Plärrer underground station
The subway station Plärrer (abbreviation: PL ) is the 15th subway station of the Nuremberg subway and was opened on September 20, 1980. It is 628 meters from Gostenhof underground station and 445 meters from Weißer Turm underground station, 970 meters from Rothenburger Straße underground station and 766 meters from Opernhaus underground station . An x-shaped double track change connects to the station on both levels in the direction of Fürth and Röthenbach. It was the terminus for the U2 line until September 24, 1988 . The Plärrer is the largest traffic junction in Nuremberg after the station square . The name of the square comes from the Middle High German plarre , which means something like free space . It is used by around 55,900 passengers every day.
location
The station extends underground in an east-west direction in a slight curve to the right from Ludwigstor over Plärrer to Südliche Fürther Straße . It is a so-called direction station and has a total of four levels. Level 0 is the traffic area and the tram island. On level -1 there is a continuous distribution floor with exits to the intersections Südliche Fürther- / Rothenburger Straße, Gostenhofer Hauptstraße / Am Plärrer, Spittlertorgraben / Am Plärrer, to the Stadtgraben and the tram island as well as a public toilet facility, a substation and service rooms. The platforms for the three lines U1, U2 and U3 are located on levels −2 and −3. All levels are connected to each other and to the surface by two elevators .
Building and architecture
The station structure is 171 m long, 18 m deep and between 16 and 35 m wide. Construction work on the station began on June 13, 1977. The eastern part of the station between Spittlertorgraben and Plärrer Island was built using the open construction method, and the western part of the station from Plärrer Island to Südliche Fürther Strasse was built using a top-down construction with Berlin shoring . For another previously planned underground line (U3 or U4), there are preliminary structural work (reinforced building foundations) on level -1 and a new level -4 to be built at the eastern station exit.
As with all transfer stations in the network, the station's color code is orange in combination with beige (see also Aufseßplatz underground station ). In order to make the vehicle dynamics clear, the platform walls have an arrow pattern that changes from orange (at the beginning of the platform) to beige (at the end of the platform) in the direction of travel. For the first time, skylight domes were built into the building ceiling in order to illuminate the eastern distribution level and the upper platform level with daylight. The double-row round support columns are clad with aluminum panels. On the western distribution floor there is a mosaic that traces the history of Nuremberg's local transport from the eagle to horse-drawn and electric trams to the subway.
On October 15, 2007, the 50,000 euro memorial “ Transit ” designed by the Munich artist Hermann Pitz was unveiled to commemorate the 100,000 slave laborers employed in Nuremberg . The work of art, designed as an organic funnel shape, was installed in one of the light domes, is 6 meters long and consists of 3000 aluminum figures that hold hands.
Station name on the platform walls
Surface access
From the horse tram ...
... to the subway
Skylights on the building ceiling
Platform level -2 overview. Exit to platform level -3 in the middle.
Platform level -3 overview. Ascent to platform level -2 in the middle.
Lines
All underground lines meet at the Plärrer. Level −2 takes the routes Eberhardshof – Fürth (U1) or Röthenbach (U2) / Gustav-Adolf-Straße (U3) and level -3 takes the routes downtown – Messe – Langwasser (U1) or Ziegelstein – airport (U2) ) / Friedrich-Ebert-Platz (U3).
- Transfer options
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Gibitzenhof - Dianaplatz - Alemannenstraße - Brehmstraße - Landgrabenstraße - Steinbühl - Kohlenhof - Plärrer - Obere Turnstraße - Hallertor - Tiergärtnertor - Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - Juvenellstraße - Bucher Straße / Nordring - Thon - Cuxhavener Straße - Schleswiger Straße - Bamberger Straße - Am Wegfeld | 5/10 min |
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Doku-Center - Dutzendteich - Aviator Road - Immelmann road - Scharrerstraße - Peter Church - Harsdörfferplatz - Schweiggerstraße - Hummelsteiner way - Aufseßplatz - Christ Church - Heyne Street - Land grave road - Steinbühl - Kohlenhof - Plärrer - Upper Turnstraße - Hallertor - Hallerstraße - St. John's Cemetery - July Street - West Cemetery | 10 min |
On the surface, on the “Plärrer Island”, there are also the bus stops for city bus routes 34 , 36 and 84 . The night bus routes N6 , N7 , N9 and N10 also operate on weekends and before public holidays .
Culture in the subway station
As part of the SummerNightFilmFestival , the subway station served twice as a venue. In the past few years (2006 and 2007), a film related to the subject of the underground, for example Moebius or Kontroll, was shown there in the night from Saturday to Sunday after closing time .
literature
- City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 7 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1980.
- Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .
Web links
- Local area map on the sides of the VGN (PDF; 78.46 KB)
- Station description on local traffic Franconia (private)
- Station pictures on cityverkehr.de (private)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview: These are the most used underground stations in Nuremberg on nordbayern.de, from December 27, 2019, accessed on January 6, 2020
- ↑ Location of the Plärrer underground station at the SommerNachtsFilm Festival ( memento of the original from August 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '54 " N , 11 ° 3' 55" E
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