Salzburg Hauptbahnhof: Difference between revisions

| name = Salzburg Hauptbahnhof

| style = ÖBB

| image = Salzburg Hauptbahnhof Station Building.jpg

| image_caption = Station building

| address = Südtiroler Platz 1<br/>5020 Salzburg

| country = Austria

| coordinates = {{coord|47|48|47|N|13|2|48|E|region:AT|display=inline,title}}

| elevation = {{convert|428|m|abbr=on}}

| owned = [[Austrian Federal Railways|Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)]]

| operator = {{Plainlist|1=

| line = [[Western Railway (Austria)|Western Railway]]<br/>[[Rosenheim–Salzburg railway|Rosenheim–Salzburg]]<br/>[[Salzburg-Tyrol Railway]]<br/>[[Salzburger Lokalbahn]]

| connections = *Bus: [[Trolleybuses in Salzburg|Salzburg trolleybuses]]<br/>and city buses

| code = ZSB

| platform = 9 through<br/>2 terminating (local line)

| opened = {{Start date|1860}}

| architect = Kada Wittfeld

| closed =

| rebuilt = 2012-2014

| electrified = Yes

| train_operators = {{Plainlist|1=

| map_type = Austria#Europe

| map_caption = Location in Austria##Location in Europe

| map_dot_label = Salzburg

| map_locator =

| embedded = {{Infobox mapframe

| services = {{Adjacent stations|system1=EuroCityÖBB

|line1=SaarbrückenRJX Zürich-GrazBratislava|left1=FreilassingKufstein|right1=Salzburg SüdLinz

|line2=FrankfurtRJX Zürich-GrazVienna|left2=FreilassingKufstein|right2=Salzburg SüdLinz

|line3=FrankfurtRJX Zürich-KlagenfurtBudapest|left3=FreilassingKufstein|right3=Golling-AbtenauLinz

|line4=FrankfurtRJX Innsbruck-ZagrebVienna|left4=FreilassingKufstein|right4=Golling-AbtenauLinz

|line12=Railjet|type12line8=RJ Munich-Klagenfurt|left12left8=Freilassing|right12right8=Golling-Abtenau

|line16line11=REXEC 3Saarbrücken-Graz|right16left11=Freilassing|right11=Salzburg Süd

| other_services =

In 1860, the [[Duchy of Salzburg]] was connected by its Hauptbahnhof with Europe's international railway network by the [[Bavarian Maximilian's Railway]] from Munich via [[Rosenheim]], and with the [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungary's]] domestic network by the [[Empress Elisabeth Railway]] (the present day Western Railway) to Vienna. Taking into account the Hauptbahnhof's location, it was originally laid out as a [[:de:Durchgangsbahnhof|through station]].

After 1900, part of the station was rebuilt as an [[:de:Inselbahnhof|island station]]. Parallel to the [[station building]], which faces a through track, an additional building was erected, on a wide platform topped with a [[train shed]]. On the other side of the train shed are further through tracks. Inside it are terminating tracks, for Austrian domestic traffic on the northeastern side and for trains to Germany on the southwestern side.

Following the construction of further rail links, culminating in the Tauern Railway to [[Villach Hauptbahnhof|Villach]] and on to [[Trieste Centrale railway station|Trieste]] in 1909, the station increased in importance as a transport hub. From the now defunct local station complex on the station forecourt, trains began operating in 1886 on the Salzburger Lokalbahn and in 1893 on the Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn.

In 1944 and 1945, the final years of [[World War II]], the station and its network of tracks was the target of numerous bombing raids by American naval aircraft. These raids partially destroyed the station as a whole. Some [[unexploded ordnance]] from the raids is believed to be still embedded in the station yard to this day. The risk that it might explode without warning has often created difficulties when deep excavations need to be performed. In 2003, an unsuccessful defusing of a {{Convert|250-pound|lb|adj=on}} bomb even cost two explosives experts their lives, and in July/August 2007, the ÖBB carried out a search for further unexploded ordnance.

Since 1996, the Salzburger Lokalbahn has had its terminus in an underground station under the Südtiroler Platz. An underground extension of this railway as a [[rapid transit|U-Bahn]] or [[Stadtbahn]] line into or through the city centre was planned, and remains an option. With the establishment and expansion of the S-Bahn system in the Salzburg agglomeration, the Hauptbahnhof's importance has again increased, as it repeatedly hits its capacity limits, due to the limited number of through tracks.

The structure of the station as it existed at the start of the twenty-first century, with its bay platforms and five through platforms, was regarded as being more of a hindrance than a help to train services within the [[Schengen Agreement]] area's open borders. Under the so-called [[:de:Bahnhofsoffensive|ÖBB-Bahnhofsoffensive]], a complete rebuild of the railway tracks and platforms was therefore made. The bay platforms were replaced with through platforms, and the three dingy platform access [[pedestrian underpass|underpass]]es by a large shopping mall. The shopping mall extended under all of the railway lines, from Südtirolerplatz to the north right through to the station's rear or southern side.

The competition for the design of the renovations was won by [[Klaus Kada]], who had already designed the new [[Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof]]. His winning entry was presented as early as May 1999. However, the actual construction project, which was essential to the station's future as a node for both long distance and local transport services, was consistently delayed.

The delays were due in part to controversy over the marble hall, which was located in a building on the wide island platform. That building needed to be demolished in the course of the renovations. The marble hall, a part of the station restaurant, had been built after World War II. A community group felt that it was of historic value, and should therefore be retained. The city of Salzburg proposed a compromise, involving the removal of the hall and its reconstruction elsewhere in a new building. Eventually, the competent authority ended the dispute, by approving the marble hall's demolition, under the city's proposed conditions. The marble from the marble hall was taken away from the demolition site under the supervision of the Heritage Office, and is currently being stored by the ÖBB.

The steel roof structure of the canopy on the island platform has been placed under [[cultural heritage management]]. The structure was therefore carefully removed at the start of November 2009, and taken to Linz to be restored prior to integration into the new station. In February 2011 the first of the seven arches of the roof structure was re-erected.<ref name=Retrolook />

|{{rintric|salzburgSalzburg S-Bahn|S1}} || '''Salzburg Hbf''' (Tiefgeschoss) – [[Bürmoos]] – [[Lamprechtshausen]]

|{{rintric|salzburgSalzburg S-Bahn|S11}} || '''Salzburg Hbf''' (Tiefgeschoss) – Bürmoos – Trimmelkam

|{{rintric|salzburgSalzburg S-Bahn|S2}} || '''Salzburg Hbf''' – [[Straßwalchen]]

|{{rintric|salzburgSalzburg S-Bahn|S3}} || [[Bad Reichenhall]] – [[Freilassing station|Freilassing]] – '''Salzburg Hbf''' – [[Golling an der Salzach|Golling]]-[[Abtenau]] (individual trains to [[Schwarzach im Pongau|Schwarzach]]/[[Sankt Veit im Pongau|St. Veit]] and [[Saalfelden]])

*[http://www.salzburg.info/en/arrival_traffic/train/salzburg_main_station.htmm/ Salzburg Tourist Office]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}&nbsp;– Salzburg city tourist board website.

[[Category:Railway stations in Austria opened in 1860]]