Graz Central Station
| Graz Central Station | |
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 Station concourse after the renovation work in 2001-2003
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| abbreviation | G |
| IBNR | 8100173 |
| opening | 1847 ( 1956 ) |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Wilhelm Aduatz |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Lend (Graz) |
| state | Styria |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 4 '20 " N , 15 ° 25' 1" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 364 m above sea level A. |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
The main train station (first station Place Graz , then South Station ) is a through station in Graz and with a footfall of over 42,000 people per day, or 520 trains per day, the busiest train station in Austria outside Vienna.
It connects numerous long-distance and local transport routes of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and the Graz-Köflacher-Bahn (GKB).
The main station has twelve main tracks, numerous side tracks and ten platform tracks, all switches and signals are set by the ESTW Graz. There is also a loading point for motorail trains on platform 21.
history
From 1825 Archduke Johann advocated a railway connection between the Danube and the Adriatic Sea to connect Vienna with the most important port in Trieste .
On October 21, 1844, the Graz - Mürzzuschlag railway line and thus also the Graz Südbahnhof, then known as the Graz Stationsplatz , could finally be opened. This was finally completed in 1847. Annenstraße and Keplerstraße were also laid out as part of the construction.
The first reception building was planned by the architect Moritz von Loehr in 1843 , was 89 meters long, 15 meters wide and had a front hall for people, long arched windows and an octagonal clock tower .
In the 1860s the southern railway came into the possession of the k. k. priv. Southern Railway Company . Due to the economic boom, the station became too small. Thus, from 1871 to 1876, an extension was built in the style of historicism under the architect Wilhelm von Flattich ; the previous building was demolished by 1878 . This second station had a large central hall with three large arched windows and two lower longitudinal wings with end pavilions. The appearance was similar to that of the Salzburg train station , the hall of which still looks like this today.
In July 1900 the partial electrical lighting of the station facilities was commissioned, and on April 27, 1914, the complete electrical lighting was implemented . On April 1, 1913, the station was renamed to its current name Graz Hauptbahnhof .
In 1924 the Austrian Federal Railways (BBÖ) took over the operation of the Southern Railway, Graz came to the Villach management area. After the annexation of Austria Graz was the Reichsbahndirektion Vienna Deutsche Reichsbahn assigned, since World War II is back in Graz Directorate Villach.
The second station building was so badly damaged in World War II that it had to be demolished. A competition was held for the redesign of the building, which was won by the architect Wilhelm Aduatz . He planned the large, glazed entrance hall of today's reception building with a two-story north wing and a three-story south wing in a simple post-war construction. The final completion took place in the spring of 1956.
The hall is still preserved today and is a listed building . The station has since been rebuilt and expanded several times, most recently in 2016 as part of the Graz Hauptbahnhof 2020 project . The station was expanded and modernized to be 100% barrier-free . In 2001 the hall was surrounded by two glass side wings, which form a business passage. Before that, an Ibis hotel with a supermarket had been built on the northern forecourt .
On the occasion of the European Capital of Culture 2003, Peter Kogler designed a large-scale art installation for the main hall: the inner walls were clad with a 2,355 square meter, textile plastic cladding with printed, geometric figures. The installation was supposed to be removed after the European Capital of Culture year, but due to positive reactions from the population and station users, the installation was retained.
The passenger tunnel to the platforms, which was redesigned in the late 1990s, received the Brunel Award for its functional design and served as a prototype for similar conversions in other train stations.
In 2003 and 2004, the station was voted the most beautiful station in Austria by passengers . In the following elections, the station regularly achieved podium places .
Between 2005 and 2008 the interlocking was converted to electronic technology ( ESTW ) in three phases . Since 2008, all points and signals in the greater Graz area have been centrally controlled from there.
Construction project "Graz Hauptbahnhof 2020"
Since the beginning of 2010, work has been carried out on further expansions of the Graz main train station in order to fulfill its functions as a local and long-distance transport hub and to equip it for the S-Bahn and the commissioning of the Koralmbahn, which is currently under construction. The overall project is called Graz Hauptbahnhof 2020 , the redesigned bus and tram hub Europaplatz (station forecourt) is known as a local transport hub. The project was designed by the architects Zechner & Zechner , just like the renovation of the station hall and the south passenger tunnel .
Among other things, the platforms were lengthened and re-roofed, and the platform edges were raised from 38 centimeters to 55 centimeters. In addition, a new platform (8/9) for the Graz-Köflacher Bahn was built to the south-west, the south passenger tunnel was extended there and the capacity of the track systems increased. In addition, the north passenger tunnel is being built and extended to the water tower in Waagner-Biro-Strasse.
A new entrance and exit has been created here to connect the main train station with the west of Graz. One side of the wall is artistically designed by Peter Kogler, similar to the main hall. The tunnel was opened on April 10, 2013.
The station forecourt has also been redesigned, with an oval roof providing shelter for passengers when transferring between city buses and trains. This rondeau was named the Golden Eye after a readers' competition organized by the Kleine Zeitung .
