Katowice railway station
- Railway line Warsaw Central 1 - Katowice
- Railway line 137 Katowice - Legnica
- Railway line 138 Oświęcim - Katowice
- Railway line 139 Katowice - Skalité Serafínov
- Railway line 656 Katowice R36 - Brynów
- Railway line 713 Katowice - Chorzów Batory
- Railway Katowice - Katowice Dąbrówka Mała ( decommissioned)
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The Katowice Railway Station is the largest and most important railway station in the Polish city of Katowice ( Katowice ). He is also the largest and most important railway station of the Upper Silesian industrial district and one of the largest railway junctions in Poland.
History and Architecture
The decision to build a new railway station in Katowice, was arrested late fifties of the 20th century, when the old station no longer met the demands of the growing industrial city. The 1959 competition held won the Tygrysy (Tiger) called Warsaw architects Waclaw Kłyszewski Jerzy Mokrzyński and Eugeniusz Wierzbicki. As the first phase of construction of the railroad was built in 1964 south of the entrance hall for a pedestrian underpass. Large parts of a founder -time block were demolished for the construction of the reception building on the other side of the tracks. The station was completed in 1972. The 140 meter long and 53 meter wide hall consists of two rows of eight reinforced concrete columns in fungal, or goblet shape together, between which a long window tape is inserted. Outside the station the bus station was created by the long of a flight of stairs - over the roadways - directly in the drawn between the supports mezzanine level of the station leads.
The building was regarded as the best example of brutalism in Poland. The cubature of reinforced concrete construction was 76 314 cubic meters and could accommodate up to 25,000 people.
On October 29, 2012, the remodeled lobby was put into operation.
Demolition and reconstruction
In recent years, the station offered increasingly a neglected appearance. The debate was even the demolition and construction of the station. 2008, the Spanish investor Neinver as well as the architectural firm sud architectes with the extensive rebuilding the railway station and the construction of a shopping center Galeria Katowice was commissioned. The old station hall should be renovated and preserved. Basis of a report of the investor, after which the concrete chalices are no longer viable, but it was decided to demolish the station and to reconstruct the concrete chalices. This decision and the general design of sud architectes met with fierce resistance, in which, among other things, a second opinion from the Politechnika Śląska were created, and architects from Germany and abroad, and Katowice citizens in various actions protesting against the demolition of the station concourse. The station hall was pulled down in January 2011.