Jihlava railway station ( cs, železniční stanice Jihlava) is a

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in the city of

Jihlava Jihlava (; german: Iglau) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 50,000 inhabitants. Jihlava is the capital of the Vysočina Region, situated on the Jihlava River on the historical border between Moravia and Bohemia. Historically, Jihlava i ...

, the capital of the

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History

The station was the first railway station to be built in Jihlava as part of the rail link between

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via

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, Německý Brod,

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and

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. The investor and operator was the

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(''Österreichische Nordwestbahn'', ''ÖNWB''), the project was taken over by the main

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of this company, Viennese engineer Carl Schlimp. The first test

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arrived at the railway station in Jihlava on 21 December 1870, construction works were finished that year in April. In 1871, all current tracks were in operation. After completion, the building was one of the largest on the ÖNWB lines. The reception building had a system of numerous basements (23 cellars in total). On the ground floor there was a spacious entrance hall with two cashboxes and a wooden newspaper stand. In the left part of the building there were

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and

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and a

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. In the right-hand ground floor of the building were waiting rooms I, II. and III. class. There were also water cranes that took water directly from the Jihlava river or a

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for the

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s and

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owned by the Austrian Northwest Railroad. In the adjoining buildings of the waterworks there was an office of a track officer, a

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, a trackside workers' shelter and an

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store. Jihlava railway station was erected on a slope north of the city centre from the ÖNWB's decision, this distant location was then widely criticized by residents and representatives of the town hall. The north-east trail runs from

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, from the west is connected the track from

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. Even before the start of the construction itself, the variant of the construction of the station under Královský vršek hill on the line to Horní Cerekev and

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was taken into consideration. In October 1887, the second railway station, later named ''Jihlava-město'' (Jihlava-City), was opened here. In the years 1890–1900, the railway station underwent a major reconstruction and modernization in order to serve the growing volumes of rail transport,

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especially. During the subsequent modifications extending until 1912, a loading ramp, a waterworks, a laundry room, an ice cellar, a reception building, a

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, a shed with a load, a ramp, a kerosene depot, a coal slide, a coal cellar, a transfer hall, a workshop, a

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for 20 locomotives, coal sheds, wood warehouse, stock material, station warehouse, farm sheds, wooden loading ramps, clerical and service residential buildings. Since 1908, the electric "malodráha" (

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line) has been running from the center to the station after a wooden bridge over the Jihlava river has replaced a solid

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structure. The timetable was coordinated with departures and arrivals of trains. On this occasion, electricity was installed in the building of the station, this tram line was later replaced by

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es. As part of the nationalization of private railway companies in the

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, both railway stations in the city underwent a single administration in 1913. In 1892 the

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arrived at Iglau Nordwestbahnhof during his visit in the city.

Name

In 1871 station was named ''Iglau'' (Jihlava), in 1888 the name was changed to ''Iglau Nordwestbahnhof'', and later in 1921 to ''Jihlava''.

Literature

* Alois ŠIMKA, Sto let Severozápadní dráhy, OA Jihlava 1971, p. 13. (Czech) * SOkA Jihlava, Archiv města Jihlavy po r. 1849, stavební archiv, odd. železnice (Czech) * SOkA Jihlava, Městská správa Jihlava/Hospodářská registratura VII-li, k. 500, sign. 730. (Czech) * Mojmír KREJČIŘÍK, Po stopách našich železnic, Praha 1991, p. 150. (Czech)

External links

Detailed history of rail transport in Jihlava (Czech)

Article about upcoming reconstruction of the station (2017) (Czech)

Plan of the station (Czech)
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