Saarlandstrasse underground station
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 Access building from the 1920s |
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| Basic data | |
| District | Winterhude |
| Opened | 1912 |
| Newly designed | 1920s |
| Tracks (platform) | 4th |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 35 '20 " N , 10 ° 1' 57" E |
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| Stretch) | Ring line |
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| Switching options |
 17, 171, 172, 261, 600, StadtRAD
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| Passengers | 9,000 / day (Mon-Fri, 2017) |
The Saarlandstraße is a station of the Hamburg subway line U3 in the district Winterhude . It is used by around 9,000 passengers every day (2017). The station's operating code is SA.
construction
The station is located on the embankment on the southeast corner of Hamburg's city park and west of the eponymous Saarlandstrasse, to which the only exit leads. The facility has a total of four platform tracks on two platforms. As a rule, passing trains use the outside tracks. The inner tracks are used for dropouts and dropouts to and from the large parking facility west of the stop.
Both platforms are 120 meters long and, unlike many other stations on the U3, can also be used by 8 or 9-car trains.
The distance to the neighboring Barmbek station to the east is around 800 meters, and it is around 1.1 kilometers to Borgweg .
history
The stop was opened in 1912 - in the first year of the elevated railway ring line - under the name Flurstraße in an area that was then sparsely developed. At that time there was only one platform and a simple entrance at its east end. In July 1924, the stop was named Stadtpark . A short time later, the station was significantly rebuilt. It received a second platform south of the existing one and a spacious reception building on today's Saarlandstrasse with an exit to the south according to the plans of the architect Walter Puritz . An extensive parking facility was built to the west of the station because the parking capacity in Barmbek was exhausted. In 1970, the underground station Saarlandstrasse was given its current name, also to avoid confusion with a S-Bahn station (today: Alte Wöhr ), which was also called Stadtpark at the time .
Flurstrasse underground station 1912
Entrance hall 1912
Accessibility as an attempt
The "partially raised platform", a Hamburg specialty, was invented here: In 1990 the elevated railway investigated the possibility of partially raising some of the platforms in the route network at low cost. The platform is raised by around 10 to 15 cm to a length of a few meters and is highlighted in color by contrasting floor tiles in the form of a chessboard. This should make it possible for wheelchair users, for example, to be able to reach the train without stairs, which was not possible with the Hamburg subway at the time. The test object at that time was one of the two middle tracks in this station. A condition for the sensible use of partially raised platforms is that the area is spatially in the same place in each station in question. This is the only way to ensure that the same wagon of a train always comes to a stop at this same platform area. Some stations (such as Jungfernstieg) now have a completely raised platform over the entire length. There it is particularly important that passengers find the car in question, which will stop at other stations in this partially raised area. The chessboard is used for this .
Both platforms at the Saarlandstrasse stop were completely raised in summer 2012. The station is still not barrier-free because there are no elevators.
Accident and its consequences
In June 2010, a truck caused collision damage to the subway bridge over Saarlandstrasse. The construction that carried the southernmost track was severely damaged. It was then closed to subway traffic, which is why all trains in the direction of Barmbek had to use the inner track. The four-track overpass turned out to be a stroke of luck, as the train traffic was diverted over an undamaged bridge. During a line closure in the summer of 2012, all four track bridges over Saarlandstrasse were replaced at regular intervals. After the end of the construction work in August 2012, train traffic can again be operated on four tracks, as before the accident.
Connection
There is a transition to various bus routes at Saarlandstrasse station. However, their stops are not in the immediate vicinity of the subway, but sometimes (lines 17, 172 and 173) two blocks and several minutes' walk away. The night bus line 600 runs when the underground is closed.
There is a station for the Hamburg city bike system directly at the stop . After the existing bicycle parking facility had been overloaded for a long time, construction work began in September 2015 to significantly expand the capacities. A total of 162 spaces for bicycles are planned directly in front of the stop, 12 of which are to be set up in lockable, chargeable boxes.
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Barmbek - Saarlandstrasse - Borgweg - Sierichstrasse - Kellinghusenstrasse - Eppendorfer Baum - Hoheluftbrücke - Schlump - Sternschanze - Feldstrasse - St. Pauli - Landungsbrücken - Baumwall - Rödingsmarkt - City Hall - Mönckebergstrasse - Central Station South - Berliner Tor - Lübecker Strasse - Uhlandstrasse - Mundsburg - Hamburger Strasse - Dehnhaide - Barmbek - Habichtstrasse - Wandsbek-Gartenstadt |
Web links
- Saarlandstraße on hamburger-untergrundbahn.de ( Memento from June 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Saarlandstrasse underground station on Hamburg-Stadtwiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Answer of the Hamburger Hochbahn of December 17, 2018 to an inquiry about the Hamburg Transparency Act at https://fragdenstaat.de/problem/haltestellennutzer-2017/ , accessed on January 3, 2019
- ↑ "162 new bicycle parking spaces on the Saarlandstrasse subway" , Hamburger Abendblatt dated September 9, 2015 (subject to a charge), accessed on March 4, 2017
- ^ "First newly designed Bike + Ride facility opened at the Saarlandstrasse subway station" , Ministry of Economics, Transport and Innovation of November 10, 2015, accessed on March 4, 2017