For the tram, which crossed Europaplatz underground from the area of Annenstraße next to the Leiner furniture store , a double stop was built in the lower position for lines 1, 3, 6 and 7 in the area of the former turning loop of lines 3 and 6, and crossed under from there the tram line after a tight curve the main train station under the former non-stop cinema to reappear south of the track system. Previously, the turning loop was relocated to the neighboring Asperngasse (Laudongasse terminus).
The Graz local transport hub went into operation at the end of 2012. During the construction work, three aircraft bombs from the Second World War were uncovered. One could not be transported away and had to be detonated on March 25, 2011, which caused considerable property damage in the area and, among other things, damaged the historic station clock (green gas discharge tubes as luminous hour markers and hands).
In December 2012, work began on the new bridge over Eggenberger Strasse. For this conversion, one of the most important east-west connections from Graz had to be closed for a year. During this time, all car traffic between Lend and Eggenberg had to use the railway underpasses Don Bosco and Peter-Tunner-Gasse.
The renovation of Graz Central Station was completed in 2015 after six years of construction. The project is part of the ÖBB infrastructure project southern route , which also includes the Semmering base tunnel and the Koralm railway.
On March 20 and 21, 2018, the passenger information system in Graz main train station and the surrounding stations was renewed and the announcements were converted to a text-to-speech system, which also automatically informs about delays, train cancellations and platform changes.
Investments
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The station building consists of the hall, a protruding wing with a roofed courtyard on the north side, a two-story north wing and a three-story south wing.
The ÖBB travel center with travel agency, an ÖBB Club Lounge and a total of seven ticket machines are located in the hall of the train station . In the converted part of the courtyard, which used to be a left-luggage office and lockers, there is now a Spar supermarket with extended opening times, a post office , a book and magazine store, a fitness center, several bakery shops and cafés . The south wing houses a McDonald’s branch, a subway and a branch of the Graz pizzeria chain Don Camillo.
At the lower end of the escalators from the departure hall into the (southern) pedestrian underpass to the platforms, there is a snack shop and 120 lockers. In mid-2013, a little north of the (small) arrival hall, i.e. at the level of the SPAR grocery store, the north pedestrian underpass without escalators was renewed and opened with an exit (staircase and elevator) on the western rear of the station grounds by the listed water tower. This enables the first publicly permitted crossing of the station area, but contrary to early plans, there is no passage for cyclists. A police inspection and the signal box are located in the north wing of the station building, the observation tower was placed directly on the first floor of the traffic control.
To the north of the station building are the post office buildings, which are used, among other things, as a logistics center and lead to their own tracks. Since the sale of the central post office building in 2008, the administrative center has also been at the train station. Further to the north there are more sidings and a large wagon hall, which was built on the former site of the haulage companies. Since 2003, freight traffic for the greater Graz area has mainly been handled via the Graz Süd terminal in Werndorf , all warehouses have been demolished and replaced in 2009 by sidings for passenger cars (passenger car parking group) and a large hall with workshops (service hall TS). In the north, all the tracks come together again, so that they can be fanned out again after the bridge over Peter-Tunner-Gasse in the Gösting marshalling yard.
There are ten platform edges: nine through tracks ( 1-9) and one stump track (21). Almost all platforms are divided into two parts (1 B – E / F – H, 2 & 3 A – C / D – E, 4 & 5 B – C / D – F, 6 & 7 C / D – E and 8 & 9 E / F), all are barrier-free. The platform edges were raised to 55 centimeters, the individual platforms were extended to 420 meters and two new platforms were built during the course of the 2020 Graz Hauptbahnhof construction project . Every platform, with the exception of 1 and 21, which can be reached directly from the station concourse, has an elevator, a staircase and one or two escalators.
Behind platform 7 are the sidings of the ÖBB-Produktion Graz, its administration building and workshops with a transfer table and a turntable . In this area there is also a water tower on Waagner-Biro-Straße, which is a listed building. The Graz Railway Model Railway Club (GEMEC) with its H0 layout is also located in the basement of an administration building.
At the southern end of the station building are the listed rooms of the former non-stop cinema. It was opened in 1957 as one of the most modern cinemas in Austria, operated as an erotic cinema from the end of the 1970s and had to be vacated in September 2010 because the ÖBB terminated the contract.
Behind this building is the loading point for the motorail . In addition, the tracks lead over a large bridge over the sunken Eggenberger Straße.
