The railway station in Klatovy, a relic from socialist times, is awaiting repair

The railway administration has already issued the relevant tenders, in both cases the work is to start this year. “It should be finished at the beginning of 2027,” said Nela Eberl Friebová, spokeswoman for the mentioned organization. The cost of revitalizing the railway station in Klatovy will probably be close to four hundred million, while estimates for the “southern” so far are about eighty-five million.

While the Pilsen main station was built under the emperor, the Klato station under Antonín Novotný. Its 1959 building has been preserved in its original state with a number of valuable arts and crafts features including sgraffito in the check-in hall created in the spirit of socialist realism. “The decoration will remain,” Pavel Domanický from the Pilsen administration of the National Monuments Institute told Novinkám.

“Protection applies mainly to the exterior appearance of the building as well as the most important interiors, i.e. mainly the vestibule. Small changes are of course possible, for example if there will be a different number of dispensing windows or counters in front of them,” added Domanický.

The historic railway station in Teplice was given a neo-Romanesque look. The interior will also be repaired

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According to Friebová, the check-in hall and both wings of the building will be renovated in Klatovy. “There will be new public toilets, we will modify all internal spaces to meet current requirements. The entire station will be barrier-free thanks to elevators that will connect the underpass with the platforms and the check-in hall. Cyclists will appreciate the brick shed for bikes,” she pointed out. The plan also includes facilities for bus drivers from the terminal, which will be built in the area in front of the station.

Pilsen – Jižní Předměstí station grew in two stages. Sixteen years later, a Neo-Renaissance building was added to the Art Nouveau building built in 1904, which now has a private owner and was transformed into the Moving Station cultural center. It continues to serve its original purpose. “And it should be largely given the original form of the First Republic,” said Domanický.

According to preservationists, the building was damaged by insensitive modifications at the end of the eighties. “Unsuitable interventions should now be partially removed. For example, the roof covering should be returned instead of the current sheet metal,” noted Domanický.

Friebová confirmed that the repair of the roof and facade, the replacement of windows and doors, the modification of publicly accessible spaces and new toilets are expected in the south of Pilsen. “To ensure barrier-free access, an elevator will be added to connect the check-in hall with the platforms,” ​​she concluded.

Beauty and lots of unfinished business. In Pilsen, the reconstructed railway station was inaugurated

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