History of Haydarpaşa Station: The gateway of Istanbul to Anatolia, the starting point of the historical Anatolian-Baghdad and Hejaz railways, Haydarpaşa Train Station was put into service on September 22, 1872, with the start of the Haydarpaşa-Pendik line. The old building of Haydarpaşa Train Station was insufficient due to the increase in the capacity of the railway and the opening of the port and dock, which started to be built in 1903. Sultan II. Abdülhamid, the construction of the new station building ”I have built so many kilometers of railway to the country, the end of the steel rails is in Haydarpaşa. It is not clear that I built a harbor with its huge buildings He ordered me to build such a building where those rails meet the sea so that when my ummah looked, he would say, 'Do you get out of here and go to Mecca without getting off at all?'
The new station building was determined as a result of the architectural project competition and Philipp Holzmann & Co. Architects and engineers Otto Ritter and Helmut Cuno won. The new Haydarpaşa Train Station, whose construction started on May 30, 1906, was completed on August 19, 1908 and was officially opened on November 4, 1909.
Although the Germans carried out the project, Italian stonemasons worked in the construction besides German and Turkish workers. Gar took its name from an Ottoman statesman. There are two Haydar Pashas in Ottoman history. First of all, he lived between 1512 and 1595, where the vineyards were gifted in return for the Kavak Palace he built for Suleiman the Magnificent, and carried out works such as road, irrigation, bridge, barracks, swamp drying in Anatolia with the most advanced understanding according to his time, and he was the Governor of Sivas and Algeria. then Sultan II. Haydar Pasha, who was brought to the "Dome Viziership" in the period of Selim. The second Haydar Pasha was the Sultan III. Haydar Pasha, who lived in the Selim period and built a barracks on his vast land in the district ...
III. The fact that Evliya Çelebi, who lived long before the Selim period, mentions Haydar Pasha's vineyards in his Travel Book strengthens the claim that Haydar Pasha was the first person to name the district.
Neorönesans The station building, which is an effective example of classical German architecture, is one of the symbols of Istanbul with its monumental mass dominating the Marmara Sea and the environment.
The floors of the 21-storey station building, each of which is 1100 meters long and built on 5 wooden piles, were made of pink granite, and the carrier and divider walls were made of brick. The stones used were brought from Lefke-Osmaneli, Hereke and Vezirhan. The facade of the building is made of yellow-green Lefke (Osmaneli) stone, and the roof covering is made of slate stone.
After the War of Independence was won, Haydarpaşa Train Station was taken back from the British occupation forces on September 25, 1923, and the Haydarpaşa-Eskişehir line was purchased and nationalized on December 31, 1928.
Behiç Erkin, the founding General Manager of the national railways, and the "General Directorate of Anatolian-Baghdad Railways" established on 24 May 1924 served in this building for a period.
many times in his journey between Ankara and Istanbul, Republic of Turkey founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who met at this historic station, the last time on May 27, 1938 came to the Haydarpaşa Train Station.
Haydarpaşa Station, which gained the title of the biggest station building in the Middle East at the time of its construction, has an important place in the social memory. This place, where countless separations and reunions took place, also witnessed disasters.
During the First World War, in the fire that broke out as a result of the sabotage organized on September 1, 6, a battalion of soldiers who were waiting to go to the front burned to death, the roof and towers of the building burned. Haydarpaşa Train Station and many buildings in its field, which was bombed by British planes in 1917, were destroyed. The roof of the building was rebuilt in the 1918s.
The stained glass made by the German artist O. Linneman, which was broken in the tanker accident off the Haydarpaşa breakwater in 1979, were renewed by the stained glass artist Şükriye Işık in the subsequent restoration.
The roof of the historical building was burned in the fire on 28 November 2010, restoration work continues.
Haydarpaşa Gar and the environment around the plan for the evaluation of conservation work continues.
Source: Internet News
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