Meidling Hauptstrasse underground station
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| Station Meidling Hauptstrasse | |
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| District : | Meidling |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 11 '0 " N , 16 ° 19' 42" E |
| Opened: | 1898 |
| Tracks (platform): | 2 ( central platform ) |
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| Transfer options : | 7A 9A 10A 63A N60 |
The underground station Meidling Hauptstraße , which was written as Meidling-Hauptstraße until at least 1988 , is a stop on the U4 line of the Vienna underground in the 12th district of Meidling .
location
The bus stop is located in the cut next to the Wien River , along Schönbrunner Straße, between Lobkowitzbrücke and Fabriksbrücke. Together with the bus routes that depart from it, it forms an important public transport hub between the southern Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and the business center of the Meidling district.
Exits lead to the local business center, which contains a branch of a large Viennese bakery and other smaller snack bars. The 15th Viennese district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus can be reached via an underpass . Via Schönbrunner Straße you can reach the Meidlinger pedestrian zone and the municipal district office for the 12th district. In addition, the station is a junction for numerous bus routes: for example, lines 7A and 9A to Meidling station , line 10A in the direction of Heiligenstadt and the 63A in the direction of Südwestfriedhof or Wienerbergstrasse.
history
Steam light rail
Today's subway station was originally a three-track station of the Vienna Steam City Railway , in the planning phase still sometimes referred to as Lobkowitzbrücke or Meidlinger Hauptstrasse . The original reception building , built by Otto Wagner on behalf of the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna and stylistically assigned to the Art Nouveau style , was completed in January 1897. Due to its operational importance, it was significantly larger than the other underground stations of the light rail. The station itself finally went into operation on June 1, 1898 together with the Upper Wientallinie (now U4) and the belt line (now U6 ). With the opening of the Lower Wiental Line on June 30, 1899, it finally became a railway junction .
When the main street in Meidling was officially renamed Meidlinger Hauptstraße in 1905 , the station name from 1898 was retained.
The Meidling-Hauptstrasse tram station, the typical tram railing on the right
Platform level in 1899
Vienna electric light rail
After the old steam light railroad last operated on September 30, 1924, the municipality of Vienna took over its infrastructure. After corresponding modifications, Meidling-Hauptstraße was finally served by the Vienna Electric Light Rail from June 4, 1925 . At first it only operated on the Upper Wiental Line and the Belt Line, before the Lower Wiental Line also resumed operations on September 7, 1925. In connection with the electrification, the track systems of the station were simplified. However, the stock track had to be divided as early as 1928 so that two trains could turn around at the same time. With the electric light rail, it was also possible for trains coming from the direction of Hütteldorf-Hacking to turn signals at Meidling-Hauptstrasse station, although this was not used as planned.
Although the original Wagner reception building was one of the most important buildings in the history of art in the Viennese light rail system, according to contemporary newspaper reports, including in the courier of December 1, 1967, it was sacrificed to the project of a city motorway that has not yet been realized . Despite vehement protests from citizens and architects, the building was torn down in August 1968.
Subway
On October 26, 1980, the subway, coming from Heiligenstadt via Landstrasse , first reached the Meidling Hauptstrasse station. In return, as early as October 24, 1980, the W light rail line was shortened to the Hütteldorf-Hacking-Meidling-Hauptstraße section, the G light rail line to the Heiligenstadt-Meidling-Hauptstraße section and the GD light rail line to the Friedensbrücke -Meidling-Hauptstraße section . All traffic in Meidling was temporarily broken , which means that you had to change trains in every direction.
After the U4 was extended from August 31, 1981 via Meidling-Hauptstraße to Hietzing , the tram line W was also discontinued. In return, the middle track, on which the lines G and GD continued to turn, received platforms on both sides according to the so-called Spanish solution as a special feature . For this purpose, the last old wagons of the series N 1 and n 2 still in use at the time had to be specially converted so that they could open their doors on both sides.
In the course of the underground construction, the station that was once open at the top was also covered . Above it is the "U4 Center" business and shopping center, which was built in the late 1970s and converted in the 2000s. It is also home to the U4 disco , which is closely linked to Falco's rise to international pop star. With the renovation, the successor to the first reception building also disappeared, the entrances to the subway were fully integrated into the business and shopping center.
During the planning for the future U6 route between the Gürtel and the Philadelphiabrücke at the end of the 1970s, the then Meidlinger SPÖ district chairman Kurt Neiger favored a link between the U4 and U6 in the Meidling-Hauptstraße station, but was unable to enforce this proposal. Alternatively, the corresponding link was made further into town in the Längenfeldgasse station, which opened in 1989 . In order to make their construction possible, the Stadtbahn could no longer serve Meidling from April 14, 1985, since then Meidling-Hauptstraße has been a pure underground station. The middle track was then filled, creating a particularly wide middle platform .
literature
- Wolfgang Kos, Günter Dinhobl (Ed.): Large station. Vienna and the wide world. Czernin, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7076-0212-5 ( special exhibition of the Vienna Museum 332), (exhibition catalog, Vienna, Vienna Museum, September 28, 2006 - February 25, 2007).
- Friedrich Achleitner : Down with Fischer von Erlach. Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg 1986, ISBN 3-7017-0466-5 .
- Heinz Geretsegger, Max Peintner : Otto Wagner 1841-1918. Unlimited big city. Beginning of modern architecture. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-7017-0187-3 ( Dtv - Kunst 2864).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Lobkowitz Bridge. On: viennatouristguide.at. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , p. 136.
- ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , p. 180.
- ↑ New car park and office building will make shopping in Meidling easier . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 29, 1978, p. 28 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Decision about the U6 route fixed . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 31, 1981, p. 21 ( arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
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