Olomouc main railway station

Olomouc main railway station
*Olomouc hlavní nádraží* (in Czech)
Olomouc main railway station; Olomouc hlavní nádraží (in Czech)
	Olomouc main train station
Location	Jeremenkova 103/23, Olomouc; Czech Republic
Coordinates	49°59′2″N 17°27′2″E
Owned by	Czech Railways (České dráhy) ; SŽDC
Platforms	5 (9)
Construction
Architect	Anton Jüngling; Antonín Parkmann
History
Opened	1 May 1847
Rebuilt	1870–1871 ; 1936 ; 2009-2016
Electrified	1960-1963

Olomouc main railway station (Czech Olomouc hlavní nádraží, abbreviated Olomouc hl.n), is a railway station, the main train terminus of Olomouc, sixth biggest city in the Czech Republic.

Tracks

The station is an important transport junction. All types of trains operated by Czech Railways or private transport companies RegioJet, Leo Express and Arriva stops here. Station is located on a crossing of five railway lines:

270 – Česká Třebová–Přerov–Bohumín
275 – Olomouc–Drahanovice
290 – Olomouc–Šumperk
301 – Brno–Nezamyslice–Olomouc
310 – Olomouc–Krnov–Opava východ

History

Sgrafitto by Wilhelm Zlámal

The first train reached the station on 17 October 1841 from Přerov; at that time the station was located approximately 800 meters north of the current location in a form of provisional wooden penthouse. Original building was designed by architect Anton Jüngling. As a fort city, the municipality of Olomouc was not allowed to build the station too close to city walls. On 20 August 1845 the first train going from Vienna to Prague went through. Since that year a distant area of the station was connected with the centre by buses. In 1871 a brick building grew up on its actual place, mainly because of connection on the new railway lines. A new city road heading terminus was built in 1885–1888, since 1899 works tram transport with the rest of the agglomeration.

Capacity reasons led to the project of rebuilding and extending the station. New building in functionalist style was finished in 1936 led by architect Antonín Parkmann. Current interior of the main hall came from 1960. Socialistically realistic sgraffito about size of 310 m² is composed by the crowd of figures in local folk costumes (Haná) combined with socialistic features including ideological verses or picture of Sputnik. In 2009 a huge reconstruction of the station and the front space was finished to develop transport comfort. Accept new bus and tram terminal was also realized an underpass in the direction of Trocnovská and Trocnovská streets on the opposite way from the main entrance.

Photo gallery

Station building
Platforms
Underpass

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