Appellhofplatz (KVB)

The Cologne Metro Station Appellhofplatz includes two approximately 100 meters apart stops Appellhofplatz / Broad Street and Appellhofplatz / armory and the intervening underground railway triangle. At this Metro Station on weekdays to stop on some 1,000 trains of five lines on four platforms.

History

Metro Station Appellhofplatz is part of the downtown tunnel, which was planned in the 1960s by the city of Cologne as U- Tramway and financed from its own funds. This led to a relatively simple design with narrow curve radii and height equal branches. Only the Streckenast Friesenplatz Cathedral is passed without crossing under the track triangle. The station was opened in two stages in 1968 ( Appellhofplatz / armory ) and 1969 ( Appellhofplatz / width road).

The significantly more traffic stops partial width street was rebuilt in October 2006 on high platforms, so there is a continuous entry into the rail cars possible. The stops part armory is located to the largely unchanged original condition, because this part is by far the weakest frequented Cologne tunnel station at 2000 A and -outs per day.

Weak points of the system

The railway triangle is now considered bottleneck of downtown tunnel. The intercrossed links Neumarkt ↔ Fries and Neumarkt ↔ Dom / Hbf recorded weekdays 60 trains per hour, which, contradictions are inevitable.

Appears to be understandable from today's perspective, in particular the fact that it is precisely the weakest frequented road Fries space ↔ Dom / Hbf was expanded without crossing while delays are commonplace on the other two branches. However, the relation Friesenplatz Cathedral replaced a high traffic Tramway, while the branches towards Neumarkt were new compounds whose frequenting was not foreseeable.

Cologne heads

The center column in the Appellhofplatz underground station were released for artists so that they can perpetuate there forty more or less well-known Cologne heads. This color alienated portraits were sprayed onto aluminum panels and attached during a night raid. Among the heads portrayed Cologne Alfred Biolek, Jürgen Zeltinger, Hermann Götting, Willy Millowitsch, Pierre Littbarski and v. are a