Severinstrasse underground station

Severinstrasse
Underground station in Cologne
Underground station on the opening day
Basic data
District	Altstadt-Süd
Opened	November 9, 1959 December 13, 2015
Newly designed	around 2010
Tracks (platform)	2 ( side platforms ) 2 ( central platform )
Coordinates	50 ° 55 '45 "  N , 6 ° 57' 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '45 "  N , 6 ° 57' 24"  E
use
Line (s)	3 4 17
Switching options	106 132

Long escalators in the subway station

Station with elevated platforms, 2015

The Severinstraße underground station is a tram stop in Cologne's Severinsviertel, where line 17 of the north-south light rail is linked with lines 3 and 4 over the Severinsbrücke . The stop is named after the Severinstraße above it .

history

Construction and opening

The part of the station located on the surface was built together with the connecting Severinsbrücke to Deutz and opened in November 1959. The side platforms of this stop are in the middle of the street and are connected by a pedestrian bridge at no height.

Since 1980 the tram has been running on the bridge and the access ramps on a special track .

business

Since it opened in 1959, lines 4 (Bickendorf - Höhenhaus), 7 (Müngersdorf - Holweide), 9 (Weidenpesch - Vingst), 14 (Sülz - Schlebusch) and G (Neumarkt - Bergisch Gladbach) have crossed the bridge.

In June 1967 it was the lines 3 (Bickendorf - Thielenbruch), 4 (Bocklemünd - Höhenhaus), 14 (Sülz - Schlebusch), 17 (Müngersdorf - Holweide) and 18 (Rudolfplatz - Ostheim).

After the line network redesign in 1970, lines 3 (Bocklemünd - Thielenbruch), 4 (Bickendorf - Schlebusch), 9 (Longerich - Königsforst), 15 (Ossendorf - Höhenhaus) crossed Severinsbrücke and served the stop.

In 1978 there were still lines 3 (Bocklemünd - Thielenbruch), 4 (Friesenplatz - Schlebusch) and 9 (Chorweiler - Königsforst).

Line 9 ran over the bridge until 1994 and MesseLine 14 (Dom / Hbf - Koelnmesse) from 1984 to 2003. Since then, the trains from lines 3 (Mengenich - Thielenbruch) and 4 (Bocklemünd - Schlebusch) have been running here.

Reconstruction of the station part on the surface

The street level, in the evening - all-round panorama 2019 Show
as spherical panorama

The old low platforms of the stop on the surface were demolished during the construction of the north-south light rail in July 2010. First of all, temporary wooden elevated platforms were built, which means that lines 3 and 4 are the first high-floor lines to manage without folding steps.

On January 23, 2014, the renewed station section on the surface was put into operation. The station is now barrier-free thanks to two elevators and the elevated platforms .

New construction of the tunnel station

A tunnel stop was built for the north-south light rail, which went into operation on December 13, 2015. For the time being, it is the terminus of line 17 coming from Sürth or Rodenkirchen. This is operated every 10 minutes on weekdays and condenses line 16 between Schönhauser Straße and Rodenkirchen or Sürth to a 5-minute cycle.

After the north-south tram is fully operational, line 17 is to be discontinued and instead lines 5 (Butzweilerhof - Dom / Hbf - Heumarkt - Chlodwigplatz - Marktstraße) and 16 (Niehl - Breslauer Platz / Hbf - Heumarkt - Chlodwigplatz - Sürth - Wesseling - Bonn) to be laid in the tunnel.

line	Line course	Tact
3	Dellbrück, Thielenbruch  - Holweide  - Buchheim  - Koelnmesse  - Bf Deutz. / Lanxess Arena  - Severinstraße  - Post Road  - Neumarkt  - Appelhofplatz (Broad Street)  - Friesenplatz  - Hans-Böckler-Platz / Bahnhof West  - Piusstraße  - Körnerstraße  - Venloerstraße / belt  ( Bf Ehrenfeld ) - Leyendeckerstraße  - Rochusplatz  - Akazienweg  - Bocklemünd  - Mengenich  - Görlinger center	10 min
4th	Leverkusen - Schlebusch  - Cologne-Dünnwald  - Höhenhaus - Mülheim Wiener Platz  - Koelnmesse  - Deutz / Lanxess Arena station  - Severinstraße  - Poststraße  - Neumarkt  - Appelhofplatz (Breite Straße)  - Friesenplatz  - Hans-Böckler-Platz / Bahnhof West  - Piusstraße  - Körnerstraße  - Venloer Straße / Gürtel  ( Ehrenfeld station ) - Leyendeckerstraße  - Rochusplatz  - Akazienweg  - Bocklemünd	10 min
17th	Severinstraße  - Kartäuserhof  - Chlodwigplatz  - Bonner Wall  - Rodenkirchen (- Sürth only during peak hours )	10 min

Previous station	Cologne light rail			Next station
Poststrasse ← Görlinger Center		3		Suevenstrasse Thielenbruch →
Poststrasse ← Bocklemünd		4th		Suevenstrasse Schlebusch →
currently none, later Heumarkt ← Severinstrasse		17 North-South light rail		Carthusian court Rodenkirchen (-Sürth); →

literature

• Höltge, Dieter and Reuther, Axel: Cologne, Düren, Aachen (= trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 7). EK-Verlag , Braunschweig 2001, ISBN 3-88255-338-3

Web links

Commons : Tram stop Severinstraße  - collection of pictures

• Project presentation of the underground station on the KVB website www.nord-sued-stadtbahn.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Severinstraße: Commissioning of the new above-ground stop , press release of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe from January 22, 2014
2. ^ First day of operation of the new Severinstrasse stop on January 23, 2014 DSO Forum January 23, 2014
3. ↑ Tim Attenberger: New KVB line 17 inaugurated. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 12, 2015, accessed on December 14, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Network after commissioning of the north-south light rail on the KVB website www.nord-sued-stadtbahn.de