page_title: Wien Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wien Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof / History
caption_attribution_description: Esperanto: stacio Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof (tiam Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof), Vieno
context_page_description: Wien Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof is a train station in the Alsergrund district of Vienna, Austria. It serves as the southern terminus of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway.
context_section_description: A first provisional terminus opened with the inauguration of the first section of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway from Vienna to Eggenburg in 1870. The Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, lavishly designed in a historicist Ringstraße style, was built at the present site from 1872 onwards and finished six years later. In 1907 it received access to the Vienna tramway network providing a direct connection to the Westbahnhof, Nordwestbahnhof, Nordbahnhof (Praterstern) railway stations.
  During World War II it was damaged by strategic bombing and a blaze in April 1945, nevertheless it was the first of the Vienna main railway stations to resume operations after the war. Re-erected in a simple manner, the reception building served as a backdrop for the 1968 film Mayerling starring Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve. The desolate structure was finally demolished in 1974. The new station building, including large-scale office facilities above the tracks, was inaugurated in 1978. The adjacent Althanstraße (UZA) lecture hall complex of the Vienna University was finished in 1995.
caption: Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof about 1905
exif: {"Image ImageWidth": "6480", "Image ImageLength": "4451", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8, 8]", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "1", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "4", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2013:04:04 11:19:55", "Image ExifOffset": "230", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "368", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6453", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2500", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1717"}