State Railway Station - Prague, Czech Republic
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N 50° 05.233 E 014° 26.128
33U E 459615 N 5548480
A former State Railway Station and Hybernská Street towards the Powder Tower
Waymark Code: WMTQ19
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/27/2016
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On the right we can see the enormous late Neo-Classical edifice of the departure hall of the State Railway Station, No. 1014 (now Masaryk Railway Station) . The Railway Station complex arose on an area of 128 thousand square metres, on the site of vegetable plots and flower gardens and of eleven buildings both within and without the city limits (i.e. behind the fortification - see picture XIX). The place was chosen by J. Perner, the designer of the technical side of the station. The architectural design of the station buildings was by A. Jüngling. The station was constructed in an incredible nine months, between November 1844 and August 1845, for the Bohemian Northern Railway and it connected Prague with Vienna via Olomouc. The first train which arrived from Vienna was welcomed by the Prague populace at the festively decorated station on August 20, 1845. The connecting corridor and the Neo-Renaissance extension on the right, apparently serving as a post office, were added only after 1898. The first two buildings on the left were replaced in the period between the two world wars by modern structures. The third building with a cupola, No. 1012, arose in 1884 on the site of the small New Town military Barracks.
Physical Address:
Hybernská
Prague, Czech Republic
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