Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof underground station
| Breslauer Platz / Central Station | |
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 New underground station |
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| Basic data | |
| District | Downtown |
| Opened | December 10, 2011 |
| Tracks (platform) | 3 (one side, one middle platform) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '37 " N , 6 ° 57' 34" E |
| use | |
| Stretch) |
Inner city tunnel , north-south light rail |
| Line (s) | 16 18 |
| Switching options | Bus: 132 133 250 260 978
N26 , S-Bahn: S 6 S 11 S 12 S 13 S 19 , regional traffic, long-distance traffic |
The subway station Breslauer Platz / Hbf is a station of the Cologne Stadtbahn below the Breslauer Platz on the north side of the Cologne main station . The station, which opened on December 10, 2011, replaces an underground station of the same name that was demolished five years earlier at the same location.
location
Breslauer Platz is located on the northeast side of Cologne Central Station , only separated from the Rhine by a row of houses and Rheinuferstraße . The tram tunnel runs below Breslauer Platz roughly parallel to the main train station. At the northern end of the stop, the tunnel swings under the north-south drive , after the southern end of the stop, the tunnel crosses under the embankment between the main train station and Hohenzollern Bridge in a 120-degree curve and then leads to the Dom / Hauptbahnhof stop there .
Old subway station
| Breslauer Platz / Hbf (old) | |
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 State 2006 |
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| Basic data | |
| Opened | 1970 |
| Closed | October 8, 2006 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 (side platforms) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 ′ 37 " N , 6 ° 57 ′ 34" E |
| use | |
| Stretch) | Inner city tunnel |
| Line (s) |
5 16
17 18 19 |
| Switching options | Bus:
106 132 (north side) 133 250 260 978 N26 S-Bahn: S 6 S 11 S 12 S 13 , regional traffic, long-distance traffic |
The original underground station was opened on October 19, 1970 as part of the inner city tunnel, and there was a provisional ramp a few meters behind the underground station in the direction of Ebertplatz for four years. The station was designed according to the simple standard of the first Cologne underground stations, the walls were tiled in yellow.
The underground station did not do justice to its importance for traffic because of its simple equipment with low platforms and the weatherproof connection to the main station. In the course of the planning for the north-south light rail system , which should further increase the importance of the station, it was therefore decided to replace the Breslauer Platz / Hauptbahnhof underground station with a new building.
When construction began on the north-south light rail, an excavation pit was created at Breslauer Platz in the immediate vicinity of the station, which served as the starting shaft for the two shield drives of the “Carmen” tunnel boring machine . Access to the stop was already reduced during this construction work, and the tunnel walls were exposed in the final phase. On October 8, 2006, the old underground station was closed.
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Cathedral / Central Station ← Ossendorf |
5 |
Ebertplatz Reichenspergerplatz → |
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Dom / Hbf ← Bonn-Bad Godesberg |
16 Rheinuferbahn |
Ebertplatz Niehl → |
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Dom / Hbf ← Ubierring |
17 only in the evening and Sat / Sun |
Ebertplatz Buchheim → |
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Dom / Hbf ← Bonn Hbf |
18 Foothill Railway |
Ebertplatz Thielenbruch → |
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Dom / Hbf ← Klettenberg |
19 not in the evening and Sat / Sun |
Ebertplatz Buchheim → |
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Provisional underground station
From October 2006 to August 2007 the old stop and the tram tunnel were completely demolished. In order to ensure that the main station can still be reached from the north of Cologne, a provisional terminal station was set up at Breslauer Platz for the duration of this route separation . From the western entrance of the old underground station, about 100 meters from the main train station, the station was built into the existing tunnel by building a platform over a track.
The temporary underground station was in operation from October 15, 2006 to July 8, 2007. During this time, the station was served by the “19 North” Breslauer Platz – Buchheim line. Since the station only had one access, all trains in the direction of Breslauer Platz at Ebertplatz had a signaling forced standstill time of two and a half minutes, during which a fire inspection was carried out on the vehicle.
