Donauwörth station

Donauwörth station is a railway station in southern Germany. It is located south-west of the city of Donauwörth in Bavaria. The station is at the intersection of the Nuremberg–Augsburg line and the Ingolstadt–Neuoffingen railway from Ulm to Regensburg. The Ries Railway also runs from Donauwörth to Aalen.

Donauwörth
Through station
Station building and bus station
LocationBahnhofstr. 34, Donauwörth, Bavaria
Germany
Coordinates48°42′52″N 10°46′18″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms7
Other information
Station code1265[1]
DS100 codeMDT[2]
IBNR8000078
Category4[1]
Fare zone: 94[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened15 November 1877
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
ICE 18
via Nürnberg - Erfurt - Halle (Saale) - Berlin
towards Munich
ICE 25
via Hannover - Fulda - Würzburg - Nürnberg
ICE 28
via Nürnberg - Erfurt - Leipzig - Berlin
Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station
Otting-Weilheim
RE
Mertingen Bahnhof
toward Munich Hbf
TerminusRE
Mertingen Bahnhof
toward Munich Hbf
Terminus
RE
Allgäu-Franken-Express
selected trains only
toward Lindau Hbf
Terminus
RE
Allgäu-Franken-Express
selected trains only
toward Obersdorf
TerminusRB
Bäumenheim
toward Munich Hbf
Wörnitzstein
toward Aalen Hbf
RB
Riesbahn
Terminus
Preceding station   agilis   Following station
Tapfheim
toward Ulm Hbf
RB
Genderkingen
Location
Donauwörth
Location in Bavaria
Donauwörth
Location in Germany
Donauwörth
Location in Europe

History

The old photograph shows the railway line and the north-west portal of the old railway tunnel in Donauwörth. Trains ran here until 1877 to the old Donauwörth station lying just past the tunnel.

The first train ran to Donauwörth in 1847. The station was located at that time in an area now occupied by a street called Promenade, one kilometre closer to the city centre than the present station. In 1861, a railway siding was built from this station to serve steam shipping on the Danube in the area of the modern Zirgesheimer Straße. The station was located directly next to a former 125 metre long railway tunnel. The tunnel is now usable by pedestrians and cyclists. During the Second World War, it was used for the manufacture of war munitions.[4][5]

The railway from Neuoffingen to Regensburg was opened in 1877. This crossed the existing line to Augsburg in Donauwörth. Therefore, the present Donauwörth station was built, from 1874 to 1877, in the southwest of the city and it was opened on 15 November 1877. In the Second World War Donauwörth station was destroyed in air attacks on 11 and 19 April 1945. It was reconstructed from 1948 to 1953.[6] In 2001, the station forecourt was redesigned as a bus station.

Operations

Long distance

The Donauwörth station is served several times daily by Intercity-Express and InterCity services on the line from Munich via Nuremberg and Berlin to Hamburg. Furthermore, there are numerous services to Munich. On Sundays there is an InterCity service to Flensburg via Donauwörth.

Line Route Frequency
ICE 18 Kiel  Hamburg Berlin Halle Erfurt Nuremberg Donauwörth Augsburg Munich Individual services
Hamburg-Altona
ICE 25 OldenburgBremen Hamburg Hannover Göttingen Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Würzburg Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich Individual services
Lübeck 
Hamburg-Altona
ICE 28 Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich Individual services
IC 26 Flensburg  Hamburg – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg Donauwörth – Augsburg  Munich Individual services
Munich Rosenheim Kufstein Wörgl Kitzbühel Hochfilzen Saalfelden Zell am See Schwarzach-St. Veit One train pair per week
Hamburg-Altona –
München Ost – Berchtesgaden One train pair
Oberstdorf

Regional services

In Donauwörth, Regionalbahn services intersect on the Ries Railway to Aalen, the Danube Valley Railway from Ulm to Regensburg and the line from Augsburg to Nuremberg. Since the commissioning of the high-speed line from Munich to Nuremberg via Ingolstadt some Intercity-Express services have been discontinued and replaced by Regional-Express services, creating a direct connection to Nuremberg. In the opposite direction the Allgäu-Franken-Express creates a through service to Lindau and Oberstdorf. The long-planned Fugger-Express was introduced on the Munich–Augsburg–Donauwörth–Aalen route at the timetable change on 13 December 2009. This means that almost all regional services to Augsburg continue to Munich.[7]

Line Route
RE Munich – Augsburg – DonauwörthTreuchtlingen
RE/RB Munich – Augsburg – Donauwörth
RE Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg
RE Mosbach-NeckarelzHeidelbergStuttgartGöppingenUlmNeu-UlmDonauwörth
RB Ulm – Neu-Ulm – GünzburgDonauwörthIngolstadt
RB AalenNördlingenDonauwörth

Facilities

The station has a ticket office, Service Store, book store and waiting room. Next to the station there is a car park for rail passengers and bike racks.

Project

The city of Donauwörth seeks to modernise and improve the accessibility of the station by the installation of lifts on all platforms. This is estimated to cost €3.2 to 3.7 million and sources of finance are not yet clear. Another project that has long been pursued, however, is the extension of the railway underpass to the south side of the station on Industriestraße. This would improve access to the Eurocopter plant.[8]

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Tarifzonenplan Verbundraum" (PDF). Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund. January 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  4. "Geschichte der Stadt Donauwörth" (in German). Stadt Donauwörth. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  5. "Donauwörther Tunnel". Tunnelportale (in German). Lothar Brill. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  6. "Geschichte des Bahnhof Donauwörth" (in German). Bahn-in-Nordschwaben.de. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  7. Angela Effenberger (15 December 2009). "Auf der Schiene läuft's nach Plan" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
  8. "Aufzüge im Bahnhof kosten mindestens 3,2 Millionen Euro" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
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