Enkplatz (Vienna U-Bahn)

Gottschalkgasse / Enkplatz: 6 72 N6

The underground Enkplatz the Vienna U -Bahn line U3 is in the 11th district of Vienna Simmering. Namesake opened on 2 December 2000, the station in 1894 after the writer Michael Leopold Enk named from the castle Enkplatz.

The platform areas are two levels deep just below the Simmering main road and extending between the Grillgasse and the Enkplatz. The station has two separate side platforms, which are arranged in parallel extending tubes and are connected by two passages. Exits lead to the Simmering main street, on the Gottschalkgasse and on the Enkplatz. The sunrises on the Simmering main road and the Gottschalkgasse are integrated into building and both have elevators.

It is possible to switch to the tram lines 6 and 71 as well as the bus lines 15A and 76A. Is the parish church Neusimmeringer Immediately at the station.

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On the ceiling of the 17 -meter-high shaft station Gottschalkgasse the image Belle Etage of the artists Ilse Haider and Mona Hahn was installed in 2000. It is a 7 x 4,5 m color photo in a slide Lightbox. The picture shows residents of a Simmering community building, looking from her balcony on the passengers of the U3 down. These can look at a patch of blue sky according to the intention of the artists in bad weather. However, according to a survey two-thirds of the passengers in the station never looked up, and therefore not even discovered the artwork.

In the basement of the station is also at the top of a wall since 2000, the installation is mirror image of the artist Erich Steininger. The mural consists of nine panels, which are designed as an abstract black and white graphic. The templates were created as a woodcut and then transferred to the wall. Between the graphics, there are eight levels, in which the passengers are visible in favorable viewing direction.

The ceiling Belle Etage

Installation mirror images

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