Lorenzkirche underground station

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Platform level overview
Platform level (track 1)
Platform level (track 2)
A replica of the rose window

The Lorenzkirche underground station (abbreviation: LO ) is the 13th  underground station on the Nuremberg underground and was opened on January 28, 1978. It is 635 m from the Weißer Turm underground station and 584 m from the Hauptbahnhof underground station . The underground station is named after the high Gothic church building of St. Lorenz immediately east of the underground station. It is used by around 49,500 passengers every day.

location

The station is located in the St. Lorenz district of Nuremberg and extends underground in a left curve in a south-east-north-west direction under Königstrasse from Wollengässchen to the Königstrasse / Karolinenstrasse intersection. At both ends of the platform, exits lead to a distribution floor and from there to Adlerstrasse and the pedestrian zones Karolinenstrasse, Kaiserstrasse and Königstrasse. An elevator leads from the platform level to the western distribution floor, which has a shopping arcade and a public toilet . There is also direct access to the Karstadt and Kaufhof department stores .

The Admiral-Kino, Heilig-Geist-Spital , Lorenzkirche , Mauthalle and Nassauer Haus are in the vicinity of the train station .

Building and architecture

The station structure is 147 m long, 20 m wide and 15 m deep (one and a half times the depth). Construction work on the station began on May 26, 1975. The constructional challenges were the Lorenz Church, the south tower of which extends up to a few meters from the platform wall, and the Nassauer House, which is located exactly above the station. In order not to damage the south tower of the Lorenz Church, 15 bored piles were set which are anchored in the ground with injection anchors. The platforms consist of two individual tubes that were built using the New Austrian Tunneling Method and are connected at three points with cross passages . The platform heads and the distribution floors were built in an open construction with Berlin shoring , the west head was created together with the construction of the Karstadt building, here is an architectural feature in the pedestrian tunnel to Königstrasse, a water organ.

The station is designed in the style of a rock grotto using coarse-pored shotcrete . Stylized replicas of the rose window in the west facade of the church can be found on both platform walls at the level of the cross passages. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum shows replicas of its own exhibits in six showcases on each side of the platform.

  • Station name on the platform walls

  • Surface access

  • Exit from the platform level to the distribution level

  • Showcases of the Germanic National Museum

  • Western distribution floor

  • Water organ in the western distribution floor

  • U-Bahn train of type DT2 on the (former) line U11

Lines

line course
U1 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
Location map of the Lorenzkirche underground station

The station is served by the U1 line. On the surface, you can change to city ​​bus routes 37 , 46 , 47 and 94 at the Heilig-Geist-Spital stop .

literature

  • City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 6 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1978.
  • Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .

Web links

Commons : U-Bahnhof Lorenzkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 4 "  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 40"  E