Weimar train station
| Weimar | |
|---|---|
 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| abbreviation | UWM |
| IBNR | 8010366 |
| Price range | 3 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Weimar |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Weimar |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 ′ 30 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 37 ″ E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Thuringia | |
The Weimar train station is the main station in the city of Weimar in Thuringia and is located about one kilometer north of the Weimar city center at the end of Carl-August-Allee on the Thuringian Railway . It belongs to station category 3 and bears the nickname KulturBahnhof , which is noted on several boards in the station. In the inner city, the name Hauptbahnhof is also used on signposts as well as on bus destination displays and timetables , but the official name of the station is only Weimar .
history
The station was built in 1846 as the end of a railway line coming from Halle (Saale) . In 1847 this route was continued in a westward direction to Erfurt , which was soon passable all the way to Bebra . In 1876 a second route followed, which led via Jena to Gera . In 1887 a third line was opened via Bad Berka to Kranichfeld and Blankenhain . In the same year, the fourth line connected to the station was the Weimar-Rastenberg / Großrudestedt 1000-millimeter narrow-gauge railway operated by the Weimar-Rastenberg Railway Company. This was dismantled in 1946, only part of the connecting line to Buchenwald was still in operation.
Between 1914 and 1922 a new, representative reception building was built in the neoclassical style . Construction work was suspended from 1916 due to the First World War . The station also played a special role during the National Socialist era , when prisoners were transported to Buchenwald concentration camp via it and a connecting line that began here .
At the time of the German Democratic Republic , the railway line from Naumburg to Erfurt was electrified. The commissioning was on September 24, 1967. The Weimar train station was in fifth place in the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn with 116 regular arrivals and departures of long-distance trains in the 1989 summer timetable.
In 2005 the station was voted station of the year for a city under 100,000 inhabitants by the Pro Schiene Alliance .
As part of a construction-related timetable in 2014 and 2015, ICE trains stopped in Weimar every two hours. With the commissioning of the new Erfurt – Leipzig / Halle line ( German Unity Transport Project No. 8 ) in December 2015, Weimar lost its status as a long-distance system stop. The daily ICE train service at Weimar train station fell from 15 to 0 trains, the Intercity service from 15 to 8 daily trains. All Intercity Express trains between Leipzig / Halle and Erfurt now run on the new line.
Investments
Platforms
The platforms can be reached barrier-free by elevators . All have a height of 55 centimeters, the platform edges 1 to 4 are 320 meters long, on track 5 it is 340 meters.
Signal boxes
Today there are two signal boxes at Weimar train station. The dispatcher station "B3" went into operation on May 22, 1967. The "R5" signal box is an electromechanical signal box from Siemens & Halske of the 1912 design. Another former "R4" signal box went online on May 22, 1967.
Depot
The Weimar Railway Museum is located in the former depot to the east of the station .
Former operational features
The station concourse was closed between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. (weekdays) or 6 a.m. (weekends) and the platforms could be reached via a side entrance ("east tunnel"). Until the introduction of the new ticket machines in November 2009, travelers had no way of buying tickets at night.
Transport links
Only a few intercity trains have stopped in Weimar since the new line to Erfurt went into operation in December 2015 . Some regional express lines RE 1 / RE 3 and RE 16 / RE 17 are concentrated between Erfurt and Gera as well as Erfurt and Naumburg (Saale) at hourly intervals.
Long-distance and regional transport
| line | Course of the journey | Cycle (min) | operator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICE 11 | Munich - Stuttgart - Frankfurt am Main - Erfurt - Weimar - Naumburg (Saale) - Halle (Saale) - Bitterfeld - Berlin | Single move | DB long-distance transport | |
| IC 51 | Düsseldorf / Cologne - Dortmund - Kassel - Eisenach - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena West - Jena-Göschwitz - Gera | Two pairs of trains | ||
| Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Bebra - Eisenach - Erfurt - Weimar - Jena West - Jena-Göschwitz - Gera | A pair of trains | |||
| Leipzig Hbf - Weimar - Erfurt - Gotha - Eisenach - Fulda - Hanau - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf | Single trains,
Relief traffic (Fri, Sun) |
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| Cologne / 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 Southeast | |
| 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) Hbf | 120 (alternating) | Abellio | |
| RE 17 | Erfurt - Weimar - Apolda - Bad Sulza - Bad Kösen - Naumburg (Saale) Hbf | |||
| RE 51 | Erfurt - Weimar - Jena West - Jena-Göschwitz - Stadtroda - Gera Hbf | Three pairs of trains | DB long-distance transport | |
| RB 20 | Eisenach - Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Apolda - Naumburg (Saale) - Weißenfels - Merseburg - Leipzig main station | 60 | Abellio | |
| EB 21 | Erfurt - Weimar - Oberweimar - Jena-Göschwitz - Stadtroda - Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz - Gera Hbf |
60 (Mon-Fri) 120 (Sat / Sun) |
Erfurt Railway | |
| EB 26 | Weimar - Weimar Berkaer Bf - Holzdorf - Bad Berka - Kranichfeld | 60 | ||
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (UWM) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- Representation of the railway system and its permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Kirsche: Railway Directorate Erfurt 1882-1993 . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-933254-76-4 , p. 61.
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Kirsche: Railway Directorate Erfurt 1882-1993 . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-933254-76-4 , p. 87.
- ↑ Ralph Seidel: The influence of changed framework conditions on network design and frequencies in long-distance rail passenger transport in Germany . Dissertation at the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2005, p. 48 .
- ↑ Deutsche Bahn AG (Ed.): Integration of the new VDE 8 line in the Leipzig railway junction ensures changes in long-distance traffic in Central Germany . Press release from July 22, 2013.
- ↑ Manuel Rehkopf: Complete commissioning of the new / upgraded VDE 8 line, DB Fernverkehr AG service concept . Presentation, August 26, 2013, p. 7.
- ↑ Michael Grübner: From fifteen to zero: Weimar will not stop on the ICE from Sunday . In: Thuringian General . December 10, 2015, p. 13 ( thueringer-allgemeine.de ).
- ^ Platform information on Weimar train station ( memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on deutschebahn.com
- ^ List of German signal boxes. Entries W-We. In: stellwerke.de. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .