Michelbeuern underground station
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Michelbeuern General Hospital |
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| The station in 2008 | |
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| District : | Alsergrund (9th district) |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 13 '15 " N , 16 ° 20' 38" E |
| Opened: | 1987 |
| Tracks (platform): | 2 ( central platform ) |
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| Transfer options : | 42 N8 |
The Michelbeuern - General Hospital underground station is on the U6 line of the Vienna underground in the 9th district of Vienna , Alsergrund . The name comes from the Alsergrund district of Michelbeuern and the General Hospital of the City of Vienna (AKH), which is located in the neighborhood. The station extends parallel to the Währinger Gürtel at the hospital level. The exit from the central platform leads by elevator , escalator and fixed stairs to the reception building on the Michelbeuernsteg, which spans the belt and connects the 18th district directly with the hospital.
history
Steam light rail
According to the final construction decision for the Vienna steam light rail in 1892, the responsible commission for transport facilities in Vienna provided for a station for freight traffic and for approval purposes on the belt line in Michelbeuern from the beginning, i.e. for supplying the city with food. The 740 meter long freight station stretched from Canongasse to Czermakgasse, today's Leo-Slezak-Gasse. The facility, located in an arch, had a radius of 200 meters and its level was largely lower than the neighboring belt road. It therefore had to be secured with retaining and lining walls . Originally, in addition to the two continuous line tracks, two side tracks and two stock tracks were planned; construction began on February 16, 1893. Apart from the demolition of the water reservoir of the former Kaiser Ferdinand water pipeline , which began in 1892, this was the very first light rail construction work.
The Lower Austrian State Medical Council objected to the freight station in Michelbeuern , since the noise of the train would disturb the sick in the neighboring Lower Austrian State Mental Asylum at Brünnlfeld . The objections of the medical council that the Michelbeuern station would require the insane asylum to be relocated were rejected in the course of 1892. The reason given was that the concern about the foster care was too great, as the distance between the ward and the institution was quite large. Nevertheless, the system was redesigned in such a way that the municipality of Vienna could create a road between the garden of the insane asylum and the station, the later inner belt.
At times, consideration was given to setting up coaling systems for steam locomotives in Michelbeuern . The station would have become a so-called coal station with the associated coal slides. In 1894 this was not yet decided, in the end it never happened.
In order to do justice to its task of supplying food, the Michelbeuern station in the Währinger Gürtel / Kreuzgasse / Kutschkergasse intersection was given a two-storey company building on an area of 820 square meters. This was designed on the ground floor at railway level as a freight magazine for goods handling and on the upper floor at street level as a market hall . It also housed service rooms. The building originally had a glazed veranda facing the street , which in later years had to give way to the widening of the roadway of the outer belt.
The building at Währinger Gürtel number 40 was designed by the architect Otto Wagner , like the other buildings of the Stadtbahn, and was intended as a central market for sponges and berries. The construction was completed in September 1895, almost three years before the tram itself. The structure at an altitude of 200 meters also forms the highest point in the Alsergrund district.
The belt line finally started its scheduled operation on May 11, 1898. But initially there was not a single switch in Michelbeuern , initially there was an open area between the two tracks along the inner belt and the market hall on the outer belt. The official opening ceremony of the Stadtbahn took place on May 9th, 1898, in which Emperor Franz Joseph I also took part with his Imperial and Royal Court Salon procession . However, regular passenger trains of the Stadtbahn did not stop here.
Only then began the construction of the freight station with separate tracks III and IV for the market hall trains, which went into operation in 1899 at the latest. The two side tracks were connected to main tracks I and II both in the direction of Heiligenstadt and in the direction of Meidling-Hauptstraße for the passenger trains that continued to pass through. This required the installation of an interlocking that was operated with batteries and operated by a single point attendant . He received his instructions from the station officer who was in the same room.
In 1907, the " Edison Cinema", the largest in Vienna, was lavishly set up in the Michelbeuerner station building . There were elegant boxes and a sculpture of the emperor in the decorated hall, which was lit with colorful lightbulbs. The cinema was only a decade in the First World War in its buffet found offtake for needy children instead. Today the former market hall is used by the boxing club and the table tennis branch of Wiener Linien as a training facility, and the building also houses company apartments .
