Volkstheater | |||||||||||
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| Location | Innere Stadt, Vienna Austria | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°12′19″N16°21′29″E / 48.2052°N 16.3580°E | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 August 1980 | ||||||||||
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Volkstheater is a station on U3 and U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn. [1] It is located in the Innere Stadt District. It opened in 1980.
The U2 part of the station was closed between 2020 and late 2024 to install platform screen doors. It is expected to be overtaken by the new U5 line soon.
"Das Werden der Natur" by Anton Lehmden is found in this station.
The Museumsquartier (MQ) is an area of 9 ha in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria.
The Vienna U-Bahn, where U-Bahn is an abbreviation of the German word Untergrundbahn, is a rapid transit system serving Vienna, Austria. The five-line network consists of 83.1 kilometers (51.6 mi) of route, serving 109 stations. 459.8 million passengers rode the U-Bahn in 2019.
The Volkstheater in Vienna was founded in 1889 by request of the citizens of Vienna, amongst them the dramatist Ludwig Anzengruber and the furniture manufacturer Thonet, in order to offer a popular counter weight to the Hofburgtheater. It was erected according to designs by Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, who attempted to reconcile their plans with historicism. It is located in Neubau, the seventh district of Vienna.
Line U1 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn metro system. Opened in 1978, it currently has 24 stations and a total length of 19.3 km (12.0 mi), from Oberlaa to Leopoldau. When the extension to Oberlaa was completed in 2017, the line became the longest on the network, surpassing the length of U6.
Line U2 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn metro system. Opened in 1980, it currently has 20 stations and a total length of 17.2 km (10.7 mi), from Karlsplatz to Seestadt. It is connected to U1 at Praterstern and U4 at Schottenring.
Line U3 is a line on the Vienna U-Bahn metro system. Opened in 1991, it currently has 21 stations and a total length of 13.4 km (8.3 mi), from Ottakring to Simmering, making it the shortest line on the network. It is connected to U1 at Stephansplatz, U2 at Volkstheater, U4 at Landstraße and U6 at Westbahnhof.
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Museumsquartier is a station on U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn. It is located in the Innere Stadt District. It opened in 1980, using the structure of a pre-metro station opened in 1966 in the same location.
Schottentor is a station on U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn. It is located in the Innere Stadt District, below Maria-Theresien-Straße. It opened in 1980.
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Aspernstraße is a station on U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn. It is located in Aspern in the Donaustadt District. The station was opened on 2 October 2010 with the opening of the third section of the U2 between Stadion and Aspernstraße.
Aspern Nord is a station on U2 of the Vienna U-Bahn. It is located in Aspern in the Donaustadt District and connected to the Wien Aspern Nord railway station served by the Vienna S-Bahn. The station opened opened in 2013.
The Vienna pre-metro tramway system was built on separated sections in the 1960s. The underground sections are called Untergrundstrassenbahn or sometimes abbreviated U-Strassenbahn, USTRAB or USTRABA . The pre-metro tunnels are maintained and used by the Wiener Linien, operator of the tramway lines. One section is used as well by the Wiener Lokalbahnen (WLB), the operator of a regional tram-train service.
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