Herrengasse underground station
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| The exit at Minoritenplatz is in front of the Foreign Ministry | |
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| District : | Inner city |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 12 '34 " N , 16 ° 21' 57" E |
| Opened: | 1991 |
| Tracks (platform): | 2 ( side platform ) |
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| Transfer options : | 1A 2A |
The Herrengasse station on the U3 line in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt , opened on April 6, 1991. The station, which is located directly under the government district with the Foreign Ministry , Federal Chancellery and Presidential Chancellery and extends between Wallnerstrasse and Minoritenplatz , was named after Herrengasse , which refers to the former seat of the Lower Austrian provincial government. The platforms are located as side platforms in two separate tunnel tubes.
Exits lead on the one hand by escalators to Fahnengasse , a short connecting lane between Wallnerstrasse and Herrengasse, on the other hand by elevator and fixed stairs to Minoritenplatz. This means that the station is barrier-free. The Herrengasse entrance is connected to the inner-city pedestrian zone Kohlmarkt-Tuchlauben-Graben-Kärntner Straße via Wallnerstraße .
Construction work on this section of the U3 line began in November 1983 and turned out to be unexpectedly difficult: on July 13, 1987, soil contaminated with mercury was found in the area of this station under the Lower Austrian country house.
Design
In the course of the underground construction, the Minoritenplatz was dug up and then the surface was restored. In 1991 the floor plan of the former Ludwig Chapel was displayed by means of a low stone wall. The Gothic chapel was added to the east end of the Minorite Church in 1316-1328. In 1903 the architecturally very valuable building was demolished for no good reason. The reproduced floor plan can be understood as a reminder to future generations to deal more carefully with the architectural heritage of earlier generations.
Memory of the destroyed Ludwig Chapel
Explanation board
Individual evidence
- ^ Station Herrengasse
- ↑ Finding of soil contaminated with mercury in the area of construction section U3 / 9 - Herrengasse ( Memento from August 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Mercury: Ten workers in the hospital . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna July 15, 1987, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ^ Johann Hödl in Johann Hödl (Hrsg.): Viennese U-Bahn-Kunst . Wiener Linien, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02173-0 , p. 176 ff.
Web links
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