Kaulbachplatz underground station

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Station name on the platform walls
Map of the subway station. Kaulbachplatz

The underground station Kaulbachplatz (abbreviation: KA ) is the 45th  underground station of the Nuremberg underground and was opened on December 10, 2011. It is 453 m from Maxfeld underground station and 553 m from Friedrich-Ebert-Platz underground station and is served by the U3 line. Kaulbachplatz is named after the Munich history painter and academy director Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805–1874). It is used by around 7,500 passengers every day.

location

The station is located in the gardens of Nuremberg behind the fortress and extends underground in an east-west orientation under Schweppermannstrasse between Friedrichstrasse and Kaulbachstrasse. The exits at both platform heads lead directly to the street surface and are located at the intersection of Schweppermannstrasse and Friedrichstrasse and Kaulbachstrasse. An elevator leads from the western platform head to the surface northwest of the Schweppermannstrasse / Krelingstrasse confluence.

In the immediate vicinity of the train station at Krelingstrasse 50 are the Federal Finance Directorate South-East and the Nuremberg office of the Bavarian State Tax Office .

Building and architecture

Different perspectives (left: frontal, right: side) on a mural in the Kaulbachplatz underground station using the concrete shadow technique

The construction work for the 242 m long and 8 m deep station building began in June 2007 and was carried out using the open construction method with subsequent roofing .

The architectural office Haid + Partner was commissioned with the architectural design.

On the surface, the station appears with two covered entrances for stairs and escalators and an elevator pavilion. These buildings are designed in organic shapes with glass roofs and side wall panels made of black designer concrete with oval windows, the architecture tries a contemporary interpretation of Art Nouveau and is therefore probably a reference to the Art Nouveau buildings in the immediate vicinity.

Artistic design features are reproductions of pictures by Kaulbach and other painters using the concrete shadow technique: The pictures are only visible when you stand to the side of the picture; then the representation becomes recognizable through the shadow cast by light sources attached to the other side. The images reproduced there are:

  • Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805–1874): Dürer's marriage to Agnes Frey, 1828
  • Herrmann Kaulbach (1846–1909): The Artist's Two Daughters, 1880
  • August von Kreling (1819–1876): Erwin von Steinbach (or: The Invention of Gothic), 1849 - as well as
    • Scene from the siege of Magdeburg in 1631, before 1876
    • Design for a fountain on the Egidienberg, 1857
    • Coronation of Ludwig of Bavaria in Rome 1328, undated
    • The extraction and blessings of gas light, 1864/67
  • Carl Theodor von Piloty : Seni in front of the corpse of Wallenstein, 1855

  • Exit Friedrichstrasse

  • Exit from the surface to the platform level

  • Ascent from the platform level to the surface

  • Elevator and shaft

  • Image in concrete shadow technique

  • Platform level overview

  • U3 to Friedrich-Ebert-Platz

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b City of Nuremberg, Civil Engineering Office / U-Bahnbau (Ed.): Construction schedule U3, BA 1.3 . Nuremberg March 2008 ( PDF; 61 kB ).
  2. ↑ Overview: These are the most used underground stations in Nuremberg on nordbayern.de, from December 27, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020
  3. ^ City of Nuremberg, Civil Engineering Office / U-Bahnbau (Ed.): U3 BA 1.3 Construction process . Residential information. Nuremberg April 2007 ( PDF; 1.4 MB ).
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