Nestroyplatz (Vienna U-Bahn)

Nestroyplatz / Prater Street: 5A

The Nestroyplatz on the U1 line was opened in 1979. It is located in low position directly under the Prater street in Vienna's 2nd district Leopoldstadt. It is named after the Nestroyplatz, which was named in 1932 after the playwright and actor Johann Nestroy. This appeared in his plays often at the nearby Carl theater, which was destroyed in the Second World War. Near the station - before the house numbers 17-19, to Jonas - is a 1929 cast Johann Nestroy monument that was erected here in 1983 after completion of the underground work, but previously stood between Carl theater and Nestroyhof had.

The station has a center platform and extends between the Komödiengasse and Rotensterngasse. Outputs lead by means of fixed stairs and escalators on both sides of the Prater street that Komödiengasse and in the Weintraubengasse. In the 2000s, the station was converted accessible: an elevator leads directly from the platform on a traffic island at the Prater street.

Next to one of three staircases to Nestroyplatz Tempelgasse is a rest of the Leopoldstadt Temple, which was destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, today remembered as a memorial of four white columns.

The Nestroyplatz was opened on 24 November 1979, allowed so that the drive on another section of the U1 from Stephansplatz over the Swedes place up in the 2nd district. In 1978, the sections were opened to Karlsplatz Square and Karlsplatz to Stephansplatz from the Reumannplatz. By 28 February 1981, the Nestroyplatz remained the northern terminus of the line U1.

Architectural History

The Nestroyplatz was built in open cut, while the connection from Sweden place to Nestroyplatz below the Danube Canal for the last time the then known under the name " Wiener mole" tunnel boring machine was used. On May 26, 1977 Nestroyplatz was asked this appropriate for propulsion in the loose sediment with gravel and water tunnel boring machine out of service after the completion of the tunnel for. In later tunnels of the subway, the " New Austrian Tunnelling Method " was used. It was not until 26 years later, in the extension of the U1 again a similar plate drilling machine.

The open design of the station meant that the trains running in the Prater street ring tram lines A, Ak, Bk and B had to be relocated to the edge of the Prater street. The station is located directly below the present pavement of the Prater street. Because of the depth of the subway route, which passes under the station shortly before the Danube Canal, the station is running two storeys.

Effects

The opening of the subway station was initially not produce the desired invigorating effect on the business life of the Prater road that was to become a " shopping street " in the forecasts of urban planners after the completion of the subway.

The first newly built in anticipation of the subway terminal building was built on the site of the broken Carltheater 1975 Galaxy skyscraper by architect Josef Becvar, who had also designed the Hotel Europa in front of the Salzburg train station. This office tower remained after its completion, even after the opening of the U1 station for many years virtually empty until it was purchased in the early 1990s by the editors and the distribution of News Publishing Group. After moving from the publisher in nearby Media Tower, the building has been increased from 15 to 21 storeys and renamed Galaxy 21 in the years 2001 and 2002 by the architect Martin Kohlbauer. The porch now extends almost to the subway stairs in the comedy alley. Today in the building including a branch of the World Bank, the Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Procurement Office are housed.

Another new building was built on the corner Prater Street and Aspernbrückengasse. In place of the former office building with the Inland Revenue for the 2nd and the 20th District also an office building was built, which is the headquarters of the television station ATV with studio and production areas today. The tax between the Danube Canal and the Danube were merged with those beyond the Danube and are now in a new building in front of the station Kagran of U1.