Schottenring underground station
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| District : | Inner City , Leopoldstadt |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 13 ′ 1 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 17 ″ E |
| Opened: | 1901 |
| Tracks (platform): | 4 ( central platform ) |
| Station abbreviation: | SR |
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| Subway lines : |
 
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| Transfer options : | 1 31 3A N25 N31 N38 N60 N66 |
The Schottenring station is an underground crossing station of the U2 and U4 lines between the 1st ( Inner City ) and the 2nd district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt . It is named after the Schottenring, which is reminiscent of the Schottenkloster founded by Irish Benedictine monks in the Middle Ages . The Ringturm designed by Erich Boltenstern , the Augarten Bridge and the trendy restaurant Flex are in the immediate vicinity .
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The station, which is parallel to and below the Danube Canal , has a central platform and two side platforms. The U4 systems are in the gallery stretch along the Danube Canal, while those of the U2 are about 23 meters below the Danube Canal. The two areas are connected by escalators (see picture), fixed staircases and lifts. The U2 has side platforms in two separate tunnels. Exits lead to the Franz-Josefs-Kai by means of fixed stairs and escalators . There you can change to tram lines 1 in the direction of Prater Hauptallee or Stefan-Fadinger-Platz and 31 in the direction of Stammersdorf as well as to the city bus line 3A. With the extension of the U2 to the stadium, new exits have also been created on the Leopoldstadt side: One leads next to the Kaiserbad barrage directly onto the Treppelweg along the Danube Canal, another exit crosses under the busy Obere Donaustraße and leads into Herminengasse, a traffic-calmed alley in the 2nd district.
history
The station was built for the Danube Canal line of the Vienna steam light rail . In their early plans, it was sometimes referred to as the Kaiserbad before it finally got the name that is still used today. The station, designed by Otto Wagner on behalf of the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna , was completed in May 1900 and opened on August 6, 1901. It was closed in 1918 and reopened on October 20, 1925 as part of the new Viennese electric light rail . The original reception building opposite the Kaiserbad barrage, which was also designed by Otto Wagner, survived the heavy artillery battles along the Danube Canal during the Battle of Vienna in 1945, but was demolished in the 1970s as part of the renovation of the Danube Canal and Wiental line to the U4 line and a new building replaced. This was mainly due to the lack of monument protection . This step was justified with the conversion of the station from two to four-track operation, which was necessary due to the connection with the U2.
On April 3, 1978 (after a two-day break in operation) the converted station for the U4 was reopened. On August 30, 1980, the U2 reached the Schottenring station. In 1981 an attempt was made to close a subway ring around the 1st district by means of a line U2 / U4 , but this was dropped again after three weeks of trial operation due to the chaos it caused. Since 1980, the Schottenring station was the terminus of the U2 line. A complete reconstruction took place between 2002 and 2008, one track of the U2 was removed. During this time, the so-called Spanish solution was used provisionally : the U2 trains could be left on both sides. A completely new station on the U2 line was created under the Danube Canal and opened on May 10, 2008. The construction was carried out in a closed construction.
After the opening of the new, lower-lying U2 station, renovation work began in the area of the former, level platforms of U2 and U4. The remaining track of the U2 in the middle of the two U4 island platforms was removed.
gallery
Schottenring reception building
Reception building Salztorbrücke
Admission building Herminengasse
Exit promenade
Mural “Herminengasse” by Michaela Melián
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Antonia Graf: Otto Wagner. 1: The Architect's Work 1860–1902. 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, pp. 134–248.
- ^ Line U4 Heiligenstadt - Hütteldorf
- ↑ Vienna is getting a subway - monument protection is mandatory ( Memento from May 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Operating time GW
- ↑ Holes in the cityscape, wrong ways in the subway network. The press, accessed February 2, 2020 .
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