Fürth Klinikum underground station

Platform level

Emerging west exit of the station (July 2004)

Map of the subway station. Fürth / Clinic

The Fürth Klinikum underground station (abbreviation: KF ) was opened on December 4, 2004 as the 40th  underground station of the Nuremberg subway . It is 910 m from the Fürth Hardhöhe underground station and 957 m from the Fürth Stadthalle underground station . Until December 8, 2007 it was the terminus for the U1 line . According to earlier plans, the station was to be called Fürth Unterfarrnbach like the local train stop , and Würzburger Strasse according to even older plans . Conversely, it is now planned to rename the S-Bahn station in the course of the S-Bahn construction in Fürth Klinikum . It is used by around 11,800 passengers every day.

Location and infrastructure

The station is located in the Unterfarrnbach district of Fürth and extends underground north of Würzburger Straße between Friedrich-Ebert-Straße and the Nuremberg – Bamberg railway line . From the western end of the platform, an exit and the elevator lead directly to the surface to Karmelitenplatz, the eastern staircase leads to a distribution floor under Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse and from there with three staircases to the surface. At the station there is a double track change in the direction of Langwasser.

The Fürth Clinic is located in the immediate vicinity of the train station .

Building and architecture

The station structure, for which construction work began on June 20, 2000, is 140 m long. The Christ the King Church, which is located directly above the train station, caused difficulties. In order not to damage this during the construction work, a 60 m long tubular umbrella made of 18 steel tubes was drawn between the building and the station structure, in the protection of which the excavation pit was dug; the rest of the station section was built using the open construction method.

The design of the station was developed by the Georg-Simon-Ohm University , Department of Design, as part of a design project. The design came from Hartmut Victor Brüchert and was implemented together with Professors Ethelbert Hörmann and Ortwin Michl . The theme of the station is adapted to the surrounding buildings (clinic, kindergarten and old people's home) and reads “Building blocks of life”: the entire structure is kept in light colors and is dominated by concrete, steel and glass. Replicas of human DNA are attached to the platform walls.

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  Station name on the platform wall

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  Exit from the surface to the platform level

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  Ascent from the platform level to the surface

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  Replicas of human DNA on the platform walls

Lines

Get off at Klinikum Ost

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

The station is served by the U1 line. On the surface are the two bus stops Klinikum West and Klinikum Ost , where the city ​​bus routes 171 , 172 and 175 as well as the OVF lines 125 and 126 stop. The Fürth Clinic, which is around 500 m away , is easier to reach via the Jakob-Henle-Straße / Klinikum stop (lines 171 and 175). The N9 night bus also runs on weekends . To the west of the station is the Fürth-Unterfarrnbach DB stop , where you can change to the S1 S-Bahn line . The S 1 also runs parallel to the U 1 at the main stations in Fürth and Nuremberg, with the journey time to Nuremberg at 13 to 15 minutes being significantly shorter than that of the U-Bahn at 24 minutes. Since the S 1 usually only runs every half hour and the platform is only accessible via a temporary staircase, using the U 1 is often the faster way. Both systems are not coordinated by direct connection routes or common departure displays.

literature

• City of Fürth (Ed.): U-Bahn Fürth Klinikum . Mayor and press office of the city of Fürth, Fürth 2004 ( PDF; 791.15 KB ).
• Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936573-11-4 .

Web links

Commons : Fürth Klinikum underground station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local area map on the sides of the VGN (PDF; 125.82 KB)
• 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

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