Feldkirch railway station

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The Feldkirch railway station is a railway station in the Austrian town of Feldkirch in Vorarlberg. The train station is located north of the city in the district of Feldkirch Levis between the Ardetzenberg and the Känzele. The junction station is located on the train and the track Feldkirch Vorarlberg book.

History

The station was opened in 1872, together with the Vorarlberg web. The historic station building was extended repeatedly since 1884 because Feldkirch because of the Arlberg railway became an international transport hub. In the 1960s, the historic station was demolished. In early 1969 the new station was put into operation. Between 1999 and 2001, the station was once again renovated and rebuilt as part of the ÖBB railway station initiative. The platforms, the underpass and the station hall were renewed. As a result, the station in 2010 was selected as part of a survey of VCÖ by the interviewed passengers to sixth Austria's most beautiful train station.

Importance for traffic

The Feldkirch railway station is one of the most important stations of the province of Vorarlberg. Next of Feldkirch station serves as a loading station for the car train from Feldkirch to Vienna, Graz and Villach. In addition, Feldkirch is the frontier station of the route book.

Social events

James Joyce

Since the Bloomsday 1994 is to be read in the station hall of Feldkirch a James Joyce quote that emphasizes the special relationship of the Irish writer with the Montfort City. Thanks influential friends James Joyce could, the world due to the war in 1915 was considered an "enemy alien ", leave with his partner Nora Barnacle and their two children from Austria, while his brother Stanislaus Joyce was even arrested in Trieste as an "enemy alien " and to World War II period remained imprisoned. At the border control in Feldkirch Joyce was arrested by a hair, has therefore decided, in his words at the Feldkirch's train station the fate of his novel Ulysses. The end of 2001, ÖBB originally from culture Feldkirch mounted above the ticket office plaque by a particularly clear and conspicuous presentation of the translated into German literary Joyce citation ( Over there, on Those tracks the fate of Ulysses ' what DECIDED in 1915. ) Replaced, bringing the ÖBB contribute significantly to the popularization and dissemination of the decades- long hidden facts.

Stefan Zweig

The Austrian writer Stefan Zweig asserts in his " The World of Yesterday " titled memoirs that he was in 1919 at the Bahnhof Feldkirch been time and eye-witness, as was deported into exile in Switzerland Charles I of the Republic of Austria.

" When you return to Austria on the border station Feldkirch before me stood an unforgettable experience. Even when getting out I had noticed a strange unrest in the border officials and police officers. It was the bell that announced the approach of a train. The police stood on end, all officials rushed out of their crates. Slowly, majestically, the train rolled in, a train special kind, a Salon train. The locomotive continued. A tactile movement went through the ranks of those waiting, I still did not know why.

Since I realized behind the mirror plate of the car erect Emperor Karl, the last Emperor of Austria and his black-clad wife, Empress Zita. I was startled: the last Emperor of Austria, the heir to the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled the country seven hundred years left his kingdom! Because he refused the formal abdication, the Republic had forced his departure. Now the high serious man stood at the window and looked for the last time, the mountains, the houses, the people of his country. ... [Note 1] "

German border station from 1938

In the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938 came from domestic SS people to anti-Semitic riots against Jews who had traveled.

People

  • Elmar Steurer (* 1924), board the train station and Member of the Vorarlberg Landtag and from 1970 its second parliament vice-president.
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