Währinger Straße-Volksoper (Vienna U-Bahn)

The station Währinger Straße - Volksoper is a station of the Vienna U -Bahn line U6 in Vienna's 9th district Alsergrund, on the border of the 18th district Waehring. It extends along the Währinger Gürtel between height Währingerstraße and Gentzgasse. The building was first opened in 1898 as part of the ( steam-powered ) light rail Otto Wagner and 1918 closed due to the rampant lack of coal. 1925, the station for now municipally owned, electrified rail was reopened. Between 1925 and 1989 stopped here the light rail lines G and GD. On October 7, 1989 held for the first time the features of U6 in this station.

Plant

The building is designed as a high station and, with its rich ornamentation and the pillars at the entrance of the best preserved and most impressive stations in the former Stadtbahn. The south of the station lying, but no more for station building belonging bridges over the Währingerstraße, and the Verlängerungern Fuchsthallergasse and Schulgasse with their pylons and rich architectural embellishments contribute to the overall impression. The train station is entered eastern as western sides by open staircase systems and the typical green-painted swing doors. From the reception hall, with its embellished with view brick barrel vaults, the passengers go upstairs and downstairs to the two directional platforms. These were extended in the course of the renovation for the needs of the underground operation in the 1980s on the north side by a few meters to give the long trains space. Access to the ( retrofitted ) elevators located outside the station building.

In the northern part of the station building is a Billa store in the southern part a scene dock nearby Volksoper. In addition to the western exit there is a tobacco shop.

Other lines

At the western starting an operating track leads to the operation Bahnhofgürtel. Here trains to the tram lines 40 and 41 on collection trips, from 1907 to 1989 here was a stop on the line 8 At this point also holds the bus line 40A in the direction Schottentor that stop in the direction of travel Döblinger cemetery is located further north. South of the station, under the U6 bridge over the Währingerstraße is the stop of the lines 40 and 41 under the bridge over the Schulgasse the line stops 42 in the direction of travel Antonigasse, around the corner on the Währingergürtel in the direction Schottentor.