Wien Nordwestbahnhof

Wien Nordwestbahnhof
Northwest Station 2013.
Location	Vienna-Brigittenau Austria
Coordinates	48°13′55″N 16°22′44″E / 48.232014°N 16.378824°E / 48.232014; 16.378824Coordinates: 48°13′55″N 16°22′44″E / 48.232014°N 16.378824°E / 48.232014; 16.378824
Owned by	Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Tracks	5
Construction
Structure type	at-grade
History
Opened	1. Juni 1872

Wien Nordwestbahnhof (translated as Vienna Northwest Railway Station, abbreviated as Wien NWBH) is a goods station on the move to a city development area in Brigittenau district of Vienna, Austria / EU. Passenger transport already ended 1959. It serves as the southern terminus of the Austrian Northwestern Railway. The northwestern terminus of the line was Prague Těšnov station. Freight transport is in the phase of termination. By 2025, a new district will be built on the site. An interim use phase will begin in 2018.

The Northwest Railway Station is hardly anchored in the general awareness although being the second-largest railway station of the formerly six Viennese terminus stations. The Northwest Railway lost its importance due to the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Passenger traffic was already stopped in 1952 after a phase as a replacement station. Only the remaining post office was known in 1200, the former main post office of Brigittenau on the side of the Nordwestbahnstraße. The railway station has gone down in the history of Vienna rather as the scene of political events.

The railway station is only about four kilometres from the centre of Vienna and since 1900 part of the 20th district. The site borders on Taborstraße in the south, Nordwestbahnstraße in the west, Dresdnerstraße in the east and Stromstrasse in the north. The main entrance to the site is currently located in the Tabor- and Nordwestbahnstraße. The area is the last large urban development area of Vienna. The area is 44 hectares. In the middle, a green park of 10 hectares is to be created. Approximately 800,000 m² of gross floor space is to be created here by 2030. The urban development model has been completed and initial property sales to developers are expected in 2020/21. The deindustrialization of the city opens up space for a new, more modern use of space in the inner city area.

The use as a railway station and transshipment point for goods is on the way out. The landowner Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) only awards short-term contracts. All contracts with tenants and subtenants will expire at the end of 2017 to begin demolition of the site for the construction of a new urban development area. In the north of the railway station on Nordwestbahnstraße still exists a large operating garage, which is used by various companies formerly from such as ÖBB-Postbus or the private bus company Gschwindl, as well as driving schools and the fire department.