service
Local transport
The following regional and city transport lines stop in Graz:
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Graz Hbf - Frohnleiten - Bruck an der Mur |
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Graz Central Station - Fehring (- Szentgotthárd) |
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Graz Hbf - ✈ Graz-Feldkirchen Airport - Spielfeld-Straß (- Bad Radkersburg) |
 
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Graz main station - Wies-Eibiswald |
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Graz main station - Köflach |
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( Graz Hbf -) Peggau-Deutschfeistritz - Übelbach |
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( Graz Hbf -) Gleisdorf - Weiz |
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to Mürzzuschlag , Fehring, Spielfeld-Straß , Bad Radkersburg , Leoben Hauptbahnhof , Unzmarkt, Selzthal |
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Eggenberg / UKH - Mariatrost |
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Laudongasse - Krenngasse |
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Laudongasse - St. Peter |
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Wetzelsdorf - LKH Med Uni / Klinikum Nord |
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Hauptbahnhof S - Central Cemetery |
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Central station S - Ziegelstrasse |
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Hauptbahnhof S - Stattegg foot of the liver |
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Central station S - Ragnitz |
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Main station S - St. Peter school center |
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Central station S - Gösting |
Long-distance transport
From Graz main train station, Railjets run every hour to Vienna main station and alternately to Vienna or Prague airport and Berlin-Charlottenburg once a day. There are also intercity trains to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof , Salzburg Hauptbahnhof and Linz Hauptbahnhof as well as international long-distance trains ( Eurocitys ) from Graz Hauptbahnhof to Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof , Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof , Zürich Hauptbahnhof , Ljubljana , Rijeka (seasonal through coaches via Ljubljana) and Zagreb . There is also a daily pair of REX trains to Budapest-Keleti , which is run as an Intercity from / to Szentgotthárd, a pair of EC trains to Przemyśl and a morning Railjet to Villach main station. The pair of Nightjet trains 464/465 also runs between Graz and Zurich. In addition, the Intercitybus will operate as an ÖBB long-distance connection between Graz Hauptbahnhof and Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof until the Koralm Railway goes into operation .
In connection with the future completely completed Koralmbahn (probably 2026) and the completion of the Semmering base tunnel (probably 2027), an hourly service between Vienna and Villach is to be offered. These trains then operate as a railjet . This line will continue to Salzburg and Germany every two hours. This connection could also be operated with new ICE-4 multiple units that would serve the Frankfurt – Stuttgart – Munich – Salzburg – Villach – Graz – Vienna route. The railjet-xpress (RJX) will also run every two hours between Prague and Villach. This will then continue to Venice and Ljubljana every four hours. In the Vienna – Graz section, the hourly cycle will be increased, which will result in a total of two long-distance trains per hour in each direction between Vienna Hbf and Graz Hbf. This reinforcing line then continues every four hours to Poland and Slovenia / Croatia.
An interregional system connects Maribor with Graz every hour. Linz Hbf and Wörgl Hbf / Innsbruck Hbf have a two-hour connection to Graz. Superimposed there is an hourly service between Graz and Selzthal. The two largest cities in Styria ( Graz and Leoben ) are directly connected to one another every hour. The hourly Interregio between Bruck / Mur and Klagenfurt via Unzmarkt will run every two hours to Graz.
See also
Web links
- Official homepage for the renovation project Graz Hauptbahnhof 2020
- Webcams of the city of Graz and the ÖBB-Infrastruktur with a view of the construction work in the area of the local transport hub and the train station
- Private page about the local transport hub Graz Hauptbahnhof with pictures of the progress and construction reports
- Project website of the ÖBB
Individual evidence
- ↑ ÖBB Graz Hauptbahnhof 2020
- ↑ Completion brochure l The new Graz main train station, October 2015. In: www.oebb.at. Retrieved April 11, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c The railroad comes to Graz. Kleine Zeitung , February 5, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ [emile.uni-graz.at/pub/06S/2006-07-0059.doc The Graz central station] University work by Katharina Siegel
- ↑ ÖBB upgraded the central signal box in Graz by 40.7 million euros. Kleine Zeitung , December 2, 2008, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 . .
- ↑ www.zechner.com - Transport projects on the homepage of the architects Zechner and Zechner
- ↑ Measures for the railway stimulus package via the ÖBB framework plan 2009–2012 ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ An abbreviation to the west of Graz. Kleine Zeitung , June 22, 2012, accessed on May 31, 2020 .
- ^ Rondeau in front of the main train station: "Golden Eye" wins. Kleine Zeitung , September 26, 2012, accessed June 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Local transport hub Graz ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the architects Zechner & Zechner.
- ↑ Stadtentwicklung Graz ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Damage after detonation of an aerial bomb. In: Kronenzeitung. March 27, 2011.
- ^ ÖBB-Infrastruktur - Graz Hauptbahnhof. Retrieved June 22, 2017 .
- ↑ At the train station
- ↑ The Graz main post office will soon be history. Kleine Zeitung , February 29, 2008, archived from the original on September 23, 2013 . .
- ↑ eiba.tuwien.ac.at (PDF; 7.2 MiB), Graz main station and Koralmbahn by Klaus M Schneider
- ↑ GEMEC
- ↑ Last screenings in the Graz “NonStop” cinema , the standard on September 23, 2010.
- ^ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia: Transport Committee 19th meeting (public). Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
- ^ Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: Transport service contract for long-distance transport. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
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| Judendorf-Straßengel ← Bruck an der Mur |
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Graz Don Bosco Fehring → |
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Graz Don Bosco Spielfeld-Straß → |
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Graz Don Bosco Wies-Eibiswald → |
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| - | S61 | Graz Köflacherbahnhof Wies-Eibiswald → |
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| - | S7 | Graz Köflach train station Köflach → |
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