Baghdad Station (Aleppo\u2013Hejaz Station)
\nTransportation Facility
\n1915 CE<\/p>\n
Principal Terminal of the Historic Berlin\u2013Baghdad Railway
\nArt Deco reception hall, iron-vaulted arcade, clock tower<\/p>\n
Designed in 1910 by German architect Hugo Hoste, this monumental station\u2014with its imposing limestone fa\u00e7ade\u2014was the second railway terminal established in Aleppo, following the Damascus Station. Crowning the building is a clock tower, whose mechanism was imported from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. <\/p>\n
The vaulted arcade roof was constructed using an iron framework inspired by Berlin\u2019s railway architecture, while the floors are adorned with multicolored tiles manufactured by the French firm Victoire. Trains operated along the Berlin-bound route until 1940, after which the line was limited to Istanbul.<\/p>\n
In 2010, the station\u2019s stained-glass transom above the main entrance was restored. The central hall now regularly hosts photo exhibitions documenting the history of the German\u2013Ottoman railway enterprise that built this pivotal line.<\/p>\n
Plans are currently underway to integrate the station into a new electric railway network that will connect it directly to Aleppo International Airport, reaffirming its historic role as a central hub in the city\u2019s transportation infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Baghdad Station (Aleppo\u2013Hejaz Station) Transportation Facility 1915 CE Principal Terminal of the Historic Berlin\u2013Baghdad Railway Art Deco reception hall, iron-vaulted arcade, clock tower Designed in 1910 by German architect Hugo Hoste, this monumental station\u2014with its imposing limestone fa\u00e7ade\u2014was the second railway terminal established in Aleppo, following the Damascus Station. Crowning the building is a clock tower, whose mechanism was imported from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The vaulted arcade roof was constructed using an iron framework inspired by Berlin\u2019s railway architecture, while the floors are adorned with multicolored tiles manufactured by the French firm Victoire. Trains operated along the Berlin-bound route until 1940, after which the line was limited to Istanbul. In 2010, the station\u2019s stained-glass transom above the main entrance was restored. The central hall now regularly hosts photo exhibitions documenting the history of the German\u2013Ottoman railway enterprise that built this pivotal line. Plans are currently underway to integrate the station into a new electric railway network that will connect it directly to Aleppo International Airport, reaffirming its historic role as a central hub in the city\u2019s transportation infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,331],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aleppo","category-historical-landmarks-aleppo","tag-preserved-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/syrian-treasures.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}