Gare de Strasbourg
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Gare de Strasbourg
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| SNCF railway station | |
Original building under the modern canopy built in 2007
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| Location | 20 Place de la gare, 67000 Strasbourg |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Owned by | SNCF |
| Line(s) | Paris–Strasbourg railway, Strasbourg–Basel railway, Appenweier–Strasbourg railway, Strasbourg-Lauterbourg railway, Strasbourg-Saint-Dié railway |
| Tracks | 13 |
| Other information | |
| Website | gare-strasbourg.fr |
| History | |
| Opened | 1841 |
| Rebuilt | 1883 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2012) | 75,000 (daily)[1] |
Gare de Strasbourg, officially gare de Strasbourg-Ville, is the main railway station in the commune of Strasbourg, in Bas-Rhin, France. It is the eastern terminus of the Paris–Strasbourg railway. The current core building, an example of historicist architecture of the Wilhelminian period, replaced a previous station inaugurated in 1852, later turned into a covered market and ultimately demolished.
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Previous history
Strasbourg's first railway station was inaugurated on 19 September 1841 with the opening of the Strasbourg–Basel railway. It was situated far from the city center, in the district of Koenigshoffen.[2] On 11 July 1846, it was moved to the city center; a new building was designed (as a terminus station) by the French architect Jean-André Weyer (1805–??) and inaugurated on 18 July 1852 by Président Bonaparte. After the German annexation of Alsace following the Franco-Prussian War and as part of the general rebuilding of the town after the Siege of Strasbourg, the construction of a larger station (not a terminus station) in the Neustadt was decided and began in 1878. Weyer's station became Strasbourg's central market hall in 1884. It was demolished in 1974.[3]
Building
The historical building of Strasbourg's current railway station was built between 1878 and 1883 by the German architect Johann Eduard Jacobsthal (1839–1902). In 1900, Hermann Eggert, architect of the imperial palace Palais du Rhin, added a special waiting section and staircase for the German emperor, Wilhelm II, now known as the Salon de l'empereur, with stained glass windows by the manufacturers Ott Frères. The historical building was classified as a Monument historique (type "inscrit") on 28 December 1984. Prior to the opening of the high speed train line LGV Est, the station was refurbished by architect Jean-Marie Duthilleul (born 1952) in 2006–2007 and its size and capacity largely increased by the addition of a huge glass roof entirely covering the historical façade. The modernization of the station was bestowed a Brunel Award in 2008.[4] [5] [6]
The main hall is adorned by two larger than life statues of female allegorical figures representing Industry and Agriculture. They are the work of Otto Geyer.[4] Geyer also sculpted the figured reliefs adorning the historical façade, both of which bear his signature.
The main hall also used to display two frescos by Hermann Knackfuss, painted in 1885, one depicting William I's visit of the fortress Fort Kronprinz in Hausbergen (now Fort Foch, Niederhausbergen), belonging to the fortified belt around Strasbourg, on 3 May 1877 and the other one, as a historical parallel, depicting in Frederick I's arrival in Haguenau in 1164. The two works of art, called Im alten Reich and Im neuen Reich ("In the old Empire" and "In the new Empire") were removed at some point in the 20th century and are lost.[4]
Services
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The station is the main station in Strasbourg and one of the main stations in France with 75,000 passengers a day in 2012. TGV service is being improved by the LGV Est, which will be opened in April 2016.[7] The first phase opened in 2007 and cut travel time between Paris and Strasbourg from 4 hours to 2 h, 20 min; the opening of the second phase will decrease travel time to 1 h, 50 min.[8]
TGV
- Frankfurt - Strasbourg - Marseille
- Munich - Stuttgart - Strasbourg - Paris-Est
- Colmar - Mulhouse - Strasbourg - Paris-Est
- Strasbourg - Paris CDG Airport - Lille
- Strasbourg - Rennes
- Strasbourg - Nantes
- Strasbourg - Bordeaux
- Strasbourg - Lyon - Marseille
- Strasbourg - Lyon - Montpellier
Other Main Line services
- Paris - Strasbourg - Berlin - Warsaw - Minsk - Moscow (since 9 April 2013)[9]
- Strasbourg - Lyon
- Strasbourg - Port-Bou
- Basel - Strasbourg - Luxembourg - Bruxelles
