Aufseßplatz (Nuremberg U-Bahn)

Metro Station Aufseßplatz (abbreviation: AP ) opened the eleventh metro station of the Nuremberg U -Bahn on 23 September 1975. It is 694 m Central Station and 630 meters from the subway station from Maffei Underground Station. Until 28 January 1978 he was the terminus for the line U1. The Aufseßplatz is by Hans Werner Philipp Freiherr von and Aufseß, the founder of the Germanic National Museum, named.

Location and infrastructure

The station is located in the district of Nuremberg Galgenhof and extends below the ground in north-south direction under the Aufseßplatz between Peter -Henlein and Landgraben / Wölckernstraße. An attraction in the area of the station is the Christ Church.

From the northern platform, a head of steps leads directly to Aufseßplatz, this could be opened only in 1976, after completion of the tunnels to the central station. The Südaufgang leads to a distribution of levels among the Wölckernstraße and from there to Aufseß and Copernicus square as well as Landgraben and Wölckernstraße. An elevator leads from the platform center to the surface. At the railway station towards long water south includes a parking and reversing facility and after an x- shaped double track change to.

Building and Architecture

Construction of the 191 m long station building began in 1972 and were carried out in an open design with Berlin wall. During the construction of the car and tram traffic on the intersecting Landgraben / Wölckernstraße was performed with temporary bridges over the pit.

The southern station head was created so that the platform for the then planned third subway line would have built without interrupting operation of U1 can be. In the southern distribution of levels of access to the already planned the U3 platform has been structurally prepared, now is there a retail store. At the southern end of the platform of U1 direct access to the U3 platform was considered structurally, this passage is sealed with a temporary end wall. The elevator was upgraded in 1983.

In the planning for the Nuremberg U- Bahn network was established that stations where cross or touch bloodlines are created in orange design. On Aufseßplatz Metro Station a crossing point was once planned to have a third main line, so this was designed as the first. Likewise predominantly orange crossing stations Hauptbahnhof and Plaerrer and Metro Station Friedrich- Ebert-Platz were performed. The tiled with ceramic tiles platform walls are orange from the bottom to the height of the platform edge, then white with interruption by the band with the platform names (white text on an orange background) and then orange again to ceiling. The round support columns are also tiled orange.

Lines

The station is served by lines U1 and U11. There is a stop of the tram lines 5 ( Worzeldorfer road - Tiergarten ) at the surface and 6 (Documentation Center - West Cemetery ).