Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof
- 7 mainline tracks
- 4 stump tracks
- 3 tram tracks
- Arlbergbahn
- Brennerbahn
- Mittenwaldbahn
- Stubaitalbahn
- Unterinntalbahn
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The Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof is a through station and lies to the east of the Innsbruck city center. With about 25,000 passengers per day, it is one of the stations with the highest ridership in Austria.
Location
The train station is right in the center of Innsbruck in Dreiheiligen district. To the Central Station area also includes the freight station Innsbruck, the account of the 1994 completed freight train bypass Innsbruck ( Inntaltunnel ) has lost its meaning in part and in the course of urban development is to be converted into a residential area. The marshalling yard of the railway junction Innsbruck is located in Hall in Tirol. Next to the station there are countless shops, the shopping center Sillpark is right next door and the Maria Theresia Street is within walking distance.
Importance for traffic
The importance of the station is located in the commuter traffic in the Tyrolean capital and in a node function for the East-West traffic (Budapest) - Vienna -Salzburg- Wörgl -Innsbruck ( Zurich ) / Bregenz and the North-South trade München - Wörgl- Innsbruck- Bolzano -Verona- ( Milan / Venice / Rome). Since December 2007 he is also the central point of the S -Bahn Tyrol.
The railway line between tree churches ( about 15 km east from Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof) and Wörgl Hauptbahnhof ( called Unterinntalbahn ) is one of the busiest rail routes in Austria ( up to 430 trains a day ) and is therefore currently being expanded to four tracks as part of the TEN- axis Berlin- Palermo. In Wörgl Hbf the railway line ( Giselabahn ) divides into the northern branch via Kufstein to Salzburg and Munich, on the one hand and the eastern branch above Zell am See to Salzburg, Graz and Klagenfurt on the other.
The main station has eight drive-through tracks - where platform 1 is at ground level as " main platform " and platform 8 of Eastern accessible (only) is used for the auto loading on car trains - and four head tracks (platforms 21-22, 31 and 41) for the regional passenger traffic over the Mittenwaldbahn, the Arlberg railway and the Brenner railway.
The main station is also central station for the S1, S2 and S3 and S4 and S5 endpoint of the lines of the S -Bahn Tyrol.
History
The planning of a railway line on the Tyrolean area began from the year 1850. Three years later approved Emperor Franz Joseph I, the route to Innsbruck to Wörgl and a year later further to the border at Kufstein. Czwerwenka Franz, the head of the civil construction management, designed the central railway station, who was in his time as one of the most beautiful reception building of the monarchy. With the opening of the line between Kufstein and Innsbruck, the station building was put into operation. He was then still surrounded by meadows and fields. Of greater importance was told the station with the commissioning of the Brenner railway (then Southern Railway ) in 1867 and with the Arlberg railway in 1883, for the Innsbruck Westbahnhof was created. By train traffic over the Brenner Pass the station had become too small, so the station building and concourse were rebuilt.
On January 1, 1924, the Austrian Federal Railways ( ÖBB) took over the Austrian lines of the former Southern Railway Company. Therefore, in 1927, the station was rebuilt and adapted to increased traffic. The departure hall was frescoed by Rudolf Stolz, platforms and subways instead of a Bahnsteighalle cheaper platform canopies were used. In the still existing " clock tower building ", located in the north wing and so called because of a small clock tower at the top, the operation Directorate was housed.
At the end of the Second World War, the station was completely bombed by the Allies. A ÖBB architect brought together the designs renowned architects, it was simple, functional building in the style of the 1950s. The Austrian artist Max Weiler received in 1954 the contract for the design of large departure hall, the two murals ensured because of the abstracted representation of Innsbruck's history and present a scandal.
In the 1980s, the station got minor modifications, was then but no longer appropriate for the operation. As part of the station launched in 1997, offensive ÖBB a new station building was decided. It was designed by the architectural firm Riegler Riewe. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 2001 and the official opening was on 19 May 2004. The total construction costs amounted to 25 million euros.
The central component is the main hall, which extends continuously to the basement, with access to the platforms via two tunnels ( north tunnel and south tunnel ) to the underground garage (then other people the tunnel to the Hotel Europa and sunrises to the bus and tram terminals ), another pedestrian tunnel to the bus station and local shops. North it adjoins an office building. The clock tower building from the 1920s was renovated and now houses, among other things a police inspection.
The striking frescoes by Max Weiler were together a few centimeters masonry removed in one piece and hung up again in the current concourse.
(Called " Red Square " ) at the train station with a red colored asphalt arose almost simultaneously a hub for public transport, which integrates the meter-gauge tram, regional and urban bus lines and the meter gauge Stubaitalbahn. For the meter-gauge tram track a node for a new route to the south was built at the same time at the south end of the square, which, however provisionally not to be built.
Forecourt and building facade
Stop of bus and tram
Südtirolerplatz from above
Overview of the south of the railway station, in the foreground the Olympic Bridge
View from the south on the western railway lines, in background the north chain