- Strasbourg - Avignon - Nice
TER
- Strasbourg - Colmar - Mulhouse - Basel (TER Alsace with high-speed TER 200 trains)[10]
- Strasbourg - Haguenau
- Strasbourg - Metz
- Strasbourg - Nancy
- Strasbourg - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Épinal[11]
- Strasbourg - Sarreguemines - Saarbrücken(D)
- Strasbourg - Kehl - Offenburg (Métro-Rhin and Ortenau-S-Bahn)
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toward Paris-Est
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TGV | Terminus | ||
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toward northwestern France
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TGV | |||
| Terminus | TGV |
toward Zürich
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| Terminus | TGV |
toward southeastern France
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Terminus
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ICE/TGV 83 |
towards Munich Hbf
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towards Marseille
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ICE/TGV 84 |
towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
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toward Brussels Hbf
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EuroCity |
toward Zürich Hbf
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| Terminus | Intercités night trains |
toward Nice-Ville
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| Terminus | Intercités night trains |
toward Portbou
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| Terminus | TER Alsace 1 |
toward Basel SBB
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| TER Alsace 2 |
toward Mulhouse
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| TER Alsace 3 |
toward Sarrebourg
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| TER Alsace 4 |
toward Wissembourg
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| TER Alsace 5 |
toward Niederbronn
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| TER Alsace 6 |
toward Saarbrücken
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| TER Alsace 7 |
toward Barr
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| TER Alsace 8 |
toward Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
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| TER Alsace 9 |
toward Lauterbourg
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| TER Alsace 11 |
toward Offenburg
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toward Metz-Ville
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TER Lorraine 21 | Terminus | ||
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toward Nancy-Ville
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TER Lorraine 23 |
Local transport connections
The station also serves lines A, C and D of the Strasbourg tramway. The lines A and D stop in the underground station beneath the actual building, that was inaugurated on 25 November 1994 together with the line A. Line C (opened in 2010) stops overground, on Place de la gare.
The following buses of the CTS stop at the railway station: Line 2, Line 10 and Bus à haut niveau de service G (from 30 November 2013)[12]
Other stations
- Gare de Strasbourg-Cronenbourg: goods station
- Gare de Hausbergen: Classification yard
- Gare de Strasbourg-Krimmeri-Meinau: halt
- Gare de Strasbourg-Neudorf: goods station
- Gare de Strasbourg-Port-du-Rhin: goods station
- Gare de Strasbourg-Roethig: halt
References
- ↑ Transports - Alsace, une année dynamique pour les transports, INSEE, 29 May 2013 (French)
- ↑ Ancienne gare de Koenigshoffen on archi-strasbourg.org (French)
- ↑ Ancienne gare de Strasbourg on archi-strasbourg.org (French)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gare de Strasbourg on archi-strasbourg.org (French)
- ↑ Gare ferroviaire centrale, Strasbourg on the Base Mérimée database of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ 10th Brunel Awards 2008 on brunel-awards.org (retrieved on 20 November 2013)
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Strasbourg-Moscou en train, c'est désormais possible, France 3 Alsace, 10 April 2013
- ↑ Se déplacer en TER, on ter-sncf.com/Regions/alsace/fr (French)
- ↑ http://www.ter-sncf.com/Regions/alsace/fr/Se_deplacer_en_TER/Avant_mon_voyage/Flash_actus/DetailsFlash_actus.aspx?URI=tcm%3A10-75121
- ↑ Detailed public transport network map on cts-strasbourg.eu
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- gare-strasbourg.fr/, official website (French)
- Gare de Strasbourg on Structurae
- Gares en mouvement by the SNCF
- Virtual 360° visit on gares360.com
