Rathenauplatz underground station

View of the platform level

Mosaic by Walter Rathenau on the platform

Mosaic by Theodor Herzl on the platform

General plan of subway station. Rathenauplatz

The Rathenauplatz underground station (abbreviation: RA ) was opened on September 29, 1990 as the 31st  underground station of the Nuremberg Underground . It is 525 m from the Wöhrder Wiese underground station and 611 m from the Rennweg underground station and 963 m from the Maxfeld underground station . Until May 22, 1993 it was the terminus for the U2 line, and since June 14, 2008 it has been a separation station for the U2 and U3 lines. The Rathenauplatz is named after the industrialist and former Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau (1867–1922). It is used by around 31,000 passengers every day.

Location and infrastructure

The station is located in the Nuremberg district Gardens at Woehrd and extends underground in south-north orientation under the Rathenauplatz between exterior Cramer-Klett-Straße and Sulzbacher Strasse. In the vicinity of the train station are the offices of the city of Nuremberg, the Cramer-Klett-Park and the economics department of the law and economics faculty of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

A staircase leads from the south side of the station to a distribution floor and from there to Wöhrder Tor and to the east side of Rathenauplatz. The northern entrance to the station leads to a distribution floor and from there to all ends of the Rathenauplatz / Laufer Tor / Sulzbacher Straße intersection. An elevator takes you from the middle of the platform to the east side of Rathenauplatz. At the train station in the direction of the airport there is a pointed platform change and the branch of the U3 in the direction of the Nordwestring.

Building and architecture

The station structure is 159 m long, 17.5 m wide and between 7 and 15 m deep (one and a half times the depth). The construction work for the station began on February 22, 1988 and was carried out in the open construction method with Berlin shoring .

The station design was carried out by the Nuremberg painter Gregor Hiltner , who won the artist competition advertised for it. On the platform walls are portraits of Walther Rathenau and Theodor Herzl in anamorphic tile technique on two 750 m² mosaics. The following lettering is in capital letters between the two portraits:

"Thinking means comparing" Walter Rathenau .

On the north-western side of the station, part of the city ​​wall was exposed during construction and incorporated into the stairways there.

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  Rest of the city walls

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  Surface access

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  Distribution floor

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  Ascent from the platform level to the distribution floor

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  Station name on the platform walls

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  Platform level

Lines

line	course
	Röthenbach - Hohe Marter - Schweinau - St. Leonhard - Rothenburger Straße - Plärrer - Opera House - Central Station - Wöhrder Wiese - Rathenauplatz - Rennweg - Schoppershof - Nordostbahnhof - Herrnhütte - Ziegelstein - Airport
	Gustav-Adolf-Straße - Sündersbühl - Rothenburger Straße - Plärrer - Opera House - Central Station - Wöhrder Wiese - Rathenauplatz - Maxfeld - Kaulbachplatz - Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - Klinikum Nord - Nordwestring

The station is served by the U2 and U3 lines. On the surface is the Rathenauplatz stop of tram line 8 (Doku-Zentrum - Erlenstegen) as well as the bus stops of the VAG bus route 36 (Plärrer - Doku-Zentrum), 94 (FCN sports facility - Heilig-Geist-Spital) and the OVF line 340 (Nuremberg ZOB - Ittling (near Simmelsdorf) FWH). The night bus routes N1 , N11 , N12 and N13 also operate on weekends and before public holidays .

literature

• City of Nuremberg / Building Department (Ed.): U-Bahn Nuremberg 12 . Press and Information Office of the City of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 1990.
• Michael Schedel: Nuremberg U-Bahn Album . Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-936573-11-5 .

Web links

Commons : Rathenauplatz U-Bahnhof  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Area map on the VGN website (PDF; 119 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
2. ↑ See also on Wikiquote

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '25 "  N , 11 ° 5' 22"  E