Strasbourg-Ville
SNCF railway station
Original facade under the modern canopy built in 2007
General information
Location	20 Place de la gare, 67000 Strasbourg
Coordinates	48°35′06″N 7°44′04″E / 48.58500°N 7.73444°E / 48.58500; 7.73444
Owned by	SNCF
Line(s)	Paris-Est–Strasbourg-Ville railway Strasbourg–Basel railway Appenweier–Strasbourg railway Strasbourg–Lauterbourg railway Strasbourg–Saint-Dié railway
Tracks	13
Construction
Architect	Johann Eduard Jacobsthal
Other information
Station code	87212027
Website	gare-strasbourg.fr
History
Opened	1841
Rebuilt	1883
Passengers
2018	20,170,472[1]
Services Preceding station SNCF Following station Saverne towards Paris-Est TGV inOui Terminus Lorraine TGV towards Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, Brussels-South or Lille-Europe Metz towards Luxembourg Colmar (Haut-Rhin) towards Montpellier-Saint-Roch, Montpellier Sud de France or Marseille-Saint-Charles Nancy-Ville Terminus Colmar (Haut-Rhin) towards Nice-Ville Paris-Est Terminus Offenburg towards Freiburg Hbf Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Paris-Est towards Paris Est ICE/TGV 83 Karlsruhe Hbf towards München Hbf Mulhouse towards Marseille ICE/TGV 84 Baden towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Preceding station Ouigo Following station Metz towards Paris-Est Grande Vitesse Terminus Preceding station TER Grand Est Following station Terminus A01 Sélestat towards Basel SNCF A02a Graffenstaden towards Colmar A03 Vendenheim towards Sarrebourg A04 Mundolsheim towards Haguenau A05 Bischwiller towards Niederbronn Mommenheim towards Saarbrücken Hbf A06 Terminus Terminus A07 Entzheim-Aéroport towards Sélestat A08 Entzheim-Aéroport towards Épinal A09 Bischheim towards Lauterbourg A11 Krimmeri-Meinau towards Offenburg Brumath towards Nancy A13 Terminus Brumath towards Metz A14 Strasbourg-Roethig towards Molsheim A18 Bischwiller towards Wissembourg A34 Saverne towards Paris-Est C02
Location
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Strasbourg-Ville station (French: Gare de 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 Île-de-France.^[2]

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.^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5][6][7]

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.^[5] Geyer also sculpted the figured reliefs adorning the historical façade, both of which bear his signature.

Works by Otto Geyer (1882)

Relief on façade

Relief on façade

Statue "Agriculture"

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.^[5]

Gare de Strasbourg as viewed from Place de la Gare at dusk, showing the new and old façades

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  Gare de Strasbourg around 1910
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  Historical main hall
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  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.

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

• Media related to Gare de Strasbourg at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Ancienne Gare de Strasbourg 1846-1883 at Wikimedia Commons
• gare-strasbourg.fr/, official website (in French)
• Gare de Strasbourg on Structurae