authorities, the plans were modified and the development plan for the new station were approved by Freiburg City Council on 22 June 1992. Demolition carried out in February 1997 created space for the new building. The new station was opened on 29 September 1999 and the whole development zone around the station followed on 18 July 2001. During the renovation Corinthian columns were discovered, which since the renovation of 1885/86 had supported two platform canopies on track 1. Since retaining the columns would have required a complicated re-adjustment of the height of the roof, Deutsche Bundesbahn gave the columns away. Some of them went to the museum railway on the Wutach Valley Railway, where Weizen station has been completely rebuilt with one of the old platform canopies. The remaining columns were stored away by the city at the depot of the civil engineering office until the summer of 2010 when they were installed as a decoration in a beer garden near the station. Today the station is served by about 250 trains a day, with 60,000 passengers embarking or disembarking daily. In addition another 50 to 150 trains pass the station each day without stopping. The station has largely reached capacity, especially as the number of passengers has doubled since 1979. Architecture First building (1845–1945) The two-storey station building was built to the design of the architect Friedrich Eisenlohr in the historicist style of the time with many Romanesque Revival components. As with the other important stations in Baden, the building in Freiburg was implemented in the Rundbogenstil (round arch style), which explains the preference for round-arched openings in walls and arcades. The reception building was 70 metres long, 40 metres of this was built as two storeys. Its vestibule was reached through one of seven arches, which extended between two wings and were formed with lesenes. Above the roof turret there was a clock tower, which was crowned in the early drawings by a "graceful spire." After the spire was removed, which is already visible in photographs of 1910, the preservationist Manfred Berger considered the clock detracted from the otherwise well-balanced construction. On the ground floor there were offices for railway staff and rooms for a telegraph office and a post office. On the second floor there was housing for railway employees. Between the platform area and the entrance building there was an open courtyard with a fountain, modelled