Bärenschanze underground station

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Platform level
south entrance

The Bärenschanze underground station (abbreviation: BS ) was opened as the 17th  underground station of the Nuremberg underground on September 20, 1980. The station is served by the U1 line and was its terminus until June 20, 1981. It is 700 meters from Maximilianstraße Underground Station and 492 meters from Gostenhof Underground Station. It is used by around 14,000 passengers every day.

The underground station was named after the Bärenschanze district in the west of Nuremberg's Gostenhof district. The name of the district itself is borrowed from a defensive fortification from the 17th century. The Bärenschanze was located in the area of what was later to be the Burgfriede , a little northwest of today's Rosenaupark . The name Bärenschanze probably goes back to the fact that bears were kept in this area in the late Middle Ages.

Location and infrastructure

Area map of Bärenschanze underground station
Monument in honor of the Nuremberg - Fürth railway

The station is located in the Nuremberg district Gostenhof and extends underground in east-west direction under the Fürther Straße between consolation and Sluice- / Paumgartnerstraße. In the vicinity of the train station are the Higher Regional and District Court of Nuremberg , the Regional Court of Nuremberg-Fürth , the Dürer-Gymnasium as well as the churches of St. Anton and Trinity. In 1993 the Ludwigseisenbahn memorial was relocated from the Nuremberg / Fürth city limits to the east entrance of the underground station.

From the two platform heads, exits lead to a distribution floor and from there to the south and north side of Fürther Straße. There is also an elevator from the platform level to the pedestrian zone on the north side of Fürther Straße. In the direction of Fürth there is a butt-to-be-used platform change and in the direction of Langwasser there is a parking and sweeping system up to the Gostenhof underground station.

Building and architecture

The station structure is 171 m long, 17 m wide and 7.5 m deep (one and a half times the depth). The construction work for the station began on June 26, 1978 and was carried out in the open construction method with Berlin shoring . After the completion of the construction work, Fürther Straße was structurally changed and since then has passed the underground station in both directions to the south; the former northern lane was converted into a pedestrian zone after the provisionally laid tram tracks were dismantled.

The color of the station is blue . The platform walls, tiled with ceramic tiles, are white from the top edge of the rail to the edge of the platform and then blue, interrupted by the white band with the station name in black. 18 skylights were built into the station ceiling in order to supply the station and the distribution floor with daylight.

  • Station name on the platform wall

  • Light eyes & stairs

  • Platform level

  • Eastern access

Lines

line course
U1 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

The station is served by the U1 underground line . On weekends and before public holidays it is served by the N9 night bus .

Trivia

From the opening of the Bärenschanze underground station on September 20, 1980 to the extension of the underground to Eberhardshof on June 20, 1981, the tram ran parallel to the underground to the Plärrer. However, the tram stop at the Bärenschanze underground station retained its previous name Sielstraße and was not renamed Bärenschanze .

literature

  • City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 7 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1980.
  • Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bärenschanze U-Bahn station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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 ° 27 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 3 ″  E