later, the terminus of line 1 was moved to Bergisel.
Due to the increasing car traffic from the beginning of the 1930s, the Bergiselbahnhof lost its importance as a train station and increasingly took on the character of a terminus and a depot. Since the end of the 1930s, the local railway no longer stopped at Bergiselbahnhof and the low mountain range railway was temporarily led to the city center.
In 1941 the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe were founded with the simultaneous amalgamation of the local railway company with some private bus lines. Some of the buses were parked in the no longer needed halls. In 1944 an O-bus shed was built, but shortly after it was put into operation, it was destroyed by a bomb attack. The station building was also damaged in bomb attacks. The trolleybus hall was no longer built and the buses were parked in another hall in Arzl at the terminus of line C.
Since the Bergisel railway station had only been leased by the Innsbruck transport company and the contract was running out, a solution to this problem was sought in the early 1970s. For the 1976 Winter Olympics, a press center was built directly to the west of the Stubaitalbahnhof, which was intended to be used as an office complex for the transport companies. Since the local railway was closed in 1974 and new workshops were built in the new depot, the first parts of the Bergisel station were shut down. With the construction of the tram hall at the new depot in 1981, the Bergisel station was finally shut down and demolished.
Current
Today the terminus of lines 1 and 6, as well as the colloquial expression "Bergiselbahnhof" for this stop, reminds of the former train station. There is nothing left of the original track system. The reverse loop of line 1 and the two tracks at the stop of line 6 have been completely relocated. In place of the old shed facilities, there are now company buildings.
literature
- W. Duschk, W. Pramstaller and others: Local and trams in old Tyrol. Self-published by Tiroler MuseumsBahnen , Innsbruck 2008, DNB 106754755X .
- Walter Kreutz: Trams, buses and cable cars from Innsbruck. 2nd Edition. Steiger Verlag, Innsbruck 1991, ISBN 3-85423-008-7 .
- Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe AG (ed.), Bernhard Mazegger, Eduard Ehringer: 100 years of trams in Innsbruck 1891 - 1991; 50 years Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe 1941 - 1991. Self-published by IVB, Innsbruck 1991, DNB 1038771595 .
- Walter Kreutz, W. Pramstaller, W. Duschk: 100 Years of Electrical in Innsbruck. Self-published by Tiroler MuseumsBahnen , Innsbruck 2005.
- Through forests and over meadows - a century of Innsbruck low mountain railway . Self-published by Tiroler MuseumsBahnen , Innsbruck 2000, 32 pp.
