Vienna Praterstern train station
| Vienna Praterstern train station | |
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 Vienna Praterstern train station (east side)
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| Operating point type | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| abbreviation | Nw ( ÖBB ), PR ( VOR ) |
| IBNR | 8100349 |
| opening | June 1, 1959 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Albert Wimmer (New building 2005-2008) |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Vienna |
| state | Vienna |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 13 '5 " N , 16 ° 23' 31" E |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
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| Platforms on the U2 line | |
| Basic data | |
| District : | Leopoldstadt |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 13 ′ 5 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 31 ″ E |
| Opened: | 1981 (U1), 2008 (U2) |
| Tracks (platform): | 4 ( side platform , central platform ) |
| Station abbreviation: | PR |
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| Subway lines : |
 
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| Transfer options : |
R O 5 5B 80A 82A N25 N29 N81 regional buses
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| Passengers: | 139,000 / day |
The Wien Praterstern station (1975 to 2005 Wien Nord station , from April to December 2006 Wien Nord Praterstern station ) is an important traffic structure in the 2nd district of Vienna . In 1959 he followed the function, but not the exact location, of the Vienna North Station , which opened in 1865 and was badly damaged in 1945, and the former Praterstern stop of the connecting railway . With its subway station, the train station has a daily passenger frequency of up to 110,000 people in local and regional traffic and makes the Praterstern one of the most important transport hubs in the city. From the timetable change in December 2017 to the timetable change in December 2019, the station was also the terminus of the WESTblue line operated by WESTbahn GmbH .
General
It is one of the most important stations on the main route of the Vienna S-Bahn . The through station is high above the elliptical Praterstern, a roundabout at the entrance to the Vienna Prater , entertainment district and local recreation area. From here, almost all important points in Vienna and the surrounding area can be reached directly by public transport. Regional trains, four S-Bahn lines, two U-Bahn lines, two tram lines and several bus lines stop here.
Running lines
history
Opening in 1959
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The Praterstern was fundamentally rebuilt in 1954/1955. The new construction of a train station for local and regional traffic was coordinated, it was built in the new center of the square and opened on June 1, 1959. At that time the tram lines A, Ak, B, Bk, C and 24, E2, G2, 5, 16, 25, 25R, 25K ran here. From the beginning, trains coming from the north and north-west railways ran under the name Wiener Schnellbahn from Floridsdorf to Praterstern station, some then continued to the main customs office ; Initially, it was operated with diesel and steam locomotives and without a regular schedule . Since 1962 there has been a continuous S-Bahn with electric operation up to Vienna Meidling .
On September 1, 1975, the name was changed to Vienna North , together with the Wien Mitte station , "in order to better describe the two stations, especially abroad as the starting and end points of international train and coach connections, than Vienna stations." On February 28, 1981 the Praterstern underground station was opened, which connected the station to another high-level means of transport.
The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) made no investments in the renovation of the station for decades. The building has looked shabby and neglected since the 1980s. In the perception of the Viennese public, the train station and its surroundings were increasingly becoming an eyesore .
In 1997 the ÖBB started the so-called station offensive , as part of which the north station was also to be redesigned or rebuilt.
The new station designed by Albert Wimmer was given a translucent roof and four platforms. New wayfinding systems and barrier-free equipment have improved the transfer routes to the two underground lines U1 and U2 (since May 2008) as well as to the stops of the tram and bus lines at the station forecourt, which have been rearranged by the city administration in consultation with the ÖBB.
Modernization from 2004
The renovation or new construction of the station, which was carried out in coordination with the overall planning of the City of Vienna for the redesign of the square, began in 2004. The station name became Praterstern when the first new platform was completed in April 2006 in Vienna-North and finally when the timetable changed in December 2006 in Vienna Praterstern changed so that the S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations now have the same station name. At the platform level, full operations began in April 2007 in the new station. The official opening took place on April 4, 2008. The investment volume was 39 million euros.
The platforms were widened significantly and raised to 55 cm above the top of the rails to enable passengers to get on and off easily. A tactile blind guidance system is provided for visually impaired passengers . In the new station, trade and service companies have settled on an area of around 6,000 m². The new business premises, including branches of a large grocery chain and a fast-food restaurant chain as anchor tenants , are exempt from the statutory Sunday closure in Vienna due to a special regulation affecting train stations .
After the European Football Championship in 2008, according to plans by the architect Boris Podrecca, the redesign of the forecourt in the city center up to the Tegetthoff monument, including the re-routing of the tram tracks; the work was completed in 2010. The structural implementation of the forecourt, however, was subject to severe criticism from the start. The so-called pergola on the forecourt is therefore to be removed in 2020, as the originally intended greening of the steel pipes has not been carried out in the last ten years.
Below is a table of the platform lengths:
| platform | length |
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| 1 | 214 m |
| 2 | 216 m |
| 3 | 214 m |
| 4th | 216 m |
After the closure of the 3rd southern station in December 2009, the Vienna Praterstern station was also the starting point for long-distance trains on the northern line until the new Vienna Central Station was completed in December 2014.
The subway station
The underground station was opened on February 28, 1981 as part of the opening of the fourth section of the U1 (Nestroyplatz – Praterstern). It is located directly under the square and was initially opened with a central platform and the shell of a side platform for the later planned U1B line towards the stadium. In the years 2001 to 2003, the conversion to two separate side platforms took place, which had become necessary due to the expected high passenger frequency with the opening of the U2 route towards the stadium. The U2 extension made the earlier plans for a branch off the U1 and thus the middle and side platforms finally obsolete.
