Appellhofplatz underground station
| Appellhofplatz | |
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 Stop section "Appellhofplatz / Breite Straße" |
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| Basic data | |
| District | Old town north |
| Opened | 1968/69 |
| Newly designed | 2006 |
| Tracks (platform) | 4 (side platforms) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '21 " N , 6 ° 57' 3" E |
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| Stretch) | Inner city tunnel |
| Line (s) | 3, 4, 5, 16, 18 |
The Appellhofplatz underground station in Cologne includes the two stops Appellhofplatz / Breite Straße and Appellhofplatz / Zeughaus, as well as the subterranean track triangle in between . On weekdays, around 1,000 trains from five lines stop at four platforms at this underground station.
history
The underground station near the above-ground Appellhofplatz is part of the inner city tunnel, which was planned by the city of Cologne as an underground tram route in the 1960s and financed from its own resources. This led to a relatively simple construction with tight curve radii and branches at the same height . Only the Friesenplatz – Dom branch is passed under the Gleisdreieck without crossing. The station was opened in two stages in 1968 (Appellhofplatz / Zeughaus) and 1969 (Appellhofplatz / Breite Straße) .
The much more frequented part of the stop at Breite Straße was converted to elevated platforms in October 2006, which enables step-free access to the light rail vehicles. The Zeughaus stop section , on the other hand, is largely unchanged from its original condition, as this section is by far the least frequented Cologne tunnel stop, with 2,000 people entering and leaving the station per day.
Weak points of the system
The Gleisdreieck is now considered the bottleneck of the inner city tunnel. The crossing connections Neumarkt↔Friesenplatz and Neumarkt↔Dom / Hbf record 60 train journeys per hour on weekdays, so mutual hindrances are unavoidable.
From today's point of view, it seems particularly incomprehensible that the least frequented branch, Friesenplatz↔Dom / Hbf, has been developed so that it does not cross, while delays are the order of the day on the other two branches. However, the Friesenplatz-Dom relation replaced a heavily frequented tram route, while the branches in the direction of Neumarkt were new connections, the frequency of which was not foreseeable.
Cologne heads
The central pillars in the Appellhofplatz underground station were released for artists so that they could immortalize forty known and unknown Cologne heads there . Forty portraits were sprayed in triplicate, black and white, monochrome and multicolored, onto aluminum plates and attached during a nightly action. Among the Cologne heads portrayed are Alfred Biolek , Jürgen Zeltinger , Günter Schulte , Hermann Götting , Willy Millowitsch and Pierre Littbarski .
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Friesenplatz ← Görlinger Center |
3 |
Neumarkt Thielenbruch → |
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Friesenplatz ← Bocklemünd |
4th |
Neumarkt Schlebusch → |
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Friesenplatz ← Sparkasse Am Butzweilerhof |
5 |
Dom / Hbf Heumarkt → |
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Neumarkt ← Bonn-Bad Godesberg |
16 Rheinuferbahn |
Dom / Hbf Niehl Sebastianstraße → |
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Neumarkt ← Bonn Central Station |
18 Foothill Railway |
Cathedral / Central Station Thielenbruch → |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Priorities for platform elevation and elevator retrofitting in the Cologne light rail network . Transport Committee of the City of Cologne. May 18, 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
- ↑ "Kölner Köpf" on ksta.tv ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
