Aarau railway station

railway station in the municipality of Aarau, canton of Aargau, Switzerland
Place railway_station Q682274
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Summary

Aarau railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.92% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (153 views/month, #170 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Aarau[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Aargau S-Bahn[5], Zürich S-Bahn[6], Lucerne S-Bahn[7]
  • Instance of: break-of-gauge station[8]
  • Connecting line: Baden–Aarau railway[9], Olten–Aarau railway[10], Heitersberg Railway[11]
  • Architect: Theo Hotz[12]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[13]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[14]
  • Adjacent station: Schönenwerd railway station[15], Rupperswil railway station[16], Lenzburg railway station[17], Olten railway station[18], Zürich Hauptbahnhof[19]
  • Station code: AA[20]
  • Commons category: Aarau railway station[21]
  • Located on street: Bahnhofstrasse[22]
  • Interchange station: Aarau WSB railway station[23]
  • Has facility: public clock[24]
  • Number of platform tracks: 7[25]
  • Connecting service: RegioExpress[26], IC 5[27], InterRegio[28], S11[29], S26[30], S23[31], S29[32]
  • Official name: Aarau[33]
  • Date of official opening: January 1, 1856[34]
  • Elevation above sea level: 383 m[35]
  • Date of official closure: 1859[36]
  • Number of platform faces: 4[37]
  • State of use: in use[38]
  • Street address: Bahnhofstrasse[39]

Why It Matters

Aarau railway station has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . a-welle.ch. a-welle.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . zvv.ch. zvv.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  9. [12] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  11. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . sbb.ch. sbb.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] ↑ . sbb.ch. sbb.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'pl']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Aarau'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Official name: Aarau, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connecting service → RegioExpress, IC 5, InterRegio +4
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Owned by → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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