The tram opened on May 9, 1898, between the market hall and the belt line there is still an open space without tracks, the building is still without any station signs
The market hall is now through the station labeled "Michelbeuern" as operating agency recognized the railroad
Sketch of the station from 1899 omitting all side tracks, to the left of the market hall the signal box that was built later
The now listed market hall from 1895, added in 2008
Electric light rail
In the course of the handover of the infrastructure of the belt line to the municipality of Vienna for the purpose of setting up the Vienna Electric Light Rail , the freight traffic of the state railway in Michelbeuern ended. Of 23 December 1923, no goods were more accepted, no more cars from 9 September 1924 delivered . Subsequently, the municipality of Vienna - urban trams (WStB) took over the freight station - electrified from spring 1925 - and set up a track connection with the Vienna tram network there. In addition, the station received a stub track including a high-voltage connection for one of the two converter cars .
Market traffic to Michelbeuern only played a subordinate role for the municipality of Vienna, while passenger traffic on the electric light rail was more successful than expected. Therefore, on July 5, 1927, the new operator built the third depot for the electric light rail on the site of the freight station after Hütteldorf-Hacking and Heiligenstadt . The 200-meter-long, curved car hall offered space for 72 cars on four tracks. 32 more cars could be parked under a wooden flying roof , which also spanned four tracks. There was also space for 69 cars outside.
In return, market traffic to Michelbeuern ended in 1927, while the electric light rail trains continued to pass the station without stopping. In addition, from the same year the combined tram and light rail line 18G also used the local transfer to the tram network until it was discontinued in 1945.
Subway line U6
Today's underground station was opened on October 31, 1987, when the light rail lines G and GD still ran here, but were renamed to U6 on October 7, 1989. In 1987, the station also received the addition of "General Hospital", in return it lost its old operating abbreviation MB from steam light rail signs and was instead assigned the new abbreviation MI. The central platform with a pitched roof is at ground level, the reception building one floor higher. The architecture is based on the Otto Wagner style of the historical stations of the belt line. North of the stop there is the possibility to change to tram line 42 in the direction of Schottentor or Währing , Antonigasse. In the future, the station is to be expanded into an intersection with the U5 line , but there is not yet a binding schedule.
The former depot of the electric light rail has also been used by the U6 since 1989, it was expanded to its present size in the years 1999–2002. The six-axle double-articulated low-floor wagons of types T and T 1 are serviced and parked here today . To the north of the former market hall, there is still an internal track connection between the subway and tram, for example for transfers of subway cars to the main Wiener Linien workshop .
Future underground line U5
As part of the second part of the U2 / U5 line intersection expansion project, the Michelbeuern subway station is to be turned into a subway junction that will be served by the new U5 as well as the U6 . The new U5 will pass under the U6, which runs in an elevated position.
Neighboring stations along the U5 will be the Elterleinplatz underground station and the Arne-Karlsson-Park underground station .
literature
- Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X .
- Dipl.-Ing. Spitzer: Station Michelbeuern General Hospital. Opened on October 31, 1987. Wiener Stadtwerke-Verkehrsbetriebe, Vienna, 1987
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Chief Engineer Rudolf Digit: About the current state of public transport systems in Vienna. In: W. Hostmann (Hrsg.), Fr. Giesecke (Hrsg.), Richard Koch (Hrsg.): Journal for the entire local and tramway system. XIII. Vintage. Published by JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1894, pp. 135-161.
- ^ Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X , p. 23.
- ↑ Chief Engineer Rudolf Numbers: Addendum to the essay “The public transport routes in Vienna”. In: W. Hostmann (Hrsg.), Fr. Giesecke (Hrsg.), Richard Koch (Hrsg.): Journal for the entire local and tramway system. XII. Vintage. Published by JF Bergmann, Wiesbaden, 1892, pp. 159–167.
- ^ A b Hans Peter Pawlik, Josef Otto Slezak: Wagner's work for Vienna. Total work of art Stadtbahn (= International Archive for Locomotive History. Volume 44). Slezak, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85416-185-9 , p. 56
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ^ A b Alfred Wolf: 9 ways in the 9th district - overview from the subway. On: austria-forum.org. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ^ Operating facilities of the Vienna Stadtbahn (second part), In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . Year 1899, number 13, pp. 76–79.
- ^ Boxclub Wiener Linien on eversports.at, accessed on November 5, 2019
- ↑ Chapter Stadtbahn in: Städtewerk: Das neue Wien , Elbemühl, Vienna, 1928, pp. 98–115.
- ^ Plan of the train station from 1949
- ^ Station Michelbeuern - AKH - U2xU5 - the new U2 and the new U5. City of Vienna and Wiener Linien, accessed on June 25, 2020 .
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