Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof

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Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof
Alsergrund (Vienna) - Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof.JPG
The train station with the development in the Julius-Tandler-Platz area
Data
Operating point type Terminus
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation Wf
IBNR 8100446
opening 1872
Architectural data
architect Ullmann & Barvicius (1872),

Karl Schwanzer u. a. (1974–1978)

location
City / municipality Vienna
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 13 '34 "  N , 16 ° 21' 40"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '34 "  N , 16 ° 21' 40"  E
Height ( SO ) 164  m above sea level A.
Railway lines
List of train stations in Austria
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The Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof is located on Julius-Tandler -Platz in the ninth district (Alsergrund) in Vienna and was opened in its current form in 1978 as the successor to several stations of the same name. It was designed as a terminus . Like all train stations in Vienna, the train station was equipped with a luxurious court salon for the imperial court . At first it was called "Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof", since 1918 it has been listed in the course books under its current name.

history

The old Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof around 1880

When the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahn started operating on the Eggenburg – Vienna section in 1870 , a provisional train station north of the current location had to be found. The reason for this were disputes between the city of Vienna and the construction company about the location. The company wanted to build the station on a building site away from the city and therefore cheaper, while the municipality wanted to ensure good accessibility from the city center. The final location was finally found in 1872 on the site of the former Palais Althan-Pouthon .

In 1891 the station was completely renovated, combined with a significant expansion, and provided with electric light by the International Electricity Company .

At the end of the 19th century, however, the terminal station increasingly reached its capacity limit and urgently had to be relieved. In the long run, it no longer met the complicated demands of parallel long-distance and local traffic and would have had to be costly converted. As an alternative, however, the transport planners decided to build the Viennese steam light rail , which went into operation between 1898 and 1901 and diverted the local trains coming from Tulln to the suburban line , the belt line or the Danube Canal line at the new Heiligenstadt station . With the commissioning of the Viennese electric light rail in 1925, this possibility, apart from the suburban line, no longer existed.

In 1907 the station was connected to two of the most important train stations in Vienna as well as what was then the north-west station by tram line 5 ( Westbahnhof - Praterstern ) . The station, which is held in the historicizing Ringstrasse style, was damaged by several air bombs at the end of the Second World War . Due to fighting with the participation of the Red Army in April 1945, part of the station caught fire.

As the only one of the major Viennese train stations, the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof was able to resume operations immediately after the end of the war. In the years after the war it was renovated rather carelessly. The original clock towers were demolished, stucco and parts of the facade were removed. In 1967 he served as a set for Terence Young's film " Mayerling ", starring among others Omar Sharif , Catherine Deneuve and James Mason . At the end of the 1960s, the now almost 100-year-old structure was so desolate that demolition, which took place in 1974, was considered.

The new Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof was built according to a design by the architectural community Schwanzer , Krampf, Glück , Hlaweniczka , Requat and Reinthaller and was handed over to its destination in 1978. However, the focus was not on rail operations themselves, but on the most profitable utilization of properties close to the city center as office space. A concrete covering was erected over the track system.

The last buildings on this cladding were completed in the early 1990s, above all the so-called University Center Althanstrasse (UZA) with the former location of the Vienna University of Economics and Business (UZA 1) and the existing geosciences, pharmacy and biology institutes of the University of Vienna (UZA 2- 5).

With the decision to relocate the main location of the university of economics from the area owned by the federal government and the ÖBB in 2007, a complete rededication of the areas close to the center has been considered since the mid-2000s. At the beginning of 2011 it was proposed to completely abandon the station. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the building users (all resident faculties of the University of Vienna) will remain at the Althanstrasse location until further notice.

Today's meaning

Until the 1991/92 timetable year, the standard route for express trains from Vienna to Prague was via the Franz-Josefs-Bahn . Until then, there was also an express train connection to Berlin-Lichtenberg via Prague main station with the parade train Vindobona .

Since express trains are no longer run from the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, the station is only of regional importance. From this station only local trains run to the region between the Vienna Woods and south of the Danube, west of Vienna and the Waldviertel . It is the end point of the S40 S-Bahn line to Tulln and St. Pölten and the starting point for regional express trains to Krems an der Donau , Sigmundsherberg and České Velenice . With the construction of the Spittelau S-Bahn and U-Bahn node just 600 meters further north in 1996, the station was further devalued as a commuter and regional station.

From 2010 to 2019, a local train ran once a day from May 1 to October 26 to Passau Hbf and back. The train was called RadExpress Donau or, most recently, Radtramper Donau and was specially equipped to take bicycles along . He left Vienna early in the morning to bring cyclists to the starting point of the Austrian Danube Cycle Path without changing trains . The return trip took place in the late afternoon. The train type was REX (regional express) or EZ (adventure train).

The station has the highest frequency on weekends; However, these are not train travelers, but customers of a supermarket chain whose branch there is exempt from the statutory Sunday closure in Vienna due to a special regulation . Another topic in the local media is the homeless scene, which is clearly present on the station forecourt .

Lines in the Verkehrsverbund Ost-Region

Rail transport

line course Tact Remarks
REX Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Absdorf-Hippersdorf - Sigmundsherberg - Gmünd - České Velenice ≈60 (according to Sigmundsherberg) / ≈120 (according to Gmünd) At load times in load direction at least every ≈30 / ~ 60
REX Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Absdorf-Hippersdorf - Krems an der Donau ≈60 (according to Krems) At least every ≈30 at load times in load direction
REX cycle hitchhiker Danube Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Tulln City - St. Pölten Hbf - Amstetten - Linz Hbf - Wels Hbf - Passau Hbf 1 train pair / day Only runs from May 1st to October 26th
S40 Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof  - Vienna Spittelau  - Vienna Heiligenstadt  - Klosterneuburg-Kierling - Tulln - Tullnerfeld  - Herzogenburg - St. Pölten Hbf ≈30 (to Tulln city) / ≈60 (to St. Pölten) 4 trains per hour to and from Kritzendorf during load times

Local public transport in Vienna

line course
D. Absberggasse - Central Station East - Quartier Belvedere - Opera, Karlsplatz - Ring, Volkstheater - Schottentor - Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Spittelau - Heiligenstadt, February 12th Square - Nussdorf - Beethoven Walk
5 Praterstern - Friedensbrücke - Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße - Lerchenfelder Straße - Westbahnhof
33 Josefstädter Strasse - Spitalgasse / Währinger Strasse - Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Friedensbrücke - Jägerstrasse - Friedrich-Engels-Platz
N38 Schottentor - Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof - Nussdorfer Straße - Grinzing

literature

Web links

Commons : Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Local report. Electric lighting of the Franz Josephs train station. In:  Das Vaterland , No. 87/1891, March 29, 1891, p. 6, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / possibly.
  2. ^ Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, year 1894, number 9, pp. 119–121.
  3. ↑ Possible future plans for the "station provisional" in: Pickaxe for Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 7, 1968, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ The old train station should give way to a new part of the city - the standard of January 10, 2011 on current plans for the future
  5. ↑ Opening Hours Act 2003
  6. ↑ Vienna Opening Hours Ordinance 2008
  7. ^ ÖBB timetables : Vienna - České Velenice: Fpl. 800; Vienna - Krems and S40 to Tulln Stadt: Fpl. 810; S40 Vienna to St. Pölten: Fpl. 112
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