Kalk Post underground station
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| Basic data | |
| District | lime |
| Opened | 1980 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 (side platform) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '15 " N , 6 ° 59' 54" E |
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| Stretch) | Deutz-Kalker Tunnel |
| Line (s) | 1, 9 |
| Switching options | Bus 159, 171, 179, 193 (via Cologne Trimbornstraße): S 12 S 13 S 19 RB 25 |
The Kalk Post underground station is a station on lines 1 and 9 of the Cologne Stadtbahn in the center of Cologne-Kalk .
location
The underground station under Kalker Hauptstrasse is internally referred to as KPO by the Cologne transport company and is 700-800 meters away from the neighboring underground stations. Via Trimbornstraße, which is connected to the underground station, after about 220 m in a southbound direction, the S-Bahn station named after the street on the Sieg line is reached .
history
Kalk Post is the westernmost of the three underground stations of the first construction stage of the Deutz-Kalker underground , which went into operation on August 2, 1980. To the west, the tunnel section crossed under the victory route of DB Netz in the further course of Kalker Hauptstrasse and continued on Deutz-Kalker Strasse, before the route via a provisional ramp at Betzdorfer Strasse immediately west of today's Deutz Technische Hochschule underground station to the existing one Tram line connected.
The Deutz-Kalker U-Bahn was the first tunnel route in Cologne that was completely planned and built in accordance with the light rail guidelines of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition to the design speed of 80 km / h, curve radii of 300 meters and completely height-free branches, this also meant a platform length of 110 meters. This platform length was no longer used before and after in Cologne and appears to be significantly oversized with the usual train length of around 60 meters. According to the design for the high-floor type B tram , the escalators end 90 centimeters above the top edge of the rails, the actual platform level is reached via four steps. The platform itself is the same height as the floor of the low-floor trams used . With 14,400 passengers a day, Kalk Post is relatively busy for a stop outside the city center without a transfer function. The station is at the top of the priority list for barrier-free expansion, but the ranking of the subway stations in the Kalk district is politically controversial. The Kalk district council decided on February 17, 2011 to install two elevators, which should be completed by 2015. The costs are estimated at 2.1 million euros. This installation started in 2016 and was completed in 2019.
Like the neighboring stations, the walls are tiled in color with a white strip where the signs are located. Kalk Post's color code is light blue, some vertical stripes are white and dark blue.
Civil defense of the multipurpose facility (MZA) Kalk-Post
The Kalk Post underground station was the first in Cologne to be designed as a civil defense system. The facility should provide shelter, air, water and electricity for 2366 people in the event of a conflict. In 2005, the facility belonging to the City of Cologne was officially decommissioned.
DOKK - Cold War Documentation Center
In 2016, a large part of the completely preserved civil protection rooms were rededicated in a "Cold War Documentation Center" (DOKK) and opened on September 11, 2016, on the Open Monument Day. There are monthly free guided tours through the facility for interested citizens.
Lines
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| 1 |
Weiden West  - Junkersdorf - Rheinenergiestadion - Müngersdorf - Braunsfeld - Aachener Str./Gürtel - Moltkestrasse - Rudolfplatz - Neumarkt - Heumarkt - Deutz / Messe Station - Deutz Technical University - Kalk Post - Kalk Kapelle - Fuldaer Strasse - Höhenberg, Frankfurter Strasse - Merheim - Brück - Lustheide - Refrath - Kippekausen - Frankenforst - Neuenweg - Kölner Str. - Im Hoppenkamp - Bensberg
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10 min |
| 9 | Sülz - Zülpicher Strasse / Gürtel - University - Dasselstrasse / Süd Bahnhof - Zülpicher Platz - Neumarkt - Heumarkt - Deutz / Messe Station - Deutz Technical University - Kalk Post - Kalk Kapelle - Vingst - Ostheim - Rath / Heumar - Königsforst | 10 min |
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Deutz Technical University ← Weiden West |
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Lime Chapel Bensberg → |
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Deutz Technical University ← Sülz Hermeskeiler Platz |
9 |
Kalk Kapelle Königsforst → |
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Web links
literature
- Christoph Groneck: Cologne / Bonn Stadtbahn Album. Robert Schwandl Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-936573-07-7 .
- Robert Schwienbacher: Civil Defense in the Cold War - Survival in the multipurpose Kalk-Post facility. CRIFA 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Priorities for raising platforms and retrofitting elevators in the Cologne light rail network, draft resolution 2192/2008 in the transport committee of the city of Cologne
- ^ Norbert Ramme: Searching for traces in Cologne The secret of the Kalk Post underground station. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. October 27, 2010, accessed February 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Reconstruction of the Kalk Post tram stop. City of Cologne, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Council draft 4570/2010
- ^ Entry on the civil defense system and the nuclear bunker in the Kalk Post underground station in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council , accessed on February 15, 2017.
- ↑ Tobias Christ: Searching for traces in Cologne The secret of the Kalk Post underground station. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. August 19, 2016. Retrieved February 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Information on registration for the documentation center