Praha hlavni nadrazi is the largest railway station in Prague, Czech Republic, and a major hub for regional, national and international rail service. It opened in 1871 as Franz Josef Station, named for the Austrian emperor, and was designed in Renaissance Revival style by Vojtech Ignac Ullmann and Antonin Viktor Barvitius; a celebrated Art Nouveau reconstruction carried out between 1901 and 1909 by the Czech architect Josef Fanta, with sculptural work by Stanislav Sucharda and Ladislav Saloun, made it the country's largest Art Nouveau monument. The historic platform hall is covered by a two nave steel arched roof spanning 33.3 meters twice over, 18 meters high and 233 meters long, and a separate brutalist terminal building was added between 1972 and 1979. The station is remembered as the departure point for the trains that carried children evacuated by Nicholas Winton in 1939, an event commemorated by memorials on its platforms.
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Building Type LocationSourced to the subject's own accountNové Město (Praha 1), Czech Republic 2 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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Source Praha hlavni nadrazi, Wikipedia
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Czechia, located there.
Sources
1. Praha hlavni nadrazi, Wikipedia
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Overview, Art Nouveau station construction (1901-1909)
station building and station hall were built between 1901 and 1909,
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Praha hlavni nadrazi is the largest railway station in Prague, Czech Republic, and a major hub for regional, national and international rail service. It opened in 1871 as Franz Josef Station, named for the Austrian emperor, and was designed in Renaissance Revival style by Vojtech Ignac Ullmann and Antonin Viktor Barvitius; a celebrated Art Nouveau reconstruction carried out between 1901 and 1909 by the Czech architect Josef Fanta, with sculptural work by Stanislav Sucharda and Ladislav Saloun, made it the country's largest Art Nouveau monument. The historic platform hall is covered by a two nave steel arched roof spanning 33.3 meters twice over, 18 meters high and 233 meters long, and a separate brutalist terminal building was added between 1972 and 1979. The station is remembered as the departure point for the trains that carried children evacuated by Nicholas Winton in 1939, an event commemorated by memorials on its platforms.
- In Style: Art Nouveau, infobox architectural_style field: Art Nouveau
View the Source2. Prague Main Railway Station (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Nové Město (Praha 1), Czech RepublicQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Nové Město (Praha 1), Czech Republic
Wikidata item Q751174, property P131/P17 (location): Nové Město (Praha 1), Czech Republic
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