Roßauer Lände underground station
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| View over the station to the Otto Wagner reception building | |
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| District : | Alsergrund |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 13 '18 " N , 16 ° 22' 4" E |
| Opened: | Steam light rail: August 6, 1901 Electric light rail: October 20, 1925 Underground: April 3, 1978 |
| Newly designed: | 2000 |
| Tracks (platform): | 2 ( side platforms ) |
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The Roßauer Lände station on the U4 line of the Vienna subway is located in the 9th district of Vienna, Alsergrund . The name corresponds to the street Rossauer Lände (in the old spelling), which is named after the historic district of Rossau .
The station has two outside platforms , is located in the gallery line parallel to the Danube Canal and extends between Mosergasse and about Siemens-Nixdorf-Steg .
history
Steam light rail
The station was built for the Danube Canal line of the Vienna steam light rail . In their early plans, it sometimes appears as Rossau or Elisabethquai . The stop , designed by Otto Wagner on behalf of the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna , was completed in March 1900 and opened on August 6, 1901. Its operational abbreviation is RL, it corresponds to the type of underground train station as Wagner developed it, which is aesthetically somewhat more modern than that of the elevated train stations .
According to the city council decision of May 1, 1903, the station was named Elisabethpromenade soon after it opened . This decision was - after the end of the monarchy - revised on November 6, 1919, but initially had no practical impact because steam light rail operations on the Danube Canal line had to be completely stopped on December 8, 1918 due to a lack of coal. As a result of the Orthographic Conference of 1901 , the spelling was also changed to Roßauer Lände with “ß”.
Electric light rail and subway
In 1923, the municipality of Vienna leased the Stadtbahn, with the exception of the suburban line, from the state, electrified the routes and reopened them as the Vienna Electric Stadtbahn . So the station Roßauer border was, after nearly eight years of operation, break from the from the October 20, 1925 lines operated DG, GD and WD. The DG, GD, GW and WG lines last operated here on March 31, 1978, before the U4 line was finally extended via Friedensbrücke to Schottenring from April 3, 1978, and thus also the age of the subway on the Roßauer Lände started.
At the Grünentorgasse exit, the reception building in Otto Wagner style has been preserved, which can only be reached from the platform area via fixed stairs. The station has two other, barrier-free accesses. One of them is located at the northern end of the platforms and takes an elevator towards Seegasse. It was completely redesigned in the 2000s. The second exit leads from the side platform in the direction of Heiligenstadt onto the promenade along the Danube Canal and can be reached at ground level. This access was added at the beginning of the 2000s.
gallery
Otto Wagner's reception building
Grimacing mask with grape leaves on the staircase exit window towards the Danube Canal
Decorative elements in the entrance area
View from the Lände to the rear exit, the typical tram railing above
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ The adaptation of place names to the spelling rules decided by the Vienna City Council in 1999 (“Rossau” instead of “Roßau”) has not yet been implemented by Wiener Linien .
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ↑ Line U4 Heiligenstadt - Hütteldorf on homepage.univie.ac.at, accessed on May 15, 2020
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