Schweglerstrasse underground station
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| Entrance in Benedikt-Schellinger-Gasse | |
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| District : | Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus |
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 11 '53 " N , 16 ° 19' 42" E |
| Opened: | 1994 |
| Tracks (platform): | 2 ( central platform ) |
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| Transfer options : | 9 49 12A N49 |
The Schweglerstraße station on the Vienna underground line U3 is multi-storey and in the 15th district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus . It was opened on September 3, 1994 when the third section of the U3 was released. The street named after the mayor of the formerly independent community Rudolfsheim , Johann Schwegler (1820–1903), is named after the town in 1875 .
The station extends under the Märzstraße between Benedikt-Schellinger-Gasse and Stättermayergasse and has a central platform. Four exits lead to the traffic-calmed Benedikt-Schellinger-Gasse and the Stättermayergasse. The station is equipped with both fixed staircases and escalators , including the three longest escalators in Austria at the time of construction, which overcome a height difference of 20 meters over a length of 43 meters. A barrier-free elevator exit has been set up in the operations building at Benedikt-Schellinger-Gasse 13 . It is possible to change to tram lines 9 to Gersthof or Westbahnhof and 49 in the direction of Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring or Hütteldorf and to the bus line 12A in the direction of Längenfeldgasse or Schmelz. The Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital and Reithoffer-Park were located nearby .
Design
In keeping with the tradition of equipping the stations on the U3 line with works of art, the Schweglerstrasse station was put under the motto "Art of Technology". The Tele-Archeology installation by media artist Nam June Paik has been located in the basement of the station since 1994 . A brick-lined subway car appears to be entering a black tunnel. Various elements such as monitors, keyboards and circuit boards are embedded in the bricks - rare pieces from the Vienna Brick Museum . Inside, video sequences by Nam June Paik were originally shown on 39 monitors; The playback system is now defective and cannot be repaired due to a lack of spare parts.
A number of exhibits from the Technical Museum were also installed in the basement . In the shaft area between the elevators, a Mini Cooper , the wheels of a locomotive, a sports plane and a Mercury space capsule hang from the ceiling. The surge air shaft houses a "wave machine" with a propeller three meters in diameter, which was supposed to be driven by the surge of air from the incoming and outgoing trains, but this does not work because the air flow is too low.
The station area in the direction of the Benedikt-Schellinger-Gasse exit is decorated with 22 portraits of important Austrian inventors, technicians and physicists. These are the tunnel construction pioneers Ladislaus von Rabcewicz , Leopold Müller and Christian Veder , the railway engineers Carl von Ghega , Karl Gölsdorf , Alois Negrelli and Friedrich Ignaz von Emperger , the inventors Josef Ressel , Carl Auer von Welsbach , Viktor Kaplan , Johann Korbuly , Siegfried Marcus , Gustav Tauschek and Wilhelm Kress , the physicists Ludwig Boltzmann , Lise Meitner , Erwin Schrödinger , Christian Doppler , Robert von Lieben and Josef Maximilian Petzval , the designer Ferdinand Porsche and the founder of the Technological Trade Museum Wilhelm Exner .
Installation of tele-archeology
Exhibits of the Technical Museum
Portraits of pioneers in technology and physics
Portrait Christian Veder
Portrait of Ladislaus von Rabcewicz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Location of the stations
- ^ Wiener Stadtwerke-Verkehrsbetriebe: From Westbahnhof to Johnstrasse. The new underground line in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus , 1994 (brochure)
- ↑ Aneta Zahradnik in Johann Hödl (Ed.): Wiener U-Bahn-Kunst. Wiener Linien , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02173-0 , pp. 105ff.
- ^ Art mediator 2004: The Wiener Linien
- ^ Johann Hödl in Johann Hödl (Hrsg.): Viennese U-Bahn-Kunst. Wiener Linien , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-200-02173-0 , pp. 173ff.
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