Gare de Strasbourg

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The Strasbourg train station ( Gare de Strasbourg French, German also often called " Strasbourg Central Station " ) is the central station of the Alsatian capital Strasbourg. He is particularly protected as a monument (French Monument historique ).

History

Today Strasbourg Station is the second station of the city. The first was a head station and was located at the present place of the Halles, where the former railway land in 1974 overbuilt with a large shopping center. Strasbourg's first railway station was inaugurated on September 15, 1854, destroyed in the Franco-German war 1870/71 and partly built under German administration as military again.

The construction of the present station dates back to the construction of the German Empire. The station was built on the site of the Strasbourg Vauban fortifications. Construction began in 1878 after a design by the Berlin architect Johann Eduard Jacobsthal. The station was inaugurated, although already on August 15, 1883, replaced the old Strasbourg railway terminus. Construction was completed Final but only in 1898. The station originally served not only as individuals but also as a freight and yard.

Between 1901 and 1906, a post office and a police building was added on both sides of the reception building. The marshalling yard in 1906 at the Strasbourg suburbs shifted (House Bergen Station, decommissioned in 2006 ). The freight station followed in the years 1912 until 1914. Until 1936 this three new platform tracks were added.

The station building

The station building has two floors, 128 meters long and consists of sandstone from the Vosges. The ground floor is at the level of the station forecourt. Stairs lead from there to the platforms up. The railway tracks are spanned by two sheets of steel. The facade is decorated in neo-Renaissance. It was the first major public building in Strasbourg, which established the new rulers of Germany after the Franco-German War of 1870 /71 and should be large enough to be able to handle an entire German army. It was lit by electricity from the beginning and provided with a central heating. Freight elevators originally transported the luggage on the platform.

Until the return of Strasbourg in France in 1918, the building was decorated with frescoes of two German ruler: One showed the collection of Frederick Barbarossa in Haguenau in 1164, the other turned Kaiser Wilhelm I in Strasbourg in 1877 dar. Both should the membership of Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire symbolize. A special feature is the existing to date facilities for the German imperial family in the station. It has ever been a richly decorated lounge for the emperor and the empress set up the this but never used and now houses guests of honor. Architect of this imperial premises that have been grown in 1900 was Hermann Eggert, who had already designed the Strasbourg Imperial Palace. The station building with its rich decoration has changed little since the completion of the late 19th century until the beginning of the 21st century. However disappeared, the two frescoes by Hermann Knackfuß with which he had decorated in 1885 the lateral walls of the large foyer, during the 20th century irretrievably. The mural " In the old kingdom " (arrival Frederick I in 1164 in Haguenau ) and "In the new Reich" (visit the festivals Crown Prince in House Bergen, now Fort Foch, Niederhausbergen, by William I on May 3, 1877) were due to their blatant not been nationalism and imperialism after 1918 portable.

The façade is of two reliefs and the main hall with two allegorical statues of women ( " agriculture " and "Industry") decorated, all of which spring from the chisel of Otto Geyer and 1882 were appropriate.

Signed relief of Otto Geyer

Signed relief of Otto Geyer

Allegorical woman statue "Agriculture"

Renovations 2006/2007

In the course of the connection to the TGV train station of traffic experienced in the years 2006 and 2007, major renovations. With a set in front of the reception building glass wall that is curved upward and connects to the building's facade, a new hall was created under the also an additional basement was created. The station building was heated floors. A new computerized interlocking system, the largest in France, was built on 4 and 5 November 2006 which resulted in a 30 -hour interruption of railway operation result. Daily worked 300 workers at the station remodeling, caused the total cost of 150 million euros. In addition to the railway facilities and the station forecourt has been redesigned and furnished a bicycle parking space for 850 bikes. The redesigned station was inaugurated on 5 November 2007 with four months delay.

Operation

The Strasbourg railway station is one of the major stations in eastern France and is owned by the French state railway SNCF. In addition to the SNCF and German rail companies, such as the German Railway and the Ortenau S-Bahn ride the train station on a regular basis. Since the commissioning of the LGV Est européenne on 10 June 2007, both the long-distance transport and the transport has improved considerably. There go the first time since the Strasbourg TGV train station. Since 2011, there have substantially improved with the commissioning of the LGV Rhin -Rhône and the Southbound. Today, about 75,000 passengers pass through the station daily. This station has a loading dock for car trains.

Long-distance traffic

In Strasbourg, brings together two important long-distance lines. Strasbourg is for a station on the Main Line for Europe, which connects Paris to Strasbourg with Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Munich and Vienna with Bratislava and Budapest. In addition to this east-west axis Strasbourg lies on the north -south axis from Brussels to Luxembourg, Strasbourg to Mulhouse further into Switzerland or from Mulhouse to Nice on the Mediterranean Sea. Since April 9, 2013 also leads the Paris- Moscow ( via Berlin, Warsaw and Minsk ) is also on the Strasbourg train station.

Since the commissioning of the new high speed line to Paris TGV trains run every hour to Paris Est, of which a total of four pairs of trains to Stuttgart main station, one of them are tied up by Munich Hbf. Additionally, upside a Euro City train pair between Strasbourg and Munich main station Named as Orient- Express € night train to Vienna Westbf was set the timetable change in December 2009. Since the opening of the LGV Rhin -Rhône 2011, there were also six daily TGV connections from Strasbourg to Lyon and to some extent continues to Marseille or Montpellier. There are also several French high-speed trains that connect the Côte d' Azur with Strasbourg. One euro or intercity train pair make direct connections with Brussels ago.

Transport

In the Switzerland also operate long-distance trains, but mostly local transport services in half -hour intervals. The railway connects Europe Strasbourg at rush hour in the half-hour with the German Offenburg. In addition, there are numerous TER connections within France and the German Saarbrücken.

Tram

The tramlines A and D, which leave underground 17 meters below the station, the station to various destinations in the city and its surroundings. Above ground, with line C since the end of 2010 on the station forecourt.

Gallery

TGV on the concourse

Regional train to ride on the train Europe

Railcars Ortenau S-Bahn train station in Strasbourg

Trackage and hall of the passenger station, view from south

Southern exit tracks and depot with roundhouse

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