Weimar
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationSchopenhauerstr. 2, Weimar, Thuringia
Germany
Coordinates50°59′30″N 11°19′37″E / 50.99167°N 11.32694°E / 50.99167; 11.32694
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code6617[1]
DS100 codeUWM[2]
IBNR8010366
Category3[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened19 December 1846 (1846-12-19)
Electrified22 September 1967 (1967-09-22)
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Erfurt Hbf IC 51 Jena West
towards Gera Hbf
Preceding station Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland Following station
Erfurt Hbf
Terminus
RE 16 Apolda
RE 17 Apolda
towards Leipzig Hbf
Hopfgarten (Weimar)
towards Eisenach
RB 20 Oßmannstedt
towards Leipzig Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Südost Following station
Erfurt Hbf
towards Göttingen
RE 1 Jena West
Erfurt Hbf
Terminus
RE 3 Jena West
towards Altenburg or Greiz
Preceding station Erfurter Bahn Following station
Vieselbach
towards Erfurt Hbf
RB 21 Oberweimar
towards Gera Hbf
Terminus RB 26 Weimar West
towards Kranichfeld
Location
Weimar is located in Thuringia
Weimar
Weimar
Location within Thuringia
Weimar is located in Germany
Weimar
Weimar
Location within Germany
Weimar is located in Europe
Weimar
Weimar
Location within Europe

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
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 60
RB 21 Erfurt Weimar Oberweimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Stadtroda Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz – Gera 60 (Mon–Fri)
120 (Sat/Sun)
Erfurter Bahn
RB 26 Weimar Weimar Berkaer – Holzdorf – Bad Berka – Kranichfeld 60

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. Ralph Seidel: Der Einfluss veränderter Raumbedingungen auf Netzgestalt und Frequenz im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr Deutschlands, Dissertation of the University of Leipzig, 2005, p. 48
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