Fribourg railway station

Fribourg/Freiburg 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.

Fribourg/Freiburg
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
Elevation629 m (2,064 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Platforms5
Train operators
Connections
Other information
Fare zone10 (frimobil)[1]
History
Opened20 August 1862 (1862-08-20)
Rebuilt1872–1873, 1928
Previous namesFribourg (until 2012)
Passengers
201823,000 per weekday[2] (BLS and SBB)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Lausanne IC 1 Bern
towards St. Gallen
Romont IR 15 Bern
towards Lucerne
Preceding station RER Fribourg Following station
Romont
towards Broc-Fabrique
RE2 Düdingen
towards Bern
RE3 Düdingen
Terminus
Givisiez
towards Neuchâtel
S20 Terminus
S20
Weekdays only
Villars-sur-Glâne
towards Romont
Givisiez
towards Ins
S21
Givisiez S30 Terminus
Preceding station Bern S-Bahn Following station
Terminus S1 Fribourg/Freiburg Poya
towards Thun
Location

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

As of the December 2022 timetable change, the following services stop at Fribourg:[7]

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. 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). 11 December 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
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