Fürth Rathaus underground station

Platform level

Panorama of the city of Fürth on the platform wall

Cross passage

Map of the Fürth Rathaus underground station

The Fürth Rathaus subway station (abbreviation: RF ) is the 36th  subway station of the Nuremberg subway and was opened on December 5, 1998. It is 636 m from the Fürth Stadthalle underground station and 889 m from the Fürth Hauptbahnhof underground station . At the train station, in the direction of Hardhöhe, there is a point- to-point change of platform. The underground station is named after the town hall of Fürth , under which it is located. It is used by around 18,300 passengers every day.

location

The train station is located in the inner city district of Fürth and extends underground in an east-west orientation in a left curve under Ludwig-Erhard-Straße between the coal market and the fruit market. From the eastern head of the station, an exit leads to a distribution floor under the coal market and from there to the Brandenburger and Ludwig-Erhard-Strasse and the coal market. From the western head of the station, an exit leads to a distribution floor below the fruit market and from there to Mohrenstrasse, the fruit market and the bus station. Two elevators lead to the surface from the east and west head of the platform.

In the vicinity of the train station are Gustavstraße , the Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium , the Jewish Museum Fürth , the Art Gallery Fürth , the town hall with the Kriminalmuseum Fürth and the city ​​theater .

Building and architecture

The station structure is 126 m long. The construction work for the station began in June 1996 and was carried out using the new Austrian tunnel construction method. In the course of the construction work, two buildings, u. a. the Café Fürst, to be demolished. The station itself consists of two individual tubes, which are connected by three cross passages and the two platform heads.

The architectural design was carried out according to a design by Tanja Bürgelin-Arslan, the winner of the design competition announced by the Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Nuremberg . The platform hall resembles the Lorenzkirche underground station in terms of its appearance in the form of a grotto , but appears friendlier and more modern thanks to the use of stainless steel and lighting elements. 5 × 60 m panoramas of Fürth city center are attached to both platform walls. Important buildings are highlighted in it and are explained by display boards placed in the cross passages. In order to facilitate orientation in the distribution floors and the stairways, the buildings opposite the stairway are shown on the corridor walls.

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  Entrance to the underground station

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  Exit from the distribution floor to the platform level

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  Ascent from the platform to the distribution floor

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  Information boards in the cross passages

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  Station name on the platform wall

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  Tube towards Fürth Hardhöhe

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  U1 to Langwasser-Süd

Lines

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 there is a bus station with the possibility to change to the Nuremberg city bus routes 33 and 39 , the Fürth city bus routes 173 to 175 and 177 to 179 as well as the OVF lines 125 and 126 . The night bus routes N9 , N17 , N18 , N21 , and N22 also operate at night on weekends, before public holidays and on bridging days .

literature

• City of Fürth (Ed.): U-Bahn Fürth, construction phase 2 . Mayor and press office of the city of Fürth, Fürth 1998.
• Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936573-11-4 .

Web links

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

• Local area map on the sides of the VGN (PDF; 135.58 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

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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 38 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 19 ″  E