Aufseßplatz underground station

Platform level, track 1

The Aufseßplatz underground station (abbreviation: AP ) was opened on September 23, 1975 as the eleventh underground station on the Nuremberg underground . It is 694 m from the Hauptbahnhof underground station and 630 m from Maffeiplatz underground station . Until January 28, 1978 it was the terminus for the U1 line. The Aufseßplatz is named after Hans Philipp Werner Freiherr von und zu Aufseß , the founder of the Germanic National Museum . It is used by around 27,700 passengers every day.

Location and infrastructure

Aufseßplatz, the entrance to the underground station on the left

General plan of the Aufseßplatz underground station

Aerial photo, 2014

The station is located in the Galgenhof district of Nuremberg and extends underground in a north-south direction under the Aufseßplatz between Peter-Henlein- and Landgraben- / Wölckernstraße. One of the sights in the vicinity of the station is the Christ Church .

From the northern head of the platform a stairway leads directly to the Aufseßplatz, which could only be opened in 1976 after the completion of the tunnel to the main station. The southern staircase leads to a distribution floor under Wölckernstrasse and from there to Aufseßplatz and Kopernikusplatz as well as to Landgrabenstrasse and Wölckernstrasse. An elevator leads from the center of the platform to the surface. At the train station direction includes Langwasser Süd a parking and reversing facility and following an x-shaped double track change to.

Building and architecture

The construction work for the 191 m long station structure began in 1972 and was carried out using the open construction method with Berlin shoring . During the construction period, the car and tram traffic on the intersecting Landgraben- / Wölckernstrasse was carried over the excavation pit with auxiliary bridges.

The southern head of the station was built in such a way that the platform for the third subway line planned at the time could have been built without interrupting operations on the U1. On the southern distribution floor, the access to the planned platform of the U3 has already been structurally prepared; today there is a shop there. At the southern end of the U1 platform, direct access to the U3 platform was structurally considered; this corridor is closed off with a temporary wall. The elevator was upgraded in 1983. From the southern distribution level there were direct accesses to the Galeria Kaufhof (formerly Horten, Merkur) and to the early "Südstadt-Center", a former shopping center, which are currently no longer used.

When planning the Nuremberg subway network, it was determined that train stations at which the main lines cross or touch should be built in an orange color . A crossing point with a third main line was planned at Aufseßplatz underground station, so it was the first to be designed in this way. The main station and Plärrer crossing stations and the Friedrich-Ebert-Platz underground station were also predominantly orange . The platform walls, tiled with ceramic tiles, are orange from the floor to the level of the platform edge, then white, interrupted by the tape with the platform name (white writing on an orange background) and then orange again up to the ceiling. The round supporting columns are also tiled in orange.

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  Station name on the platform wall

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  Overview of the platform level

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  Distribution floor

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  Entrances to the surface

Lines

No. 1123 as line 6 to the documentation center arrives at the Aufseßplatz stop

line

course

Langwasser Süd - Community House - Langwasser Mitte - Scharfreiterring - Langwasser Nord - Messe - Bauernfeindstrasse - Hasenbuck - Frankenstrasse - Maffeiplatz - Aufseßplatz - Central Station - Lorenzkirche - White Tower - Plärrer - Gostenhof - Bärenschanze - Maximilianstrasse - Eberhardshof - Muggenhof - city ​​limits - Jakobinenstrasse - Fürth Central Station - Fürth Rathaus - Fürth Stadthalle - Fuerth Hospital - Furth Hardhöhe

Transfer options

line	route	Clock frequency
	Tiergarten - Siedlerstraße - Balthasar-Neumann-Straße - Mögeldorf - Lechnerstraße - Business Tower - Marthastraße - Norikerstraße - Dürrenhof - Marientunnel - Central Station - Celtisplatz - Aufseßplatz - Christ Church - Humboldtstraße - Schuckertstraße - Siemensstraße - Lothringer Straße - Frankenstraße - Trafowerk - Am Rangierbahnhof - Finken - Südfriedhof - Saarbrückener Strasse - Worzeldorfer Strasse	10 min
	Doku-Center - Dutzendteich - Aviator Road - Immelmann road - Scharrerstraße - Peter Church - Harsdörfferplatz - Schweiggerstraße - Hummelsteiner way - Aufseßplatz - Christ Church - Heyne Street - Land grave road - Steinbühl - Kohlenhof - Plärrer - Upper Turnstraße - Hallertor - Hallerstraße - St. John's Cemetery - July Street - West Cemetery	10 min

The N8 night bus (Hauptbahnhof - Bronnamberg) also runs on weekends .

literature

• City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 5 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1975.
• Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Aufseßplatz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Local area map on the sides of the VGN (PDF; 62.11 KB)
• Station description on local traffic Franconia (private)
• Station pictures on cityverkehr.de (private)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview: These are the most used underground stations in Nuremberg on nordbayern.de, from December 27, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '26 "  N , 11 ° 4' 49"  E