Strasbourg Railway Station

Strasbourg-Ville is the main railway station in the city of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. It is the eastern terminus of the Paris-Est–Strasbourg-Ville 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.

With over 20 million passengers in 2018, Strasbourg-Ville is one of the busiest railway stations in France, second only to Lyon-Part-Dieu outside of the ÃŽle-de-France.

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. 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.

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.

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. 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.


File:Gare de Strasbourg vers 1910 (carte postale).jpg, Gare de Strasbourg around 1910
File:Strasbourg gare centrale hall des départs août 2013.jpg, Historical main hall
File:091028 Strasbourg IMG 6238.JPG, A TGV (right) and a TER (left) in Gare de Strasbourg in 2009

Services

The station is the main station in Strasbourg and one of the main stations in France with over 19.4 million passengers in 2017. TGV service is being assured by the LGV Est, since 2007, and the LGV Rhin-Rhône, since 2011.

TGV

* Frankfurt - Strasbourg - Marseille
* Munich - Stuttgart - Strasbourg - Paris-Est
* Colmar - Mulhouse - Strasbourg - Paris-Est
* Freiburg - Emmendingen - Lahr - Offenburg - Strasbourg - Paris-Est
* Strasbourg - Paris CDG Airport - Brussels
* Strasbourg - Rennes
* Strasbourg - Nantes
* Strasbourg - Bordeaux
* Strasbourg - Lyon - Marseille
* Strasbourg - Lyon - Montpellier

Other Main Line services

* Strasbourg - Paris

TER

* Strasbourg - Sélestat - Colmar - Mulhouse - Saint Louis - BaselLe réseau TER Fluo
TER Grand Est, accessed 28 April 2022.
* Strasbourg - Haguenau
* Strasbourg - Metz
* Strasbourg - Nancy
* Strasbourg - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Épinal
* Strasbourg - Sarreguemines - Saarbrücken(D)
* Strasbourg - Kehl - Offenburg (''Métro-Rhin'' and '' Ortenau- S-Bahn'')

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)

Other stations

* Gare de Strasbourg-Cronenbourg: goods station
* Gare de Hausbergen: Classification yard
* Gare de Krimmeri-Meinau: halt
* Gare de Strasbourg-Neudorf: goods station
* Gare de Strasbourg-Port-du-Rhin: goods station
* Gare de Strasbourg-Roethig: halt

References

External links

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gare-strasbourg.fr/
official website

Gare de Strasbourg on Structurae

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