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Fribourg/Freiburg railway station

Coordinates: 46°48′11.77″N 7°9′3.71″E / 46.8032694°N 7.1510306°E / 46.8032694; 7.1510306
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Fribourg
Wide four-story building in city setting
Fribourg railway station, 2013
General information
LocationAvenue de la Gare
Fribourg
Switzerland
Coordinates46°48′11.77″N 7°9′3.71″E / 46.8032694°N 7.1510306°E / 46.8032694; 7.1510306
Elevation629 m above the sea
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Platforms5
Train operators
Connections
Other information
Fare zone10 (frimobil [de])[1]
History
Opened20 August 1862 (1862-08-20)
Rebuilt1872–1873, 1928
Passengers
201823,000 per weekday[2] (BLS and SBB)
Services
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Location
Fribourg is located in Switzerland
Fribourg
Fribourg
Location within Switzerland
Fribourg is located in Canton of Fribourg
Fribourg
Fribourg
Fribourg (Canton of Fribourg)

Fribourg railway station (French: Gare de Fribourg; German: Bahnhof Freiburg im Üechtland) serves the municipality of Fribourg, capital of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Opened in 1862, it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.

The station forms part of the Lausanne–Bern railway, which is the original portion of the Olten–Lausanne railway line (French: Ligne du Plateau suisse; German: Mittellandlinie). It is also the junction for the Yverdon-les-Bains–Payerne–Fribourg railway, and the Fribourg–Ins railway.[3]

Location

Fribourg railway station is right in the heart of the city centre, which has shifted from the Old City to the railway station quarter since the station's construction.

History

The station was opened on 20 August 1862 by the Western Swiss Railways (French: Société des chemins de Fer Ouest-Suisse), upon completion of the Fribourg–Bern section of the Lausanne–Bern railway.[4]

Completion of that section had been delayed for two years, due to the need to construct the 352 m (1,155 ft) long Grandfey Viaduct over the Saane/Sarine river, just to the north of the station. On 2 September 1862, the remaining section of the line was opened between Lausanne and Fribourg.[4]

The first station building at Fribourg was a simple wooden hut. Between 1872 and 1873, a more substantial replacement building was constructed adjacent to the hut. The new building's design had been entrusted to the architect Adolphe Fraisse.

Initially, the army had not wanted the Lausanne–Bern railway to pass through Fribourg. The military had believed that the line would be too "vulnerable" in case of conflict. The government and the city had to fight for the route and the station. By 1905, the authorities wanted a new station building, which was completed in 1928.

On 7 September 2007, the 1872 station building became a cultural centre, incorporating a café, an entertainment hall and two festival theatres, for $4.5 million Swiss francs.[5] A Swiss heritage site of regional significance (class B),[6] the building houses the Nouveau Monde and its theatre, the International Film Festival of Fribourg and Belluard Bollwerk International.

Services

The following services stop at Fribourg:[7]

  • InterCity: hourly service between Geneva Airport and St. Gallen.
  • InterRegio: hourly service between Geneva Airport and Lucerne.
  • RER Fribourg:
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    • Lua error in Module:Adjacent_stations at line 534: attempt to concatenate local 'border_color' (a nil value).: hourly service to Bulle; combined with the above for half-hour frequency.
    • S20/S21: half-hourly service to Ins and hourly service to Neuchâtel.
    • S30: half-hourly service to Yverdon-les-Bains.
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  • Bern S-Bahn:
    • S1: half-hourly service to Thun.

Interchange

Seven urban bus lines operated by the Transports publics fribourgeois call at the station, including TPF trolleybus lines.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Plan des zones" (PDF) (in French). frimobil. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  3. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  4. ^ a b Gazette de Lausanne (in French). 6 September 1862. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "A toute vapeur vers un "Nouveau Monde"" [Full steam ahead toward a "New World"]. Le Temps (in French). 12 July 2011. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  6. ^ "Kantonsliste B-Objekte" [Canton list class B]. KGS Inventar (in German). Federal Office of Civil Protection. 2009. Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2011.
  7. ^ "Abfahrt/Départ: Bahnhof/Gare de Fribourg/Freiburg" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
This article is based upon a translation of the French-language version as at December 2011.
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