In the course of this renovation, a new exit including the reception building (covered access) was created in the direction of Lassallestrasse . Another exit leads via a mezzanine floor, on which there is a branch of a large Viennese bakery, to the city-inward side of the ÖBB train station. Here you can change to tram lines O and 5 as well as bus lines 5B and 80A. Praterstrasse and Nordbahnstrasse can be reached via passages. There are other transfer options to the main S-Bahn line and to regional trains operated by ÖBB.
On May 10, 2008, the extension of the U2 line from the Schottenring terminus, which had been served up until then, to the new stadium terminus at Ernst-Happel-Stadion was opened. The area of the U2 is mainly entered through a newly constructed glass building at the northern end of the ÖBB ticket hall, oriented towards the entrance of the Volksprater, which, in addition to the exits to the underground, also houses a bakery, a restaurant and a travel grocery store. The platforms of the Praterstern U2 station are at an obtuse angle south of the U1 station and extend from the forecourt opposite the Tegetthoff monument to the beginning of the exhibition street . The new hall-like station area is supplied with daylight by means of domes on the surface. The tram line 21, which had previously operated via the Praterstern, and the special stadium traffic lines as well as the special line 81 to the exhibition grounds were closed at the end of the operating day May 9, 2008. Classic car sets drove the whole day, the last operational trip was carried out with a 21er adorned with a mourning ribbon and with the exuberant farewell mood of the passengers.
Design
The long connecting corridor between the U1 and U2 stations was designed in 2008 with the enamel mural “… dreaming a dream…” by the artist Susanne Zemrosser. In terms of content, the picture is based on scenes from the Wurstelprater and showpieces from the Pratermuseum in a naive, childlike style . The design was hand-painted onto the panels by Ernesto Müller and Martina Schatz. The 50.6 meter long and 2.5 meter high painting is recognized in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest burned enamel image.
The station came into public conversation again in 2017 when the media discovered that the three-meter-tall station clock on the outside was in reality hardly visible in the year after the opening due to the design of the forecourt. ÖBB emphasizes that it is already working on solutions, but that it does not have a really useful alternative to bring the clock back to its best advantage.
gallery
railway station
Main front of the station, west side
View from the south
South-east side of the station
Northeast side of the station
Station forecourt
Stop line O
Stop line 5
Stop line 80A
Barely visible station clock
Metro station
Praterstern reception building
Venediger Au reception building
Lassallestrasse reception building
Admission building Lassallestrasse - Venediger Au
Reception building Lassallestrasse - Joseph-Roth-Gasse
Reception building on Nordbahnstrasse
Reception building in Heinestrasse
Design
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
part 1 (left)
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
part 2
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
part 3
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
part 4
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
part 5
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
part 6 (right)
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
detail
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
detail
Mural "... dream a dream ...",
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Single mural on the platform of the U1
literature
- Franz Haas: The Vienna North Station . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-86680-036-3 .
- Alfred Horn: Railway picture album. Volume 6: The period from 1945 to 1955. Reconstruction, occupation, foreign and bag locomotives, private, local and factory railways. Bohmann, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901983-15-5 .
- 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).
- Manfred Schenekel: Attempt of a social history of the Vienna Nordbahnhof in the years 1938-1945. Univ. Dipl. Arb. Vienna 1993.
- The Nordbahnhof in Vienna . In: The Gazebo . Issue 22, 1867, pp. 341–343 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Aerial view of the Praterstern train station
- The new construction of the passenger station of the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn in the Allgemeine Bauzeitung on Anno (Austrian Newspapers Online)
- Plans of the north station in the building newspaper from 1870
- ÖBB station offensive Vienna North on rails
- www.baudoku.at Multimedia construction documentation of the Vienna train station offensive
- Private page about the construction progress
- Ziel2Wien - train stations
Individual evidence
- ↑ derStandard.at - Stephansplatz has the most U-Bahn passengers , accessed on November 5, 2011
- ↑ From December 15: New Westbahn hourly service with additional offers , Kleine Zeitung, accessed on December 23, 2019
- ↑ The Schnellbahn makes the commute shorter , report in the daily newspaper Arbeiter-Zeitung , Vienna, No. 124, June 2, 1959, p. 3
- ↑ Dr. Kirchmayer ch, Press and Advertising Department of the Austrian Federal Railways: Readers' opinion: Renaming of train stations . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 11, 1975, p. 04 , center right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Opening Hours Act 2003
- ↑ Vienna Opening Hours Ordinance 2008
- ↑ Nordbahnhof City: Living, cycling and changing trains
- ↑ "Bare Steel for More Space", Der Standard , September 23, 2008
- ^ "Dream and Reality at the Wiener Praterstern", Wiener Zeitung , October 22, 2009
- ↑ Accessible information
- ↑ Happel Stadium from May 10th
- ↑ U2 station Praterstern ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Philipp Maurer in Johann Hödl (Ed.): Wiener U-Bahn-Kunst . Wiener Linien, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02173-0 , p. 47ff.
- ↑ Huge ÖBB clock "hidden" for years on ORF from November 14, 2017, accessed on November 15, 2017.
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