Schottentor station explained

Schottentor
Style:Wiener Linien
Address:Innere Stadt, Vienna
Country:Austria
Coordinates:48.2149°N 16.3633°W
Opened:30 August 1980
Style2:U2

Schottentor is a station on of the Vienna U-Bahn.[1] It is located in the Innere Stadt District, below Maria-Theresien-Straße. It opened in 1980.

The station is an interchange node between U2 and 10 tramway lines, 5 of them using a small underground section as a terminal station.

The name of the station derives from the Schottentor, a former city gate in the Vienna city wall, which was demolished in 1860.

Notes and References

  1. http://homepage.univie.ac.at/horst.prillinger/metro/english/u2.html Vienna U2 line