Schottentor (Vienna U-Bahn)

The Schotttentor - University is a two-storey underground station on the U2 line in the 1st district of Vienna Innere city below the Maria Theresia Street. The name of the station derives from the same Schottentor, a former gate in the Viennese city wall, which was demolished in 1860.

The traffic complex Schottentor is one of the busiest public transport nodes in Vienna. Here take 13 lines to each other. In addition to the U2 are the trains running across the ring passage tram D (Hauptbahnhof East - Nußdorf ), 1 ( Stefan- Fadinger Square - Prater Avenue ) and 71 ( Exchange - Central Cemetery ), the radial lines 37 (after Hohewarte ), 38 have ( to Grinzing ), 40 (after Gersthof ), 41 (after Pötzleinsdorf ), 42 (after Antonigasse ), 43 ( to Neuwaldegg ) and 44 ( Dorn Bach ) and the bus lines 1A ( according to Stephansplatz) and 40A (after Döblinger cemetery) here its terminus. The station includes the so-called Scots passage that allows the crossing under the street below the ring road for pedestrians. The subway to get up and down by escalator. In addition, lifts lead from one plane to the next. The station has a center platform.

The high volume of traffic is mainly due to the adjacent University and the meeting of 12 transport lines. In the 1960s, the original above-ground loops have been redesigned for the years ending here tram lines to two superimposed loop systems at street level and in the first basement. Because of the oval shape seen from above along with the tram ramp to Währingerstraße on a pan or casserole recalls, as well as in reference to the then Mayor Franz Jonas, this loop plant is popularly known as " Jonas - Reindl ". About the aboveground loop contact coming from the University of streets of the lines 43 and 44, while the loop in the first basement is used by the coming of the Währingerstraße lines 37, 38, 40, 41 and 42. As in the late 1970s, the circulating under the two- line metro tram was rebuilt and extended to the underground line U2, which Schotttentor was built in a second basement.

The stop of bus line 40A is a bit off in the Hohenstaufengasse.