Innsbruck main station
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 View of Südtiroler Platz and the station building from the south
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| Operating point type | Through station |
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| abbreviation | I. |
| opening | 1858 |
| Website URL | http://www.bahnhofcenter-innsbruck.at/aktuelles/ |
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| architect | Franz Czwerwenka |
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| City / municipality | innsbruck |
| state | Tyrol |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 15 '50 " N , 11 ° 24' 3" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 582 m |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
The Innsbruck Main Train Station is a transit station and is located east of Innsbruck's city center.
location
The train station is located in Innsbruck city center on the border with Pradl . The Innsbruck freight station also belongs to the area of the main station , which has lost some of its importance due to the Innsbruck freight train bypass (Inntal Tunnel) completed in 1994 and is to be converted into a residential area in the course of urban development. The marshalling yard of the Innsbruck railway junction is located in Hall in Tirol .
In the immediate vicinity of the train station, a large number of shops offer shopping opportunities , the Sillpark shopping center is also located , and Maria Theresien-Straße , a shopping street , is within walking distance.
Traffic significance
With over 37,000 passengers per day, Innsbruck Hbf is one of the train stations in Austria with the highest volume of passengers, only surpassed by six stations in Vienna (with 42,000 to 123,000 passengers per day) as well as Linz Hbf (42,000 passengers per day) and Graz Hbf (41,000 passengers per day) Day).
The importance of the station lies in the commuter traffic to the Tyrolean capital and in a nodal function for the east-west traffic ( Budapest ) - Vienna - Salzburg - Wörgl –Innsbruck– ( Zurich ) / Bregenz and the north-south traffic Munich –Wörgl– Innsbruck - Bozen - Verona - ( Milan / Venice / Rome ). Since December 2007 it has also been the central point of the Tirol S-Bahn .
The railway line between Baumkirchen (about 15 km east of Innsbruck main station) and Wörgl main station (called Unterinntalbahn ) is one of the busiest railway lines in Austria (up to 430 trains a day) and is therefore currently being expanded to four tracks as part of the TEN Berlin-Palermo axis . In Wörgl Hbf , the railway line splits into the northern branch via Kufstein to Salzburg and Munich on the one hand and the eastern branch via Zell am See to Salzburg, Graz and Klagenfurt ( Giselabahn ) on the other.
The main train station has eight through tracks - with platform 1 being the "house platform" at ground level - and four head tracks (platforms 21-22, 31 and 41) for regional passenger traffic via the Mittenwaldbahn , the Arlbergbahn and the Brennerbahn . Platform 8 is accessible from the east and is used for loading cars onto car trains . Since December 2014 there has been no unloading / loading facility for motorail trains in Innsbruck. Currently (2020) car transport is offered on the ÖBB Nightjet connection to and from Düsseldorf .
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the train Tirol .
The station forecourt - called Südtiroler Platz - is a junction for local public transport and connects the meter-gauge tram , the Stubaitalbahn and regional and inner-city bus routes.
history
1. Central station 1858–1956
The planning of a railway line in Tyrol began in 1850. Three years later, Emperor Franz Joseph I approved the route from Innsbruck to Wörgl and a year later to the border at Kufstein . Franz Czwerwenka, the head of the civil construction management, designed the main station, which was considered one of the most beautiful reception buildings of the monarchy at the time . With the opening of the line between Kufstein and Innsbruck, the station building was put into operation. At that time it was still in the middle of meadows and fields. The station also became more important with the commissioning of the Brennerbahn (then Südbahn) in 1867 and the Arlbergbahn in 1883, for which the Innsbruck Westbahnhof was built. Due to the train traffic over the Brenner Pass , the station had already become too small, so the reception building and the platform hall were rebuilt.
On January 1, 1924, the Austrian Federal Railways ( ÖBB ) took over the Austrian routes from what was then the Southern Railway Company. In 1927 the station was therefore adapted to the increased volume of traffic and rebuilt. The departure hall received frescoes by Rudolf Stolz in 1928 , whose designs were preferred to those by Alfons Walde (with the motif North Tyrol and South Tyrol ), the platform underpasses and cheaper platform roofs were used instead of a platform hall. Operations management was housed in the “clock tower building” that still exists today, located in the north wing and so named because of a small clock tower at the top.
At the end of the Second World War , the station was completely bombed by the Allies.
2. Main train station 1956-2004
An ÖBB architect brought together the designs of well-known architects, and a simple, functional building in the style of the 1950s was created. In 1954, the Austrian artist Max Weiler was commissioned to design the large departure hall, the two wall paintings of which caused a scandal because of the abstract depiction of Innsbruck's past and present.
In the 1980s, the station received minor renovations, but was then no longer in keeping with the times.
3rd main station since 2004
As part of the ÖBB station offensive launched in 1997 , a new building was decided. The design comes from the architects' office Riegler Riewe. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 2001 and the official opening was on May 19, 2004. The total construction costs amounted to 25 million euros.
The central component is the main hall, which extends continuously to the basement, with access to the platforms via two tunnels (north and south tunnels), to the underground car park (from there another passenger tunnel to the Hotel Europa and stairs to the bus and tram terminals), and another Passenger tunnel to the bus station and shops. This is followed by an office building to the north. The clock tower building from the 1920s has been renovated and now houses u. a. a police station .
The striking frescoes by Max Weiler, along with a few centimeters of masonry, were removed in one piece and hung up again in the current station hall.
The station forecourt was also redesigned and provided with red-colored asphalt. A track junction was set up at the southern end of the square to allow the Stubai Valley Railway to route directly from the main train station to Wilten. However, the direct guidance will not be implemented.
Station concourse (2017)
Exterior view of the station concourse from the forecourt (2009)
Bus and tram stops (2009)
Südtiroler Platz from above (2011)
View from the south of the entire station area, in the foreground the Olympiabrücke (2008)
View from the south of the western tracks, in the background the Nordkette (2007)
Gallery (rail traffic)
Locomotive 1145.14 in shunting service (1984)
Locomotive 1020.006-1 with regional train (1987)
Electric shunting locomotive 1161 006-5 (1992)
Control car of multiple unit 6010 006-2 (2003)
ÖBB 1044 120-2 with regional train (2004)
ÖBB 1116 234-4 with SBB EC car (2007)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ ÖBB compact 2017/18 - bringing Austria together. Numbers, data, facts. In: www.oebb.at. OEBB, accessed on October 11, 2018 (6th edition / 1st edition © 2018, ÖBB-Holding AG).
- ^ Graz main station. In: www.oebb.at. OEBB, accessed July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Motorail train Vienna-Innsbruck discontinued. In: help.orf.at. November 17, 2014, accessed March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ No ticket for the last motorail train. In: help.orf.at. November 15, 2014, accessed March 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Motorail train. In: ticket.oebb.at. Retrieved March 31, 2016 .
- ^ ÖBB: ÖBB ticket shop. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 218–219 (with ill.) .
