The oldest surviving railway station in Wrocław, out of use since 1991; today home to a theatre and a marketplace.
Wrocław Świebodzki is a former railway station in the city centre, on Plac Orląt Lwowskich, the oldest of Wrocław's passenger stations still standing today. Train traffic here was suspended in 1991, but the building has kept its tracks, platforms and switches.
Construction of the station began in April 1842 to a design by engineer Cochius, in the late Classicist style. The first train left the station on 28 October 1843. Between 1868 and 1874 the building was rebuilt, and the new façade was designed by Walther Kyllmann, Adolf Heyden and Carl Lüdecke. Above the main entrance, allegorical sculptures representing Silesia and Pomerania were placed.
The building is made of brick, built in the Neoclassical style, and the heritage register dates it to 1873. It was entered into the register of immovable historic monuments under number 247 on 30 December 1970, and again under number A/5262/247 in 2011.
The line was electrified in 1914. After the Second World War the electric traction was removed, and re-electrification took place in 1966. Regular passenger traffic was suspended in 1991, after one hundred and forty-six years of the station's operation.
A theatre now operates in part of the building, and the former platforms host a marketplace and a model railway exhibition. According to rail announcements, the station is to be reconnected to passenger traffic in the third decade of the 21st century, by 2028.
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