Chemnitz bus station
| Chemnitz bus station | |
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 Chemnitz bus station (2008)
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| Data | |
| opening | 1966-1968 |
| particularities | listed |
| location | |
| city | Chemnitz |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 50 '26 " N , 12 ° 55' 37" E |
The Chemnitz bus station , also ZOB Chemnitz , is the central bus station in the Saxon city of Chemnitz . It is located about 400 meters from the main train station , on Straße der Nations opposite Schillerplatz .
History and construction
Traditionally, the main stop for regional and city buses in Chemnitz was at the main train station. In 1955, a total of 21 bus routes operated by VEB Kraftverkehr Karl-Marx-Stadt left there. This only changed in the late 1960s. After a two-year construction period, the most modern bus station in the GDR was opened on January 7, 1968 in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt . At the time, the bus station, whose approximately 1200 square meter roof structure is now a listed building, was even considered the most modern facility in Europe.
The bus station was built as an experimental building by the Deutsche Bauakademie . The bus station had 12 bus platforms, a 60-meter-long arrival platform and a cantilevered waiting hall that housed ticket counters, telephone booths, baggage machines and sales stands.
The bus platforms are roofed over with fiberglass-reinforced plastic shells from the start . The roof of the waiting hall is attached to pylons suspended by rope bracing . The total construction costs were around seven million marks .
The central bus stop in Chemnitz, which already existed in the mid-1990s, was rebuilt by 1999. At the same time, the renovation of the departure area, which now only has 10 bus platforms, was completed. In 2008, the operating concept of the bus and tram network in Chemnitz was fundamentally redesigned , also as part of the preparations for the Chemnitz model . In the course of this, CVAG gave up its last four departure stands and largely withdrew from the bus station. Their lines were concentrated on the central stop as the central transfer point - which eliminated around 230 daily departures.
In 2014 it was decided to tear down the old bus station and relocate the stops to the main station. The building of the neighboring stock spinning mill is to be converted into the central library of the Technical University and part of the bus station area will be used. As early as 2009, the first plans were known that provided for the dismantling of the bus station. Funding for the renovation that took place in 1999 prevented it from being deedicated until 2014, as funding would have to be repaid.
The variant favored by the city of Chemnitz for a new bus station plans to partially reduce the size of the station forecourt, which was redesigned with stone slabs in the early 2000s, and to demolish the listed water tower. The new bus station would then be within sight of the main train station, about 200 meters away. The way to the buses is not covered. The long-distance buses should no longer stop at the bus station. These are to have their own stop in Dresdener Straße, near the pedestrian tunnel to be built from 2015 for a planned EUR 2 million.
Rattle well
A fountain was built next to the bus station, which is now a listed rattle fountain . With this construction, the water pours down from above onto large bowls, which then tip over under this load and empty again with a clattering noise.
business
Even at the opening, the bus station was used by 30,000 passengers a day. In 1978 there were 500 departures every working day (around 200,000 annually). After the withdrawal of CVAG, the number of departures fell to around 51,000 per year, not counting the departures and arrivals of coaches. The bus station is operated by RVE as the successor to Autobus Sachsen .
In autumn 2014, the bus station was approached in regional and city traffic by CVAG (only amplifier trips on student line 51), Regiobus Mittelachsen and RVE.
In the long-distance bus service , the bus station is served by Flixbus and Ecolines . ADAC Postbus , Berlin Linien Bus and Vogtland long-distance bus gave up the stop in the middle of the 2010s as part of the operational closure.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kraftkursbuch 1954/55 District Karl-Marx-Stadt, ed. from the District Directorate for Motor Transport Karl-Marx-Stadt, valid from October 3, 1954 to May 21, 1955.
- ↑ a b c d Federal Archives : Image 183-G0108-0203-001 - General German Intelligence Service - Central image (online)
- ↑ a b c d e Grit Baldauf: Chemnitz bus station is to move to Bahnhofstrasse . Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck, Chemnitzer October 26, 2010 ( online [accessed October 26, 2014]).
- ^ German architecture (Volume 22) . 1973 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ a b Mandy Fischer: Train and bus united: This is how the new main station should look . Chemnitzer Verlag und Druck, Chemnitzer October 16, 2014 ( online [accessed October 26, 2014]).
- ↑ Federal Archives: Image 183-1984-0804-015 - General German Intelligence Service - Central Image (online)
