Gotha station

Gotha station is the main station of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It is served by InterCity trains and every two hours by Intercity-Express trains on the Thuringian Railway. Services on the Gotha–Leinefelde line to the north also serve the station. Passenger services on the Ohra Valley Railway (Ohratalbahn) to the south ended in December 2011.

Gotha
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Through station
Entrance building in 2007
LocationBahnhofstr. 13, Gotha, Thuringia
Germany
Coordinates50°56′21″N 10°42′50″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms5
Construction
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Other information
Station code2209[1]
DS100 codeUGO[2]
IBNR8010136
Category3[1]
Fare zoneVMT
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1847
Passengers
ca. 4000
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
towards Wiesbaden
ICE 50
towards Dresden
towards Düsseldorf
IC 50
towards Gera
Preceding station   FlixTrain   Following station
towards Stuttgart
FLX 10
via Frankfurt (Main) - Erfurt
towards Berlin
Preceding station   DB Regio Südost   Following station
toward Göttingen
RE 1
via Mühlhausen - Erfurt - Jena - Gera
RB 53
via Ballstädt
Terminus
Preceding station   Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland   Following station
toward Eisenach
RB 20
via Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Naumburg (Saale)
Seebergen
toward Leipzig Hbf
Location
Gotha
Location within Thuringia
Gotha
Location within Germany
Gotha
Location within Europe

History

Gotha station was built in 1847, when the local section of the Thuringian line was completed between Halle and Bebra. Gotha was at this time the provincial capital of Saxe-Gotha and already had 15,000 inhabitants. Accordingly, the station was built in a neoclassical style. In 1870 the second line was built from Gotha, running via Mühlhausen to Leinefelde (continuing to Göttingen). The third and last line connecting to Gotha station was the Ohra Valley Railway opened in 1876 to Ohrdruf and to the line to Würzburg at Gräfenroda in 1892.

In 1894 the Gotha tramway was opened. The station was the junction of several tram lines. In 1929, the Thuringian Forest Railway (Thüringerwaldbahn), an overland interurban tramway was opened from Gotha station, running across the city tramlines and continuing to Bad Tabarz via Waltershausen and Friedrichroda. In the Second World War the central section and west wing of the station were destroyed in air strikes; the east wing and the entrance area survived. Some of it still has not been repaired.

In 2007, the station forecourt was completely restructured and the stop on the Thuringian Forest Railway was relocated.

Services

The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2019.

Long distance:

LineRouteInterval
ICE 11MunichStuttgartFrankfurtGothaErfurtHalleBerlinIndividual services
ICE 50(Saarbrücken –) WiesbadenFrankfurtFuldaEisenachGothaErfurtLeipzigDresden120 min
FLX 10 Berlin Hbf Berlin Südkreuz Halle (Saale) Erfurt Gotha Eisenach Fulda Frankfurt South  Darmstadt Weinheim Heidelberg Stuttgart 1–2 train pairs daily

Regional services:

References

  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.
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