Stuttgart's main train station - the terminus, the Bonatz-building - is one of the most important monuments of Stuttgart, a landmark, a identiƤtsstiftender contribution to the city of Stuttgart.
were unfortunately made in the reconstruction after the Second World War and especially in the seventies of the last century, serious mistakes. Thus, the construction of the city was Bonatz alienated. Simultaneously, the urban environment has been damaged severely.
The Stuttgart Terminus is now largely cut off by highways and transport structures from the rest of the city. Will you go from town to the station, you have to disappear first in the ground. Conversely, one can not see from the terminal station of the city immediately. As soon as you exit the station and head still in the station, the pedestrian sent into the ground.
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| situation near the northern exit of the Stuttgart main station: ugly walls of a pedestrian underpass to separate the Bonatz construction of the city and move boldly into the spotlight. |
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| The King's Road, the busiest pedestrian street of Stuttgart ends, before the main station in a big hole. There must enter all pedestrians, if they want the station. |
Now it's not about to make about the underground stations of light rail and tram in question. It is noticeable, however, that in the major metro cities such as London or Paris, the entrances to the underground stations are much less dominant than those around the Stuttgart Central Station is the case. arrange in the major cities of Europe, which have not yet destroyed their historic buildings for the most part, as in Stuttgart, the transport structures and exits to underground Stations in the urban environment. In Stuttgart it is just the opposite. There, the outflow push into the underworld to bring forward the claim to be more important than the buildings, squares and roads of the city.
come first, the Stuttgart urban agenda, the continuity of the city on the surface. Away with the oversized transport structures! The normal case of the urban city is not the transport structure in the ground, but the place just to be committed and road surface.
The overall motor vehicle traffic must disappear completely from the main train station on the Arnulf-Klett-Platz. The City must ring on the future WolfframstraĆe run. Withdrawals on the ground have to be downsized. Front of the station remains on the surface space for pedestrians as well as for buses and taxis (and perhaps even for a surface ring road car).
In the next post is about the south wing of the Stuttgart main train station, still has a very important urban problem.
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