Schweglerstraße (Vienna U-Bahn)

The station Schweglerstraße the Vienna U -Bahn line U3 is several floors and in the 15th district of Vienna Rudolf -Fuenfhaus. It was opened as part of the release of the third section of the U3 on 3 September 1994. It is named after the 1875 after the mayor of the formerly independent municipality Rudolf Home, Johann Schwegler ( 1820-1903 ) named street.

The station extends under the Märzstraße between the Benedict - Schellinger Alley and the Stättermayergasse and has a central platform. Four outputs result in the traffic Benedict Schellinger alley and into the Stättermayergasse. The station is equipped with both fixed stairs as well as with escalators, including the three at the time of establishment of the longest escalators in Austria to overcome on a length of 43 meters, a height difference of 20 meters. The administration building Benedict Schellinger -Gasse 13, a barrier- free output was set up by elevator. It is possible to take tram 9 after Gersthof, Westbahnhof and 49 in the direction of Dr.- Karl- Renner-Ring or Hütteldorf and to bus line 12A to upgrade towards Längenfeldgasse or melting. It is close to the Empress Elisabeth Hospital was and is the Reithofferplatz Park.

Configuration

According to the tradition, U3 equip the stations of the line with works of art, the station Schweglerstraße was placed under the motto "art of technology". In the basement of the station is since 1994 the installation of tele - archeology of media artist Nam June Paik. A jacketed with bricks subway car seems to go into a black tunnel. In the bricks - rare pieces from the Vienna Ziegelmuseum - are embedded various elements such as monitors, keyboards and circuit boards. Inside were originally on 39 monitors video sequences by Nam June Paik to see; the playback equipment is medium but while defective and lack of spare parts not repairable.

Also in the basement of a number of exhibits from the Museum of Technology have been installed. In the bay area between the elevators hang a Mini Cooper, the wheels of a locomotive, a light aircraft and a Mercury space capsule from the ceiling. The surge air shaft houses a " wave machine " with a propeller of three meters in diameter, which should be driven by the surge of air entering and leaving the trains, but this does not work due to low air flow.

The station area toward the exit Benedict Schellinger Alley is configured with 22 portraits of important Austrian inventor, engineer and physicist. They are the pioneers of tunneling Ladislaus of Rabcewicz, Leopold Müller and Christian Veder, the engineers of Railways Carl von Ghega, Karl Gölsdorf, Alois Negrelli and Friedrich Ignaz von Emperger, the inventor Josef Ressel, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Viktor Kaplan, Johann Korbuly, Siegfried Marcus, Gustav Tauschek and Wilhelm Kress, the physicist Ludwig Boltzmann, Lise Meitner, Erwin Schrödinger, Christian Doppler, Robert von Lieben and Joseph Maximilian Petzval, the designer Ferdinand Porsche and the founder of the Technological and Crafts Museum Wilhelm Exner.

Exhibits of the Technical Museum

Portraits of pioneers in engineering and physics

Portrait of Christian Veder

Portrait of Ladislaus Rabcewicz