Dworzec Wrocław Nadodrze, Wrocław

Wrocław Nadodrze is a red-brick railway station designed by Hermann Grapow and opened in eighteen sixty-eight. One hundred and ninety metres long, it was Wrocław’s first post-war station to receive eastern arrivals and remains an important metropolitan, regional, and long-distance rail stop.

Wrocław Nadodrze is the long red-brick railway station beside Staszica Square, its central entrance block set forward beneath an arched porch. The building runs for one hundred and ninety metres and was designed by Hermann Grapow, opening on the twenty-eighth of May eighteen sixty-eight. Its first trains ran to Oleśnica by way of Psie Pole; by November that year, the full route to Fosowskie was in service.

The station began life under a German name meaning the Right Bank of the Oder Gate station, then became known as Breslau Odertor. After the Second World War, this was Wrocław’s first station able to receive trains arriving from the east, in July nineteen forty-five. It was also the starting point for the city’s first restored tram route, linking this station with Biskupin; that connection still follows almost the same course.

Notice the tall central section of the façade: it rises one storey above the rest of the three-storey building. Today Nadodrze remains a key stop in the Lower Silesian Metropolitan Railway, used for local city journeys as well as regional and long-distance trains.