Venloer Straße / Gürtel underground station
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Venloer Straße / Gürtel Bahnhof Ehrenfeld |
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| Basic data | |
| District | Ehrenfeld |
| Opened | 1989 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 (central platform) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '3 " N , 6 ° 54' 57" E |
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| Stretch) | Ehrenfeld tunnel |
| Line (s) | 3 4 |
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Light rail: 13 Bus: 141 142 143 S 12 S 13 , regional transport |
The underground station Venloer Straße / Gürtel is a station of the Cologne Stadtbahn . Of the district Ehrenfeld preferred U-station is from the lines 3 and 4 of Cologne Transport operated. It was opened in 1989 and has two tracks. Entry and exit are handled via a central platform . Above ground there are transfer connections via Cologne-Ehrenfeld station to lines of the S-Bahn Cologne and other regional transport lines. Line 13 of the Cologne Stadtbahn also runs there.
location
The station is located in the Ehrenfeld district under Venloer Strasse , which leads out of Cologne in a north-westerly direction . There it is at the intersection of Venloer Straße with the Ehrenfeldgürtel and Heliosstraße. Another exit leads to the Cologne-Ehrenfeld train station of the Deutsche Bahn and Schönsteinstrasse, thus also to the hospital there and the Ehrenfeld district town hall. The train station is very centrally located in the Ehrenfeld district.
architecture
S-Bahn and local trains stop above ground at Cologne-Ehrenfeld station . The tram line 13 runs at ground level across the Ehrenfeldgürtel .
The subway station has intermediate levels at both exits. The central platform is designed as a high-floor platform, with the existing elevator to the street the station is therefore barrier-free. However, this only applies to a limited extent to the options for changing to S-Bahn and railroad. The intermediate levels and the platform level of the subway station are artistically designed. The artist Karl Heinz Marohn has z. B. 24 topics from Ehrenfeld's history are listed in a "library"; The color of the floor should be reminiscent of the clay-fired bricks from the 19th century.
Lines
Line 3 runs every 10 minutes on weekdays. There are 32 stops on the approximately 22 km long route, which is traveled at an average speed of 26 km / h, of which 11 are underground stations. At Deutz station , line 3 meets all the railway and S-Bahn lines that also run in Ehrenfeld. Lines 3 and 4 only separate after Deutz and form a 5-minute cycle until there. in Buchheim it meets line 13 again. Line 3 only runs from / to Holweide in some cases.
Line 4 also runs every ten minutes on weekdays. The route of line 4 is similarly long (22 km), with 29 stops (including 12 underground stations) an average speed of 28 km / h can be driven. At Deutz station , line 4 also meets all the railway and S-Bahn lines that also run in Ehrenfeld. Lines 3 and 4 do not separate until after the Cologne trade fair , which together form a 5-minute cycle. At Wiener Platz in Mülheim , it meets line 13 again. In the evening, line 4 only runs from / to Bickendorf Rochusplatz .
Line 13 runs at ground level on the Ehrenfeldgürtel , but is also displayed here for better understanding. It is also served every 10 minutes on weekdays, the route of line 13 is 16.2 km long, with 22 stops (including 3 tunnel stations and 4 elevated railway stations) an average travel speed of 29.5 km / h is achieved. At Köln-Mülheim train station , it meets the RE 1 again, at Wiener Platz it meets again with line 4 and in Buchheim again with line 3.
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Leyendeckerstraße ← Görlinger Center |
3 |
Körnerstraße Thielenbruch → |
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Leyendeckerstraße ← Bocklemünd |
4th |
Körnerstrasse Schlebusch → |
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