Arosa (Rhaetian Railway station)
The Arosa railway station is the sports and resort Arosa in Schanfigg, Canton Grisons. It is the terminus of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB ) operated railway line from Chur to Arosa ( Arosa train).
Location and description
The station is located in Ausserarosa and situated on the southwestern side of the upper lake at 1,739 m above sea level on the eastern slope of the Tschuggen, near the Weisshornbahn and post Arosa. It is a railway terminus. The station square forms with the adjacent Oberseeplatz the traffic periodic heart of Arosa, is the hub for the entire bus network in Arosa. The taxi and horse carriage operators have their main stands also in the station square. The Arosa railway leads directly to the station in the south of the lake road in the dead straight, 299 meters long Arosa tunnel passing underneath at a uniform slope the post road, to then leave via Seegrube and the short corner tunnel the Arosa village area to the northeast.
History
In the course of the lengthy and complex configuration of the Arosa train at the beginning of the 20th century not only their lineage commitment was highly controversial for a longer period, but also the location of the station Arosa: There are particular Hof Arosa, Upper and Lower, the Hubelschulhaus and the schwarzsee considered. A specially remarkable railway project with a line guide Chur- Arosa Parpan - saw, along with a tunnel Urden - macaroni with portal when Wasserbodasee to 2,144 m, the railhead in Innerarosa ago.
While the latter project in 1910 was definitively abandoned in favor of lines through the Schanfigg, Arosa the favorite soon a train station on the Upper Lake, including stopover on submarine. There were isolated cases the ( unfounded ) fear that the necessary for this tunnel piercing the submarine ago could jeopardize the water balance of the upper lake. In contrast, the construction management advocated by the chief engineer Gustav Bener a location on Lake Schwarz. As a final destination, however, was also not in this question, because it was too far away from the village center to the local population believes and was partially exposed to winter storms. A separation into a passenger station behind the English Church on the Upper Lake and a freight station on Lake Schwarz was eventually deemed too complicated.
The Arosa train came thus waiving the intermediate station submarine lying on the Upper Lake, which Bener later as follows commented: " Whether prescribed by Aroser prospective construction management Schlusstück with the 290 -meter-long, very expensive Arosertunnel was more expedient than the technically simpler and much cheaper project with the station on Lake Schwarz later development of Arosa is only able to prove. Undeniably, the current station Arosa belongs to the most beautiful scenic railway stations in Switzerland ».
The station was designed as a terminal station, but could be converted into a through station, should this have later proved to be necessary or desirable. Was taken Temporarily eye, such an adjustment in the year 1928, when, among others, was an extension of the railway line on the Tschuggen in conversation. The 1914 realized solution presented in retrospect is a good transport basis, which affected the development of the health resort Arosa in any way. The question of a fundamental change of station plant has become until recently because not loud.
-planning
The stately three-storey station building is located on the lake side of the tracks and has an extended, roofed house platform, including free-standing station buffet with stand and under storey toilet facilities. For this there is another, open intermediate platform for the operation of the second track. North of the station building is the goods shed with loading dock. Track number 3 leads directly to the two pillars designed carriage house, which is just south offset from the Seeblickstrasse and forms the foundation of a residential building. In addition, multi-track stabling facilities and links to the Kehrichtverladestation and the central Getränkedepot are present to the north.
The first station building from 1914 was designed by the architect Meier and Arter in Zurich. The construction management took over the local Alfonso Rocco, who in turn also the station houses between the former station Chur- Arosa Sassal and designed and carried out. The current than successful architecture with distinct bonds in the Engadine style tried quite aware of the traditional feel of a Graubünden mountain resort - to bring some international sophistication in line - including its size and the silent harsh climate of the surrounding nature. The remarkable building was in contrast to the exported into wood Strickbauten Schanfigger the intermediate stations of plastered rubble. It was an elongated, two-storey building with a gabled roof, which was broken in the middle of a cross- gable, where a third floor was housed. This Baute provided space for railway offices, waiting rooms and station offices. The building was replaced 1964-1968 by an austere building with flat roof and white plaster facade. This, in turn, received a new hip roof and a pink paint 1986.
1917 received the goods shed together with a weighbridge and a Stump track for peat extraction, which was a year later extended the Arosa train station. 1919 created the railway company for 300,000 francs a carriage house with service apartments and a new Ausladegeleise. The official house was completed in 1920, as well as the sidewalk from the receiving building to post- road. 1922 one began the abutment in Arosa tunnel and the station received a new platform floor. 1925, the railway platform was created from scratch in paving and the wooden ramp at the goods shed was replaced by one made of concrete. In 1928, the roof of the station building was covered with copper sheet and 1929/30, the platform roof created and extended new in reinforced concrete. 1928 and 1930 advanced to the rail tracks, and in 1931 was the waiting room of the second class to be renovated. 1952 removed the RhB the weighbridge at the goods shed. Since the opening of Weisshornbahn 1956, the establishment of a direct link has been variously discussed ( over-or underpass ) from the platform to the station of Weisshornbahn, to date, but without result. On the occasion of the complete renovation of the station building in 1964, the Express - buffet and the kiosk were ( in the vernacular, " glass box " called ) created. In 1973 they built the carriage house next to the portal of the tunnel Arosa in a house with two Remisegeleisen downstairs to. Only the goods shed with its round arches and hopper windows remained largely unchanged in its exterior.
Operation
At the beginning of the 1950s the station square of winter Sundays often had to be cordoned off from 15:00 clock, as the people rush due to the force until 1954 winter driving ban for cars in Arosa was too big. As a result, the passengers were allowed to pass only staggered to the trains.
On November 22, 1971, the introduction of the automatic route block, since all systems of the railway line be remotely controlled from the Arosa train station.
The normal schedule today consists of an hourly Regio Chur. There connections are guaranteed to the lines of the Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB) in the direction of Zurich and St. Gallen as well as with the main line of the RhB. Since 1985, the Arosa train station is the only railway station in the Schanfigg served. The annual rate amounts to around 300,000 passengers.
The Arosa train station would be constructed next to the Long Meadow, a possible starting point for a currently visionary railway connection between the Schanfigg and Davos.
Reconstruction in 2014
The community Arosa hoped in recent years to be able to move the RhB in time for the 100th anniversary of the Arosa train in 2014 to another, contemporary remodeling of the station. In fact, the Arosa train is now redesigned for more than 24 million francs up to the celebrations in December 2014. The extensive modernization is a collaboration between the RhB, the canton of Grisons, the community and the Arosa Arosa mountain railways AG. Be implemented, among other things, a direct access from the station to Weisshornbahn a Fussgängerpassarelle as well as a redesign of the station square as a meeting zone between Good shed and Oberseeplatz. In addition, structural changes to the web operational infrastructure and the ramps and toilet facilities are held to meet the present-day disabled legal requirements.
The appropriate planning consent procedure was initiated in October 2012. The public inspection plan with architectural details lay ahead in December 2012. The train station reconstruction is performed in different stages, while maintaining the railway operations. In a first step 2013, the renovation of the station building and the construction of a new freight handling facility were taken in hand in summer / autumn. The redesign of the track and platform installations begin after Easter 2014 and early December 2014 completed with the commissioning of the new overpass to Weisshornbahn.