Vienna Radetzkyplatz stop

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Vienna Radetzkyplatz stop
The Radetzkyplatz stop around 1905, in the foreground the reception building towards Praterstern, in the background Löwengasse
The Radetzkyplatz stop around 1905, in the foreground the reception building towards Praterstern, in the background Löwengasse
Data
Operating point type Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation RP
opening June 1, 1885
Conveyance January 1, 1923 (blocked)
July 3, 1944 ( closed )
location
City / municipality Vienna
Place / district Landstrasse (Vienna)
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 12 '39 "  N , 16 ° 23' 25"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '39 "  N , 16 ° 23' 25"  E
Railway lines

Main route (km 5.602)

List of train stations in Austria
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The Vienna Radetzkyplatz stop in the 3rd district of Vienna , Landstrasse , was a stop on kilometer 5.602 of the connecting line between the north and south lines , today's Vienna S-Bahn main line . It stretched between Radetzkyplatz and Adamsgasse to the northeast and had two side platforms . Your company abbreviation was RP .

history

When the Vienna connecting line was opened in 1859 as an elevated railway on viaduct arches , there was no station planned at what would later become Radetzkyplatz - which was only named in 1876. Only on June 1, 1885 did the Imperial and Royal State Railways set up a stop there. In the timetable of June 1, 1888, this was referred to as Wien-Radetzkyplatz .

At short notice, the planners of the Viennese steam light rail finally decided to convert the Radetzkyplatz station into a light rail station as part of the integration of the connecting line into its outer network . After this was not yet provided for in the final planning by law of May 23, 1896, the architect and chief planner of the Stadtbahn, Otto Wagner , soon designed two new, two-storey and mirror- inverted reception buildings for the existing Radetzkyplatz station . However, these were designed much simpler than the magnificent elevated railway stations along the belt line and the suburb line . The construction of the building was completed in February 1899 and overlapped viaduct arches 7 and 8.

The scheduled light rail operation began on June 30, 1899, in the timetable the station was now referred to as Radetzkyplatz PH , with the addition for passenger stop . With left-hand traffic at the time , the platform on the Obere Viaduktgasse side was used for trains in the direction of the Praterstern terminus , while the trains in the direction of Hauptzollamt station departed from the platform on the Untere Viaduktgasse side . In the timetable of May 1, 1901, the station was served by up to 280 trains a day before the Danube Canal line of the light rail went into operation on August 6.

With the extensive cessation of steam light rail operations due to a lack of coal on December 8, 1918, the Radetzkyplatz stop also lost its importance, and from then on only around 20 pairs of trains ran here every working day. The station was finally closed on January 1, 1923 and officially closed on July 3, 1944; it was no longer recorded in the 1939 Deutsche Reichsbahn timetable.

After their abandonment, the bus stop fell into disrepair. The two upper floors of the war-damaged reception building were demolished in the 1950s, the ground floors existed - with a simplified facade - until the 1980s. In addition to the Unter-Döbling station , Radetzkyplatz is one of only two light rail stations designed by Otto Wagner that no longer exist today, even in a converted form. The temporary planning to reopen as a stop for the Wiener Schnellbahn , which opened in 1959, was discarded because the platforms were too short. The Radetzkyplatz is operated by the Vienna tram , which has a stop of the same name there. Lines O and 1 operate here; Line O reaches Wien Praterstern station two stops further or Wien Mitte station three stops in the direction of Raxstraße.

  • The station with a class 30 light rail locomotive and a type CD u

  • Urban railway planning from May 23, 1896, still without the Radetzkyplatz station

  • Original design by Otto Wagner, the corner turrets were ultimately not realized

  • Network plan from 1962 with Radetzkyplatz station, which was no longer in operation at the time

  • Current situation at the location of the stop

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

  1. ^ A b Alfred Horn, Christoph Posch, Peter Wegenstein: 50 years of the S-Bahn in Vienna. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 2012, 2nd edition, ISBN 978-3-99015-012-2 , p. 10
  2. ↑ Badener Bezirks-Blatt, issue number 68 of June 6, 1885, page 6
  3. ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , p. 59.
  4. ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
  5. ↑ The conductor. Official cours book of the Austrian railways. Small edition , Verlag R. v. Waldheim, Vienna 1901 [Excerpts from special edition, magazine Der Spurkranz , Verlag Peter Pospischil, Vienna 1969, special issue 1]; P. 22 ff., Timetable 1b
  6. ↑ The Nordbahnhof on tramway.at, accessed on October 23, 2019
  7. ↑ Timetable 459f Hütteldorf-Hacking – Wien Nordbahnhof in the German Reich Course Book from 1939
  8. ^ Dieter Klein, Martin Kupf, Robert Schediwy: Stadtbildverluste Wien. A look back over five decades. LIT-Verlag, Vienna 2005, p. 89
  9. ↑ 50 years of the S-Bahn in Vienna on lok-magazin.de, accessed on October 23, 2019