Gare de Paris-Est
- Railway line Paris -Mulhouse ( 0.0 km )
- Railway line between Paris and Strasbourg ( 0.0 km )
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Paris Gare de l' Est ( Paris East Station German ) is one of the six large terminus stations of Paris. It is located in the 10th arrondissement, not far from the Gare du Nord ( Paris North Station dt ). With 34 million passengers per year ( 93,000 per day), it is the fifth-largest train station in Paris.
History
The Gare de l' Est in 1849 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Strasbourg under the name Embarcardère de Strasbourg (one borrowed from the fledgling railroad from the seafaring term that actually means boarding, boat dock, that is, mutatis mutandis, the departure point to Strasbourg ) opened. After the first of a series of enlargements, which was necessitated by the opening of a new line to Mulhouse in Upper Alsace by the renamed Compagnie de l' Est operating company, it received its present name in 1854.
In the years 1885, 1900 and 1931, the Gare de l' Est underwent major renovations.
On 4 October 1883, the Gare de l' Est was the scene of the departure of the first Orient Express with the aim Konstantin Opel.
During the First World War, many soldiers had to arrive to begin their journey to the front lines at Gare de l' Est. Because since 1926 reminds created by the American painter Albert Herter monumental painting Le Départ of poilus, août 1914 (Eng. The departure of the soldiers at the front, August 1914; French poilus the nickname was for French soldiers at the front during the First World War) in the departure hall and since 1929 the name of the nearby Avenue de Verdun and the name of the metro station Gare de l' Est - Verdun.
Traffic
Depart from the Gare de l' Est both international trains ( with destinations in Luxembourg, southern Germany, Austria ), as well as national long-distance trains, the eastern regions of France (Champagne -Ardenne, Lorraine and Alsace ) with Paris connect. In addition, the terminal station of the regional train TER Champagne- Ardenne station of dar.
Since 2007, LGV Est européenne connects the Gare de l' Est Strasbourg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg and Munich, as well as with Metz, Nancy, and the ICE with Saarbrücken, Kaiserslautern, Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main.
From 2007 to 2011 wrong trains to and from Mulhouse ( Alsace ) and Switzerland from Gare de l' Est. Since December 2011 ( commissioning of the LGV Rhin- Rhône) the Gare de Lyon has taken over this function.
In addition to the guidelines of the French railway company SNCF and Deutsche Bahn also operate three lines of the Paris Métro on the same station Gare de l' Est metro. These are the lines 4, 5 and 7, which are operated by the RATP.
Miscellaneous
As part of a discussion on Stuttgart 21 in Freiburg founded the EU Energy Commissioner and former Minister President of Baden -Württemberg, Günther Oettinger, the design of the Gare de l' Est as a head station so that it west of Paris were no more people, " but only cows and Atlantic ". The subject of a transformation to a through station therefore arises not in Paris.