New underground station
During the ten-month closure of the Breslauer Platz, the shell of the new underground station was built in 2006/2007. The new station, which is offset from its predecessor by a few meters in the direction of the Rhine, is designed as a three-track branching station: trains in the direction of the inner city tunnel and the north-south light rail stop at the same platform edge (side platform), while trains in the direction of Ebertplatz stop on opposite sides of a platform (central platform). This is to avoid that travelers from the north-south light rail to the main station have to wait in the tunnel shortly before their destination because the station is still occupied by a train from the inner city tunnel.
The tram stop was designed by Büder + Menzel Architects BDA, Brühl / Cologne (Kai Büder and Manfred Menzel).
The new stop has a higher ceiling height than the previous station, and daylight falls through light shafts on the south side onto the platform level. The eastern access ends under the canopy of the main station.
From August 5, 2007 to December 10, 2011, light rail trains ran through the station without stopping, with the track area being separated from the rest of the subway station by dust protection walls until mid-2011. In the period from July 30th to August 8th 2011 the tunnel was closed again and the dust protection walls were dismantled. Work at the stop was suspended for a long time, as the interior fittings for all the stops on the north-south light rail were to be put out to tender for cost reasons, but the shell structures for the other stations had not yet been completed. As a result of the delays and the uncertain inauguration date of the north-south light rail system after the collapse of the historical archive, the expansion has meanwhile been brought forward, the commissioning took place at the timetable change on December 11, 2011.
Until December 8, 2012, this station was still served by tram line 5; however, this line was diverted from the cathedral / main station to the new Rathaus stop as part of the planned partial commissioning of the north-south light rail on December 9, 2012 .
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Dom / Hbf ← Bonn-Bad Godesberg |
16 Rheinuferbahn |
Ebertplatz Niehl Sebastianstraße → |
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Dom / Hbf ← Bonn main station |
18 Foothill Railway |
Ebertplatz Thielenbruch → |
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- Artistic arrangement
In an artist competition of the KVB (2007-2009) the artist Tue Greenfort won with his project Neobiota . It addresses the phenomenon of strange, exotic species in Cologne's urban space.
Live images of Cologne parakeets (specifically Ring-necked Parakeets and Greater Alexander Parakeets ) are shown on the railroad track via monitors and projectors . For this purpose cameras and microphones were installed in a nest box , parakeet sleeping tree and parakeet nest in green spaces . The live connection is clocked by the appearance of the birds.
Trivia
The three-track underground station served in 2016 as the backdrop for the Hollywood film Collide , set in Cologne , with Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley , among others . Leading actor Nicholas Hoult jumps over the tracks at the last moment in front of an approaching subway train of line 16. For the shooting of this action film, the Cologne tram line 9 in its ground-level part on Zülpicher Straße was also used for two days diverted.
See also
The subway station Breslauer Platz / Hbf forms a track triangle with the western station of the inner city tunnel subway station Dom / Hauptbahnhof and the south-branching north-south light rail with the first following station Rathaus .
Therefore, see the following main articles for more information on this:
Also:
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Risse: Railway station officially opened. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 10, 2011, archived from the original on December 11, 2011 ; accessed on May 19, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (ed.): KVB artist competition North-South Stadtbahn Cologne . Documentation. Cologne 2011.
- ^ Matthias Pesch: Pictures on construction fences. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, September 15, 2010, archived from the original on August 20, 2011 ; accessed on October 16, 2018 .
Web links
| 1st construction stage |
Breslauer Platz / Hbf or Dom / Hbf • City Hall • Heumarkt • Severinstraße • Kartäuserhof • Chlodwigplatz • Bonner Wall • Marktstraße |
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| 3rd construction stage |
Caesarstrasse • Bonner Strasse / Gürtel • Ahrweilerstrasse • Arnoldshöhe |