Stephansplatz (Vienna U-Bahn)

The Stephansplatz is a opened on 17 November 1978 underground metro station in the 1st district of Vienna Inner City. This is where the lines meet U1 and U3. Because of the function as the central node in the metro network and due to the numerous surrounding attractions is the station one of the busiest traffic structures in Vienna. Daily use around 255,000 passengers used the station Stephansplatz.

The building

The tracks of the subway are up to five stories below the level of Stephansplatz. Exits lead to the Stephansplatz, the ditch, the Kärntner Strasse, and ( just as an elevator ) in the Goldschmiedgasse. The three leading via stairs and escalators sunrises are not covered to protect the urban cityscape. The platforms of the U1, which are located at the lowest point of the station are arranged as a central platform, those of U3 as a side platforms on two levels with each other. On the top floor there is an information center and a ticket agency Wiener Linien. Two large bakeries in Vienna are also known to their underground stores. A previously located here Polizeiinspektion was moved on 14 October 2005 to the address conflagration 4. The barrier-free wheelchair access is possible only via the output Goldschmiedgasse where flows the only leading to the surface lift to the exterior of the Haas House. Three more lifts serve the floors within the station. There are also 23 escalators different lengths.

History

Since the introduction of public transport in Vienna lacked a powerful transport which also moved into the city center within the Ring Road. Already in the 19th century plans were rolled to place a possible central railway station in the immediate vicinity of St. Stephen's Cathedral. The construction of the station Stephansplatz started from the construction of the basic network of the Vienna U -Bahn in May 1973. In August 1977, the same depth could be produced. The construction was carried out largely in an open design. Mitgeplant From the very beginning, have been the preparations for the link to the U3 made ​​in the 1970s, which reached the Stephansplatz station until 1991.

Others

The really characteristic for the area of ​​the U1 station stench has already led to the formation of modern legends. This is, in truth, however, due to a soil stabilization agent on an organic basis, which was used in the construction of this station, to prevent the soil under the Stephansdom and this yields to drop. This soil solidifying agent causes a chemical reaction. The butyric acid, which arises on warmer days and leaves the soil with the groundwater, causing a bad odor and sometimes deposits in the subway station.

Configuration

In the course of the excavation of the station in 1972, the foundations of the former Magdalen Chapel were excavated by archaeologists. Below the foundations was found the hitherto almost unknown, underground Virgilkapelle.

The chapel was built around 1240 and was closed at an unknown time and backfilled. After removing the filling the chapel is now in original condition, but the west wall of the station building was destroyed. The Virgilkapelle originally had no doors or windows and was only accessible from above via ladders. By removing the west wall, it can now be easily reached; as a consequence, the chapel was incorporated into the station. In plutonic lap of the U3 station (direction Simmering ) transmission has built leading to the ground floor of the Virgilkapelle. A floor above was installed in the intermediate level of the station a "showcase" that allows a view of the floor of the chapel. The basement, however, is blocked for reasons of conservation to the public since 2008.

Am Stephansplatz has been shown with colored stones of the floor plan of Virgilkapelle and Magdalen Chapel.

Views

Input on Stephansplatz

Platforms of the U3

Outline of Magdalen Chapel (red) and Virgil Chapel (White)