Hradčanská is a station of the Prague metro on line A. The track lies 43.0 m below the street and the station has been open since 12 August 1978.
How deep is Hradčanská
The track at Hradčanská lies 43.0 m below the street. It is the 3rd deepest of 61 platforms. That is roughly a 13-storey building below the pavement.
Elevation: street 230 m a.s.l., track 187 m a.s.l. Depth is measured from the ground above the station to the track.
Escalators at Hradčanská
The longest escalator climbs about 34 m, which at a 30° slope means a run of about 68 m. The escalator tunnel has 3 escalators.
Escalators from OpenStreetMap, heights computed in the 3D model, length from the 30° slope.
Step-free access
No step-free access: wheelchair users cannot reach the platformStep-free entrances from the street: 0 of 8. Source: PID open data.
Entrances from the street: 8
- Pražský hradStairs · 34 steps
- ul. BadenihoStairs · 35 steps
- TRAM HolešoviceStairs · 35 steps
- TRAM PetřinyStairs · 35 steps
- Dálková dopravaEscalator + stairs · 30 steps
- LetnáEscalator + stairs · 30 steps
- Výtah/LiftLift
- Praha-DejviceStairs · 20 steps
Official entrance names and step counts from PID.
Ridership
One ordinary Wednesday, 11 November 2015, 5 am to midnight (PID and DPP survey). No newer per-station data has been published.
About Hradčanská
Hradčanská is a Prague Metro station on Line A, between Dejvická and Malostranská stations. It is named after Hradčany, the district where Prague Castle is located (hrad means "castle" in Czech). However, the Castle itself is 10 minutes away walking from the station. This station originally had only one exit toward Milady Horákové street. It now has multiple exits on this street, on each site of the tram tracks. There is now also an exit directly onto Dejvická street.
The station was opened on 12 August 1978 as part of the inaugural section of Line A, between Leninova and Náměstí Míru.
The station vestibule, which extends under the tram stop, and into which the escalator tunnel enters directly in the middle, is lined with yellow stone. It has a Czech lion carved into it and an inscription reading "Veškerá moc v ČSSR patří pracujícímu lidu" ("All power in the CSSR belongs to the working people").
Text: English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Technical data
ALine A
- Depth
- 43.0 m below ground
- Track
- 187 m a.s.l.
- Street above
- 230 m a.s.l.
- Construction
- Mined, deep-level, three-vault
- Opened
- 12 August 1978
- Architect
- Josef Kales
Neighbouring stations
The whole station in 3D: escalators, passages, halls and entrances at their true depth beneath Prague.
Open in 3D