Weimar station
- Thuringian Railway
- Weimar–Gera railway
- Ilm Valley Railway
Preceding station | ![]() | Following station | ||
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Erfurt Hbf One-way operation | ICE 11 | Naumburg (Saale) Hbf towards Berlin Hbf | ||
Erfurt Hbf towards Düsseldorf Hbf or Köln Hbf | IC 51 | Jena West towards Gera Hbf | ||
Preceding station | ![]() | Following station | ||
Erfurt Hbf Terminus | RE 16 | Apolda towards Halle (Saale) Hbf | ||
RE 17 | Apolda towards Leipzig Hbf | |||
Hopfgarten (Weimar) towards Eisenach | RB 20 | Oßmannstedt towards Leipzig Hbf | ||
Preceding station | ![]() | Following station | ||
Erfurt Hbf towards Göttingen | RE 1 | Jena West towards Glauchau (Sachs) | ||
Erfurt Hbf Terminus | RE 3 | Jena West | ||
Preceding station | Erfurter Bahn | Following station | ||
Vieselbach towards Erfurt Hbf | RB 21 | Oberweimar towards Gera Hbf | ||
Terminus | RB 26 | Weimar West towards Kranichfeld |
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Weimar station is the main station in the city of Weimar in the German state of Thuringia, located on the Thuringian Railway. It is an Intercity-Express stop on the line between Frankfurt am Main and Dresden. Weimar station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. It is officially designated as a KulturBahnhof ("culture station”), as the station's panels are noted. It is about one kilometre north of central Weimar at the end of the street of Carl-August-Allee.
History
The station was built in 1846 as a terminus of the Thuringian Railway from Halle. In 1847 the line was continued west to Erfurt, and to Bebra in 1849. In 1876 this was followed by a second line to Jena and Gera. In 1887, a third line opened to Bad Berka, Kranichfeld and Blankenhain (the Ilm Valley Railway). In the same year, a fourth line was connected to the station, the metre gauge Weimar-Rastenberg Railway line to Großrudestedt in Sömmerda. It was closed in 1946.
During the period of the Weimar Republic, Weimar was the state capital of Thuringia. Therefore, a new, prestigious reception building was built at that time in the neo-classical style. Under Nazism the station played a special role as the beginning a line for the transport of prisoners to Buchenwald concentration camp.
During the existence of East Germany the line from Naumburg to Erfurt was electrified. Weimar station had 116 regular arrivals and departures of long-distance trains in the summer timetable of 1989, making it the fifth place station in the network of the East German railways.[3]
Rail services
The station has five platforms. The following services call at the station:
Line | Route | Frequency (min) | Operator | |
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IC 51 | Düsseldorf/Köln – Dortmund – Kassel – Eisenach – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera | 2 train pairs | DB Fernverkehr (also runs as RE 51 between Erfurt and Gera) | |
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Bebra – Eisenach – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera | 1 train pair | |||
Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Hanau – Frankfurt (Main) – Karlsruhe | Some trains, relief trains (Fri, Sun) | DB Fernverkehr (also runs as RE 51 between Erfurt and Weimar) | ||
Köln/Düsseldorf – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Kassel – Bebra – Eisenach – Erfurt – Weimar – Leipzig | ||||
RE 1 | Göttingen – Leinefelde – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau | 120 | DB Regio Südost | |
RE 3 | Erfurt – Weimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – | Altenburg | 120 | |
Greiz – Elsterberg | ||||
Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz | 120 | |||
RE 16 | Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Großheringen – Bad Kösen – Naumburg (Saale) – Halle (Saale) | 120 (alternierend) | Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland | |
RE 17 | Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Bad Sulza – Bad Kösen – Naumburg (Saale) | |||
RB 20 | Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Naumburg (Saale) – Weißenfels – Großkorbetha – Leipzig | 060 | ||
RB 21 | Erfurt – Weimar – Oberweimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Stadtroda – Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz – Gera | 060 (Mon–Fri) 120 (Sat/Sun) | Erfurter Bahn | |
RB 26 | Weimar – Weimar Berkaer – Holzdorf – Bad Berka – Kranichfeld | 060 |
Notes
- ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ Ralph Seidel: Der Einfluss veränderter Raumbedingungen auf Netzgestalt und Frequenz im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr Deutschlands, Dissertation of the University of Leipzig, 2005, p. 48