Vienna Praterstern stop
| Vienna Praterstern | |
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 The Praterstern stop around 1910, in the background the Ferris wheel in the Prater
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | PS |
| opening | 1883 |
| Conveyance | 1945 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Vienna |
| Place / district | Leopoldstadt |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 13 '2 " N , 16 ° 23' 36" E |
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Connection cable car (km 6.2) |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
The Vienna Praterstern stop in the 2nd district of Vienna , Leopoldstadt , was a stop at 6.2 km of the connecting line between the north and south lines , today's main line of the Vienna S-Bahn . The station, located on the Praterstern , stretched between the main avenue and the exhibition street , its operational abbreviation was PS .
history
Since 1859 the connecting line , designed as an elevated railway on viaduct arches, has run over the Praterstern. In 1883, on the occasion of the International Electrical Exhibition that took place that year, the Praterstern stop was set up on the square in order to better develop the site of the World Exhibition of 1873 . The new station was located half a kilometer in front of the Vienna Nordbahnhof and was operationally independent from it.
On the occasion of the integration of the connecting line into the outer network of the Viennese steam light rail , its architect and chief planner Otto Wagner also designed the converted Praterstern stop, the structural completion of which took place in March 1899. Contrary to the practice at the other elevated stations of the Stadtbahn, the Praterstern stop was the only one with a central platform that extended to Hedwiggasse. In consideration of the frequent strong winds, it was equipped with two waiting rooms. At the southern end of the platform there was a large signal box that also featured stylistic elements by Otto Wagner.
The scheduled light rail service to the Praterstern began on June 30, 1899. The light rail trains coming from the Untere Wientallinie , today's U4 line , ended at the stop, which was formally a train station from then on . From the opening of the Danube Canal line on August 6, 1901, which is now also served by the U4, there was mainly shuttle traffic between Praterstern and the main customs office . Despite the operational separation from the north station, the tram station ensured a better integration of the same into local and regional traffic.
With the extensive cessation of steam light rail operations due to a lack of coal on December 8, 1918, the Praterstern stop also lost its importance, and from then on only around 20 pairs of trains ran here every working day. In the timetable 1944, the Deutsche Reichsbahn it is still performed with two pairs of trains daily, due to severe damage in the closing stages of the Second World War , the station eventually had to be abandoned 1945th
Around 150 meters north-west of the former Wien Praterstern stop is the Wien Praterstern train station, which opened in 1959 and for the construction of which the remains of the old station from the 19th century had to be removed in the mid-1950s.
Photo of the ferris wheel, in the center of the picture Wagner's reception building and a train made up of ten light rail cars and two locomotives of the 30 series
The station viewed from the rotunda
Location of the Praterstern stop on a city map issued around 1925
literature
- Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Administrative report of the City of Vienna, 1883, p. 156.
- ↑ a b c d e f Der Nordbahnhof on tramway.at, accessed on April 4, 2020
- ↑ a b Timetable 459 f
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ^ Hans Peter Pawlik, Josef Otto Slezak: Wagner's work for Vienna. Total work of art Stadtbahn (= International Archive for Locomotive History. Volume 44). Slezak, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85416-185-9 , p. 128
