Burggasse-Stadthalle underground station
| Burggasse town hall | |
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| Historic station building with the main library in the background, into which the second exit is integrated | |
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| District : | New building (7th district), Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th district) |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 12 '14 " N , 16 ° 20' 14" E |
| Opened: | Light rail 1898, underground 1989 |
| Newly designed: | 2003 |
| Tracks (platform): | 2 ( side platform ) |
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Burggasse-Stadthalle: 48A |
Burggasse City Hall is a built in low position of the station U6 the Vienna underground at the boundary between the 7 . and the 15 . Viennese district. The namesake is on the one hand the Burggasse, a main axis of the 7th district, which stretches between the Gürtel and Zweierlinie and was named in 1862 after its orientation towards the Hofburg , on the other hand the town hall , which was built in June 1958 in the 15th district . The stop has had the addition of the town hall since July 14, 1958.
history
Like all the systems of the Vienna Steam Light Railroad , the station was designed by Otto Wagner on behalf of the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna . Its construction was completed in December 1897, the commissioning on June 1, 1898 together with the other stations of the belt line.
From 1925, the new Viennese electric light rail also ran on Burggasse , including the pure light rail lines G, GD and DG as well as the mixed-service line 18G . Until 1989, the station was part of the last Viennese light rail line at all, while the other routes taken over by the municipality of Vienna in 1925, i.e. the Wiental and Danube Canal lines, were converted to underground operations by the early 1980s.
In 1989, today's U6 began operating; as early as 1988 the direction of travel of both tracks was swapped. Although the station is almost completely spanned today by the main library building in Vienna , the two side platforms still have the trapezoidal roofs originally intended as rain protection in the open cut. The reason is that the former rail station under since December 1, 1999 listed ( list entry is). Characteristic of the platform area are roughly hewn stone blocks with which the walls are clad.
The historic northern exit of the station leads via fixed stairs into a reception building, as can be seen in a similar form in several other former light rail stations. On the bridge over the U6 system there is a bus stop for the 48A bus in the direction of travel inwards from Baumgartner Höhe to Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring .
The exit at the southern end of the platforms, built after 1960, leads by means of fixed stairs, i.e. not barrier-free, and a lift through a reception building that was redesigned in the course of the construction of the main library in the 2000s (construction start 1999/2000, opening April 7, 2003) the Urban-Loritz-Platz. Here you can change to tram lines 6, 9, 18 and 49. Lines 6 and 18 have their north-western terminus here.
gallery
Otto Wagner's reception building at the northern exit to Burggasse, view towards Thaliastraße
The station is partially located under the main library, which was built until 2003
Staircase
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , p. 171.
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ^ Website of the Vienna city administration
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